ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2015.  A Rockford man was arrested today for illegally possessing a firearm.  CLIFFORD HORTON, 27, of Rockford, Ill., was charged yesterday by a federal grand jury in Rockford for possessing a .380 caliber pistol as a convicted felon.  Horton is scheduled to be arraigned today at 1:00[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2015.  The former president of a Southwest Side construction company paid off-the-books cash wages to workers and under-reported their hours as part of a scheme to defraud the benefit funds of the employees’ labor union, according to a federal indictment unsealed Friday. While serving as president of[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2015.  The chief executive officer of Chicago-based Home Physician Services LLC was arrested Thursday on charges that he billed Medicare for up to $1.2 million in fraudulent or non-existent services purportedly provided to the elderly and homebound. HENRY SMILIE, 54, of Lake Zurich, was taken into custody[Read More…]

WASHINGTON –-(ENEWSPF)–July 31, 2015.  A federal court has permanently barred a Bolingbrook, Illinois, woman and her tax preparation business from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order prohibits Judy Brooks and Judy Brooks & Associates Financial Services Corporation (JBA) from acting as[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–July 31, 2015.  The former chief operating officer of Sacred Heart Hospital was sentenced Friday to 21 months in prison for arranging payoffs to doctors in exchange for referring patients to the now-shuttered facility on Chicago’s West Side. CLARENCE NAGELVOORT, 60, of Chicago, conspired with other hospital executives to[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2015.  Two dozen defendants are facing federal drug charges after a two-and-a-half-year investigation uncovered their roles in trafficking wholesale amounts of cocaine and heroin and distributing it in the Chicago area and Wisconsin. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration assigned to the[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–July 23, 2015.  A West Side man who forcefully recruited three underage girls into the commercial sex trade and then profited from their activities was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in federal prison. ARNELL CHASE MISHER, 31, of Chicago, enticed three girls – ages 13, 16 and 17 –[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–July 23, 2015.  A Florida businessman has been charged in federal court with running a Ponzi scheme involving the sale of bogus investments in his real estate development company. RICHARD L. THOMPSON, 60, induced investors to purchase shares in his real estate development company, Latten Management LLC, and to[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2015.  A senior accountant at the Illinois Medical District Commission embezzled nearly $130,000 from the agency by directing funds into her personal accounts while fraudulently claiming the payments had been sent to the agency’s energy provider, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed today. CYNTHIA FERNANDEZ-ALONSO, 42,[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–July 17, 2015.  A former United States Marine from Calumet City stole the identities of several fellow Marines and used their information to illegally procure more than $138,000 from Navy Federal Credit Union, according to an indictment returned this week in federal court in Chicago. While serving in Combat[Read More…]