Former Oak Park resident Heather Mack, who is serving a 26-year sentence in a West Virginia federal prison for conspiring to kill her mother in Bali in 2014, has formally complained to a federal judge that prison officials are trying to force her to make unreasonably high monthly payments on court-ordered financial restitution.
A closer look suggests that that’s not nearly all there is to the story.
At Mack’s sentencing in January 2024, Judge Matthew Kennelly ordered her to pay $262,708 in restitution to a trust fund set up to benefit her daughter Stella, who is being raised by a relative…