GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Court records indicate that a new trial set has been scheduled for a De Pere businessman and his wife on fraud charges.
Ron Van Den Heuvel and Kelly Yessman Van Den Heuvel will stand trial on July 31, accused of bank fraud for allegedly illegally arranging a series of loans.
The couple’s former banker, Paul Piikkila, agreed to plead guilty and testify against the Van Den Heuvels.
According to the federal indictment, Piikkila, a loan officer at Horicon Bank in Appleton, allegedly approved a series of loans totaling more than $1 million. The indictment says Horicon Bank had told Piikkila not to loan any money to Van Den Heuvel, so none of the loans mentioned in the indictment were written to him by name.
The couple has pleaded not guilty.
