Enforcement of state law helps protect shark populations throughout the world SPRINGFIELD, IL–(ENEWSPF)–March 4, 2014. Illinois Department of Natural Resources Conservation Police have issued 20 citations to four businesses in northern Illinois for selling shark fin products. The citations were issued on February 28, 2014 as part of a continuing[Read More…]
Law and Order
Singapore Shipping Company, Crew Member, Plead Guilty to Illegally Discharging Oily Waste
Company Agrees to Pay $1.2 Million Penalty; $300,000 Will Fund Long Island Sound Projects Washington, DC–(ENEWPSF)–March 4, 2014. Singapore-based ODFJELL ASIA II PTE LTD (ODFJELL) and one of its senior crew members pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Hartford, Conn., for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships[Read More…]
Former New Jersey Project Manager Sentenced to Serve Time in Prison for Role in Bid Rigging and Other Fraudulent Schemes
Former Manager to Serve 14 Years in Prison Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—March 4, 2014. Gordon D. McDonald, a former project manager for a prime contractor at two U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund sites in New Jersey, was sentenced today to serve 14 years in prison for participating in multiple bid-rigging, fraud[Read More…]
Buffalo Grove Chiropractor and Physician Among Six Indicted in Alleged $2.98 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2014. A chiropractor and a physician with offices in Buffalo Grove, their billing manager, and three purported patients were indicted on federal charges for their alleged roles in a $2.98 million health care fraud scheme. Five of the six defendants were also charged with hindering the investigation, federal[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for March 3, 2014
A winter past at 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[Read More…]
FBI: Chicago Alderman’s Chief of Staff Facing Federal Bribery Charge
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The chief of staff for an unnamed Chicago alderman was charged with accepting a $7,500 bribe in return for assistance in obtaining the alderman’s letter of support for a license to sell alcohol in the alderman’s ward. Curtis V. Thompson allegedly accepted the cash bribe from an individual[Read More…]
Two Executives Indicted In Alleged $190 Million Equipment Financing Fraud Scheme That Caused $100 Million Loss To Lenders
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 28, 2014. An owner of a bankrupt Palatine company that sold refurbished semiconductor-making machinery and the owner of a Pennsylvania company that sold machine tools were indicted for allegedly engaging in a scheme to fraudulently obtain approximately $190 million from banks and financing companies and, eventually, causing those lenders[Read More…]
Owner Of Elk Grove Village Company Indicted For Allegedly Defrauding 200 Investors Of $9 Million Through Stock Sales
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 28, 2014. More than 200 investors in an Elk Grove Village company that purportedly made homeland security and food safety products lost more than $9 million through the offer and sale of stock, according to a federal fraud indictment against the company’s majority owner and chief executive. The defendant,[Read More…]
Settlement Reached with Stamford Public Schools to Ensure Equal Opportunities for English Language Learner Students
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 28, 2014. The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut announced that they have entered into a comprehensive settlement agreement with the Stamford Public School District in Stamford, Conn., that requires the district to provide language services and other supports to[Read More…]
Massachusetts Dentist Charged with Tax Evasion
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 28, 2014. A federal grand jury in Boston has indicted George Fenzell for tax evasion and corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Justice Department and the IRS announced today following the unsealing of the indictment. Fenzell, of Douglas, Mass., is a practicing dentist with[Read More…]
