Consumers who purchased computers, printers, video game consoles, or other electronic devices with DRAM memory may benefit from settlement Chicago—(ENEWSPF)—March 4, 2014. Illinois consumers can now recover money they may have overpaid on purchases of computers, printers, game consoles and other consumer electronic products that contained DRAM, or dynamic random[Read More…]

Enforcement of state law helps protect shark populations throughout the world SPRINGFIELD, IL–(ENEWSPF)–March 4, 2014.  Illinois Department of Natural Resources Conservation Police have issued 20 citations to four businesses in northern Illinois for selling shark fin products.  The citations were issued on February 28, 2014 as part of a continuing[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2014.  A chiropractor and a physician with offices in Buffalo Grove, their billing manager, and three purported patients were indicted on federal charges for their alleged roles in a $2.98 million health care fraud scheme. Five of the six defendants were also charged with hindering the investigation, federal[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The chief of staff for an unnamed Chicago alderman was charged with accepting a $7,500 bribe in return for assistance in obtaining the alderman’s letter of support for a license to sell alcohol in the alderman’s ward. Curtis V. Thompson allegedly accepted the cash bribe from an individual[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 28, 2014.  An owner of a bankrupt Palatine company that sold refurbished semiconductor-making machinery and the owner of a Pennsylvania company that sold machine tools were indicted for allegedly engaging in a scheme to fraudulently obtain approximately $190 million from banks and financing companies and, eventually, causing those lenders[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 28, 2014. More than 200 investors in an Elk Grove Village company that purportedly made homeland security and food safety products lost more than $9 million through the offer and sale of stock, according to a federal fraud indictment against the company’s majority owner and chief executive. The defendant,[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2014.  Two defendants who engaged in a fraudulent financing scheme involving the offer and sale of investments in four Las Vegas companies were sentenced to 3½ and four years in federal prison, respectively, for defrauding approximately 125 investors of about $6.6 million, including some victims who lost some[Read More…]

Employee Charged Separately With Stealing From Company CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 27, 2014. The co-founder and president of a defunct mortgage escrow company was indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly misappropriating more than $500,000 of customer funds for his own personal use, as well as to pay operating expenses of two other[Read More…]

Defendant Accused of Making False Statements Regarding His Medical Condition in Order to Obtain Benefits CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 26, 2014.  Illinois Department of Insurance (DOI) Director Andrew Boron announced a recent workers’ compensation fraud investigation has resulted in an indictment of a former Crystal Lake Police Officer.  Michael Avila was arraigned earlier[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 25, 2014. A Chicago woman was sentenced today to more than 13 years in federal prison for swindling at least 1,000 elderly victims of cash and credit cards, causing a loss of at least $800,000, over a period of five years. The defendant, TIFFANY HALL, was the mastermind of[Read More…]