CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—March 17, 2014. A former clerk for a lean hogs futures trader was convicted of commodities fraud for manipulating trades to profit more than $200,000 for herself to the detriment of public customers, federal law enforcement officials announced today. The defendant, NICOLE M. GRAZIANO, 33, of Addison and formerly of[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)—March 14, 2014. Dmitry Firtash, 48, a Ukrainian businessman, was arrested Wednesday by Austrian authorities in Vienna on a provisional arrest request based on charges filed in the Northern District of Illinois, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Zachary[Read More…]

Attorney General Charges Nine for Illegally Collecting More Than $200,000 in Unemployment Benefits Chicago—(ENEWSPF)—March 13, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan and the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) today announced charges against nine defendants, alleging they defrauded the state when they fraudulently collected more than $200,000 in unemployment benefits, including[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—March 12, 2014. A federal jury deliberated approximately an hour last night and this morning before convicting a Chicago area man on all charges against him for directing a six-year conspiracy to distribute at least a kilogram of heroin on the city’s west side. Attorneys for the defendant, DAVID PRICE,[Read More…]

ROCKFORD—(ENEWSPF)—March 11, 2014. A Rockford man was sentenced today in federal court for bank robbery. TONY WALKER, 56, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to 80 months in federal prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for the robbery of Associated Bank, 600 North[Read More…]

Chicago—(ENEWSPF)—March 11, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced today that Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and subsidiary IVAX LLC will pay the United States and the state of Illinois more than $27.6 million to resolve false billing allegations, under terms of a settlement agreement. The agreement settles claims that Teva and[Read More…]

ROCKFORD—(ENEWSPF)—March 10, 2014. The former Energy Director for the City of Rockford was sentenced today in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for mail fraud. MARK E. BIXBY, 58, of Rockton, Ill., was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison, to be followed by 3 years of[Read More…]

Co-Owner Allegedly Claims Tax Deductions for Fake Expenses on Customer Returns Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—March 10, 2014. The United States has sued The Tax Helper Corp, a tax preparation business with a store located in Chicago, and seeks to permanently bar the company and its alleged co-owner, Johnnie Pernell Jr., from preparing[Read More…]

Chicago—(ENEWSPF)—March 7, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced the arrests of two men on felony child pornography charges following raids this week in St. Clair and Madison counties. One of the men arrested is listed in the Illinois Sex Offender Registry. To date, 57 people have been arrested in[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 5, 2014.  Three members of a suburban Northbrook family were arrested and charged with interstate transportation of stolen property following a purported shopping odyssey that started on Feb. 17 in Oklahoma, continued two days later at malls in Texas, and wound through Louisiana on Feb. 20, before they returned[Read More…]