Cicero’s Board of Trustees named Ramiro Gonzalez as the new town President, to serve out the remaining term of Betty Loren-Maltese, following her conviction as part of a ring that bilked the city of around $12 million in an insurance fraud scheme. (See IJ Website Aug. 26 and 27)
Gonzalez, a member of the Board of Trustees for the last two years, becomes the first Hispanic-American to to serve as Cicero ‘s town President. He declined to announce whether or not he would run for the post permanently in an election scheduled for April 2003.
Loren-Maltese has maintained that she is innocent of the charges, and will continue to fight the conviction and the order that she repay some $3.25 million to the city.
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