Dennis Haggerty, 48, of Burr Ridge, pleaded guilty earlier this year to a wire fraud charge.Haggerty, the former Chief Operating Officer of a suburban company that sold COVID-19 testing kits, allegedly made fraudulent payments from the Willowbrook-based company's bank account, claiming they were for services and goods provided by himself or the company's main vendor.Prosecutors revealed that, in reality, these services and goods were never provided.
He concealed the fraud by making false and misleading statements on the checks and to the company's president. Moreover, Haggerty carried out this scheme while on pre-trial and pre-sentencing release for a previous fraud case.In all, Haggerty embezzled and fraudulently misappropriated more than $1.85 million from the company in 2021 and 2022.Prosecutors said Haggerty must serve the sentence after completing his federal sentence for an earlier fraud scheme.