Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Park Forest Police issued a statement Monday afternoon regarding a shooting on Gibson Road Sunday. The 17-year-old victim is in critical condition. The statement follows: On Sunday, February 21, 2016 at approximately 4pm, Park Forest Police Officers and Paramedics responded to the 100 block of Gibson Rd.[Read More…]
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Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for February 19, 2016
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 local media. An arrest does not mean[Read More…]
FTC Files Action Against Stratford Career Institute for Misleading Consumers About Online High School ‘Diploma’ Course
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2016. The Federal Trade Commission has charged online distance education school Stratford Career Institute with misleading consumers about its high school equivalency program that the agency alleges failed to meet the basic requirements set by most states. In its complaint, the FTC alleges that Stratford’s extensive advertising[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan: Convicted Sex Offender Ruled Sexually Violent
Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—February 18, 2016. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced that an Effingham County jury has found that a registered sex offender is a Sexually Violent Person (SVP) following a two-day trial. Following the jury’s decision last week, Judge Kimberly Koester ruled that Phillip Abraham, 29, of Effingham, must remain[Read More…]
Operators of Bitcoin Mining Operation Butterfly Labs Agree to Settle FTC Charges They Deceived Consumers
Defendants Will Be Prohibited from Misleading Consumers, Taking Up-Front Payments for Bitcoin Machines Washington DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 18, 2016. Butterfly Labs and two of its operators have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they deceived thousands of consumers about the availability, profitability, and newness of machines designed to mine the[Read More…]
Judge Orders Illinois Health Care Provider to Repay More Than $1.73M in Losses to Employee Profit-sharing Plan After Making Improper Distributions
CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–February 18, 2016. A federal judge has ordered an Illinois home health care provider and two of its officers to repay a total of $1,736,339 to the Alliance Home Healthcare Inc. Profit Sharing Plan. An investigation by the department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration in Chicago found that Palos[Read More…]
Fifty-One Hospitals Pay United States More Than $23 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Related to Implantation of Cardiac Devices
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 17, 2016. The Department of Justice has reached settlements with 51 hospitals in 15 states for more than $23 million related to cardiac devices that were implanted in Medicare patients in violation of Medicare coverage requirements, the Department of Justice announced today. These settlements represent the final stage[Read More…]
Poplar Grove Woman Charged in Stolen Identity Fraud Scheme
ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–February 16, 2016. A Poplar Grove, Ill. resident was indicted in federal court in Rockford on charges of mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, and access device fraud, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon of the Northern[Read More…]
Alleged Con Man Charged with Impersonating a Psychiatrist and Prescribing Medications to Dozens of Patients in Chicago
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–February 15, 2016. An alleged con man has been charged in federal court with holding himself out as a psychiatrist and fraudulently prescribing medications to a nine-year-old child and dozens of others. SCOTT C. REDMAN, 36, used the identity of an Illinois physician to see patients and prescribe[Read More…]
Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime for Threatening to Firebomb Two Mosques and Shoot Worshippers
FLORIDA–(ENEWSPF)–February 12, 2016. The Justice Department announced today that Martin Alan Schnitzler, 43, pleaded guilty to a hate crime in the Middle District of Florida for calling two mosques located in Pinellas County, Florida, and threatening to firebomb the mosques and shoot their congregants. Schnitzler pleaded guilty to obstructing persons[Read More…]
