Fraudster accused of bilking $450M ordered jailed in Chicago, with judge citing his ‘untrustworthiness’

A convicted fraudster was ordered held in custody Friday at the federal jail in downtown Chicago as he awaits extradition to New York to face charges that he bilked a Mexican billionaire out of hundreds of millions of dollars.During a hearing at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse, an attorney for Vladimir Sklarov presented him as a family man with strong ties to the United States — and “a lot of reasons not to flee” while awaiting the outcome of his case. Federal prosecutors, on the other hand, pain...