Tazewell credit union's former president, now in prison, ordered to repay $596,000

PEKIN — The former president of a Tazewell County teachers’ credit union will spend the rest of his working life trying to repay $595,745 to the business he was convicted of defrauding.

Charles Juska, 54, of Pekin recently began serving the three-year federal prison term he received last December, after a jury convicted him of 11 crimes in the case. It was about half of the minimum term recommended by federal sentencing guidelines.

U.S. District Judge James Shadid, however, imposed the maximum amount of restitution and court costs that prosecutors sought in the case.

“The chances are slim to none,” Juska’s attorney argued, that he will be able to pay the $595,745 that Shadid set in a hearing in his Peoria federal court last Friday.

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