CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)—December 5, 2014. Former Illinois State Rep. KEITH FARNHAM pleaded guilty today to a federal charge of transporting child pornography via computers in his office and residence in Elgin last year.  Farnham resigned his seat in the Illinois General Assembly in March of this year, less than a week[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)—December 4, 2014. A former chief of staff for an unnamed Chicago alderman pleaded guilty today to accepting a $7,500 cash bribe in exchange for obtaining the alderman’s letters of support for a license to sell alcohol in the alderman’s ward.  The defendant, CURTIS V. THOMPSON, JR., accepted the[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)—December 4, 2014. Two principals of a defunct suburban company that purported to have billions of dollars to finance small businesses were indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly swindling about $2 million in advance fees from approximately 125 business owners nationwide.  With no such assets and no history[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–November 25, 2014.  A former west suburban home builder was sentenced to 2½ years in federal prison for failing to pay more than $1.27 million in federal income taxes and concealing certain business interests in his personal bankruptcy case.  The defendant, DENNIS WEISS, was sentenced after pleading guilty last[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014. A high-level member of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico was sentenced today to 22 years in federal prison and, separately, guilty pleas were unsealed in the same case for twin brothers who ran the cartel’s Chicago distribution cell and supplied vast quantities of cocaine and heroin[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014.  The former owner of the defunct Chicago Rush Arena Football League team was arrested today on federal fraud charges for allegedly concealing certain business interests and assets from creditors and overstating his net worth in connection with his purchase and operation of the indoor football team[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2014.  Six men were indicted on federal charges alleging a plot to force a former employee of a now-closed suburban restaurant to pay a business debt of approximately $40,000, federal law enforcement officials announced today. On June 1 of this year, five of the six defendants allegedly[Read More…]

Defendants to Pay $22 Million in Refunds for Scheme to Charge for Credit Monitoring Consumers Never Authorized Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—November 20, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan yesterday joined with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Ohio Attorney General to stop an online scheme that allegedly lured consumers with “free” access[Read More…]

Chicago — (ENEWSPF)—November 20, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced charges yesterday against two men on multiple counts of possessing, reproducing and disseminating child pornography as part of “Operation Glass House,” her statewide initiative to apprehend the most active offenders who download and trade child pornography online. Early Wednesday, Madigan’s[Read More…]

CHICAGO ―(ENEWSPF)–November 19, 2014.  A Chicago Police officer was indicted on federal civil rights and obstruction charges alleging that he used excessive force by punching and kicking a victim and then lied in a police report to cover up the incident in 2012, federal law enforcement officials announced today.  The[Read More…]