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Attorney General Madigan: State Contractor Pleads Guilty to Fraud in Obtaining Millions in Taxpayer-funded Contracts

Construction Contracts for U of I, SIU Edwardsville Unlawfully Obtained

Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–March 28, 2013. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced the former president of a Peoria area construction firm pled guilty to fraud in a scheme to obtain millions in taxpayer-funded state contracts.

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Thomas J. Williams, 81, the former president of the Peoria Heights-based Williams Brothers Construction Inc., pled guilty Wednesday afternoon before Judge John Schmidt in Sangamon County Circuit Court to two counts of mail…

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