Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A Chicago man who allegedly helped a criminal organization run its illegal gambling activities was arrested on federal gambling and tax fraud charges, federal law enforcement officials announced. The defendant, Casey Szaflarski, acting through his Berwyn business, Amusements, Inc., was charged with conducting an illegal gambling business since[Read More…]
Day: March 12, 2010
Retired Head of Operating Engineers Local 150 Charged with Illegally Obtaining Feeders for His Maryland Buffalo Farm
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)–The retired leader of a regional labor union local was charged with violating federal labor law by allegedly demanding and accepting livestock feeders from a company that employed the union local’s workers for his buffalo farm in Maryland. The defendant, William E. Dugan, was charged in a single-count criminal[Read More…]
Arrest Made of Alleged ‘C-Note’ Bank Robber
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced the arrest of a Woodridge man in connection with the March 5, 2010, robbery of the U.S. Bank branch, located at 755 East Boughton Road, Bolingbrook. DEREK ORTIZ, age 33, whose[Read More…]
Chiropractor and Physician Among Three Defendants Indicted in Alleged $1 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)–A chiropractor, a medical doctor and a billing employee at a clinic owned by the chiropractor in Maywood were indicted on federal health care fraud charges, federal law enforcement officials announced. The defendants allegedly illegally submitted false claims totaling more than $1 million to obtain payments from workers’ compensation[Read More…]
Rudolph Fratto, Alleged Self-Described Member of Chicago Mob, and Second Man Indicted in Mccormick Place Bid-Rigging Scheme
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A west suburban man who allegedly represented himself as a member of the “Chicago Outfit,” was arrested today on federal charges accusing him and a co-defendant of engaging in a contract bid-rigging scheme to provide forklift trucks for trade shows at McCormick Place Convention Center. A two-count indictment[Read More…]
American Red Cross Issues Two-Month Progress Report for Haiti Earthquake
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 12, 2010. The American Red Cross today issued a two-month progress report describing its efforts since the January 12 earthquake and sharing its plans to address longer-term needs such as emergency and longer-term shelter. “While there is still massive need everywhere you look, I have seen signs of resilience,[Read More…]
Walmart Fires Cancer Patient for Legally Using Medical Marijuana
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 12, 2010. Joseph Casias, 29, has sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor. Despite his condition, he has dutifully gone to work every day for the last five years at a Walmart in Battle Creek, Michigan, where in 2008 he was named Associate of the Year. Casias is[Read More…]
Chile: Red Cross Supplies Medicines and Helps Prisoners Contact Families
Santiago de Chile–(ENEWSPF)–12 March 2010. The earthquake and tidal wave that struck Chile on 27 February also affected the inmates of prisons in the Bío-Bío and Maule districts. In Lebu, prisoners had to be evacuated to a school after the collapse of an external wall. They are now back in[Read More…]
New Report: It Is Time for Procedural Reform in the U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 12, 2010. Today the Center for American Progress released a new report, From Deliberation to Dysfunction by expert Scott Lilly, that urges the Senate to adopt modest procedural changes to curb some of the filibuster’s worst abuses and make the Senate more responsible. The U.S. Senate has a[Read More…]
Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund Fact Sheet, March 12, 2010
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 12, 2010. Since the creation of the Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund in January, the Fund has raised over $13 million from more than 100,000 individuals for relief, recovery, and reconstruction assistance, and in the month after the disaster has allocated $3 million to a dozen 501(c)3’s on the[Read More…]
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE:
Most Viewed
What A Former Roller Rink is Now at SD 162
6298 views