More than five years after the president of a politically connected Bridgeport bank was found dead in a customer’s Park Ridge house, a federal jury convicted the homeowner Friday of embezzling $6 million from the bank.
Marek Matczuk — who said he did odd jobs for tiny Washington Federal Bank for Savings and its employees — was given the money between 2007 and 2017 at the direction of the late John F. Gembara, who was the chief executive officer and majority shareholder of the bank, founded by Polish immigrants to serve their community more than a century ago.
