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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.