By Chris Fox
Lombardian-Villa Park Review
Staff Reporter
Chuck Pickerill, who is a candidate for Villa Park Village President in the April 4 election, issued a comment last week about a past guilty plea for delivering false documents to a title company.
Following last week’s story about Pickerill’s candidacy in the Villa Park Review, the newspaper and Pickerill received anonymous comments about Pickerill’s past legal issues.
“I pleaded guilty to one count of delivering false documents to a title company,” stated Pickerill, who said the plea took place in the 1990s. “There was an incident when someone who worked for me brought documents to a title company. The documents turned out to be forged. I took responsibility.”
Pickerill, who owned a building company at the time of the plea, stated he was never convicted of theft or forgery, and he never served jail time. He said his employee’s job was to gather signatures for the closing of a property. The employee, he said, signed the documents.
“She shouldn’t have signed them,” he said. “I took them [the documents] and delivered them. I was the owner of the company. I was responsible. I paid restitution to the people who were harmed.”
Pickerill, 62, is running against Villa Park trustees Albert Bulthuis and Robert Taglia in a three-way race for village president. The winner of the April 4 election will succeed current Villa Park Village President Deborah Bullwinkel, whose four-year term expires this spring. Bullwinkel declined to run for a second term.
