CHICAGO –-(ENEWSPF)–March 16, 2015. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin; U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon of the Northern District of Illinois; Special Agent in Charge Robert J. Holley of the FBI’s Chicago Office; Special Agent in Charge Gary Hartwig of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security[Read More…]
State Crime Reports
Illinois Federal Court Bars Woman and Her Businesses from Preparing Tax Returns
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 26, 2015. A federal court in Chicago has permanently barred Laurie G. Helfer, aka Laurie G. Powell, individually and doing business as Laurie’s Freelance & Tax Preparation Services and Tax Lady Laurie Inc., from preparing federal tax returns for others and from operating a tax return business, the Justice[Read More…]
Suspended Physician Sentenced To 1 ½ Years For Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone And Falsely Billing Medicare In Undercover Probe
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–February 24, 2015. A suburban physician whose medical license was suspended was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for health care fraud and illegally prescribing controlled substance medications. The defendant, SATHISH NARAYANAPPA BABU, who owned Anik Life Sciences Medical Corp., pled guilty in September 2014 to illegally prescribing[Read More…]
Psychologist And Pschotheraphy Services Owner Sentenced To Over Seven Years, And Employee Sentenced To Over Five Years In $1.5 Million Medicare Fraud
Chicago −(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2015. Bryce Woods, 37, an employee of Take Action, Inc., and Inner Arts, Inc., which claimed to provide psychotherapy services to Medicare beneficiaries residing in skilled nursing homes in the Chicago area, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Virginia M. Kendall to 70 months in[Read More…]
Arlington Heights, Illinois, Company and its Owner and Employee Charged with Illegal Export and Import of Military Articles
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 19, 2015. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon of the Northern District of Illinois, Special Agent in Charge Gary Hartwig of Homeland Security Investigations Chicago, Special Agent in Charge James C. Lee of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Chicago Office and[Read More…]
River Forest Man Sentenced To 12 1/2 Years In Prison For Sending Threats To Kill Chicago Politicians, Local Police, And Others
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–February 18, 2015. A River Forest man was sentenced today to 12 ½ years in federal prison for mailing and emailing threatening communications to kill Chicago area politicians and River Forest police officers, as well as oil executives in Texas and California. A jury found the defendant, RONALD HADDAD,[Read More…]
Federal Charges Filed In Sex Trafficking Of Minor
CHICAGO −(ENEWSPF)–February 13, 2015. A man who allegedly sex trafficked an underage girl by force was charged in a criminal complaint in U.S. District Court in Chicago. The defendant, ALLEN C. IROEGBULEM, 24, of Roselle, Illinois, was charged with sex trafficking of a minor. The charges were announced today by[Read More…]
Illinois Physician Pleads Guilty to Taking Kickbacks from Pharmaceutical Company and Agrees to Pay $3.79 Million to Settle Civil False Claims Act Case
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 13, 2015. The Department of Justice announced today that an Illinois physician, Dr. Michael J. Reinstein, pleaded guilty to a federal crime for receiving illegal kickbacks and benefits totaling nearly $600,000 from two pharmaceutical companies in exchange for regularly prescribing an anti-psychotic drug — clozapine — to his patients. [Read More…]
Thirty Two Defendants Facing Federal Or State Charges Alleging The Laundering Of Over $100 Million In Narcotics Proceeds Through Cash-For-Gold Scheme
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–February 11, 2015. Thirty-one defendants face federal money laundering charges for their roles in a conspiracy that allegedly laundered more than $100 million in drug proceeds for the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel by purchasing gold, reselling it to companies in Florida and California, then transmitting the money from the United[Read More…]
Former Federal Prison Chaplain Pleads Guilty To Passing Messages For Convicted Killer Frank Calabrese, Sr.
CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–February 11, 2015. A former federal prison chaplain who ministered to convicted killer Frank Calabrese, Sr., pleaded guilty today to passing messages from Calabrese concerning the recovery of a hidden violin from a residence Calabrese once owned in Williams Bay, Wis., federal law enforcement officials announced today. The defendant,[Read More…]
