UPDATE: Sameer Suhail was released on home confinement and a $5 million bond secured by four properties.
Dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit with his salt-and-pepper hair pulled back in a bun, Suhail smiled at his son and daughter in the gallery after being led into the courtroom.
NEW: Sameer Suhail, who fled to Dubai before being charged with bilking Loretto Hospital, has returned to Chicago.
While overseas, Suhail started a plastic surgery center with the mantra: "Good healthcare is measured in lives improved, not procedures performed"
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For the record, this post from Sunday 👆should have said that dozens of attorneys AND other law firm staffers billed for more than 24 hours in a single day.
In a pretrial motion in the “Broadview Six” immigration protester case, the feds say defense should not be able to argue First Amendment issues or bring up unrelated shootings of citizens by immigration agents.
They also want to use “anti-ICE chants” by the defendants at trial
The DOJ has posted the document they said memorialized Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth's demobilization of the Illinois National Guard on Dec. 31, shortly after the Supreme Court ruled they could not be deployed
"Chicago FPM: Demobilze the remaining 314 (+) Soldiers on T-10 status."
This one may have it all:
A corrupt mayor. A mob-connected patriarch. A kickback scheme involving red light camera cash. An FBI mole. Undercover video of the mayor putting five fingers down on the table, asking for an extra five grand.
“Is that too much?”
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Judge sentences West Side gang leader to life in prison, calls him 'boss to a bunch of losers' www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/20/w...
As the judge said it "gives me no pleasure" to issue the term of life in prison, Spann, seated in a wheelchair at the defense table, let out an audible scoff. "Pfffft.... liar," he said.
JUST IN: Four Corner Hustlers boss Labar Spann gets life.
Judge Thomas Durkin called his life of crime "senselsss."
"Lives devastated, neighborhoods destroyed. Why? You didn't get rich. Just so you could be called "Bro Man and be boss to a bunch of losers."
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“Things in Chicago are calm. They have been calm for many many months, and while that certainly could change in the future, there is no threat of that happening anytime soon.”
Judge grants motion to dismiss lawsuit over National Guard deployment in Illinois www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/20/l...
JUST IN: Judge April Perry has GRANTED the motion to dismiss the state's lawsuit over the mobilization of National Guard troops in Illinois despite arguments that Trump has promised to "come back"
Story to come
So now the lawyers are going into chambers with the judge to review this Hegseth document. They're going to file it under seal for now while the government attorney gets clarification on what needs to be redacted.
Perry is taking a break so they can talk about what to redact from this Hegseth order and why.
Wells says they just got the document and that it is "fairly crymptic but I think it conveys some basic information about the demobilization process and timing."
Chris Wells, an attorney for the Illinois AG, says they have not heard any evidence that President Trump's executive orders have been rescinded.
"What Sec. Hegseth is doing is important, but it is derivative ...it is a delegation from the president."
DOJ lawyer says the final troops to be defederalized were the Texas National Guard in April.
"I'm assuming you can offer me assurances that no other oral or written orders that have changed anyone's mind since then?" Perry asks. "Secretary Hegseth has not changd his mind?"
Judge Perry says so far the government has provided only information on a "publicly facing website" for the Department of Defense "now known as the Department of War" which is not enough given these are military orders.
"I don't think we're putting our military orders online," she says.
A lawyer for the government tells the judge that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth entered an oral command ending the federalization of Illinois troops on Dec. 31
An actual written order but want it kept under seal for some reason.
Perry is asking about it now.
Good morning from Judge April Perry's courtroom where lawyers for the Trump administration are arguing to have the lawsuit over deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago dimissed as moot. background:
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A 69-hour workday? A Tribune analysis of a decade of legal bills in reverse-conviction cases shows the city paid some head-scratching invoices, including dozens of attorneys who billed for more than 24 hours in a single day. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/19/c...
“We got a very strong positive signal literally before I finished my first sentence.”
Attorney Paul Clement talks to the Tribune about the appellate ruling that upended the “ComEd Four” convictions of ex-CEO Anne Pramaggiore and lobbyist Michael McClain: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/18/c...
“Krystal, you good?”
“Need an ambulance now…I can’t get my partner!”
Harrowing video of Officer Krystal Rivera's mistaken shooting by fellow officer made public
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Thanks to WGN’s John Williams for having me on to talk about the “ComEd Four” bombshell this week.
The beat goes on: wgnradio.com/john-william...
JUST IN: A federal judge has sentenced a former Chicago IT specialist to 25 years in prison for helping the Islamic State terrorist group through a media campaign that encouraged attacks and celebrated beheadings and other gruesome violence
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New Lenox police are investigating a bomb threat against Pope Leo XIV's brother's home www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/16/b... the Daily Southtown's Addison Wright reports
Former Urban Prep CEO accused of stealing more than $100,000 from charter network www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/15/f...
Former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore and retired lobbyist Michael McClain were released from federal prison Wednesday, but their freedom comes with a future that remains uncertain.
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JUST IN: The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has confirmed that former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore and lobbyist Michael McClain have been released from custody, per order of the court.
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Anthony Alvarez’s arrest occurred on the morning of Oct. 3, at the height of Midway Blitz when residents in caravans of cars had been following agents as they patrolled neighborhoods on Chicago’s Southwest Side.
Story: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/15/o...
Anthony Alvarez Gonzalez, 27, faces up to 3 years in prison when he's sentenced in July.
According to his plea agreement, after striking the CBP vehicle he called Chicago police later that day and falsely reported his Ford F-250 pickup truck had been stolen.
