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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Frank Main

Junior Bernie Madoff? Businessmen who say they were bilked of tens of millions say Sean Grusd was just as ‘brazen’

Sean Grusd leaving the Dirksen Federal Building on Thursday. (David Struett / Sun-Times)

To the Chicago businessmen who have accused Sean Grusd of stealing tens of millions of dollars from them and other investors, he holds a place among the country’s most notorious scoundrels.

“This case involves a pattern of fraud as brazen as any committed by Bernie Madoff,” they said in a lawsuit they’ve filed against Grusd in New York, referring to the notorious convicted scam artist who died in prison after being convicted of bilking investors out of $18 billion.

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