JOLIET, IL — Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow announced that Edmund Kavanaugh, 53, of Elmhurst, pleaded guilty to the felony offense of continuing a financial crimes enterprise. Last week’s sentence resulted in seven years prison.
Kavanaugh owned a home repair company that defrauded customers out of thousands of dollars by failing to complete agreed upon home repair projects, and writing checks to suppliers which he did not honor, according to Glasgow. As part of his sentencing by Will County Circuit Judge Carmen Goodman, Kavanaugh was ordered to pay $42,215 in restitution.
“Kavanaugh is a textbook scam artist who has repeatedly defrauded victims out of their hard-earned money and engaged in various schemes so that his scams could continue,” Glasgow said in Thursday’s news release. “It is about time that this con artist who has swindled victims throughout the Chicagoland area has received what he so richly deserves – time in prison.”
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Kavanaugh’s home repair business, Goliath Construction, engaged in numerous schemes in which he would be hired for a home repair job and collect payment without completing the agreed-upon work. He gets 487 days of credit for time served in the Will County Jail.
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