Madigan Issues Alert After Increase in Scam Calls to Illinois Residents & Attorney General’s Office Employees Chicago —(ENEWSPF)–February 3, 2017. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today alerted Illinois residents to a current wave of phone scams in which callers pose as computer security experts in an attempt to gain access to[Read More…]
Law and Order
Suburban Chicago Physician Pleads Guilty to Federal Bribery Charge
ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–February 2, 2017. A Suburban Chicago physician pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to bribery concerning health care programs receiving federal funds. NEIL SHARMA, 36, of Lemont, has been a licensed Illinois physician since March 2011. Between September 2013 and March 2015, he was the[Read More…]
Center for Constitutional Rights Seeks Muslim Ban Legal Docs Under Freedom of Information Act
New York –(ENEWSPF)–February 2, 2017. Yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with three Department of Justice offices: the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), the Office of the Attorney General, and the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, seeking the administration’s purported[Read More…]
Class-Action Lawsuit Argues Muslim Ban Unlawfully Targets U.S. Residents Seeking Citizenship and Immigration Status
Class-Action Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Tens of Thousands of Immigrants Living in U.S. Legally SEATTLE —(ENEWSPF)–February 2, 2017. Civil and immigrant rights groups asked a federal court last night to lift the unconstitutional ban blocking Muslim immigrants lawfully living in the United States from becoming U.S. citizens, permanent residents,[Read More…]
Former Executive of Tenet Healthcare Corporation Charged for Alleged Role in $400 Million Scheme to Defraud
GEORGIA–(ENEWSPF)–February 2, 2017. A former senior executive of Tenet Healthcare Corporation, was indicted for his alleged role in an over $400 million scheme to defraud. The indictment alleges that the scheme to defraud victimized the U.S. government, the Georgia and South Carolina Medicaid Programs, and prospective patients of Tenet hospitals. Acting[Read More…]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Orders MasterCard and UniRush to Pay $13 Million for RushCard Breakdowns that Cut Off Consumers’ Access to Funds
Preventable Failures Left Tens of Thousands of Economically Vulnerable Consumers Unable to Pay for Necessities WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–February 1, 2017. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today took action against Mastercard and UniRush for breakdowns that left tens of thousands of economically vulnerable RushCard users unable to access their own money to[Read More…]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Orders Prospect Mortgage to Pay $3.5 Million Fine for Illegal Kickback Scheme
Real Estate Brokers and Mortgage Servicer That Took Kickbacks from Prospect Also Ordered to Pay $495,000 Washington, D.C. – (ENEWSPF)–January 31, 2017. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today took action against Prospect Mortgage, LLC, a major mortgage lender, for paying illegal kickbacks for mortgage business referrals. The CFPB also[Read More…]
New Acting Attorney General Boente Issues Guidance to Department on Trump Executive Order Banning Muslims
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 31, 2017. Dana J. Boente, who was appointed last night to serve as acting Attorney General, issued the following guidance last night to the men and women of the department: On January 30, 2017, Acting Attorney General Sally Q. Yates issued a memorandum barring Department of Justice Attorney’s[Read More…]
Justice Department Refuses to Defend Trump’s Muslim Ban
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 30, 2017 By Kerry Eleveld Just in from CNN—remember, the current Attorney General, Sally Yates, is an Obama holdover. The acting Attorney General Sally Yates has told Justice Department lawyers not to make legal arguments defending President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration and refugees, according to sources familiar[Read More…]
Pennsylvania Man Pleaded Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to ISIL and Transmitting a Communication Containing a Threat to Injure
PENNSYLVANIA–(ENEWSPF)–January 30, 2017. Jalil Ibn Ameer Aziz, 20, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and transmitting a communication containing a threat to injure. The announcement was made[Read More…]
