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EDWARD M. BURKE was sentenced today to two years in federal prison and fined $2 million.

A jury earlier this year convicted ANNAZETTE COLLINS on federal tax charges. 

The complaint alleges that Itasca failed to fulfill its accommodation obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act prior to denying a zoning request by Haymarket.

The settlement with KAREFIRST MANAGEMENT will resolve a lawsuit arising from the alleged submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid. 

ROCKFORD — A former inmate of the United States Penitentiary in Thomson, Ill. was sentenced today to more than seven years in federal prison for assaulting a federal correctional officer.

CHICAGO — A federal grand jury in Chicago, Illinois, returned an indictment on February 15, charging the former Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of a Chicago area hospital with three counts of mail fraud and three counts of money laundering.

ROCKFORD — A Byron, Ill. man was sentenced today to fourteen years in federal prison for transportation of child pornography.

CHICAGO — A Chicago resident has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for setting fire to the Boost Mobile Store...

CHICAGO — A man who helped lead a multi-year fraud scheme carried out by individuals in the United States and Nigeria has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison. 

ROCKFORD — A Morrison, Ill. man pleaded guilty in federal court before U.S. District Judge Iain D. Johnston to embezzling from a labor organization. 

DAVID SHELDON WELLS worked as an investment advisor in the Chicago branch of a subsidiary of a Midwestern bank.

In 2020, QUINCY J. ARNOLD illegally possessed a loaded semiautomatic handgun, cocaine, and heroin in Bellwood, Ill.

The village of Hinsdale, Ill., agreed to pay $800,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that the village violated the Fair Housing Act.

THOMAS V. GIRARDI and DAVID R. LIRA, who worked for the law firm Girardi Keese, are charged with wire fraud and contempt of court. 

LOGAN SQUARE ALUMINUM SUPPLY INC. will pay a $400,000 penalty and perform $2 million of lead-based paint abatement work in lower-income properties.

TERCALO E. THOMAS, of Park Forest, Ill., is charged with production of child pornography and possession of an electronic device containing child pornography.

JI CHAOQUN worked at the direction of intelligence officers in the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security, a department of the Ministry of State Security for the PRC.

“Had the officers not been so experienced or skilled, the struggle could have resulted in much greater harm to themselves or defendant," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles W. Mulaney.

BRANDON L. DISHMAN was apprehended by Rockford Police after tossing a loaded gun onto the front yard of a residence.

RICKY GREEN, 28, of Chicago, illegally possessed the gun on the night of May 31, 2020, in the Lake View neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side.