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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Frank Main |Tim Novak |Tom Schuba
A Chicago cop is under investigation by police officials over his ties to accused extortionist Jawad Fakroune, a convicted felon and Moroccan national who authorities say posed as a relative of the drug lord Pablo Escobar. Fakroune was arrested in January, charged with using threats and violence to shake down the owner of a Lincoln Park restaurant for $1.5 million he said he was owed.
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2 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Tim Novak
The chief financial officer of a failed Bridgeport bank was sentenced Thursday to 18 months confinement to her basement apartment, and ordered to help repay $27 million in losses from a years-long embezzlement scheme that caused the bank’s collapse. “You will be paying restitution for the rest of your life,” U.S. District Court Chief Judge Virginia Kendall said as she spared Rosallie C. Corvite from a prison sentence so she could care for her mother.
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3 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Tim Novak
Nearly four years after Alex Pissios and his partners sold their Chicago movie studio and its Toronto counterpart for a reported $1 billion, Pissios is battling his cousin and a scrap dealer who claim in separate lawsuits they were cheated out of millions of dollars from the sale. Konstantinos “Dino” Mirkopoulos, the cousin, says he has proof that he’s owed more than $6 million.
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1 month ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Tim Novak
Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi has mistakenly handed out more than $930,000 in property tax breaks to homeowners and businesses since he took office nearly seven years ago. Those “erroneous” property tax exemptions went to 287 property owners, according to the assessor’s office.
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2 months ago |
wbez.org | Tim Novak |Frank Main
A high-profile lobbyist who is a former top aide to Gov. JB Pritzker is cooperating with investigators, her lawyer says, in a case involving a man facing federal charges that accuse him of extorting a Lincoln Park restaurant owner.
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