Newport News, VA-(ENEWSPF)- Kevin Vaughn, 24, of Newport News, Va., was sentenced today to 240 months in prison for aiding and abetting an assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of a racketeering conspiracy, and aiding and abetting the discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. Neil[Read More…]

Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2011. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit against a Chicago area air duct and vent cleaning company for soliciting work it failed to complete and for repeatedly misleading consumers, particularly senior citizens, to purchase services they didn’t need. Madigan’s lawsuit was filed in Cook County Circuit[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2011. Bond was set at $300,000 today for a Gold Coast woman charged with looting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a student scholarship fund offered by a prominent Chicago civic club, according to Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez. Christina Madej, 58, a manager at an Oak[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2011. A Chicago woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for severely burning the feet of her 10-month-old infant son and neglecting to provide immediate or proper medical treatment for the child, according to the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez. Damaira Roman, 27,[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2011. New DNA testing in a 27-year-old unsolved Chicago homicide has resulted in murder charges being filed against a convicted felon now charged with stabbing and killing a CTA bus driver in his South Side home during a home invasion in 1983, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez[Read More…]

Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2011. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit in Williamson County Circuit Court against a Marion home repair contractor who solicited but failed to complete the contracted work, in violation of the state’s Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act and the Home Repair and Remodeling Act.[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2011. Two Chicago Public School teachers, a parts manager for the Cook County Highway Department and  two seasonal snowplow drivers with the Illinois Department of Transportation have been arrested and charged in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s ongoing crack down on cases of local public corruption, State’s Attorney[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– A Michigan businessman pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with the federal E-Rate program, the Department of Justice announced today. Jeremy R. Sheets pleaded guilty to a charge filed in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Dec. 9, 2010, for engaging in wire fraud in[Read More…]

Dallas, TX-(ENEWSPF)- A bank robber, Benjamin A. Potts, who defended himself during a three-day trial before U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn, was convicted by a federal jury on all three counts of an indictment, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Specifically, the jury[Read More…]

Detroit, MI-(ENEWSPF)- Erwin Hollenquest, 63, of West Bloomfield, Michigan was found guilty on January 21, 2011 by a federal jury in Detroit on bribery charges related to the federal investigation into corruption in the City of Ecorse, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. U.S. Attorney McQuade was joined[Read More…]