State of Illinois v. Shahid Hussain
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of hate crime, and one count of institutional vandalism, all class 2 felony offenses. On January 30, 2026, surveillance video showed Shahid Hussain, age 43, of Niles, Illinois, enter the Northwestern campus drawing swastikas and other Nazi symbols on numerous signs and other university property. The vi... More...
(10-17-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Antonio Ross
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyers represeted the Defendant charged with wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343. Antonio Ross and others paid kickbacsk to the former Evanston/Skokie School District 65, Superintendent. The Defendant admitted that he paid kickbacks to District 65’s then-Superintendent, DEVON HORTON, in exchange for Horton’s efforts to steer District 65 contrac... More...
(10-17-2026 - IL)State of Illinois v. Chevazz Campbell
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with first degree murder. Chevazz Campbel,age 37, stabbed and killed a CTA employee. Under Illinois law (720 ILCS 5/9-1), first degree murder is defined as killing an individual without lawful justification when a person does any of the following: • Intentional Murder: They intend to kill or do great bodily harm... More...
(10-12-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Darren Carlyle Sadler
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1343.\ Darren Carlyle Sadler, age 40, of Sacramento, California, participated in a scheme to fraudulently obtain loans pursuant to the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), which was created by the CARES Act to provide financial relief for small businesses during the Covid-19 ... More...
(10-09-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Keith Wakefield
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Reported by: Kent Morlan Keith Wakefield, age 52, of Chicago, worked as the head of fixed income trading for IFS Securities, Inc., a broker-dealer in Chicago. In 2019, Wakefield knowingly and fra... More...
(09-11-2026 - il)United States of America v. Jason Cloth
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represents Jason Cloth for allegedly defrauding investors out of $100 million. Digested by: Kent Morlan... More...
(07-29-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Gladys Ibanez-Olea
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bringing in an harboring aliens. Digested by: Kent Morlan Gladys Ibanez-Olea, age 37, served as a mid-level member of the Juarez Cartel. From September 2022 to February 2024, Ibanez-Olea engaged in a huma... More...
(07-27-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Weston Goldstein
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant accused of wire fraud. Digested by: Kent Morlan Weston Goldstein, age 48, was responsible for procuring electronic devices for BTN and its employees. Over approximately eight years, Goldstein used company credit cards... More...
(07-22-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Kartik Saini
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(07-08-2026 - il)United States of America v. Andrew Franklin
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with robbery and kidnapping. Reported by Kent Morlan Andrew Franklin, 19, of Chciago, DASHUN BROWN, 24, of Chicago, posed as a food delivery driver to cause an individual in the residence to open the front doo... More...
(06-16-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Darren Hughes
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with distributing drugs through the dark web marketplace known as the “Nemesis Market" and money laundering. Reported by Kent Morlan Darren Hughes, age 39, of San Jose, California, operated a vendor store o... More...
(06-07-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Vincent Storme
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with cyberstalking and harassing former romantic partners. Reported by Kent Morlan Vincent Storme threatened and harassed six women after they ended their relationships with him. Storme stalked his victims both online and in person, with the harassment and threats often extending to the victims’ families, emplo... More...
(05-27-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Dennis McKay
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented by Defendant charged with three counts of Hobbs Act robbery affecting commerce in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a) and one count of discharging a firearm in connection to a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)(iii). Reported by Kent Morlan The Defendant elected to plead guilty. The U.S. Probation Office for th... More...
(05-25-2026 - IL)Sarah Hinkes v. Sunera Trechologies, Inc., et al.
Chicago, Illinois employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued in a civil rights violation theory. Reported by Kent Morlan Sarah Hinkes sued her employer and two other employees for several forms of discrimination that she said violated federal statutes. The matter was stay in favor arbitration.... More...
(05-25-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Alexander Martinez-Quiroz
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with unlawful transport of firearms. Alexander Martinez-Quiroz, age 35, of Chicago, possessed a rifle and handgun from December 2025 to April 2026. Martinez-Quiroz fired three shots from the handgun while standing in front of a Chicago building on Dec. 18, 2025. While firing the shots, Martinez-Quiroz calls out that h... More...
(04-28-2026 - IL)State of Illinois v. Jaquell Hayes
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with attempted first-degree murder. Jaquell Hayes, age 31, accused of shooting and seriously injuring a a 31-year-old man in the 100-block of West Adams Street in the Loop.... More...
(04-17-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Robert Dunlap
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Robert Dunlap claimed to operate a cryptocurrency business that sold a purported digital asset called “Meta-1 Coin” through a “Meta-1 Coin Trust.” Dunlap made numerous false and misleading statements to potential and actual investors, including claims that the Meta-1 Coin was backed by as much as $... More...
(04-16-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Anthony Gonzalez Alvarez
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with assaulting a police officer and misprision of a felony. On Oct. 3, 2025, Gonzalez Alvarez, 27, of Lyons, Ill., joined a caravan of vehicles that was following a vehicle driven by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers on the Southwest Side of Chicago. Gonzalez Alvarez drove his Ford pickup truck into t... More...
(04-16-2026 - IL)State of Illinois v. Lorenzo Bell and Jahiem Russell
Wheaton, Illinois criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with aggravated unlwful posession of a firearm and aggravated fleeing and eluding and unlawfule possession of a stole licence plate. The vehicle the Defendants were in eventually struck road barrels near the Ogden Avenue ramp and reversed into a police squad car before becoming disabled.... More...
(04-11-2026 - IL)John Doe, et al. v. Abbott Labs
Chicago, Illinois, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on product liability theories. The parents of four babies who were sickened by baby formula manufactured and sold by Abbott Labs.... More...
$53000000 (04-10-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Barbara Harris
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with fraud. Barbara Harris served as the Executive Director of the Center for Community Academic Success Partnerships (CCASP), which received government grants to provide after-school programs to schools in the Chicago area. From 2012 to 2017, Harris schemed with another CCASP executive, TONY BELL, to submit grant ap... More...
(04-09-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Jose Medina-Medina
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegally owning a firearm. Jose Medina-Medina illegally possessed a handgun on March 20, 2026, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Chicago Police officers discovered the firearm during a court-authorized search of his residence in the Rogers Park neighborhood on Chicago’s ... More...
(04-06-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Tatiana Bazer
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with fraud and impersonating and officer or employee of the United States. Tatiana Bazer falsely represented to victims that their money would be used in various ways, including, among things, projects in Ukraine, immigration services, or as loans to Bazer to help resolve her purported arrest for shoplifting, according ... More...
(04-01-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Julian Torres adn Brandon Osorio
Chicago, Illinois, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with illegal transportation of a firearms. Julian Torres, age 19, and Brandon Osorio, age 29, were arrested after their residence was searched. During the search, agents discovered a short-barrel rifle and ten handguns, one of which was equipped with an extended magazine, the charge alleges. Agents also discovered 20 ... More...
(03-28-2026 - IL)United States of America v. Trent Schneider
Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with threatening to kill multiple public officials, including President Donald J. Trump, the 47th and 45th President of the United States. On Oct. 21, 2025, Trent Schneider, age 58, of Winthrop, Illinois, posted a video of himself on Instagram in which he stated, “People like me have suffered real [expletive] crimes ... More...
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