CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–November 9, 2015.  A former religious services assistant at the downtown Metropolitan Correctional Center pleaded guilty today to providing sensitive information to inmates about fellow prisoners in the federal corrections system. TOMMY HAIRE, 34, performed unauthorized searches on the MCC’s internal computer system to obtain personal information about several[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–November 6, 2015.  An Ohio man was convicted yesterday for his role in a sex trafficking conspiracy involving minor girls who were transported to Chicago from Iowa to engage in prostitution. WILLIE WOODS, 44, of Toledo, Ohio, helped transport the minor girls from Iowa City in 2012.  Once in[Read More…]

ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–November 5, 2015.  A Rockford, Ill. woman was arrested yesterday on federal charges of making false claims for federal tax refunds and using other persons’ identification in connection with the fraudulent claims for tax refunds.  CRYSTAL S. JACKSON, 27, of Rockford, was charged by a federal indictment on Oct.[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–November 5, 2015.  In the first federal prosecution of its kind, a high-frequency trader was convicted yesterday of disrupting commodity futures prices in a $1.4 million fraud scheme. MICHAEL COSCIA, 53, used an automated trading technique to commit a crime known as “spoofing” to earn illegal profits from orders[Read More…]

Illinois-based company to pay $26.75 million to 12 states, D.C., federal government Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—October 30, 2015. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced a $26.75 million settlement with Stericycle, Inc., an Illinois-based medical waste disposal company, for overcharging government entities in several states by millions of dollars. The settlement will resolve[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–October 29, 2015.  A Bolingbrook man pleaded guilty today to a federal charge that he attempted to travel overseas to join a foreign terrorist organization in Syria. MOHAMMED HAMZAH KHAN, 20, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.  The organization[Read More…]

ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–October 28, 2015.  A Lake County woman pleaded guilty today in federal court to two counts of bank robbery and one count of attempted bank robbery.  TERESA M. KNOWLES, 39, of Volo, Ill., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to robbing the Chase Bank, in Crystal[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–October 28, 2015.  This morning, JOHN DENNIS HASTERT, 73, of Plano, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of illegally structuring cash withdrawals in order to evade financial reporting requirements.  The Honorable U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin scheduled a sentencing hearing for February 29, 2016, at 10:00[Read More…]

ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–October 26, 2015.  A former Davis, Ill. resident pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to a charge of failure to register under the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA”).  MARK STEPHEN CURTIS, 29, who moved from North Carolina to Davis, Ill. during September[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–October 23, 2015.  A Chicago father who offered to hire a hit man to execute two potential witnesses in his son’s murder trial was sentenced today to 17 and a half years in federal prison. EURIPIDES CAGUANA, 61, sought the killings of two men he believed would testify against[Read More…]