John Gorman

The owner and manager of a Lyons strip joint once threatened an undercover FBI agent during a dispute over money, but the agent was saved by crime syndicate figure Victor...

A federal grand jury charged 46 commodities traders Wednesday with systematically cheating hundreds of customers in Chicago`s futures markets in the first indictments from one of the most sweeping financial...

More than 20 defense lawyers met with federal prosecutors Friday in a last-minute effort to stave off expected racketeering charges against commodities traders from the Chicago Board of Trade and...

Chicago politicians, alerted that FBI surveillance devices had been secretly planted in their favorite restaurant, waited anxiously earlier this week as underlings traced its wiring through ductwork and up an...

Former Ohio State University All-America wide receiver Cris Carter was fined $15,000 Monday for defrauding his school by concealing $5,000 he had secretly accepted from sports agents Norby Walters and...

Convicted sports agents Norby Walters and Lloyd Bloom have agreed to pay the U.S. government $395,000, federal sources said Friday. Walters will pay $250,000 and Bloom $145,000 as part of...

Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of preserved wild animal parts, illegally taken from protected or endangered species and often sold as aphrodisiacs, were confiscated this week from four herb...

In one corner, dressed in blue pinstripes, stands Tony Valukas, tenacious and precise. In the other corner, also wearing blue pinstripes, stands Dan Webb, wily and quick-footed. For two weeks,...

Questions about the eligibility of former Iowa running back Ronnie Harmon remained a focal point Wednesday in the federal trial of sports agents Norby Walters and Lloyd Bloom. Bloom, 29,...

A Willow Springs man was sentenced Monday to 4 years in prison for bilking a southwest suburban sanitary district and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency out of $253,000 while working...