324 Charged in Various Schemes Involving $14.6 Billion in Fraud Claims Recently, the Department of Justice announced that under its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, the federal government unveiled charges against 324 individuals, including almost 100 medical...
Federal Crimes
More Challenges to Illinois Gun Controls
Supreme Court Upholds Concealed Carry Regulation Recently, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the law that governs the issuance of Concealed Carry Licenses (“CCL”) and Firearm Owners Identification Cards (“FOID”), saying that these regulations did not violate the...
Supreme Court Sets Limits on Factors for Supervised Release Violations
The United States Supreme Court just announced an opinion that clarifies what factors a district court judge can consider when weighing sentencing options in response to a violation of supervised release. When district court judges hand out a sentence on the federal...
Federal Law Enforcement to Focus on Chicago
Government Initiative Expands to Include Downtown Chicago and Transportation The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Andrew S. Boutros, recently announced that the federal government would be expanding the “Project Safe Neighborhoods”...
Controversial Uses of DNA in Investigations “John Doe DNA Warrant” Used to Tie Convict to Crime Decades Later
The use of a so-called “John Doe DNA warrant” has made the news recently after a convict escaped from an Arkansas prison last week. The inmate, former police chief Grant Hardin, plead guilty to a first-degree murder charge in 2017 when his DNA was entered into the...
California Reveals Mass False Opioid Positive Drug Tests in Prison Population Incarceration Status Potentially Impacted by False Positive Tests
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”) recently announced that they are undergoing a massive review of any inmates who may have recently been effected by an estimated 6,000 false positive tests for the presence of opioids. There were...
Authorities Continue to Crack Down on Smugglers Using “Narco Subs”
6 Tons Recovered from Narco Sub in Columbia Columbian authorities announced that they had successfully recovered over 3,000 kilograms of cocaine that was being smuggled via a “narco sub” off the Pacific coast, with an additional 270 kilograms recovered via drug...
Legislations Focus on Nonconsensual Dissemination of Pornography with Rise of AI
Trump Signs Bill that Criminalizes Deepfake and Revenge Pornography Earlier this week President Trump signed the “Take It Down Act” into law, which makes it a federal crime for individuals to publish, share, or disseminate non-consensual intimate imagery, including AI...
Concerns Over Privacy Prompt Reform and Court Challenges
Montana Passes Law Prohibiting Law Enforcement from Buying Private Data As we have previously covered, privacy advocates have voiced their concerns in recent years over the vast amount of data that is being collected by private and government actors, some of which...
Department of Justice Announces Policy Priority Shift on White-Collar Crime
New Enforcement Plan Announced by DOJ As we have previously covered, from the outset of the new Trump Administration’s Department of Justice (“DOJ”), it had announced sweeping changes to who and what it would prioritize for criminal prosecutions and what methods they...


