Special Screening with Chance to Meet Film’s Stars at Pre-Film Wine & Appetizer Reception – Panel Discussion, Award Presentation to Follow LONG BEACH, Calif.–(ENEWSPF)–October 18, 2012.  Law Enforcement Against Prohibition presents a special preview screening of Willie Nelson’s Luck Films’ new documentary Legalize It on the Prop. 19 campaign to legalize marijuana in[Read More…]

Chicago –(ENEWSPF)–October 18, 2012.  Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced the arrest of a woman for allegedly defrauding several Chicago area employers out of nearly $90,000 in workers’ compensation payments. Tracy Williams, 43, of McHenry, was arrested late Wednesday on charges of workers’ compensation fraud, aggravated fraud, insurance fraud and perjury.[Read More…]

Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–October 18, 2012.  Attorney General Lisa Madigan yesterday announced criminal charges against a Chicago area contractor for running a kickback scheme that defrauded several north suburban municipalities of more than $400,000 for public works projects. Alan M. Harris, 46, of Niles, was formally charged earlier today in Cook County Circuit[Read More…]

Park Forest Police Officers Jim Kessler and Chris Mannino. (Photo: ENEWSPF) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Below are the most-recent police reports in the Village of Park Forest. These reports include police calls to service from October 5 through October 16. For next week’s reports we will likely begin on October 14[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 17, 2012. Manssor Arbabsiar, aka Mansour Arbabsiar, pleaded guilty today in federal court in the Southern District of New York to participating in a plot to murder the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States while the Ambassador was in the United States.  Arbabsiar, a 58-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 15, 2012. The administrator of CardioMax EMS, a Houston-based ambulance company, pleaded guilty today to charges that he submitted approximately $1,734,550 in fraudulent claims to Medicare, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas;[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 15, 2012.  The owner and operator of a Miami health care agency was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his participation in a $42 million home health Medicare fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Wifredo A.[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Three years after several self-identified “boylovers,” who met in person and online to discuss their sexual interest in children and trade child pornography, were arrested in an FBI sting during or soon after a purported party at a hotel in suburban Skokie, a total of eight defendants have[Read More…]

Ongoing Operation Recovers $70 Million from Gas Station Owners in Unpaid Sales Tax Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–October 12, 2012.  Attorney General Lisa Madigan and the Illinois Department of Revenue (DOR) today announced that an Aurora gas station owner was sentenced to two years in prison for defrauding the state of more than $250,000[Read More…]

Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans Disproportionately Arrested; 25 Years of Arrests in WA Cost $300 Million or More Washington Voters to Decide on Making Marijuana Legal With November Vote NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 11, 2012.  With just three weeks remaining before Washington voters decide whether to make marijuana possession legal in their[Read More…]