The father of a city alderman has been charged in an alleged fake documentation scheme following a recent raid in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood.
Federal prosecutors allege that the discount mall photo studio operated by Elias Munoz, 62, was at the center of a multi-million-dollar counterfeit ring that produced thousands of fake documents.
Munoz runs Nuevo Foto Munoz in Little Village, where armed federal agents conducted a daytime raid in April resulting in charges against 22 other people accused of participating in a conspiracy to make fake documents.
At the time of the raid, there was zero mention of the alderman or his father. Except at SCC:
The selling seems to be centered around Foto Estudio Munoz. We aren’t
sure if this is associated with the Foto Estudio Munoz that was owned
and operated by Aldercreature Munoz mother back in the late 1990’s that
mysteriously burned to the ground around 2 years ago. One wouldn’t be
hard pressed to make that logistical leap as the aldercreature’s mother
was arrested on at least one occasion for producing fake IDs (charges
were dropped that evening following certain phone calls.)
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