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Assets frozen, Saudi businessman demands evidence

August 20, 2021 at 12:02 p.m.

A prominent Saudi businessman whose assets were frozen last week by the United States and British governments demanded Monday that authorities produce evidence to support allegations that he financed terrorists....

Chicago link emerges as U.S. freezes more assets

August 20, 2021 at 12:08 p.m.

The government on Friday expanded its efforts to disrupt Osama bin Laden's financial network, freezing the assets of dozens of his supporters including a Saudi businessman who allegedly financed a...

FBI keeps watch on Islamic charity

January 30, 2019 at 11:47 a.m.

Outside the Bridgeview charity, a bright sign reads: "Compassion in Action Throughout the World." But federal investigators are examining whether the $5 million-a-year Global Relief Foundation belongs on a list...

Cancer drug probe nets $875 million settlement

August 20, 2021 at 10:57 a.m.

In the largest health-care fraud settlement in U.S. history, drugmaker TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc. of Lake Forest Wednesday agreed to pay $875 million and plead guilty to a criminal charge...

Muslims now hesitant to give

August 20, 2021 at 10:39 a.m.

In their mailboxes and at the mosques, Muslims continually hear the pleas: donate to feed the starved children in Afghanistan, to aid refugees from Chechnya, to help widows and children...

Lawmakers urge new federal role in screenings

January 30, 2019 at 11:54 a.m.

After years of criticism about inadequate passenger screening at airports, heightened security concerns have prompted new calls for the federal government to take over the job. But such a change...

Checkpoint screeners weak link in system

January 30, 2019 at 11:54 a.m.

Though the FAA is imposing stricter security requirements at airports, these new measures don't directly address lapses by low-paid, scantly trained screeners who have failed to find as many as...

TAP ex-employee charged

August 20, 2021 at 7:34 a.m.

A former sales representative for a Lake Forest pharmaceutical company and three other men have been charged with setting up an illegal multistate black market in the costly prostate cancer...

The Lupron loophole: Cancer drug strikes it rich

August 20, 2021 at 7:18 a.m.

The former president of a Lake Forest drug company, which is at the center of a major health-care fraud investigation, says the firm exploited a loophole to get Medicare to...

U.S. NABS DOCTORS IN DRUG SCHEME

August 20, 2021 at 8:20 a.m.

Federal authorities have uncovered a multistate black market in the costly prostate cancer drug Lupron in which doctors illegally resold the widely used drug for a profit. So far, two...

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