Legal Opinion

George C. Hook v. The Honorable Joe Billy McDade Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided August 19, 1996No. 95-2793PublishedCited by 136 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

George C. Hook, an attorney, was indicted along with Carmen Viana, the owner of Wit-tek Industries, for stealing funds from the Wittek company’s employee pension plan, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 664; wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343; and money laundering, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956. Viana fled to Brazil and there is an outstanding warrant for her arrest, although according to the Assistant United States Attorney, extradition is unlikely. After the trial judge had denied a number of Hook’s pretrial motions, Hook requested that the trial judge, the Hon.…

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