Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A former area motorcycle and recreational vehicle dealer and his accountant, together with eight other defendants who allegedly acted as straw buyers in sham vehicle sales, were indicted on federal charges alleging a nearly $74 million fraudulent financing scheme that resulted in approximately 20 lenders losing more than[Read More…]
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FBI Arrests Suburban Attorney for Allegedly Stealing $2.34 Million in Clients’ Funds from Her Escrow Account
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A suburban attorney whose law license was suspended in May was arrested today on federal fraud charges for allegedly misappropriating approximately $2.34 million from a husband and wife who were her clients. The defendant, Kathleen Niew, was charged with 10 counts of wire fraud in a federal grand[Read More…]
FBI: Former Commodities Trader Charged with Causing $5 Million Loss to Bank and Others in Alleged $10 Million Fraud Scheme
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A former Chicago commodities trader was charged today with allegedly fraudulently raising more than $10 million and misappropriating a substantial portion of the money for his personal commodities futures trading to make Ponzi-type payments to investors and to benefit himself and his family, resulting in a loss of[Read More…]
Federal Court Sides With ACLU in No Fly List Lawsuit
Court Recognizes Due Process Rights of Americans on List PORTLAND, Ore.–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013. A federal court ruled late yesterday that constitutional rights are at stake when the government places Americans on the No Fly List, agreeing with the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The[Read More…]
Truck Broker Sentenced for Dumping Thousands of Tons of Asbestos Contaminated Debris in Violation of the Clean Water Act
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013. Jonathan Deck, 59, of Norwood, N.J., was sentenced today in federal court in Utica, N.Y., to 15 months in prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with the illegal dumping of thousands of tons of asbestos-contaminated construction debris on a 28-acre piece of property[Read More…]
United States and Switzerland Issue Joint Statement Regarding Tax Evasion Investigations
Switzerland Encourages Its Banks to Cooperate with New Program Which Will Require Significant Financial Penalties and Information Sharing from Banks That Aided Secret Account Holders Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013. The Department of Justice today announced a program that will encourage Swiss banks to cooperate in the department’s ongoing investigations of[Read More…]
FBI: Former State Prison Guard to Serve 43 Years in Prison for Child Exploitation, Child Pornography Crimes
Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- U.S. District Judge Richard Mills this afternoon sentenced former Illinois correctional officer Steven L. Carson, of Hillsboro, Illinois, to serve 520 months (43 years, four months) in federal prison, to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release. Carson pleaded guilty in February 2013 to charges that[Read More…]
Independence, Mo., Man and Woman Plead Guilty to Violating Civil Rights of Family by Torching Their Home
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2013. Tammy Dickinson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, and Jocelyn Samuels, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, announced that an Independence, Mo., man and woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to violating the civil[Read More…]
FBI: Former Chicago White Sox Executive Sentenced for Taking Kickbacks from Latin American Players’ Signing Bonuses
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A former Chicago White Sox scouting executive was sentenced today to two years in federal prison for accepting approximately $440,000 in kickbacks from the signing bonuses and contract buyouts that two of the team’s Latin American scouts paid to secure 23 prospective players between December 2004 and February[Read More…]
FBI: Chicago Accountant Sentenced to 63 Months in Federal Prison for Stealing $4.3 Million from Clients and Cheating IRS
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A former Chicago accountant was sentenced today to more than five years in federal prison for embezzling more than $4.3 million from trust accounts that he was supposed to be managing for the benefit of clients and also cheating the government of more than $1.7 million in federal[Read More…]