Cincinnati Enquirer – A former Loveland mayor who once was a successful investment broker will return to Cincinnati in the next few days to face theft charges, accused of stealing money from clients he persuaded to invest in his hedge fund.
Considered a visionary in the 1990s for his efforts to bring bicycling events to Loveland as mayor, Lee Skierkiewicz comes home a captured fugitive.
Deputies with the U.S. Marshals Service in Chicago caught him Friday and arrested him on a warrant stemming from a dozen theft charges leveled against him in Hamilton County in July.
He took more than $157,000, prosecutors say, from six people who trusted him and spent it on living expenses, golfing, trips to Disneyland and child support. If convicted as charged, he could be in prison for 25 years.
Authorities here also still want almost $20,000 from him in back child support. He hasn’t paid any since May, according to the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services, and was in arrears before that.
The last address the agency had for him, as of July, was in the Village of Tinley Park, Ill., a suburb southwest of Chicago.
