Investigations Continue in Pandemic Relief Program Abuses by Public Employees As we have previously covered, there have been numerous instances of highly publicized cases around the state of Illinois and city of Chicago detailing alleged fraud perpetrated by public ...
Chicago Police Department Accused of Targeting African Americans Over Guns As we have previously covered, watchdog organizations and community activists have expressed dissatisfaction with policing practices of the Chicago Police Department (CPD). Now, the department...
CPD Officers Allowed to File Gun Charges Directly with Courts Under New Policy Recently, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke announced an expansion of a pilot program that allows Chicago Police Officers to file felony gun charges without getting approval...
Federal Government to Ban Hemp Derived and THC-Infused Products As we have previously covered, there has been some controversy since the passage of the 2018 federal farm bill that helped legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp for farmers. Although it passed by...
Massive Surveillance Network of Drivers Revealed In a shocking revelation, an investigation by the Associated Press has found that the United States Customs and Border Patrol has been monitoring drivers through automatic license plate readers and studying drivers for...
Money Laundering Charges Announced Against Chicago Area Crypto Firm As we have previously covered, the Trump Administration previously disbanded the Department of Justice’s National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and has generally expressed a desire to work with...
Law Enforcement Could Expand Surveillance Capabilities Through Private Companies There is a growing trend of private companies working with law enforcement or creating work arounds to collect privately recorded data and sharing it with them for investigative purposes,...
Two MLB Players Arrested on Federal Charges Federal criminal indictments were unsealed Sunday against two Cleveland Guardian pitchers, Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, alleging that the two accepted bribes in order to “rig bets on pitches thrown” during MLB games. Both...
Federal Charges for Online Threats Against President and Law Enforcement Recently, a suburban Chicago man, Trent Schneiger of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, was charged in the Northern District of Illinois with making a threat against President Trump after he uploaded a...
Downstate Jury Finds Sean Grayson Guilty of Second-Degree Murder After nearly 12 hours of deliberations, a jury in Sangamon County, Illinois found former Sheriff Deputy Sean Grayson guilty of the charge of second-degree murder in the 2024 killing of Sonya Massey, a...
