Defense pleading for probation in embezzling case

URBANA – A sentencing hearing for a judge's wife who admitted embezzling money from a Watseka bank where she worked will include arguments on whether or not her mental illness and civic involvement should be factors to make her eligible for probation.

Deanna Lustfeldt, the wife of Iroquois County Circuit Judge Gordon Lustfeldt, is due to be sentenced Monday by U.S. District Chief Judge Michael McCuskey. She pleaded guilty Sept. 4 to embezzlement by a bank officer and admitted taking $18,000 from the Watseka branch of the First National Bank of Gilman.

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