Station Home Page & More Local Information Illinois bank executive held in Milwaukee jail MILWAUKEE, Feb. 11 – A high-level bank executive from Chicago is currently in the Milwaukee County Jail, accused of trying to elicit sexual favors from someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl. And it was the Internet that played a key role in breaking the case. Police said Howard Tatar, 53, got a lot more than he bargained for when he logged onto the Internet earlier this week.

	Milwaukee police showed up at that location at the set time and so did Tatar, a senior vice president at the Bank of America in Illinois.		ACCORDING TO THE CRIMINAL complaint, Tatar joined a chat room called “I Love Much Older Men.” In that same chat room was a Milwaukee police detective posing as a 13-year-old girl.     Police said Tatar, thinking he was talking to the young girl, suggested that the two meet on Wednesday at the Midway Hotel or Denny’s Restaurant along Howell Avenue for illicit sex acts.     Milwaukee police showed up at that location at the set time and so did Tatar, a senior vice president at the Bank of America in Illinois.     According to the criminal complaint, Tatar admitted to police he “did chat with a young girl” online earlier in the week and that he did intend to meet with her at the hotel or restaurant.     Tatar’s co-workers at his office in Chicago were in disbelief Friday, hoping a terrible mistake had been made.     Tatar has never served time behind bars in Illinois. If convicted on the charge of child enticement, he could end up spending up to 30 years in prison in Wisconsin.     As of early Friday evening, Tatar was still in the Milwaukee County Jail. His bail was set at 20,000 but later reduced to $1,000.

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