ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2015.  A Rockford, Ill. man was charged yesterday in federal court with possessing with the intent to distribute narcotic drugs.  ANTHONY ROSS, 34, of Rockford, Ill., was charged with possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine, cocaine base (crack cocaine), and heroin on May 28, 2015.  According[Read More…]

CHICAGO ―(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2015.  The leader of a drug trafficking organization who created and managed a heroin distribution operation run via a hotline telephone between 2008 and 2012 on the city’s west side was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison yesterday, federal law enforcement officials announced.  The defendant, PIERRE[Read More…]

Chicago –(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2015.  A drug trafficker who used the illicit website “Silk Road” for worldwide drug sales was sentenced yesterday to 10 years’ imprisonment for selling millions of dollars’ worth of illegal drugs for bitcoins.  The defendant, Cornelis Jan Slomp, 23, of Woerden, the Netherlands, pled guilty in April[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–May 28, 2015.  A Naperville man pled guilty today to federal charges he set fire to the Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center in Aurora on September 26, 2014, federal law enforcement officials announced today. Brian Howard, 37, of Naperville, was charged by information earlier this month with one[Read More…]

CHICAGO ―(ENEWSPF)–May 28, 2015.  A Chicago lawyer was indicted on federal charges alleging that he evaded the payment of income tax on income he received over the course of two decades, including income he received in connection with the State of Illinois’s lawsuit against various tobacco companies.  Daniel P. Soso,[Read More…]

CHICAGO ―(ENEWSPF)–May 27, 2015.  Two men were indicted on April 29, 2015, by a federal grand jury in an indictment unsealed today for allegedly intending to defraud ATMs in and around Chicago by altering the settings of the ATMs so that the actual amounts disbursed far exceeded the withdrawal requests[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–May 27, 2015.  An area psychologist pled guilty today to engaging in a health care fraud scheme to defraud the Medicare program, federal law enforcement officials announced today.  SHARON A. RINALDI, a licensed psychologist, was charged in a five-count indictment returned in October 2012 with defrauding Medicare by submitting[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–May 27, 2015.  A former chief of staff for a Chicago alderman was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for accepting a $7,500 cash bribe in exchange for obtaining the alderman’s letter of support for a license to sell alcohol in the alderman’s ward.  The defendant, CURTIS V.[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–May 26, 2015.  A southwest suburban pharmacist was indicted on federal charges for health care fraud, federal law enforcement officials announced today.  The defendant, WALTER BEICH, the owner and licensed pharmacist at Lockport Pharmacy, Inc. operating as Corwin Pharmacy, was charged in a twelve-count indictment returned by a federal[Read More…]

ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–May 21, 2015.  A former Sandwich, Ill. business owner was sentenced yesterday in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for making a false statement to a financial institution. The defendant, STEVEN J. MOORHOUSE, 62, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison, to be followed by[Read More…]