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Federal Tipoffs Involving Illinois Newsletter for Thursday March 14, 2024 ( 3 items )  

Acting Ill. U.S. Attorney: Man Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Shooting Federal Agents in Chicago
CHICAGO, Illinois, March 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois issued the following news release on March 13, 2024: A man has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for shooting two federal agents and a task force officer who were conducting a covert investigation in Chicago. EUGENE MCLAURIN, 31, of Chicago, pleaded guilty last year to three counts of assaulting a federal officer and two counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence. U.S. District Jud  more

Ill. U.S. Attorney's Office Collected More Than $60 Million in Civil, Criminal, and Asset Forfeiture Actions in Fiscal Year 2023
CHICAGO, Illinois, March 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois issued the following news release on March 13, 2024: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois collected more than $60 million in criminal, civil, and asset forfeiture actions in Fiscal Year 2023, Morris Pasqual, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, announced today. The 2023 collections included approximately $22.3 million in criminal acti  more

Scientists Use Novel Technique to Create New Energy-Efficient Microelectronic Device
ARGONNE, Illinois, March 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Argonne researchers pioneer "redox gating" -- a new way to precisely modulate electron flow * * * As the integrated circuits that power our electronic devices get more powerful, they are also getting smaller. This trend of microelectronics has only accelerated in recent years as scientists try to fit increasingly more semiconducting components on a chip  more