Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–March 24, 2011.  Attorney General Lisa Madigan today joined nine other states in reaching a settlement against a Georgia advertising corporation over its false car sales promotions around the country, in violation of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. The actions were filed in Sangamon County Circuit Court[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 24, 2011.  A Southwest Suburban Concrete Contractor has been named in a consumer fraud lawsuit filed by the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office on behalf of two Chicago homeowners according to the Office of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez. Wieslaw Mizinski of Justice and the owner of Mzinski[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 23, 2011— Bond has been set at $100,000 for one man, and $50,000 for another after both were arrested during a dogfight in progress, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced Tuesday. Earl Johnson, 31, of the 1400 block of Marquette in Chicago, has been charged with dogfighting and[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2011.  Today a grand jury in the Eastern District of Wisconsin returned a one-count indictment against U.S. citizen Roland J. Flath for traveling in foreign commerce and engaging in and attempting to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor less than 18 years of age, announced Assistant[Read More…]

Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2011.  Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced today a Peoria-area man was sentenced to one and a half years in jail with six months probation and ordered to pay more than $100,000 in restitution to consumers for scamming them out of thousands of dollars in home repair work he[Read More…]

NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—March 20, 2011.  The following remarks are attributed to Derek Johnson, CEO of Yele Haiti: As many of you by now have heard, our founder and former chairman Wyclef Jean was the victim of a minor gun shot wound last night in Haiti. We have confirmation from the authorities[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[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2011— A Worth man is being held without bond after he was charged with trying to arrange for the murder of a female acquaintance even while he was being held in the Cook County Jail. Michael Carlson, 59, is charged with solicitation of murder for hire as a[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2011.  Samsung SDI Company Ltd. has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $32 million criminal fine for its role in a global conspiracy to fix prices, reduce output and allocate market shares of color display tubes (CDTs), a type of cathode ray tube used in computer[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2011.  Bond has been set at $200,000 for a Palos Heights woman who is charged with stealing funds from a women’s health care facility where she was employed as a bookkeeper, according to the Office of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez. Elizabeth Dillon, 55, of Palos Heights,[Read More…]