New Enforcement Team Starting to Pay Dividends for Department of Justice in Chicago As we previously covered, last year the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois announced the formation of a new “Healthcare Fraud Section” in the...
Appeal Court Rules “Just Talking” Can Become a Seizure Under the Fourth Amendment In a recent ruling, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals found that a seemingly consensual and cordial encounter with law enforcement violated an individual's rights to be free from...
Double Jeopardy Bars Second Conviction for Similar Conduct In a recent Untied States Supreme Court case, Barrett v. United States, the Court ruled in a unanimous decision that a defendant cannot be convicted and sentenced twice for a single act under the specific gun...
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...
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...
