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 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.
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A former operations manager at a suburban Chicago medical center has been indicted on charges related to an alleged fraud scheme totaling $900,000.
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A federal grand jury has indicted Hector Gomez, a Mexican citizen residing in Chicago, on charges of illegal firearm possession.
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A Chicago woman has been sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a hate crime for throwing an incendiary device onto her neighbors’ porch.
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A Rockford resident has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine.
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A Chicago man has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison after pleading guilty to illegally possessing a firearm and shooting another individual in the Noble Square neighborhood.
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A Rockford man has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for robbing a Chase Bank in the city.
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A federal jury in Chicago has found Jimil Parmar, a 33-year-old resident of Lawrenceville, Georgia, guilty of mailing a threatening letter to the Sant Nirankari Mission located in West Chicago.
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A Rockford resident, Timothy Gentry, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
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A former police chief in the village of Summit, Illinois, has been convicted by a federal jury in Chicago for bribery and obstruction of justice.
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A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer has been indicted on federal civil rights charges, accused of sexually assaulting and robbing several women in Chicago suburbs.
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Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera and a leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Chicago to federal drug charges.
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A Guatemalan national living in Illinois has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for illegally re-entering the United States after being deported.
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A Chicago chiropractor has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for defrauding a private insurer out of almost $2.1 million by billing for services that were never provided.
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A federal jury in Chicago has found Robert Dunlap, 54, of Houston, Texas, guilty of two counts of mail fraud for orchestrating a cryptocurrency scheme that defrauded nearly 1,000 investors out of at least $14 million.
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A former administrative professional for a Chicago-based company has pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud after admitting to embezzling more than $615,000 over an eight-year period.
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A Chicago man has been charged with a federal terrorism offense after allegedly setting a passenger on fire aboard a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) train earlier this week, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago.