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Five people were charged in Monroe County in a two-day human trafficking enforcement operation, according to Illinois State Police. The crackdown took place in the Columbia area on July 31 and Aug. 1.
Nic Flosi. August 2, 2024 at 3:55 PM. COLUMBIA, Ill. - Five men were arrested and charged in connection with a human trafficking operation in Monroe County, Illinois, following a two-day ...
The Illinois ICAC Task Force has been involved in more than 1,990 arrests of sexual predators since 2006.To report online child sexual exploitation, visit report.cybertip.org.
Ward had borrowed $1.3 million from the bank on nonexistent collateral, leaving the bank unable to cover the withdrawals and exposing Ward's fraud. Ward fled with the remainder of the firm's cash (including a $150,000 emergency loan from William H. Vanderbilt). After his arrest, he was sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing, serving six.
Operation Greylord. Operation Greylord was an investigation conducted jointly by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Chicago Police Department Internal Affairs Division and the Illinois State Police into corruption in the judiciary of Cook County, Illinois (the ...
The Stop Line 3 protests are an ongoing series of demonstrations in the U.S. state of Minnesota against the expansion of Enbridge 's Line 3 oil pipeline along a new route. The new route was completed in September 2021, and was operational on 1 October 2021. [5] Indigenous people have led the resistance to the construction of the pipeline, which ...
The watchdog overseeing agencies under Gov. J.B. Pritzker has referred 177 cases to law enforcement in which there was “reasonable cause to believe” a state worker “improperly obtained” a ...
Corruption in Illinois has been a problem from the earliest history of the state. [ 1] Electoral fraud in Illinois pre-dates the territory's admission to the Union in 1818. [ 2] Illinois had the third most federal criminal convictions for public corruption between 1976 and 2012, behind New York and California.