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Woman Convicted In Crash Pleads Guilty To Driving On Revoked License
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 27-year-old woman who was charged in a 2007 crash that killed two teenagers pleaded guilty to driving while her license was revoked last month in west suburban Riverside. At 7:22 p.m....
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Tough-Talking Reputed Mobster Gets 7 Years For ATM Scam
CHICAGO (CBS) — Gheorgui Martov ran an international credit-card cash-out ring based in Chicago. The feds say he also had ties to the Bulgarian mob. And he talked like it. They caught him bragging...
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Chicago Trader Gets 1 Year For Stealing Trade Secrets From Employer
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Chicago trader has been sentenced to one year and a day in federal prison for stealing trade secrets from his former employer to start his own competing firm. David J. Newman, 34,...
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No Prison Time For Ex-Cop Tied To Wrigleyville Rooftop Scheme
CHICAGO (CBS) — Calling it “the break of your life,” a federal judge handed no prison time Tuesday to a former suburban cop who dodged about $140,000 in taxes in connection with a fraud scheme at a...
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Chicago Trader Who Stole $1.7M From Clients Gets 5 Years In Prison
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Chicago trader who mismanaged more than $1.7 million of his clients’ money was sentenced to more than five years in prison on Wednesday. Randall Rye, 26, owned Faster Than Light...
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Berwyn Man Gets 14 Years For Trafficking Illegal Guns
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Berwyn gang member was sentenced to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to trafficking illegal guns. Between October 2015 and April 2016, 28-year-old Miguel Martinez sold...
View Article‘Lizard Squad’ Hacker Admits To Conspiracy Targeting ‘Thousands’
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Maryland man with ties to international hacking groups with “thousands of victims” pleaded guilty in Chicago Tuesday to a conspiracy that may land him behind bars. But Zachary Buchta...
View ArticleCon Man Gets 12 Years For $23 Million Sports Memorabilia Fraud
CHICAGO (CBS) — Knowing he would soon be sentenced for a brazen $23 million scam involving scores of phony pieces of sports memorabilia, an Arkansas con man looked at his oldest son in court and said,...
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Former Attorney Gets Over 4 Years For Stealing $1M From Estates Of Dead Clients
CHICAGO (CBS) — A former west suburban attorney charged with stealing roughly $1 million from the estates of dead former clients was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison. Robert B. Beck,...
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Wheaton College Football Player Pleads To Misdemeanor In Hazing Case
CHICAGO (CBS) — One of the five Wheaton College football players accused in a hazing scandal pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge on Thursday, as part of a plea deal that saw prosecutors drop all...
View ArticleBookkeeper Pleads Guilty To $24 Million Tax Fraud Scheme
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 73-year-old bookkeeper from Northbrook faces up to five years in prison, after pleading guilty to a years-long corporate tax fraud scheme that cheated the federal government out of...
View ArticleFormer Illinois Lawmaker Pleads Guilty In Shoplifting Case
GLEN ELLYN, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois lawmaker arrested on a shoplifting charge has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor retail theft. Former state Rep. Sandra Pihos of Glen Ellyn entered the plea Monday....
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Papadopoulos’ Wife Asks Trump For A Pardon
By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The wife of Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying about his Russian contacts, asked President Donald Trump to grant him a pardon in a CNN...
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Man Gets 8 Years In Livestreamed Attack, Torture Of Disabled Teen
CHICAGO (CBS) — The alleged ringleader of the live-streamed torture of a kidnapped mentally disabled teen has been sentenced to eight years in prison, after pleading guilty to hate crime charges....
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Final Defendant Gets 7 Years In Facebook Live Beating, Torture Case
CHICAGO (AP) — The last of four defendants in Chicago to plead guilty in the beating of a mentally disabled teenager that was livestreamed on Facebook has been sentenced to seven years in prison....
View ArticleTrump Defends Manafort, Accuses Cohen Of Making Up Stories To Get A ‘Deal’
CHICAGO (CBS) — President Trump took to Twitter Wednesday morning, just one day after his former attorney and personal fixer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to a series of charges including tax fraud and...
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Man Sentenced To 12 Years For Hitting Man With Nail Gun During Cary Home...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Cary man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, after pleading guilty to attacking another man with a nail gun during a home invasion last year. Edward Zegers, 53, pleaded guilty...
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Man Sentenced To 60 Years For Killing 12-Year-Old Girl Who Screamed, ‘Daddy,...
CHICAGO (CBS/AP) — A man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison, after pleading guilty to killing his girlfriend’s 12-year-old daughter as she screamed “Daddy, don’t!” John Singleton, 32, had been...
View ArticleCape-Wearing Lawyer Pleads Guilty To Theft
CHICAGO (AP) — A former personal injury lawyer in Chicago who created a cape-wearing character to drum up business has pleaded guilty to keeping secret from clients’ settlements he’d reached and...
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Portage Tow Truck Company Owner Pleads Guilty To Bribing Mayor James Snyder
CHICAGO (CBS/AP) — A Portage tow truck company owner has pleaded guilty to paying $12,000 in bribes to Mayor James Snyder, who faces trial next week on corruption charges. John Cortina, 79, pleaded...
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South Side Ald. Willie Cochran Pleads Guilty To Federal Fraud Charge
CHICAGO (CBS)— South Side Ald. Willie Cochran pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony charge of wire fraud for misusing his campaign funds for gambling and other personal expenses, including tuition for...
