Chicago attorney and real estate developer Robert Kowalski gave an opening statement on his own behalf in his federal fraud trial for alleged embezzlement that preceded the failure of Washington Federal Bank in Bridgeport.
Chicago attorney and real estate developer Robert Kowalski was just a few minutes into his opening statement in his federal fraud trial Tuesday when he started talking about pink elephants.
“The facts show that something else was going on,” Kowalski protested before the judge told him to move on. “There were multiple ligature marks on this man’s neck.”that preceded the failure of Washington Federal, a family-run institution that had been a mainstay in the city’s Bridgeport neighborhood for more than a century.
In one handwritten motion last year, Kowalski, 60, asked Kendall to recuse herself in part because she allegedly engaged in “barrista duties” at a status hearing, inviting prosecutors “to share carmel Macciatos ” with her in court while he was at the defense table.“Notably, shackled attorney Kowalski was not extended an invitation to partake of Judge Kendall’s tasty largesse,” he wrote. “The defendant stood chained amidst all the fanfare and festive slurping.
Prosecutors in their opening statement Tuesday said that Kowalski used his friendship with Gembara to turn Washington Federal into his own piggy bank, getting collateral-free loans to bankroll his real estate developments and using letters of credit from the bank to fool other creditors.
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