WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 28, 2013. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today delivered remarks during the joint session of the Major Cities Chiefs Association and the Major County Sheriffs’ Association winter meetings—highlighting the Department’s collaboration with state and local law enforcement to build a safer, more secure and more resilient nation. “Over[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2013. David Coleman Headley, a U.S. citizen partly of Pakistani descent, was sentenced today to 35 years in prison for a dozen federal terrorism crimes relating to his role in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, and a subsequent proposed attack on a newspaper[Read More…]

FTC Alleged that Defendants Falsely Claimed They Had Buyers Lined Up for Consumers’ Properties Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2013. As the result of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) action, the operators of a scheme that allegedly deceived consumers who were trying to sell their timeshare properties are permanently banned from the[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 24, 2013. A former Miami HIV infusion clinic director was sentenced yesterday to serve 70 months in prison for his role in a $26.2 million HIV infusion fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of[Read More…]

Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Lavon C. Lashley, 36, from St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced on January 15, 2013, in District Court in East St. Louis, Illinois, on one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R.[Read More…]

Hammond, IN-(ENEWSPF)- The United States Attorney’s Office announced that the following indictments were returned on January 16, 2013: Brealon B. Miller, Jr., 24, and David L. Hardin, Jr., 22, both of Gary, Indiana, were charged in an indictment with the robbery of BMO Bank in Hammond, Indiana, and use of[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A north suburban man with a history of multiple bankruptcies, financial schemes, and civil lawsuits that twice resulted in contempt findings was sentenced January 17 to 10 years in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining more than $4 million from 51 investors in a now-defunct sleep disorder businesses that[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A former Chicago man was taken into custody after he was sentenced today to 12 years in federal prison for an investment and tax fraud scheme in which he swindled 57 investors, some of whom he had purported to befriend, of just under $8 million and failed to[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Joliet man is facing an agreed maximum 10-year prison sentence after pleading guilty today to a federal civil rights crime for setting fire to the home of an African-American family on his street in 2007. The defendant, Brian James Moudry, admitted that at approximately 4 a.m. on[Read More…]

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—January 18, 2013. A former minister pleaded guilty today in North Carolina to engaging in illicit sexual conduct in Haiti, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina Anne M. Tompkins and Brock D. Nicholson, Special[Read More…]