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CHICAGO (WLS) --Â Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has been indicted on a array of corruption charges.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) � A 53-year-old Rogersville man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for running a $4 million fraud scheme involving boat deliveries. Michael David Dismer was sentenced Friday and ordered to pay $4.3 million in restitution to his victims and more than $768,000 in state and federal taxes. He pleaded
SEATTLE (AP) � A Pakistan resident has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a conspiracy to “unlock� phones from AT&T’s network, a scheme that the company says cost it more than $200 million. Muhammad Fahd began bribing employees of an AT&T call center in Bothell, Washington, in 2012, to use their credentials to
PHILADELPHIA (AP) � Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams has announced Tuesday that a former United States Golf Association employee has been charged in relation to a scheme to embezzle funds from the unauthorized sale of U.S. Open Championship tickets. According to a statement released by Williams, Robert Fryer faces conspiracy, wire fraud, and
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) � A former North Carolina state lawmaker has received probation and a $1,000 fine after pleading guilty a year ago to an unlawful scheme to siphon campaign dollars to his family farm. Former Rep. David Lewis of Harnett County was sentenced Tuesday in Charlotte federal court. Lewis was chairman of the powerful
NEW YORK (AP) � A racehorse trainer has pleaded guilty in New York to charges related to a scheme to give horses performance enhancing drugs so they perform better. Jorge Navarro entered the plea Wednesday in Manhattan federal court. Navarro was charged last year along with over two dozen others in a crackdown by federal
All four individuals who were indicted in November in a Commonwealth Edison bribery scheme pleaded not guilty on Wednesday.
The trainer of champion Maximum Security is among more than two dozen people charged in what authorities describe as a widespread international scheme to drug horses to make them race faster.