Ex-Cicero President Betty Loren Maltese Released from Prison

Las Vegas - FOX CHICAGO EXCLUSIVE: Former Cicero Town President Betty Loren Maltese is out of prison and living in a halfway house in Las Vegas.

Loren Maltese was released from a federal prison in California yesterday after serving six-and-a-half years. She and other Cicero public officials were convicted of ripping off the town for millions of dollars in an insurance scam.

Loren Maltese will stay at the halfway house for several months. In an early 2008 interview , she said she would "never go back to Cicero."

Read Anne Kavanaugh's Chicago Magazine article on Loren Maltese.