ROCKFORD–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2014.  Anthony F. D’Agostino, 79, the former owner, CEO and President of Commercial Mortgage and Finance Co., in Rockford, was found guilty today by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala on seventeen counts of mail fraud, one count of wire fraud, and one count of securities fraud, in[Read More…]

Chicago Area Defendants Allegedly Commit Identity Theft to Obtain Over $100,000 in Financial Aid Chicago—(ENEWSPF)—January 17, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced charges against four Chicago area defendants for conspiring to steal more than $100,000 in financial aid from the U.S. Department of Education. Madigan’s office charged defendants Dasia[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—January 16, 2014. Following a lengthy investigation by the FBI-led Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Force, a Chicago man admitted today in Federal Court that he mailed more than 90 threatening and/or harassing letters to Chicago police officers, other government and law enforcement officials, private individuals, schools, and religious institutions in[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2014.  The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois collected $78.1 million in fiscal year (FY) 2013, Zachary T. Fardon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, announced today. These collections included more than $31.8 million in criminal debts, more than $31.8 million in[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2014. A former Chicago tax preparer pleaded guilty to filing nearly 3,200 false federal income tax returns for clients, while in a separate case in Federal Court yesterday, a suburban tax preparer was sentenced to 63 months in prison for fraudulently claiming more than $8 million in tax[Read More…]

Agreed Injunction Order Requires Company to Address Structural Failings Chicago—(ENEWSPF)—January 8, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced Honeywell International, Inc., has been ordered to pay a civil penalty of $90,000 following three dangerous releases of hydrogen fluoride at its Metropolis, Ill. plant. The company also completed a series of[Read More…]

Piladelphia, PA-(ENEWSPF)- The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that bail was set Monday at $250,000 for Msgr. William J. Lynn, , four days after an appeals court ruled he was wrongly convicted of endangering children. According to the Inquirer: Common Pleas Court Judge M. Teresa Sarmina also ruled that Lynn must surrender[Read More…]

Attorney General’s “Operation Glass House” Nets State’s Top Trader of Child Pornography Chicago—(ENEWSPF)—December 20, 2013. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced the arrests of two McHenry County men for felony possession of child pornography, including the state’s top trader of child pornography, following raids this week in Woodstock and Algonquin.[Read More…]

Chicago—(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2013. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced charges against a trio of identity thieves for obtaining and using fraudulent debit cards to access thousands of dollars in cash. Defendants Nikolay Bozov, Yuliyan Kehayov and Dan Stoica were charged in Cook County Criminal Court with continuing a financial crimes[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2013. Three defendants who operated Washington National Trust, which was not licensed in Illinois as either a trust or a mortgage company, are facing federal fraud charges for allegedly swindling approximately $220,000 from at least 54 homeowners after falsely promising to save their homes from foreclosure and lower[Read More…]