Ronald Speiser, 81, and Jean Speiser, 81, of Freeburg, will spend their next year in home confinement making restitution payments after defrauding an elderly family member out of nearly $200,000.
The Speisers pled guilty to two counts of fraud and were sentenced on Thursday, Nov. 18, in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis.
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