Chicago —(ENEWSPF)–February 26, 2016.   Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced a Montgomery County business owner surrendered today to law enforcement after pleading guilty to evading more than $40,000 in sales tax payments to the state. Long Clayton, 50, of Hillsboro, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Circuit Court to one count[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–February 25, 2016.  A federal jury yesterday convicted the president of a Chicago real estate firm on fraud charges relating to a $105 million line of credit for city and suburban properties, including a former Goldblatt’s Department Store on the North Side and the Streets of Woodfield Mall in[Read More…]

ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–February 22, 2016.  A Freeport resident was sentenced today in federal court on a federal tax fraud charge. The defendant, DOMINIQUE CASTLE, 29, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to 33 months in federal prison, and ordered to serve 3 years of supervised release following her[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–February 22, 2016.  A Kane County woman was convicted of witness tampering today for impeding a wide-ranging federal investigation into visa fraud and a sham marriage she had arranged for a Mongolian relative. After a five-day trial in federal court in Chicago, the jury convicted ENKHCHIMEG ULZIIBAYAR EDWARDS, also[Read More…]

Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—February 18, 2016. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced that an Effingham County jury has found that a registered sex offender is a Sexually Violent Person (SVP) following a two-day trial. Following the jury’s decision last week, Judge Kimberly Koester ruled that Phillip Abraham, 29, of Effingham, must remain[Read More…]

CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–February 18, 2016.   A federal judge has ordered an Illinois home health care provider and two of its officers to repay a total of $1,736,339 to the Alliance Home Healthcare Inc. Profit Sharing Plan. An investigation by the department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration in Chicago found that Palos[Read More…]

ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–February 16, 2016.  A Poplar Grove, Ill. resident was indicted in federal court in Rockford on charges of mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, and access device fraud, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon of the Northern[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–February 15, 2016.   An alleged con man has been charged in federal court with holding himself out as a psychiatrist and fraudulently prescribing medications to a nine-year-old child and dozens of others. SCOTT C. REDMAN, 36, used the identity of an Illinois physician to see patients and prescribe[Read More…]

Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—February 11, 2016. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced a settlement with Dallas-based MoneyGram Payment Systems Inc. resolving a multistate investigation that focused on complaints from consumers who used MoneyGram’s wire transfer service to send money to third parties involved in schemes to defraud consumers. Madigan’s office was one[Read More…]

CHICAGO — (ENEWSPF)–February 11, 2016.  A Milwaukee man was convicted in federal court today of transporting an underage girl to the Chicago area from Wisconsin to engage in prostitution. DAJUAN KEY, 32, brought the girl to the Chicago area from Madison, Wisc., in September 2013.  At the time, the victim[Read More…]