Feds seek to seize her belongings including 311 registered quarter horses, plus their unborn foals expected in the coming months. more ›

We wouldn't touch whoever allegedly embezzled $25,000 from the local Toys for Tots with a 39 and a half foot pole. more ›

Seven Cook County workers have been suspended from a county job training program. The Sun Times reports the director of the Cook County Board President’s Office of Employment and Training (POET) suspended seven employees earlier this week, citing an official misconduct investigation. Among those suspended includes an employee related to Shirley Glover, an ex-Cook County financial manager who was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty for embezzling over $100,000. more ›

Call it a classic case of "the Chicago Way:" a lumber company owner who admitted in court to helping defraud the city has still received more city contracts. According to a Tribune report, Arrow Lumber Company owner Donald Beal has continued to win city contracts three years after he testified to aiding former city trades supervisor Kevin O'Gorman in a billing scheme where taxpayer-purchased building materials were diverted for O'Gorman's personal use. more ›

A bankruptcy filing by the widow of former Metra Chief Phil Pagano paints a portrait of a man with enormous debt in need of immediate access to cash, and raises questions about how that all came to be. more ›

State's Attorney Anita Alvarez's embezzlement case against former Tood Stroger aide Carla Oglesby becomes better reading by the day. A ten-page complaint against Oglesby refers anonymously to fellow associates of Stroger who may have been involved in Oglesby's embezzlement scheme. Alvarez said many of the people in the complaint may have been involved unwittingly, as Oglesby used their work for Stroger to bill her own company. more ›

Leona's and its sister restaurant Hop Haus is not going away anytime soon, but three former employees might. Deborah Mort and her sons, Louis Mort and Christopher Morris, are being sued by majority owner Leon Toia for allegedly bilking the company of $1.3 million. more ›