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The state’s case in a trial of two New Lenox business owners ended Thursday after a Will County judge denied prosecutor’s request to present a witness, citing he was not an expert.

The trial, which began Tuesday and continues Monday, involves charges of fraud against Jeffery Regnier, owner of Kee Firearms and Training, and Greta Keranen, of Kee Construction, that the Will County state’s attorney’s office first filed in 2023 .

Will County prosecutors attempted to call Paul Yaras from the Illinois Department of Revenue to interpret the business owners’ 2023 tax returns, but Bertani-Tomczak dismissed the witness, saying he did not qualify as an expert in interpreting tax returns.

Prosecutors have said Yaras could describe the tax returns wi

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