April 10, 2012 2:37PM
http://lincolnshire.suntimes.com/news/11822699-418/man-accused-in-lincolnshire-money-laundering-found-dead.html
A Chicago man who had admitted this winter to taking part in a scam to launder money out of retirement accounts based at a Lincolnshire business was found dead early Monday in Chicago.
Niven Beluso, 27, of the 4900 block of West Grace St., was found lying in an alley near his house at 12:53 a.m. Monday with a gunshot wound to his head, Chicago police said. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office declared him dead at the scene; police had no one in custody at press time.
Beluso, two other Chicago men and an Arlington Heights woman were accused of attempting to steal about $330,000 from 401 (K) accounts at Hewitt and Associates, 100 Half Day Road. Lincolnshire Police Investigator John-Erik Anderson said Tuesday that Beluso was a middleman in the operation and that, after being arrested in September and charged with money laundering, he pleaded guilty in January.
In exchange for a reduced punishment, he was scheduled to testify against the alleged organizer.
“His role was to help launder the money,” Anderson said of Beluso.