CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–November 20, 2015. A Glenview man who was hired by the Cook County Circuit Court Clerk’s Office after purportedly loaning $15,000 to a company controlled by the Clerk’s husband lied under oath when testifying about it before a grand jury, according to a federal indictment announced today. In August[Read More…]
Law and Order
Former Chicago Police Sergeant Pleads Guilty to Passing Government Information to Store Clerk in Exchange for Cash Payments
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–November 20, 2015. A former sergeant in the Chicago Police Department pleaded guilty today to charges he took cash payments from a liquor store clerk in exchange for disclosing private government information. RAY M. RAMIREZ served as a sergeant in the 12th Police District on the city’s Near West[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for November 19, 2015
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…]
Attorney General Madigan: DHS Worker Charged with Theft, Official Misconduct
Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—November 19, 2015. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced that an Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) caseworker was charged for allegedly misappropriating more than $160,000 in assistance for needy families. Amy Mueller, 40, of Highland, Ill., was arraigned earlier today on charges brought by Madigan’s office in Madison[Read More…]
Three Companies and Three Individuals Charged in Fatal 2012 Gulf of Mexico Oil Drilling Platform Explosion
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 19, 2015. Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC, Grand Isle Shipyards Inc., Wood Group PSN Inc., as well as Don Moss, 46, of Groves, Texas, Curtis Dantin, 50, of Cut-Off, Louisiana, and Christopher Srubar, 40, of Destrehan, Louisiana, have been charged with crimes for a November 2012 explosion[Read More…]
Justice Department Settles Immigration-Related Discrimination Claim Against McDonald’s
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 19, 2015. The Justice Department announced today that it reached a settlement with McDonald’s USA LLC and its corporate affiliates and subsidiaries (McDonald’s) resolving allegations that McDonald’s discriminated against immigrant employees of McDonald’s-owned restaurants. The department’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) opened its[Read More…]
Offshore Oil Platform Operator Agrees to More Than $41 Million in Penalties for Unauthorized Oil Discharges and Improper Operations in Gulf of Mexico
ATP Oil & Gas Corp. Settles U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and EPA Claims in Joint Judicial Enforcement Action under Clean Water Act and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 19, 2015. In the continuing joint enforcement action by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of[Read More…]
West Suburban Drug Dealer Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for Selling Dozens of Guns Later Used in Chicago Shootings
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2015. A federal judge today sentenced a Lisle man to 16 years in prison for putting at least 80 firearms into the hands of known gang members on the streets of Chicago. WALTER FREEMAN obtained the guns from a co-defendant, TIMOTHY VANA, in exchange for crack cocaine. [Read More…]
Member of Sinaloa Cartel Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison for Distributing Cocaine and Heroin Shipped to Chicago from Mexico
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2015. A high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico was sentenced today to 19 years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to transport large amounts of narcotics to the Chicago area. TOMAS AREVALO-RENTERIA directed a portion of the cartel’s U.S.-based couriers, who distributed[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Sues Chicago Company for Mexico Vehicle Transport Scam
Attorney General Alleges Legalizauto Rey Scammed Consumers Seeking to Transport Vehicles to Mexico for Vacations & Extended Stays Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—November 18, 2015. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit against an unlicensed Chicago company for scamming over $100,000 from consumers who sought to transport their vehicles to Mexico. Madigan[Read More…]
