Monday, March 25, 2013
Sheriff Tom Dart says CHIProperties has been issuing "highly illegal" notices to a number of Cook County residents.
Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart directed a Chicago-based property management company to immediately cease and desist from providing tenants in Cook County, who reside in properties that are the subject of foreclosure proceedings, with illegal notices that contain threats and misleading, inaccurate information. CHIProperties of Chicago has been posting notices telling rental residents they are considered trespassers and must call immediately to make arrangements to move out. The posting also says an eviction process has started—even if an eviction suit has not yet been filed in Circuit court. “This notice is illegal, highly deceptive, and amounts to a constructive eviction in apparent violation of various federal, state and local laws, …
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
County President Toni Preckwinkle is asking 1,500 inmates be transferred to home-monitoring, to prevent an overcrowding crisis, ABC7 reports.
Cook County Jail is nearly full to bursting. Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is asking the detention center to reduce its 10,000+ population by 1,500 because there is not enough money to pay for them, ABC7 reports. At its current rate of admissions, the prison is poised to exceed its 10,150-prisoner capacity "within days." "The population I had today is what I'd normally have at the worst time of the year," Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart told ABC7. "You can't sustain that. My overtime budget is exploding right now, absolutely exploding. I'm already close to going through what I was supposed to do for the whole year." To prevent overcrowding, Preckwinkle proposes that by mid-summer, 1,500 prisoners be transferred to home …
Thursday, December 27, 2012
The Cook County Sheriff is urging residents to not respond to notices that claim people won lotteries they never entered, and report them to the sheriff’s office.
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office is seeing more lottery scams, where victims are told they won a large cash prize without entering any contests, only to lose tens of thousands of dollars after responding to the notices. The scammers are sending notices through phone calls, emails, faxes and mailed letters telling people they won a “jackpot,” according to a release from Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. Some go as far to include a false seal or certificate, a sample of which can be seen in the photo area. The scam takes effect when a person responds, and he or she is asked to send money through Western Union or a cashier’s check to a foreign address to pay for added taxes and handling charges, as examples, according to the release. Sometimes, …
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Cook County Sheriff says fraudulent LINK scam and stolen goods trafficking took advantage of the poor.
Four men from towns including Palos Hills, Orland Park, Chicago Ridge and Bridgeview have been charged in connection with a year-long investigation into organized retail theft and LINK card fraud, the Cook County Sheriff’s office announced Thursday. “Operation Broken LINK” targeted suburban convenience stores engaged in illegal practices involving the Electronic Benefit Transfer cards known in Illinois as “LINK.” The sting targeted 10 participants who owned or worked as sales clerks in convenience stores. Malek Malkawi, age unknown, of the 7100 block of W. 99th St, in Chicago Ridge, was charged on multiple counts of wire fraud, theft of government property and continuing financial crimes enterprise. Ahmad Alshwayyat, 21, of the 7700 block …
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12:08 am on Wednesday, March 27, 2013
What part of Romney's commie partners and the transferring of jobs and technology to the Communists of Red China is not comprehensible to all the TPARTY traitors like Ernie ? What we have here is a failure of human DECENCY not just a lack of values, the origins of evil began in the Temples of AIPAC where they worship the golden calf, the wars for drugs, terror and even disinfo on guns is all a … more ›