David Tresch, who until June served as Mayer Brown‘s chief information officer, was arrested Thursday and charged by federal prosecutors in Chicago with defrauding the Am Law 100 firm of at least $850,000 through a series of phony invoices for work supposedly performed by an unidentified vendor.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago charged Tresch with one count of mail fraud, according to a statement detailing the charges against him. Tresch, 51, is accused of approving payments to the vendor and pocketing “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in illicit proceeds.
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