Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 20, 2014. The Justice Department announced that James Kalbflesh, a former correctional officer at the Roxbury Correctional Institution (RCI) in Hagerstown, Md., was convicted today by a federal jury on three civil rights and conspiracy counts related to his participation in the beating of an RCI inmate in[Read More…]

Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Scott McLean, 51, of Belleville, Illinois, and John A. Vassen, 56, of O’Fallon, Illinois, were sentenced in the United States District Court in East St. Louis, Illinois, for violating the Sherman Antitrust[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Former Cook County Commissioner JOSEPH MARIO MORENO was sentenced February 19 to 11 years in federal prison for engaging in a series of public and personal corruption schemes over a span of three years. Moreno pleaded guilty on July 1, 2013, to conspiracy to commit extortion after he[Read More…]

Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Viwathna Bhuthimethee, 68, a medical doctor who operated the Walk In Clinic, located at 654 East Broadway Street in Alton, Illinois, pled guilty February 14 in federal court to the 15 counts of an indictment that charged health care fraud against the Illinois Medicaid program and illegal distribution[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- An individual arrested shortly after a robbery of a Naperville bank has been charged in federal court in connection with that robbery. The arrest and charge were announced February 15 by Robert J. Holley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,[Read More…]

Urbana, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A jury has found a Paxton, Illinois man, Eddi Ramirez, 32, guilty of running a cocaine trafficking network that regularly distributed large quantities of cocaine throughout central Illinois including Decatur, Springfield, and Champaign. The jury deliberated approximately one and one-half hours on the afternoon of February 13 before[Read More…]

Indianapolis, IN-(ENEWSPF)- Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced February 13 the sentencing of Rockville resident Bradley M. Vandivier, age 28, to 10 years in federal prison after his admission of guilt to charges that he possessed child pornography and illegally accessed a protected computer. This prosecution comes as[Read More…]

Rockford, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Rockford man and a Califomia man were indicted February 11 by a federal grand jury in Rockford on fraud charges. Todd C. Smith, 46, of Rockford, was charged with seven counts of mail fraud and 10 counts of wire fraud, and Travis Oliver, 36, of Tremecula, California,[Read More…]

Rockford, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A suspended Rockford physician was indicted February 11 by a federal grand jury on charges of healthcare fraud. Charles S. DeHann, 59, of Belvidere, Illinois, was charged with nine counts of engaging in a scheme to defraud Medicare. The indictment alleges that DeHaan, a physician licensed in Illinois,[Read More…]

Urbana, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Sentencing has been scheduled for May 16, 2014, for Bourbonnais, Illinois businessman Gregory Yates, 54, and his son, Terrance Yates, 32, who entered pleas of guilty on February 10 to defrauding a federal business loan program of $1.7 million. Both appeared the afternoon of February 10 before U.S.[Read More…]