Stewart, 50, of Matteson, Ill., pled guilty to a charge of presenting a false claim upon the United States. U.S. District Chief Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer imposed the 36-month sentence Wednesday after a hearing in federal court in Chicago.
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As entered into evidence during his sentencing hearing, Jackson was violently abusive, threatening to murder women whom he trafficked for sex and forcing them to bow and pray to him, and in one instance beating his child so severely with a belt that the child urinated and defe
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In addition to the conspiracy charges, DiPietro, a Certified Public Accountant, was charged with assisting in the preparation of false tax returns for the Kachners for the years 2013 through 2017. The returns allegedly did not report the Kachners’ true income from
Read moreAccording to court documents, in 2011 and 2012, while working at the Tampa Police Department, Houston received goods, services, money orders, and cash that were obtained with debit cards tied to accounts that had been loaded with fraudulently obtained tax refunds.
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