Jury convicts Carol Stream executive in extortion case
The vice president of a Carol Stream-based printing company was convicted of federal extortion charges after a jury determined he had hired several men to travel around the country to collect outstanding business debts using "intimidation, fear and in one instance physical violence."
Mark Dziuban, 54, of St. Charles is facing up to 20 years in federal prison when he is sentenced later this year. A date has not yet been set, federal prosecutors said.
Dziuban's 2013 arrest was part of a larger dragnet that involved at least nine suburban men accused in some way in extortion schemes. Those schemes fell apart when one of the victims enlisted the help of the FBI and some of the hired muscle agreed to cooperate with investigators, according to court records.
Dziuban was convicted of flying two Lombard men to Wisconsin with him on a private plane and having the men intimidate a businessman who owed Dziuban $100,000, according to court records.
The two men, Vito Iozzo and George Brown, pleaded guilty in 2014 to their parts in the extortion scheme.
Two other men, Frank Orlando of Schaumburg and Robert McManus of Cicero, were also convicted last year of conspiring to commit extortion.
An Itasca man who is accused of being the ringleader in the extortion plots, Paul Carparelli, is awaiting trial.