Green Bay Press-Gazette - Man gets jail for role in scams

Green Bay Press-Gazette - Man gets jail for role in scams: "Jereczek, of debt counseling firm, will serve 1 year
By Andy Nelesen

It was a day seven years in the making, but for Jeff Saharsky it was worth the wait.
Saharsky, a former owner of a Denmark machine shop, was bilked out of his business in a scam orchestrated by two men running Gates, Paul and Lear, a Bellevue-based debt counseling firm. One of the principles in that firm, Kevin Jereczek, was sentenced Friday to a year in jail and 10 years of probation for his role in the machine shop scam and other fraudulent business deals.
Saharsky was in court Friday to hear Brown County Circuit Court Judge William Atkinson issue the sentence. It helped bring another level of closure to a case that began in 1998. Saharsky and his family sought help from Gates, Paul and Lear because their business was on shaky financial ground. Through a series of loans and liens, Jereczek and his partner, Louis LaCount, took control of the company's assets and sold them off, keeping the proceeds and leaving the machine shop in financial ruin.
'I just had to be here today,' Saharsky said after Friday's hearing. 'I just needed it to be done. I needed to be here to see justice done.' "