Legal Opinion
Fortunee Massuda v. Panda Express, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 21, 2014No. 13-2818PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Chief Judge.
This case concerns an ill-fated investment that Fortunee Massuda made in a group of Panda Express restaurants. In hindsight, Massuda’s mistake was to entrust $4,000,000 in 1997 with Tony Rezko, who controlled several companies that owned and operated the restaurants and who hoped to expand the business. Rezko wound up indicted and convicted on federal fraud and bribery charges, for which he received a lengthy prison sentence in 2011. See United States v. Rezko, 776 F.Supp.2d 651, 653 (E.D.Ill.2011). Along the way, his real estate ventures collapsed, and Massu-da filed this…
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