Lawsuit Accuses Government of Abusing Civil Forfeiture Procedures Against Gun Shop Owners As we have previously covered, civil asset forfeiture has recently received scrutiny at the federal level over the law enforcement practice that enables law enforcement to seize...
Panel of Experts Question Flawed Evidence Used to Convict Nurse of Killing Babies In 2023 Lucy Letby, a neonatal nurse in the UK, was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others in the hospital she worked at, for which she received...
Former Illinois House Speaker Found Guilty on 10 of 23 Charges Michael Madigan, once the longest serving legislator in United States history, was recently found guilty on 10 of the 23 criminal counts of an indictment in a highly publicized public corruption trial. The...
Levels of Dissatisfaction Remains Between CPD and Community Despite Consent Decree Many Chicago residents remain dissatisfied with the Chicago Police Department (“CPD”) and are skeptical of the reform efforts, according to recent survey results from the coalition of...
Investigations Still Ongoing of State Employee PPP Fraud As we have previously covered, there has been a lot of attention on those who fraudulently received government loans from the federal government meant to keep businesses afloat during the early days of the...
Possible Alternative to Incarceration Proposed As the new legislative session recently began, thousands of bills have been filed by various legislators in the Illinois House of Representatives, including a bill that would seek to allow defendants convicted of various...
New Law Allows Search and Seizure Warrants in Order of Protection Cases Earlier this week, Governor Pritzker signed “Karina’s Bill” into law, which allows judges that have issued a civil order of protection the ability to also issue a search-and-seizure warrant to be...
Chicagoland Federal Judge Advocates for Increased Penalties Under Sentencing Guidelines Federal District Court Judge Iain Johnston in Rockford, along with former Illinois State Police Col. Mike Snyders, wrote a letter to the U.S. Sentencing Commission advocating for...
Department of Justice Announces Seizure of International Cybercrime Network Assets The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently announced the seizure of 39 domains and servers linked to the Pakistan-based cybercrime network known as Saim Raza, or HeartSends, which the...
DOJ to Devote Major Resources to Eliminating Cartels Shortly after receiving her confirmation and swearing into office, the new Attorney General Pam Bondi issued 14 memorandums to all Justice Department (“DOJ”) employees outlining the various priorities and directives...
