CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–October 8, 2015. A federal indictment returned today charges BARBARA BYRD-BENNETT with using her position atop the Chicago Public Schools to award lucrative no-bid contracts to her former employer in exchange for bribes and kickbacks. The 23-count indictment alleges that Byrd-Bennett steered no-bid contracts worth more than $23 million[Read More…]
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Nation’s Second-Largest Nursing Home Pharmacy to Pay $9.25 Million to Settle Kickback Allegations
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2015. The nation’s second-largest nursing home pharmacy, PharMerica Corp., has agreed to pay $9.25 million to resolve allegations that it solicited and received kickbacks from pharmaceutical manufacturer Abbott Laboratories in exchange for promoting the prescription drug Depakote for nursing home patients. PharMerica is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.[Read More…]
Massachusetts Man Sentenced to 37 Months in Prison for Trafficking Counterfeit Military Goods
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2015. A Massachusetts man was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for importing thousands of counterfeit integrated circuits (ICs) from China and Hong Kong and reselling them to U.S. customers, including contractors supplying them to the U.S. Navy for use in nuclear submarines. Assistant Attorney General[Read More…]
Two Sentenced for Roles in Prescription Drug Smuggling Ring
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2015. The Department of Justice announced today that two Athens, Texas, residents have been sentenced for their role in the smuggling of imitation, unapproved and misbranded prescription drugs from China. Tom Giddens, 57, and Wanda Hollis, 63, were each sentenced to serve 15 months in prison by[Read More…]
Three More Individuals Charged With Conspiring To Manufacture Marijuana In Rockford Warehouse On 11th Street
ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2015. A federal grand jury in Rockford returned a superseding indictment today charging seven individuals, six men and a woman, with conspiring to manufacture, possess and distribute 1,000 or more marijuana plants. The superseding indictment charges four individuals, JEREMIAH N. CLEMENT, 37, of Des Plaines, Ill., GEORGE[Read More…]
Chicago Man Pleads Guilty to Heroin Charges
Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Darnell Roy Baker, a.k.a. “Forty,” 26, of Chicago, Illinois, pled guilty October 5 to charges returned against him by a Federal Grand Jury in November 2014. Specifically, Baker pled guilty to Conspiracy to[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for October 6, 2015
Updated May 30, 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[Read More…]
United States Obtains $255,000 Settlement of Disability Discrimination Lawsuit Against Continuing Care Retirement Community in Lincolnshire, Illinois
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2015. The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement that resolves allegations that the owners and managers of a continuing care retirement community known as Sedgebrook violated the Fair Housing Act by instituting policies and maintaining practices that discriminated against residents with disabilities at[Read More…]
Twin Brothers Sentenced for Wire Fraud, Conspiring to Hack into U.S. Department of State and Private Company
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 2, 2015. Twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, 23, of Springfield, Virginia, were sentenced today for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to access a protected computer without authorization and conspiracy to access a government computer without authorization. Muneeb Akhter was also sentenced for accessing a protected computer[Read More…]
California Trucking Executive and Alleged Computer Hacker Arrested for Extorting $40,000 from Chicago-Area Software Company
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–October 2, 2015. The president of a southern California trucking company plotted with a Serbian man to extort $40,000 from a Chicago-area software company by hacking into the company’s computer system and threatening to disclose the data, federal authorities announced today. STEFAN STOJANOVIC, 20, of Zemun, Serbia, hacked into[Read More…]
