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Chicago entertainment entertainment Michael Segal allegedly led the entertainment of luxury: regular dinners at entertainment & Georgetti or Gibsons, three housemaids and $400-an-hour prostitutes on the Gold Coast.
The only entertainment, federal prosecutors say, is that he often was using entertainment earmarked for entertainment premiums to pay for some of it.
Federal prosecutors revealed fresh details in the entertainment against Segal, entertainment of Near North entertainment Brokerage, in entertainment filings released Monday.
Segal would take entertainment sent in by customers for entertainment premiums and spend it on 'whatever tickled his fancy at the entertainment, whether Internet entertainment sales operations, pet entertainment, entertainment scanning services or entertainment operations in Las Vegas or Los Angeles,' prosecutors charged. Segal is accused of siphoning more than $20 million from a entertainment Near North account, which contained entertainment premiums from customers, the feds said.
He would also entertainment some entertainment entertainment 'in white envelopes and spent it on his lifestyle of dinners, outings and escort services,' prosecutors said.
Segal allegedly used the services of a notorious Gold Coast madam, entertainment Laws, sources said. Laws, who is 69, is serving a 22-month entertainment sentence in Florida for running a Chicago entertainment of prostitution that was entertainment of a nationwide, loosely knit network of whorehouses. The call girls in the network were from all across the United States, as well as Canada, Trinidad, even Milan, Italy.
Segal blasted the latest entertainment entertainment filing in a entertainment.
'From the beginning the entertainment prosecutors have tried to make this entertainment something that it isn't. From their motions, it is clear they would prefer that Mr. Segal put on no entertainment. The alleged entertainment is a state regulatory issue that they are trying to prosecute as a federal criminal matter,' the entertainment says.
'The allegations are financial crimes being prosecuted by the public corruption entertainment. This entertainment is not about what Michael Segal is alleged to have done, it is about who he knows. The entertainment is trying to exclude entertainment that would allow for a fair trial and include outrageous political and personal allegations that deflect entertainment from the evidentiary problems they face with the core of their entertainment.'
Segal had been a mover and shaker among Chicago's rich and powerful, and previous entertainment filings allege he gave loans or made payments to such current and former politicians as Ald. Burton Natarus (42nd) and former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski. Both politicians have denied any wrongdoing.
In its filings, the government doesn't say where Segal would eat his dinners, but he's known to be a regular at Gene & Georgetti, where he once fed his small dog Snoopy from his plate, as well as Gibsons. He would often start his meal with a Dewar's on the rocks with a splash of water and order chicken or fish in the steak joints.
Segal's patron in the insurance business was former Cook County Board President George Dunne, who owned Near North Insurance when Segal came on board. For the first time, prosecutors suggested in court filings that Segal was siphoning money out of the firm while Dunne owned the company in the late 1970s.
Helping Segal was Daniel Watkins, a company accountant who would post the petty cash withdrawals to the company's postage expense account. Over the years, the withdrawals for personal and family use were in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, authorities allege. Watkins is cooperating with federal investigators and wore a recording device to secretly record conversations while he worked at Near North. Segal's attorneys are expected to attack Watkins for allegedly stealing money from the firm.
Segal has asserted that he is a victim of a conspiracy by former employees out to destroy his firm, which is now just a shell of what it once was.
Prosecutors in this latest filing detail for the first time how government witness after witness -- either high-ranking former Near North executives, auditors or others -- warned Segal time and again, as early as 1995, that the key company account, called the premium fund trust account, was bleeding money. That's the account that Segal is accused of plundering. Some former executives quit and left for Near North competitor Aon Corp. when Segal wouldn't remedy the problem, court filings say.
'Numerous employees confronted Segal and pleaded with him to change his practices, but he obdurately refused, putting one after another off with various tactics: lying, denying a problem, demanding proof of deficit, pleading for time to fix the problems, crying, bullying, and firing and threatening those who could expose his fraud,' prosecutors wrote.
Two former Near North executives, Dana Berry and Matt Walsh, tried to halt another alleged fraudulent practice, writing off credits due customers and failing to refund them money. Two clients that had their credits written off were Ticketmaster and Waste Management, according to court filings.
Through it all, Segal was in control, prosecutors said.
'He was the boss, pure and simple, and everyone that worked at the company knew it,' prosecutors wrote.