Chicago real estate broker gets 4 years in prison for $3 million fraud scheme
Stanislav "Steve" Sannikov also was ordered to pay $2.19 million in restitution to four victims.
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Stanislav "Steve" Sannikov also was ordered to pay $2.19 million in restitution to four victims.
A former attorney from Glendale Heights, Illinois was sentenced to six years in prison for stealing his girlfriend's identity and using it to defraud banks of tens of thousands of dollars.
A Chicago businessman has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for defrauding financial institutions of more than $3 million.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Thursday he's filed charges against a woman for fraudulently receiving tens of thousands of dollars from PPP loans while working for the postal service.
An attorney for the archdiocese said the conspiracy was discovered while investigating recent lawsuits — in what involved some intensive detective work. Lauren Victory reports.
Federal prosecutors said seven foreign nationals falsely promised significant returns on investments in their company, and dumped their own shares of stock after the price went up.
Cook County Court records show Barbara Johnson pleaded guilty last week to one count of computer fraud and one count of official misconduct.
Stores or individuals cannot exchange Link cards for cash or other items.
Sentencings were issued in a years-long international scheme that frequently targeted elderly or vulnerable people.
Francesco Distefano, 28, has been charged with 11 counts of wire fraud, five counts of money laundering, and one count of knowingly making a false statement to a bank.
Federal prosecutors said McCormick Place operations manager Dominick Gironda schemed with snowplow contractor James Sansone to overcharge for snowplow services in exchange for cash kickbacks.
Wisconsin's election commission leader has quietly certified Donald Trump's victory in the battleground state, a departure from the chaos that surrounded the 2020 election results.
Anosh Ahmed, Heather Bergdahl, and Sameer Suhail are accused of arranging for the hospital to make payments for goods and services it never received, and directing the money to bank accounts they controlled.
Judicial regulators have filed a complaint against a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who spread election conspiracy theories and was hired by Republicans to lead an investigation into President-elect Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 election, accusing him of violating multiple rules of conduct.
Zishan Alvi admitted to billing the federal government $14 million for more than 85,000 COVID-19 tests that were never performed.
Prosecutors claim Adams took campaign contributions and bribes from foreign nationals in exchange for favors, like helping out Turkish diplomats.
Scammers have taken more than $100 million meant for senior citizens' Medicare bills, which comes from taxpayer money. The fraud scheme was exposed after swindlers made $3 billion worth of fake Medicare claims.
Dennis Haggerty admitted he embezzled the money from his Willowbrook-based company while already facing charges for swindling two hospitals.
Dolton, Illinois' acting police chief appeared before a federal judge and pleaded not guilty on Thursday to multiple charges of bankruptcy fraud and perjury, among others.
Federal prosecutors said Lacey lied about his income in bankruptcy statements in order to halt enforcement of a settlement order in a lawsuit filed against him.
Prosecutors say Ippei Mizuhara used the language barrier to steal tens of millions of dollars from Ohtani.
A bank worker shot a video of the woman propping the body up in a wheelchair as they tried to sign some paperwork. At one point, she could be seen trying to get a pen into the dead man's hand.
The owner of a fencing company in Evergreen Park was charged with allegedly taking thousands of dollars in down payments from customers and not performing any work.
Financial records show Paul Croft and J.D. Frost raised about $30 million for a hydrogen plant that was supposed to be, at one point, in Indiana. It never existed, an attorney says.
Some clients of a Paul Croft and J.D. Frost thought they were investing their savings in a clean energy hydrogen plant. But that plant never even existed – and the clients now say the pair stole millions from them. CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey reports.
