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Judge Jessica Arong O’Brien, center, shown in 2017, was sentenced to a year in prison Dec. 20, 2018, for her role in a $1.4 million mortgage fraud scheme. 
The first Filipina judge in Cook County broke down in sobs in a federal courtroom Thursday before being sentenced to a year in prison for her role in a $1.4 million mortgage fraud scheme that occurred years before she took the bench.
The dramatic hearing capped a stunning fall from grace for Jessica Arong O’Brien, a pioneering jurist and respected civic leader who was reassigned to administrative duties following her 2017 indictment and officially resigned from her post ...
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