CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2011.  A two-year investigation conducted by the Illinois Department of Revenue Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Attorney General Lisa Madigan resulted this week in a Chicago tax preparer pleading guilty to filing fraudulent tax returns. Katrina McAllister pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one count of Filing a Fraudulent[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)– Early this morning FBI agents and partner law enforcement officers began arresting nearly 130 members of the Mafia in New York City and other East Coast cities charged in the largest nationally coordinated organized crime takedown in the Bureau’s history. Members of New York’s infamous Five Families—the Bonanno, Colombo,[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A former Chicago woman who provided extraordinary cooperation in Operation Crooked Code, a federal public corruption investigation of the City of Chicago building permit process, avoided prison and was sentenced today to three years of probation. The defendant, Catherine Romasanta, testified in four federal trials about how she paid[Read More…]

Portland, OR-(ENEWSPF)- Harold James Nicholson, 59, was sentenced today to 96 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown following his guilty pleas to the crimes of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy to commit international money laundering. This eight year prison sentence[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- A U.S. Army contracting officer was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Christine M. Arguello in Denver to 60 months in prison for accepting money and items of value in return for being influenced in the awarding of Army contracts, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of[Read More…]

Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on January 18, 2011, ANDRE P. INGRAM, age 48, of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to a term of 180 months’ imprisonment and a $500 fine. In addition,[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A former Chicago hedge fund manager was taken into federal custody today after he turned himself in for allegedly engaging in an investment fraud scheme in which he swindled more than $3.5 million from approximately 48 victims who invested in funds he purported to operate. The defendant, James[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– David J. Hernandez sentenced to More Than 16 Years in Prison for Swindling More Than 250 Investors of $6.4 Million in Ponzi Scheme A Downers Grove man who purported to offer financial investment services to the public was sentenced today to 200 months (16 years, eight months) in[Read More…]

The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by other[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that CARLOS A. KAMBER, age 39, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton to a total term of 245 months’ imprisonment for his role in a large marijuana manufacturing[Read More…]