Since a Bridgeport bank was shut down in late 2017 over what federal authorities have described as a brazen embezzlement scheme involving the bank’s CEO, a key question has gone unanswered: Where did tens of millions of dollars in missing money go?
Now, sources tell the Chicago Sun-Times, authorities have determined that Marek Matczuk — one of the central figures charged in the ongoing criminal investigation into the failure of Washington Federal Bank for Savings — lost at least $1 million gambling at Chicago-area casinos. And they’re trying to determine whether the money he lost gambling came from the millions of dollars he never repaid the bank, the sources say.
