Chicago Man Gets Contempt Conviction And 6-Year Term Overturned
Bandaly Sylla was imprisoned in 2015 after a jury found he lied that a woman who was killed in a traffic accident wasn't married.
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Bandaly Sylla was imprisoned in 2015 after a jury found he lied that a woman who was killed in a traffic accident wasn't married.
Richard Zasiebida pleaded guilty in July 2016 to dodging about $140,000 in federal taxes in connection with the Wrigleyville fraud.
A man faces multiple felony charges, after he allegedly fled a traffic stop, and police found dozens of fraudulent credit cards in the car.
Charles Dehaan was sentenced to 9 years for fraudulently billing Medicare for house calls in which he allegedly molested home-bound patients
A suburban woman allegedly operated a scam to get Illinois residents to pay her thousands of dollars for unlicensed immigration services.
The Cook County Sheriff's office said "significant discipline" is expected in the next week or so, when it wraps up the first part of a lengthy investigation into allegations of timesheet fraud by deputies and supervisors.
Robert Dekelaita cheated the immigration system like "a well-oiled machine," the feds say.
Elizabeth Perino is going to prison for a year for trying to cheat the city on a runway repair project at O'Hare Airport.
Criminals have already figured out a way around the latest technology. How can you protect yourself against fraud? CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker reports.
Gregory Webb was convicted last year of nine counts of mail and wire fraud for bilking more than 200 investors.
2 investigator Pam Zekman warns: Beware of job scams.
An Indiana doctor is a victim of what police say could be a massive check fraud ring in the Chicagoland area.
The Schaumburg resident was indicted Jan. 12 on 59 felonies including theft, identity theft and financial institution fraud.
Three Orlando residents were charged with identity theft after flying to Chicago and allegedly committing about $20,000 in credit card fraud in north suburban Gurnee.
A Tinley Park doctor convicted earlier this year of defrauding Medicare has been sentenced to 40 months in prison and ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution.
A southwest suburban tax preparer has been sentenced to 42 months in prison after pleading guilty to defrauding the state out of more than $400,000.
A suburban father and son accused in 2014 of scamming public school district out of millions — only to post diamonds and rubies to get out of jail — pleaded guilty Tuesday to mail fraud.
The co-owner of a Chicago-based medical transport company, who pleaded guilty to overbilling Medicaid, has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $4 million in restitution.
A federal grand jury has accused Marc Hamid in an indictment of bilking the Cubs and local governments out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Willowbrook businesswoman Elizabeth Perino was found guilty of fraud for her role in a scam to exploit a city set-aside program for woman-owned businesses.
Federal authorities are investigating $2.6 million taken from retirement accounts of 58 city employees in the form of fraudulent loans.
Hector L. Flores-Arroyo, 56; Mohan C. Rao, 82; and Susana Araujo, 61, were each charged with one count of vendor fraud, two counts of theft and two counts of conspiracy, all felonies, police said. Araujo also faces a felony count of unlicensed practice of medicine.
The jury found Robert Dekelaita, 53, guilty of conspiracy to commit asylum fraud, procuring perjury during asylum interviews and two counts of knowingly offering false statements in asylum applications, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. He faces up to 35 years in prison.
Two people are charged in connection to the death of a young woman whose body was found in an abandoned Gary home last week.
A Chicago businessman accused four years ago of "large-scale fraud" by the state executive inspector general's office unexpectedly pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday, admitting he cajoled two state agencies into giving him separate, six-figure government grants to perform nearly identical services.
