Ashley Furniture founderโs firm accused of defrauding Chicago company
To settle a $20 million Illinois lawsuit, a Chicago-based company is suing a local firm created by the St. Petersburg-based founder of Ashley Furniture to retrieve documents necessary to help its ongoing case. When M & J Wilkow filed suit in April 2016 against its former employees, the company subpoenaed Third Lake Capital โ an investment company of Ronald Wanek, founder of Ashley Furniture โ to provide documents providing information on the employee scheme in September. However, Third Lake denied…