ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014.  A Rockford, Ill. man was sentenced yesterday in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala on a federal drug trafficking charge.  The defendant, MICHAEL CRAIG, 44, was sentenced to 169 months in federal prison, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release.  Craig[Read More…]

ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014.  A Chicago resident is now facing three federal bank robbery charges, federal officials announced today.  ADAM A. SANBORN, 29, of Chicago and formerly of Milton, Florida, was originally arrested on Sept. 10, 2014, and charged with the Aug. 23, 2014, robbery of the Byron Bank in[Read More…]

Restitution of $234,000 Ordered After IDES Investigation CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–November 14, 2014.  A Blue Island man was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $234,000 to the Illinois Department of Employment Security for defrauding the unemployment insurance program. IDES’ anti-fraud efforts initiated the investigation that led to the[Read More…]

Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—November 13, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit against a Belleville man for operating as an unlicensed roofer and collecting at least $12,000 in payments from Illinois homeowners for performing shoddy work that did not fix repairs or, in some cases, failing to do any repair[Read More…]

Illinois will share part of a $3.2 million penalty against Sun Life regarding payment of Life Insurance Benefits CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–November 13, 2014.  Illinois Department of Insurance (DOI) Director Andrew Boron today announced an agreement with the Sun Life Companies (Sun Life) regarding its use of the Social Security Administration’s Death[Read More…]

CHICAGO ― A Chicago man was indicted on federal firearms charges alleging that he illegally sold firearms and illegally possessed nearly two dozen firearms, including assault rifles, handguns, and shotguns earlier this year.  All of the firearms were seized by ATF agents following alleged purchases by an undercover confidential source,[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–November 6, 2014.  A southwest suburban man was sentenced to just over three years in federal prison for failing to report more than $3.1 million in gross receipts and gambling income and failing to pay more than $582,000 in federal income taxes.  The defendant, PAUL WEST, was sentenced after[Read More…]

CHICAGO ―(ENEWSPF)–November 4, 2014.  A former south suburban Lansing man was sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison for attempting to persuade an individual he believed was a 14-year-old girl to engage in illegal sexual conduct.  The defendant, MARTIN N. PAZDZUIRA, 47, formerly of Lansing, who has been in[Read More…]

Attorney General Alleges Fraud by Former Board Members of Wilmette Bank against U.S. Treasury Fund, First Midwest Bank Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—November 3, 2014. On Friday, Attorney General Lisa Madigan joined with the Special Inspector General for the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to announce new charges[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2014.  A former cancer research physician at Northwestern University’s Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Center for Cancer in Chicago will pay the United States $475,000 to settle claims of federal research grant fraud.  Dr. Charles L. Bennett agreed to the settlement in a federal False Claims Act lawsuit[Read More…]