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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 ...
‘Stop targeting the middle class’: Illinois county homeowners slapped with property tax bills over $10,000 as local Walmart, Home Depot see amount they owe slashed Sabina Wex July 18, 2024 at ...
1860s. Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. [ 1][ 2] In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the "Spitzedersche Privatbank" in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month.
Rita A. Crundwell (née Humphrey; born January 10, 1953) is the former Comptroller and Treasurer of Dixon, Illinois, from 1983 to 2012. She is the admitted operator of what is believed to be the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history. She was fired in April 2012 after the discovery that she had embezzled $53.7 million from the city of Dixon ...
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. A study published by the University ...
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 ...
Joseph Smith encountered the criminal justice system in New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. While in New York, Smith faced charges of being a "disorderly person" in 1826 and 1830. In Ohio, he was arrested multiple times on a variety of charges. On January 12, 1838, a warrant was issued for Smith's arrest on a charge of banking fraud.