Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 6, 2014. A southwest suburban Bolingbrook man was arrested Saturday night for allegedly attempting to travel overseas to join a foreign terrorist organization operating inside Iraq and Syria, federal law enforcement officials announced today. The defendant, Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, a U.S. citizen, was charged with attempting to[Read More…]
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Former Investment Adviser Sentenced To 3½ Years In Prison For $3 Million Loss To Victims In Financing Fraud Scheme
CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–October 3, 2014. A former investment adviser was sentenced to 3½ years in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining approximately $4 million from more than 30 victims and misusing the money to make Ponzi-type payments to investors, pay personal expenses, and personal gambling, resulting in a loss of just over[Read More…]
Bolingbrook Man Pleads Guilty To Illegally Exporting Carbon Fiber And Other Controlled Items To Pakistan
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 2, 2014. A Bolingbrook man pleaded guilty today to violating U.S. export laws, admitting that he shipped carbon fiber and microwave laminates, and attempted to ship a thermal imaging camera, from his company in Schaumburg to Pakistan without obtaining licenses from the U.S. Commerce Department, federal law enforcement officials[Read More…]
High-Frequency Trader Indicted For Manipulating Commodities Futures Markets In First Federal Prosecution For ‘Spoofing’
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 2, 2014. In the first federal prosecution of its kind, a high-frequency trader was indicted for allegedly manipulating commodities futures prices and illegally profiting nearly $1.6 million as a result of trading orders he placed through CME Group and European futures markets in 2011. The defendant, MICHAEL COSCIA,[Read More…]
22 Defendants Charged for Alleged Roles in Connected Drug Rings Extending From Mexico to Chicago and Across the U.S.
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 1, 2014. Twenty-two defendants are facing federal narcotics charges here for their alleged roles in importing, supplying, and distributing kilogram quantities of heroin and cocaine through interconnected drug trafficking organizations that operated in the Chicago area, as well as in Mexico, California, Oregon, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The investigation[Read More…]
Chicago Taxicab Operator Indicted and Arrested for Allegedly Conspiring to Falsify Titles of Salvaged and Rebuilt Taxis
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 1, 2014. A Chicago used car broker and taxicab operator was arrested yesterday after being indicted on federal charges for allegedly causing at least 180 vehicles that were salvaged or rebuilt to illegally obtain clean titles from Indiana and Illinois and, as a result, to illegally operate as licensed[Read More…]
West Side Gang Leader Responsible for Killing Off-Duty Detective and Woman Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison for Heroin Conspiracy
CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)—September 18, 2014. A high-ranking leader of the Traveling Vice Lords street gang who directed a violent west side drug-trafficking conspiracy was sentenced today to 35 years in federal prison after a judge ruled that he “very likely” murdered an off-duty Chicago police detective and a woman in August[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan: Former Williamson County Employees Indicted on Charges of Theft, Official Misconduct
Three Former County Clerk Officials Indicted for Stealing $84,000 in County Funds Chicago—(ENEWSPF)—September 18, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced charges against three former officials of the Williamson County Circuit Clerk’s Office for theft of more than $84,000 in county funds for personal profit. Madigan announced felony theft and[Read More…]
Former McHenry County Sheriff’s Deputy Sentenced to 50 Years in Federal Prison for Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
ROCKFORD—(ENEWSPF)—September 17, 2014. A former McHenry County sheriff’s deputy who was that department’s representative on the state’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force was sentenced today to 50 years in federal prison for child sexual abuse and exploitation. The defendant, GREGORY M. PYLE, 39, of Crest Hills, Ill., formerly of[Read More…]
Former Chicago Man Sentenced to 40 Years in Federal Prison for Sexually Abusing Two Girls and Producing Child Pornography
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 11, 2014. A Mexican national who fled to Mexico, was arrested there, and agreed to extradition, was sentenced today to the maximum of 40 years in federal prison for sexually molesting two minor girls and producing child pornography. The defendant, EDGAR HERNANDEZ, 36, pleaded guilty earlier this year to[Read More…]
