Wade Cook [SEP] convicted of
for several months. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Glover ordered the company liquidated on January 18, 2003, for failure to provide testimony creditors had requested.
In December, 2005, Wade Cook and his wife Laura were charged with several counts of income tax evasion. Both pleaded not guilty. According to court documents, the Cooks operated a fraudulent charity, ostensibly to benefit the LDS Church, but instead bought show horses, his and her Cadillacs, a estate, and the majority share of an oil rig which gave Cook the
convicted of stabbing another man to death in 1974) but not Maxson. In May 2016, Wade admitted in a confession that he had killed Lindsay Murdoch. On September 27, 2016, a Cook County judge threw out Maxson's conviction and he was released from jail.
This case is the fifteenth conviction that the Cook County, Illinois Conviction Integrity Unit has got overturned since the unit was set up in 2012.
See also.
- List of wrongful convictions in the United States