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FBI: Two Sentenced in Madison County Tax Sale Scheme

Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Scott McLean, 51, of Belleville, Illinois, and John A. Vassen, 56, of O’Fallon, Illinois, were sentenced in the United States District Court in East St. Louis, Illinois, for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Evidence presented at the sentencing hearing established that McLean and Vassen participated in a price fixing scheme orchestrated by former Madison County Treasurer Fred…

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