Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—January 20, 2016. Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced a lawsuit against the owner of a Franklin County home repair business for cheating southern Illinois residents out of more than $127,000 for work that was either substandard or never performed. Attorney General Madigan filed the lawsuit in the Circuit Court[Read More…]

CHICAGO — (ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2016. Two members of a Chicago-area rap group have been charged with using violence and coercion to force females to engage in prostitution, federal authorities announced on Friday. SAMUEL NICHOLS and CHARLES FEARS are each charged with one count of engaging in sex trafficking by force,[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–January 15, 2016.   A Northbrook man was sentenced today to 12 months and a day in federal prison for illegally obtaining clean titles for salvaged and rebuilt vehicles and using them as taxicabs on the streets of Chicago. As the owner of Seven Amigos Used Cars Inc., ALEXANDER[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2016.  A Chicago man was sentenced yesterday to more than 16 years in federal prison for selling nearly a dozen firearms that had been transported from Indiana to the streets of Chicago. TERRENCE GRIGGS, 36, sold eleven firearms and a bulletproof vest to an individual he believed[Read More…]

Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—January 11, 2016. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced that a Chicago woman was sentenced to six years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for Medicaid fraud. Debra Gaines, 55, of Chicago, was convicted of Theft of State Property, in this case Medicaid funds, and Vendor Fraud in July[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–January 7, 2016.  A west suburban physician was sentenced today to two years in prison for fraudulently certifying patients as confined to the home, allowing healthcare agencies to bill Medicare for millions of dollars in unnecessary in-home treatment. As an employee and part-owner of Bloomingdale-based Home Care Physicians Inc.,[Read More…]

ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–January 7, 2016.  A former Evanston, Ill. man was convicted today of bank robbery following a three-day jury trial in federal court in Rockford. CONRAD J. GONZALEZ, 47, was found guilty of robbing the First Federal Savings Bank, located at 701 1st Ave., in Rock Falls, Ill. on Oct.[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–January 7, 2016.  United States Marshals, acting with investigators from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, yesterday seized nearly 90,000 bottles of a beverage containing the herbal ingredient kratom. The beverages were manufactured for and held by Dordoniz Natural Products LLC, of South Beloit, and marketed under the brand[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–January 5, 2016.  A Chicago-based partner in a global management consulting firm schemed with a client to bilk their companies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in purported consulting services that were never performed, according to a federal indictment announced today. NAVDEEP ARORA, a former partner in the[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–December 31, 2015.   A convicted felon from southwest suburban Hickory Hills pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to charges he illegally possessed firearms whose serial numbers had been obliterated. STEVEN RILEY, 24, sold a 20-gauge shotgun, two rifles and 40 rounds of assorted ammunition to an individual[Read More…]