Armed Robbery of a Federal Credit Union in Kendallville, Indiana Fort Wayne, IN-(ENEWSPF)- Lance Lombrana, 41, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, has been charged by way of a criminal complaint with armed credit union robbery, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tina L. Nommay.  According to documents in this case, it is alleged[Read More…]

Hammond, IN-(ENEWSPF)- Mary Cossey, age 54, of Munster, Indiana, entered a plea of guilty to one count of wire fraud before United States District Court Judge Philip P. Simon, announced Acting United States Attorney Tina L. Nommay. According to documents in this case, Cossey engaged in a scheme to defraud[Read More…]

Hammond, IN-(ENEWSPF)- Justyn Arch, age 34, and Trystan Arch, age 31, both of Valparaiso, Indiana were both charged in a Superseding Indictment unsealed Tuesday.  The Superseding Indictment contains 29 counts alleging various violations of federal law against these two individuals announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tina L. Nommay. According to documents[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- An Evanston woman used insider information obtained from her husband to purchase shares of a company ahead of its acquisition by her husband’s employer, according to a federal criminal charge filed today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago. In August and September 2019, DENISE GREVAS made $286,960[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Chicago man has been sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded handgun on the city’s Near North Side. NICHOLAS WILLIAMS, 33, illegally possessed the loaded gun while walking on the sidewalk in the 900 block of North Cambridge Avenue[Read More…]

Peoria, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A federal grand jury Tuesday returned an indictment charging Corbett Eugene Hayes, 40, of San Antonio, Texas, on sexual exploitation charges of a minor. The indictment charges Hayes with having used, persuaded, induced, enticed, and coerced a minor from about March 15, 2021, through the date of his[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- A federal jury convicted a Hammond, Indiana man, a registered sex offender, Monday for conspiring with multiple women to send him sexually explicit pictures of infants and young children. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Lorenzo Johnson, 33, of Hammond, used a fake Facebook account[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago Monday announced that a suburban Chicago nursing facility has agreed to pay $360,000 to resolve civil allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by providing unnecessary and “upcoded” physical, occupational, and speech therapy services to increase Medicare payments. A consent judgment[Read More…]

Rockford, IL-(ENEWSPF)- An Illinois attorney whose practice included bankruptcy law has been found guilty of bankruptcy fraud charges following a two-week jury trial in federal court in Rockford.  KEVIN O. JOHNSON, also known as “K.O. Johnson,” 55, of Sycamore, Ill., was convicted Friday on four counts of bankruptcy fraud, one count of making[Read More…]