CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2014.  A Chicago tax return preparer was indicted on federal charges alleging that he was responsible for submitting more than 150 false federal individual income tax returns seeking over $1 million in refunds for individuals whom he knew were not entitled to them. The defendant, PHILLIP SMITH, allegedly[Read More…]

Two Arrested in Bulgaria CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2014.  Seventeen defendants are facing federal fraud or related charges for their alleged roles in an international ATM skimming and money laundering scheme involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. Two defendants were arrested in Sofia, Bulgaria, and 13 defendants were arrested yesterday in Chicago[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—March 25, 2014. The chief executive officer of the bankrupt Sentinel Management Group, Inc., was convicted today of defrauding more than 70 customers of over $500 million before the firm collapsed in August 2007. The defendant, ERIC A. BLOOM, misappropriated securities belonging to customers by using them as collateral for[Read More…]

Admits Exchanging Thousands of Prescription Doses for Sex CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 21, 2014.  A suspended physician formerly affiliated with three Chicago hospitals pleaded guilty today to a federal charge of illegally distributing a prescription drug in exchange for sex in 2009. The defendant, JOSHUA D. BARON, a pediatric neurologist, also admitted that[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 21, 2014.  A Lake County man is now facing federal charges for allegedly committing eight armed robberies, which netted more than $1,700, over 10 days last August of retail stores across Lake County and northern Cook County. In one of the robberies, shots were fired from the getaway car,[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—March 21, 2014. A Cook County official was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison for steering four county contracts, each just under $25,000, to four acquaintances and then taking a portion of the contract payments as kickbacks from each of them, totaling $34,700. The defendant, EUGENE MULLINS, who[Read More…]

Chicago—(ENEWSPF)—March 21, 2014. A Barrington man is in custody on $3 million bond after being charged with multiple counts of child pornography as part of Operation Glass House, a statewide initiative of Attorney General Lisa Madigan launched to apprehend the most active offenders who download and trade child pornography online.[Read More…]

Pilot Program in Chicago’s 14th Police District Aims to Break the Cycle of Domestic Violence CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2014.  Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, the Chicago Police Department (CPD), and the Department of Family and Support Service (DFSS), partnering as an inter-governmental task force, announced today the[Read More…]

Attorney General Alleges All Credit Lenders’ Loans Trap Borrowers in Cycle of Debt Chicago—(ENEWSFP)—March 19, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed suit today against a Chicago area short-term lender for designing and selling a new emerging short-term loan intended to thwart important protections in Illinois law against predatory lending and[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—March 17, 2014. Author and television pitch-man KEVIN TRUDEAU was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for criminal contempt for violating a 2004 federal court order that prohibited him from making deceptive television infomercials that misrepresented the contents of his weight loss cure book. Trudeau was convicted by[Read More…]