What the Record Establishes

  • An insurance claim and a restitution obligation attach to the same underlying loss.
  • No reconciliation between the two appears anywhere in the record.

What They Have Not Produced

  • The complete claim payment history and what it covered.
  • The restitution calculation worksheet and its inputs.
  • Whether ability to pay was determined before revocation was sought.

The math does not survive contact with the claim file. The State pursued custody over $2,670.86 in allegedly unpaid restitution. The Allstate claim dossier in this archive records a $16,557 indemnification — the loss paid in full, the check signed and deposited. Illinois law (730 ILCS 5/5-5-6) forbids double recovery: once the carrier pays, the residual claim belongs to the carrier in subrogation, as a civil matter. A criminal courtroom is not a collection agency for an insurance company, and the ledger proving it is published here at page-level citation.

The audit is mechanical

Identify the loss. Identify who paid it — Allstate, $16,557, Claim No. 0670868884. Identify whether the payee accepted the funds — the deposit record says yes. Identify who owns any remaining claim — the subrogated carrier, not the State. Four steps, four documents, no step in dispute. What remains is a sworn willful-default theory that the payment trail contradicts, deployed to obtain a zero-bond warrant.

The constitutional floor it also broke

Even if the accounting had been sound, Bearden v. Georgia requires an ability-to-pay hearing before nonpayment becomes custody — and three separate tribunals, including Lake County’s own fee office, had already adjudicated this defendant indigent. The docket shows no such hearing. The full analysis is in the companion investigation, “Three Courts Found $0.”