U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois
Recent News About U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois
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A Chicago man has been sentenced to over four years in prison after pleading guilty to a scheme that defrauded the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program out of more than $1.5 million. Authorities say he obtained access to over 1,200 EBT cards and resold goods purchased with them.
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A California attorney has pleaded guilty in federal court in Chicago to criminal contempt for failing to comply with a court order regarding the distribution of settlement funds to relatives of victims killed in the Lion Air Flight 610 crash.
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A Chicago man has been sentenced to four years in prison for orchestrating a scheme to defraud the federal Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program.
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A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted Jesus Omar Ibarra Felix, an alleged leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, on charges related to drugs, firearms, and providing material support to terrorism.
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A Rockford resident, Stephen Canfield, has been sentenced to six years and three months in federal prison after being convicted of possessing child pornography.
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A federal jury in Chicago has found Kennard Cameron guilty of sex trafficking a minor after he recruited and enticed a 15-year-old girl to engage in commercial sex acts at a motel in Lansing, Illinois, during 2023.
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A former treasurer of a booster club in Rockford, Illinois, has admitted to embezzling more than $34,000 from the organization.
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Two Chicago residents have been arrested following an undercover federal firearm investigation in the suburbs of Chicago, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court.
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A Chicago-area man has been sentenced to 37 years in federal prison after admitting to sexually exploiting nearly 100 children online.
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A Chicago man has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for robbing a United States Postal Service letter carrier in the city’s Logan Square neighborhood.
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Two foreign nationals have been indicted in Chicago for their alleged roles in a $10 million health care fraud scheme.
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A Chicago man has been sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for sex trafficking five young victims, including a 15-year-old girl, and kidnapping two of them.
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A federal grand jury has indicted Jaydine Brown, a tax preparer from Chicago Heights, Illinois, for allegedly preparing over 25 fraudulent tax returns through her business, Hall Tax & Services Corp. in Flossmoor.
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A former paralegal for a public company in the Chicago area has been sentenced in federal court after admitting to embezzling nearly $100,000 from her employer.
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A man from suburban Chicago has been sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison for conspiring with his sister to illegally purchase firearms.
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A Virginia resident has pleaded guilty in Chicago to a federal drug conspiracy charge for his role in creating and running Empire Market, a major dark web marketplace that operated from 2018 to 2020.
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A man from Park Forest, Illinois, has been sentenced to 48 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to sexual exploitation of a minor and possession of child pornography.
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A former police officer from the Phoenix, Illinois Police Department has been found guilty on federal corruption charges for his role in a scheme to steal cash and drugs during traffic stops.
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A Chicago man has been sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for his involvement in two violent carjackings that took place on a single night in November 2022.
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A registered nurse has been charged in federal court in Chicago for allegedly distributing counterfeit Ozempic to three people in the city during 2023.