Feds: Fugitive lawyer who defrauded client faces new charge
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Booking photo of Steven J. Della Rose (U.S. Marshals Service / January 24, 2013)
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A disbarred Chicago lawyer who was on the lam for more than six years was arraigned on a new federal charge of failing to surrender for a mail fraud sentence in 2006, according to federal authorities.
The one-count indictment was returned Wednesday for Steven J. Della Rose, 61, who is charged with failing to surrender to begin serving the federal fraud sentence in 2006, according to a statement released today by the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Della Rose surrendered to authorities in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on Dec. 11, 2012, more than six years after he was ordered to self-surrender to begin serving a 41-month sentence for defrauding a client of $64,000, the statement said.
Della Rose was returned to the U.S. and immediately began serving his original sentence once he was in U.S. custody last month. No date has been set yet for his arraignment on the new charge in U.S. District Court.
Della Rose was released on his own recognizance after he was charged with mail fraud in 2002. After a trial in March 2003, a jury found him guilty of defrauding a mentally challenged client of $64,000 in a worker’s compensation case, the statement said.
On Dec. 5, 2003, a judge sentenced him to serve 41 months in prison. Service of the sentence was delayed by two appeals, and on June 22, 2006, Della Rose was ordered to surrender to a designated U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility on Aug. 7, 2006.
He failed to self-surrender at a prison on that date and he remained a fugitive until he turned himself in to authorities in Mexico last month, the statement said.
The new charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, the statement said.
The one-count indictment was returned Wednesday for Steven J. Della Rose, 61, who is charged with failing to surrender to begin serving the federal fraud sentence in 2006, according to a statement released today by the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Della Rose surrendered to authorities in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on Dec. 11, 2012, more than six years after he was ordered to self-surrender to begin serving a 41-month sentence for defrauding a client of $64,000, the statement said.
Della Rose was returned to the U.S. and immediately began serving his original sentence once he was in U.S. custody last month. No date has been set yet for his arraignment on the new charge in U.S. District Court.
Della Rose was released on his own recognizance after he was charged with mail fraud in 2002. After a trial in March 2003, a jury found him guilty of defrauding a mentally challenged client of $64,000 in a worker’s compensation case, the statement said.
On Dec. 5, 2003, a judge sentenced him to serve 41 months in prison. Service of the sentence was delayed by two appeals, and on June 22, 2006, Della Rose was ordered to surrender to a designated U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility on Aug. 7, 2006.
He failed to self-surrender at a prison on that date and he remained a fugitive until he turned himself in to authorities in Mexico last month, the statement said.
The new charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, the statement said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-feds-fugitive-lawyer-who-defrauded-client-faces-new-charge-20130124,0,6441726.story
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