CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)—September 11, 2014. A former Cook County sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty yesterday to violating the civil rights of a man being held in the county’s detention lockup facility in Maywood in 2010. The defendant, RAFAEL MUNOZ, pleaded guilty at his arraignment after he was charged last week with using[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—September 9, 2014. The former longtime elected clerk for the Village of Burnham was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for stealing more than $650,000 from her office at the south suburb’s village hall and using most of the cash to gamble at casinos.  The defendant, NANCY DOBROWSKI,[Read More…]

Suit Alleges Global Discovery Vacation Program Ripped Off Consumers of Nearly $80,000 Chicago—(ENEWSPF)—September 9, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against a Kansas-based company and two of its Chicago area sales agents that scammed Illinois residents out of at least $80,000 for membership in a bogus travel[Read More…]

CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)—September 5, 2014. A former suburban man who was living in Michigan when he was arrested in 2011 was convicted by a federal jury of sex-trafficking three victims, including two minors, federal law enforcement officials announced today.  The defendant, FABRIEL DELANEY, was found guilty of all eight counts against[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—September 4, 2014. A suburban physician whose medical license was suspended after he was arrested earlier this year pleaded guilty today to health care fraud and illegally prescribing controlled substance medications.  The defendant, SATHISH NARAYANAPPA BABU, who owned Anik Life Sciences Medical Corp., admitted that he illegally prescribed oxycodone and[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2014. A former suburban chiropractor and his wife, who was a fitness instructor and personal trainer, were sentenced to federal prison terms for engaging in a $1 million health insurance fraud scheme that continued for a year after they were indicted in 2011. WENDY CARR, 43, was sentenced[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2014. Under a proposed settlement reached with the United States and the state of Indiana, the Atlantic Richfield Company and E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Co. (DuPont) will pay for an estimated $26 million cleanup of lead and arsenic contamination in parts of a residential neighborhood[Read More…]

CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)—August 28, 2014. A former Cook County employee who managed a $10.3 million federal grant to assist county residents who were impacted by floods in 2008 was arrested today on federal charges for allegedly engaging in a fraud scheme with several contractors and swindling at least $330,000 from the[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—August 28, 2014. A middle school teacher in northwest suburban Buffalo Grove was arrested this morning on federal charges for allegedly receiving child pornography and persuading a minor to produce pornographic images of himself. The defendant, JOHN C. VASTIS, also known as “Pete,” 51, of Lakemoor, which straddles Lake and[Read More…]

CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)—August 27, 2014. A Chicago man who purported to be building a $912 million hotel and convention center complex near O’Hare International Airport was indicted today on federal charges for allegedly exploiting a U.S. visa program to fraudulently raise approximately $160 million from some 290 Chinese nationals who invested[Read More…]