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...
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...
What Diddy’s Experience Says About the Federal Penal System Recently, Sean “Diddy” Combs had a release date calculated and entered onto the Bureau of Prison’s (“BOP”) website, currently set for May 8, 2028. Earlier this year, Mr. Combs was sentenced to 50 months...
Police Charged with Illegally Selling Guns In was recently revealed in several indictments that four former and current Campton Hills law enforcement officials, including the former Police Chief, are accused of illegally selling guns taken from the evidence room of...
If an individual or entity is charged with and convicted of a federal criminal offense, whether through a negotiated plea agreement, plea declaration, or after being found guilty after trial, a defendant will be sentenced according the “Federal Sentencing Guidelines.”...
