Former Mayer Brown CIO arrested on fraud charge

The Chicago Tribune reports:

A former executive at Mayer Brown was arrested Thursday on federal charges that he allegedly defrauded the Chicago law firm of at least $850,000.

David Tresch, 51, of Itasca was Mayer Brown's former chief information officer. He allegedly approved payments to a vendor for work that had not been performed and pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars from that vendor, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago.