Senior Scammers Get 14 Years Prison Time

One romanced a woman only to defraud her mother of savings; the jilted woman killed herself, prosecutors said. One brother was from Niles and one formerly of Northbrook. They defrauded victims from a Niles-based home-repair company.

  Two brothers were each sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison after being convicted last year of engaging in a home-repair fraud scheme that targeted elderly victims on the city’s south and west sides, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced. The defendants, John J. Sullivan, formerly of Northbrook, and his brother, Daniel J. Sullivan, of Niles, swindled more than 50 victims out of a total of nearly $750,000 in equity in their homes by fraudulently promising to perform expensive home repairs, convincing them to refinance their homes to pay the costs, and then later intentionally failing to perform or complete the projects, prosecutors said.  Earlier: Two brothers convicted for scamming elderly "I wish they'd gotten more time," said …

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