A former political leader and McLean County board member has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in connection with a false billing scheme against State Farm Insurance.
Matt Sorenson was accused of receiving more than four-hundred-thousand-dollars for consulting work never performed.
Sorensen faces a maximum of 20 years in federal prison and a quarter million dollar fine when he is sentenced in March. He will also have to make restitution of four-hundred-ninety-thousand-dollars, according to court records.
According to the plea agreement filed in federal court in Chicago, prosecutors contend advisory sentencing guidelines would put Sorensen in prison for two and a half years to nearly three years. The filing indicates Sorensen's attorney's plan to argue for a maximum of less than two years in prison.
Prosecutors will make a sentencing recommendation before the Mar. 2 sentencing date.
The case against Sorensen's co-defendant Navdeep Arora continues.
Indictments were handed up against Sorensen and Arora in August of 2015, but they were unsealed early in 2016. Sorensen resigned his County Board position shortly after that became public.
Read the plea agreement.
