Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- According to a statement from the Park Forest Police Department, a man was found unresponsive in the driveway of a residence in the 200 block of Miami Street. On Thursday, July 7, 2016 at approximately 5:50 a.m., Park Forest Police officers and paramedics responded to the 200[Read More…]
Law and Order
Former Minnesota National Guardsman Sentenced to 210 Months in Prison for Production of Child Pornography
MINNESOTA–(ENEWSPF)–July 8, 2016. A former Minnesota National Guardsman was sentenced today to 210 months in prison for inducing a 14-year-old girl to create and send to him sexually explicit photos over the Internet while he was deployed to Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s[Read More…]
Congresswoman Corrine Brown and Chief of Staff Charged with Fraud Scheme Involving Bogus Non-Profit Scholarship Entity
FLORIDA–(ENEWSPF)–July 8, 2016. Congresswoman Corrine Brown and her chief of staff were indicted today for their roles in a conspiracy and fraud scheme involving a fraudulent education charity. Brown, 69, of Jacksonville, Florida, and her chief of staff, Elias “Ronnie” Simmons, 50, of Laurel, Maryland, were charged today in a[Read More…]
Chicago-Based Tax Return Preparer Who Targeted City Employees in Fraudulent Tax Return Schemes Permanently Shut down by Federal Court
WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–July 8, 2016. According to a civil complaint the United States filed in 2014, a Chicago-based tax return preparer prepared returns that falsely claimed that recipients of discrimination awards related to a class-action lawsuit could claim large deductions on their federal tax returns and that falsely inflated the[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Files Lawsuit Against Berwyn Property Owner Over Lead Paint Hazards
Madigan Also Files Order to Ensure Apartment is Vacant While Lead Paint is Addressed Chicago —(ENEWSPF)–July 8, 2016. Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit Thursday against a suburban property owner for violating the Lead Poisoning Prevention Act by failing to fix cracked and peeling lead paint in a Berwyn[Read More…]
Sentencing Commission: Nearly One In Ten Defendants Sentenced To Federal Prison In 2015 Violated Marijuana Laws
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 7, 2016. Eight percent of defendants sentenced to federal prison in 2015 were convicted of violating marijuana laws, according to a June 2016 federal report issued by the United States Sentencing Commission. According to the report, the US government prosecuted 71,184 cases in 2015 in which the offender[Read More…]
Four Conspirators Indicted in Chicago-Based Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–July 7, 2016. A federal grand jury sitting in Chicago, Illinois, returned an indictment, which was unsealed yesterday, charging four Chicago-area residents with conspiracy to commit theft of government money, wire fraud, theft of government money, aggravated identity theft and access device fraud, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General[Read More…]
Former Army National Guard Member Arrested for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL
VIRGINIA–(ENEWSPF)–July 5, 2016. Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former member of the Army National Guard, was arrested on July 3 for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). According to the complaint, Jalloh is alleged to have attempted to provide services by assisting[Read More…]
Civil Rights Groups Seek to Expose Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Activists and Others
Civil rights groups mark 50th Anniversary of Freedom of Information Act by filing requests to expose government surveillance of activists of color New York – (ENEWSPF)–July 5, 2016. ColorOfChange (COC) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) jointly filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FBI and[Read More…]
FBI Forensic Anthropology (Video)
Lisa Bailey, a forensic artist at the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, creates facial approximations of unidentified individuals using models of their skulls and anthropologist reports Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 5, 2016. Fifteen years ago, hikers in a suburban Minnesota park discovered the skeletal, unclothed remains of a woman, 35 to 45[Read More…]
