Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Darnell Roy Baker, a.k.a. “Forty,” 26, of Chicago, Illinois, pled guilty October 5 to charges returned against him by a Federal Grand Jury in November 2014. Specifically, Baker pled guilty to Conspiracy to[Read More…]
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United States Obtains $255,000 Settlement of Disability Discrimination Lawsuit Against Continuing Care Retirement Community in Lincolnshire, Illinois
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2015. The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement that resolves allegations that the owners and managers of a continuing care retirement community known as Sedgebrook violated the Fair Housing Act by instituting policies and maintaining practices that discriminated against residents with disabilities at[Read More…]
California Trucking Executive and Alleged Computer Hacker Arrested for Extorting $40,000 from Chicago-Area Software Company
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–October 2, 2015. The president of a southern California trucking company plotted with a Serbian man to extort $40,000 from a Chicago-area software company by hacking into the company’s computer system and threatening to disclose the data, federal authorities announced today. STEFAN STOJANOVIC, 20, of Zemun, Serbia, hacked into[Read More…]
Chicago Man Sentenced to 37 Months in Federal Prison for Trafficking Dozens of Guns from Indiana to the Streets of Chicago
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–October 1, 2015. A Chicago man who helped purchase 43 firearms in Indiana and transport them to Illinois for sale on the streets of Chicago was sentenced today to 37 months in prison. After purchasing the weapons at gun shows and from individual vendors in Crown Point and Indianapolis,[Read More…]
Justice Department Files Suit Against City of Des Plaines for Refusing to Allow Islamic Center to Operate in Vacant Office Building
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–September 30, 2015. The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against the City of Des Plaines, alleging that the northwest suburb violated federal law when it refused to allow an Islamic group to operate a place of worship in a vacant office building. The suit contends that Des Plaines[Read More…]
Rockford Resident Convicted On Gun Charge As A Convicted Felon
ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–September 30, 2015. A Rockford resident was convicted yesterday after a two-day jury trial on a federal gun charge. The defendant, MARTEZ DICKSON, 29, was found guilty by a federal jury following a trial before U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan: Will County Couple Indicted for Tax Fraud
Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—September 24, 2015. Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced that a married Plainfield couple has been indicted for allegedly defrauding the state out of more than $400,000 in sales tax revenue. Jamal Hussein, 44, and Lucinda Hussein, 41, were charged today with multiple tax-related felony counts in Will County Circuit[Read More…]
Former Downtown Nightclub Bouncer Arrested on Charges of Operating Illegal Steroid Lab out of His Oak Lawn Home
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–September 24, 2015. An Oak Lawn man was arrested today on federal charges that he imported anabolic steroids from China and distributed them to large-scale suppliers in the Chicago area. JOSEPH T. PALERMO, 33, imported anabolic steroids, human growth hormone and pharmaceuticals from outside the United States for approximately[Read More…]
Chicago Man Charged in Connection with the Murder of Sheila Von Wiese in Bali, Indonesia
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 23, 2015. A Chicago man has been charged for conspiring with his cousin and cousin’s girlfriend to kill a U.S. citizen at a resort in Bali, Indonesia, in August 2014, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Chicago today. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of[Read More…]
Medical Biller Sentenced to 45 Months in Prison for Role in $4 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 18, 2015. The medical biller of a Chicago-area visiting physician practice was sentenced today to 45 months in prison for her role in a $4 million health care fraud scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon of the[Read More…]
