CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 25, 2014. A Chicago pharmacist was sentenced to seven years in federal prison after being convicted at trial of collecting more than $1.7 million through false claims he submitted to insurance companies for a drug that he never dispensed and stealing the identities of unsuspecting pharmacy customers to make[Read More…]

ROCKFORD—(ENEWSPF)—February 24, 2014. Two former employees of Milledgeville Community Credit Union, have pleaded guilty in separate federal cases to embezzling money from Milledgeville Community Credit Union, in Milledgeville, Ill. KIMBERLY KENT, 53, who was also a former Treasurer of Wysox Township, pleaded guilty in federal court today, and KELSEY SELMAN,[Read More…]

To Be Served Consecutively to 20-Year Term for Bank Robbery CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 24, 2014. A Tinley Park man who escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in the city’s Loop in December 2012 while he was awaiting sentencing for bank robbery, today was sentenced to 41 months in prison for the escape,[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 20, 2014. An Ottawa, Ill., man was sentenced yesterday to 7½ years in federal prison for amassing a large collection of child pornography over more than four years. The defendant, JAY ARTHUR WIDEMANN, 57, of Ottawa, pleaded guilty last October to receiving child pornography, admitting that he had collected[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 20, 2014. A southwest suburban physician was arrested yesterday on federal charges for allegedly conspiring to illegally dispense a prescription medication and health care fraud, federal law enforcement officials announced today. The defendant, SATHISH NARAYANAPPA BABU, the owner of Anik Life Sciences Medical Corp., allegedly conspired to illegally dispense[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 20, 2014.  Former Cook County Commissioner JOSEPH MARIO MORENO was sentenced yesterday to 11 years in federal prison for engaging in a series of public and personal corruption schemes over a span of three years. Moreno pleaded guilty on July 1, 2013, to conspiracy to commit extortion after he[Read More…]

ROCKFORD–(ENEWSPF)–February 11, 2014.  A suspended Rockford physician was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges of healthcare fraud. CHARLES S. DEHANN, 59, of Belvidere, Ill., was charged with nine counts of engaging in a scheme to defraud Medicare. The indictment alleges that DeHaan, a physician licensed in Illinois,[Read More…]

ROCKFORD–(ENEWSPF)–February 11, 2014.  A Rockford man and a California man were indicted today by a federal grand jury in Rockford on fraud charges. TODD C. SMITH, 46, of Rockford, was charged with seven counts of mail fraud and ten counts of wire fraud, and TRAVIS OLIVER, 36, of Tremecula, Cal.,[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 7, 2014. Two brothers were sentenced today to life in federal prison for murder in aid of racketeering and related crimes they were convicted of after a seven-week trial in U.S. District Court last year. JULIO and MANUEL LEIJA-SANCHEZ, who operated a lucrative, black-market counterfeit identification document business in[Read More…]

Woman Allegedly Invents Businesses; Deducts Phony Business Expenses on Customer Returns Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 7, 2014. The United States filed a lawsuit today to bar Barbara L. Garrett, a Chicago tax return preparer, from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced.  The civil injunction suit alleges that Garrett,[Read More…]