WILMETTE, Ill. – A federal jury convicted a 75-year-old attorney from Wilmette this week on charges of tax fraud, attempting to tamper with a witness and violating a court order.
After a week-long trial in federal court in Chicago, the jury found Michael Abramson guilty on all 15 counts.
Prosecutors presented evidence that Abramson, while working as an attorney in Chicago, filed false individual tax returns for himself and fraudulent corporate returns for Illinois-based Leasing Employment Services Co., Inc., a company in which he held an ownership interest.…