WASHINGTON –-(ENEWSPF)–July 31, 2015. A federal court has permanently barred a Bolingbrook, Illinois, woman and her tax preparation business from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order prohibits Judy Brooks and Judy Brooks & Associates Financial Services Corporation (JBA) from acting as[Read More…]
Law and Order
Former Chief Operating Officer Of Sacred Heart Hospital Sentenced To 21 Months In Prison For Conspiring In Kickback Scheme
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–July 31, 2015. The former chief operating officer of Sacred Heart Hospital was sentenced Friday to 21 months in prison for arranging payoffs to doctors in exchange for referring patients to the now-shuttered facility on Chicago’s West Side. CLARENCE NAGELVOORT, 60, of Chicago, conspired with other hospital executives to[Read More…]
Thirteen U.S. Soldiers Sentenced for Roles in Fraudulent Military Recruiting Bonus Scheme
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 30, 2015. Thirteen members of the National Guard Bureau have received their sentences for their roles in wide-ranging bribery and fraud schemes that caused more than $170,000 in losses to the United States. Seven of those members were sentenced this past week in Houston. Assistant Attorney General Leslie[Read More…]
Two Brothers From Des Plaines Among 24 Defendants Charged With Trafficking Large Quantities Of Cocaine And Heroin
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2015. Two dozen defendants are facing federal drug charges after a two-and-a-half-year investigation uncovered their roles in trafficking wholesale amounts of cocaine and heroin and distributing it in the Chicago area and Wisconsin. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration assigned to the[Read More…]
Congressman Chaka Fattah and Associates Charged with Participating in Racketeering Conspiracy
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2015. A member of Congress and four of his associates were indicted today for their roles in a racketeering conspiracy involving several schemes that were intended to further the political and financial interests of the defendants and others by, among other tactics, misappropriating hundreds of thousands of[Read More…]
Florida Resident Charged with Attempting to Use Weapon of Mass Destruction
Defendant, Allegedly Inspired by ISIL, Attempted to Obtain Weapons and Explosives to Conduct Attacks Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015. Harlem Suarez, also known as Almlak Benitez, 23, of Key West, Florida, was charged by a criminal complaint with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against a person or property[Read More…]
Miami Resident and ISIL Sympathizer Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Illegally Possessing a Firearm
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015. Miguel Moran Diaz, 45, of Miami, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Joan A. Lenard of the Southern District of Florida to the statutory maximum term of 120 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, following his guilty plea for[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for July 28, 2015
The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) 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[Read More…]
Eight Additional Individuals Charged in NFL-Related Securities Fraud Scheme Targeting the Elderly
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 27, 2015. Eight additional individuals were indicted for participating in a securities fraud scheme that targeted the elderly. U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer for the Southern District of Florida, and Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Miami Field Office made[Read More…]
Detroit-Area Home Health Care Agency Owners Convicted in $33 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 27, 2015. Two home health care agency owners were convicted today of various offenses based on their roles in a $33 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade of the Eastern District of[Read More…]
