Madigan Also Files Order to Ensure Apartment is Vacant While Lead Paint is Addressed Chicago —(ENEWSPF)–July 8, 2016.  Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit Thursday against a suburban property owner for violating the Lead Poisoning Prevention Act by failing to fix cracked and peeling lead paint in a Berwyn[Read More…]

WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–July 7, 2016.   A federal grand jury sitting in Chicago, Illinois, returned an indictment, which was unsealed yesterday, charging four Chicago-area residents with conspiracy to commit theft of government money, wire fraud, theft of government money, aggravated identity theft and access device fraud, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–July 1, 2016.   A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted a Spanish investor for allegedly covering up an international insider trading scheme that netted more than $4.6 million. LUIS MARTIN-CARO SANCHEZ bought options of Canadian fertilizer producer Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc., a few days before the[Read More…]

Chicago — (ENEWSPF)–June 29, 2016.  Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced charges against a former Rock Falls police detective for theft from the police department and drug dealing. Madigan also announced charges against three additional defendants for their participation in an alleged drug conspiracy in Lee and Whiteside counties. All four[Read More…]

Chicago —(ENEWSPF)–June 27, 2016.   Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced that a former Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) caseworker pled guilty today and was sentenced to four years in prison for stealing thousands of dollars in state assistance for needy families. Amy Mueller, 40, of Highland, Ill., pled guilty[Read More…]

Chicago —(ENEWSPF)–June 24, 2016.   Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced that a Fayette County man was charged with possessing and disseminating child pornography as part of “Operation Glass House,” a statewide initiative to apprehend the most active offenders who download and trade child pornography online. Manuel D. Prater, 61,[Read More…]

ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–June 24, 2016.   An Elgin resident pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to federal fraud charges. STEPHEN T. ANGERMAN, 48, pleaded guilty to bank fraud, money laundering, and testifying falsely in a bankruptcy case. According to the written plea agreement, from December 2009 through[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Calumet City man has been sentenced to two consecutive natural life sentences for the murder of two men who were shot to death outside a bar in the south suburb, according to the Office of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez. Jeremy Rodriguez, 29, was previously convicted by[Read More…]

ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–June 24, 2016.   A local man was indicted June 21, 2016 by a federal grand jury in Rockford, Ill. on bank robbery, robbery affecting interstate commerce and firearm charges. DAVID J. SANDERS, 33, was charged with one count of attempted bank robbery, two counts of bank robbery, one[Read More…]

CHICAGO — (ENEWSPF)–June 22, 2016.  Two north suburban doctors have been charged as part of the largest national Medicare fraud takedown in history, federal authorities announced today. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced the unprecedented nationwide sweep that resulted[Read More…]