Hunt intensifies for suspect in Holiday Inn embezzlement scheme

Tribune staff report

11:05 PM CDT, July 25, 2008

Federal authorities have intensified what they termed a worldwide manhunt for a 50-year-old former Barrington man wanted in connection with a million-dollar embezzlement scheme.

Frank Bush Amir has been the subject of the manhunt since disappearing in December, following his indictment on wire-fraud charges, the FBI said.

The scheme targeted his former employer, the Holiday Inn in Itasca, where for 13 years he was director of catering.

In July 2007 the FBI arrested Amir, who was indicted by a federal grand jury a month later. He was initially held without bail but was released in December to await trial, the FBI said.