CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago businessman pleaded guilty today to a federal fraud charge for swindling $2.5 million from a hospital that paid him for scarce personal protective equipment in…
CHICAGO — A man has been arrested on a federal drug charge after law enforcement seized fentanyl and a “pill press” in his suburban Chicago residence. A complaint filed in…
CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago man has been charged in federal court with fraudulently obtaining unemployment benefits in the names of hundreds of individuals whose information was used without their…
CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago dentist fraudulently obtained $1.2 million in medical care loans for purported dental work that was never performed, according to a federal fraud charge. MICHAEL D.…
CHICAGO — A federal grand jury has indicted a man for allegedly robbing cell phone stores in the Chicago suburbs. OCIE BANKS, JR., brandished a firearm in three robberies and…
CHICAGO — An administrative assistant at a suburban Chicago medical practice has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for fraudulently writing opioid prescriptions to an acquaintance. AMANDA BIESIADA…
CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago nurse removed morphine from bottles prescribed to two patients and replaced it with another liquid, knowing the diluted substance would be dispensed to the patients,…
CHICAGO — A man has been arrested for allegedly robbing two suburban Chicago banks in recent weeks. ANTONIO E. COLLINS has been charged with robbing a Chase Bank branch in…
CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for violently sex trafficking multiple women over the course of a decade. From 2007 to…
PITTSBURGH – A former resident of Whitehall, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to five years and four months (64 months) of incarceration, to be followed by three years…
CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago woman has been arrested after she allegedly arranged for a child to engage in commercial sex acts with customers at hotels. JAMARI HODGE, also known…
CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago tax preparer has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for orchestrating a variety of schemes that defrauded the IRS, U.S. Department of Education,…
Senate Republicans see education and the concern around Critical Race Theory (CRT) as critical issues in the 2022 midterm elections, according to research from the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC)…
CHICAGO — A federal jury has convicted a suburban Chicago man on firearm and drug charges for illegally possessing two loaded handguns and dealing heroin and crack cocaine. BRIAN STAFFORD,…
CHICAGO — Two businessmen have been charged in federal court with running a fencing operation out of their suburban Chicago stores. ZIAD I. ZAYED, also known as “Zee,” 46, and…
DEL RIO, Texas – A South Texas man was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring to harbor and transport undocumented noncitizens following a June 2018 vehicle…
CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago woman admitted in federal court today that she used insider information obtained from her husband to purchase shares of a company ahead of its acquisition…
A trucking company has reportedly dumped empty shipping containers in Los Angeles suburban streets that are located near clogged California ports amid an ongoing supply chain crisis and rising inflation,…
CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison for fraudulently misappropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars from a non-profit organization…
CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago businessman who schemed with an attorney and two others to sell millions of dollars in phony mortgages has been sentenced to eleven years in federal…