View ArticleGary Woman Agrees To Plead Guilty In Daughter’s Shooting Death
GARY, Ind. (AP) — A northwestern Indiana woman has agreed to plead guilty to a reduced neglect charge stemming from her 2-year-old daughter’s shooting death. Twenty-two-year-old Dashana Fowler of Gary...
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Former Chicago Police Commander Kenneth Johnson Pleads Guilty To Stealing...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A former Chicago Police Department commander once hailed for his work reducing violent crime in Englewood has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $363,000 in Social Security benefits...
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Former Correctional Officer Pleads Guilty To Misdemeanor Battery In Beating...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A former Cook County correctional officer caught on video repeatedly punching an inmate has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge. Miguel Ortiz was charged with two felony counts of...
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Former NU Professor’s Co-Defendant To Testify Against Him In Grisly Murder Case
CHICAGO (CBS) — The case against a former Northwestern University professor accused of murder just got a lot stronger. As CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar reported Monday evening, Wyndam Lathem’s co-defendant...
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Glendale Heights Man Sentenced To 30 Years For Sexual Assault
CHICAGO (CBS)– A Glendale Heights man was sentenced to 30 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend in 2016. Henry Morales, 31, appeared in court Tuesday...
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Tina Jones Pleads Guilty, Gets 12 Years In Bitcoin Murder-For-Hire Plot To...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Tina Jones, a nurse from Des Plaines, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges she paid $12,000 in bitcoin to try to hire a hitman on the dark web to kill the wife of her lover, a co-worker...
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AJ Freund’s Mother, JoAnn Cunningham, Pleads Guilty To 5-Year-Old Boy’s Murder
CHICAGO (CBS) — JoAnn Cunningham, the mother of slain 5-year-old AJ Freund, has pleaded guilty to murder in her son’s brutal beating death, eight months after she and AJ’s father were charged....
View ArticleFormer Illinois State Sen. Martin Sandoval Promised To Go ‘Balls To The Wall’...
by Todd Feurer, CBS Chicago web producer CHICAGO (CBS) — Former Illinois State Sen. Martin Sandoval pleaded guilty on Tuesday to agreeing to act as a “protector” for red light camera company SafeSpeed...
View ArticleUniversity Of Illinois Student Andrew Smith Pleads Guilty To Disorderly...
URBANA, Ill. (AP) — A University of Illinois student on Tuesday pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct for making a noose out of string and leaving it last September in a residence hall...
View ArticleFormer State Sen. Terry Link Pleads Guilty To Tax Evasion
CHICAGO (CBS) — Just days after resigning from his legislative seat. former Illinois state Sen. Terry Link on Wednesday pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return, admitting he under-reported his...
View ArticleA.J. Freund Case: Andrew Freund Sr. Pleads Guilty To Involuntary Manslaughter...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Andrew Freund Sr., the Crystal Lake man charged with killing his 5-year-old son, A.J., was sentenced to 30 years in prison, after he pleaded guilty to three felony charges on Friday, as...
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Woman Pleads Guilty To Scamming People In Cancer Hoax
HIGHLAND, Ill. (AP) — A woman in southwestern Illinois pleaded guilty to fraud Tuesday in a medical hoax that tricked people who gave her money and other benefits. Sarah Delashmit, 35, of Highland...
View ArticleDiego Vargas Pleads Guilty To Setting Off Explosive Device At Naperville...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 26-year-old man has pleaded guilty to federal charges accusing him of throwing an explosive device through the window of a Naperville restaurant during widespread looting last June....
View ArticleCrestwood Mayor Louis Presta Scheduled To Plead Guilty Next Month In Red...
by Todd Feurer, CBS Chicago web producer CHICAGO (CBS) — Crestwood Mayor Louis Presta is expected to plead guilty next month to charges accusing him of taking bribes from a red light camera company,...
View ArticleFormer Ald. Ricardo Munoz Pleads Guilty To Using Political Funds He...
by Todd Feurer, CBS Chicago web producer CHICAGO (CBS) — Former Ald. Ricardo Munoz pleaded guilty Monday to stealing nearly $38,000 from a political fund he once controlled to use on personal expenses,...
View ArticlePolice Officer’s Ex-Girlfriend Gets 10 Years For Plot To Kidnap Woman She...
CHICAGO (CBS) — The ex-girlfriend of a Chicago police officer assigned to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s security detail has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, after pleading guilty to a plot to kidnap and...
View ArticleFormer State Rep. Luis Arroyo Pleads Guilty To Federal Bribery Charges
CHICAGO (CBS) — Former Illinois State Rep. Luis Arroyo pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges accusing him of bribing a former state senator in exchange for his support on sweepstakes-related...
View ArticleCrestwood Mayor Louis Presta Resigns From Office, Pleads Guilty To Federal...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Crestwood Mayor Louis Presta resigned from office on Tuesday, hours before pleading guilty to federal charges accusing him of taking bribes from a red light camera company that does...
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Crest Hill Couple Pleads Guilty To Role In Jan. 6 Attack On U.S. Capitol
CHICAGO (CBS) — A couple from southwest suburban Crest Hill pleaded guilty on Friday to misdemeanor charges for their role in the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol building. John and Amy Schubert both...
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