VIRGINIA–(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2016. Joseph Hassan Farrokh, 28, and Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan, 25, both of Woodbridge, Virginia, were charged on Saturday for criminal activity relating to Farrokh’s attempt to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The charges were announced by Assistant Attorney[Read More…]
Law and Order
Taxicab Operator Sentenced To 12 Months And A Day For Falsifying Titles Of Salvaged Cars And Re-Using Them As Taxis On Chicago Streets
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–January 15, 2016. A Northbrook man was sentenced today to 12 months and a day in federal prison for illegally obtaining clean titles for salvaged and rebuilt vehicles and using them as taxicabs on the streets of Chicago. As the owner of Seven Amigos Used Cars Inc., ALEXANDER[Read More…]
Chicago Man Sentenced To More Than 16 Years In Prison For Selling Shotguns And Rifles Imported To Chicago From Indiana
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2016. A Chicago man was sentenced yesterday to more than 16 years in federal prison for selling nearly a dozen firearms that had been transported from Indiana to the streets of Chicago. TERRENCE GRIGGS, 36, sold eleven firearms and a bulletproof vest to an individual he believed[Read More…]
Maryland Man Indicted for Conspiring to Provide and for Providing Material Support to ISIL
Defendant Allegedly Received Money from Individuals Overseas to Be Used for “Operational Purposes” in the United States MARYLAND–(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2016. A federal grand jury returned an indictment late yesterday charging Mohamed Elshinawy, 30, of Edgewood, Maryland, with conspiring to provide and with providing material support to the Islamic State of[Read More…]
Health Care Clinic Consultant and Medicare Biller Pleads Guilty in Miami for Role in $63 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
FLORIDA–(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2016. A former health care clinic consultant and Medicare biller pleaded guilty today in connection with a $63 million health care fraud and money laundering scheme involving a defunct Miami-area health care provider. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Wifredo[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for January 13, 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 that[Read More…]
Park Forest Woman Reported Missing On January 5
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Park Forest police are expressing “concern” about a missing resident, 31-year-old Brenda Jackson, of the 200 block of Arcadia Street in Park Forest, reported missing by her husband and mother on January 5, 2016. The following is from the Park Forest Police Department: The Park Forest Police[Read More…]
Nation’s Largest Nursing Home Therapy Provider, Kindred/Rehabcare, to Pay $125 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
Four Nursing Homes Using Kindred/RehabCare to Pay an Additional $8.225 Million Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 12, 2016. Contract therapy providers RehabCare Group Inc., RehabCare Group East Inc. and their parent, Kindred Healthcare Inc., have agreed to pay $125 million to resolve a government lawsuit alleging that they violated the False Claims Act[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan: Chicago Woman Convicted of Medicaid Fraud
Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—January 11, 2016. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced that a Chicago woman was sentenced to six years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for Medicaid fraud. Debra Gaines, 55, of Chicago, was convicted of Theft of State Property, in this case Medicaid funds, and Vendor Fraud in July[Read More…]
U.S. Citizen Indicted for Supporting and Receiving Military Training from Al Shabaab
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–January 11, 2016. Maalik Alim Jones, 31, of Maryland, was indicted based on his alleged support of al Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization based in Somalia that is allied with al Qaeda. Jones, a U.S. citizen, was presented before Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Frank Maas of the Southern[Read More…]
