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Cocaine money launderer's Illinois cannabis license goes up in smoke Original

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By Frank Main Verified, Tom Schuba Verified
| Chicago Sun-Times Verified
Convicted cocaine cash launderer David Berger no longer holds an Illinois cannabis license, signaling that he has cut ties with the Ivy Hall marijuana dispensary chain he helped launch, according to state records and regulators. Berger, a Northbrook native who co-founded Ivy Hall, was found guilty last year in federal court of laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars in drug proceeds by converting cocaine money into private jet flights for a trafficker. He’s set to be sentenced July 1.
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Brother of ex-Harvey Mayor Eric Kellogg gets six months in sweeping FBI corruption case Original

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By Frank Main Verified
| Chicago Sun-Times Verified
Former Harvey Mayor Eric Kellogg was never charged in a sprawling federal corruption investigation that engulfed the south suburb, but members of his family keep paying the price. On Tuesday, Kellogg’s older brother, 78-year-old Derrick Muhammad, was sentenced to six months in federal prison for shaking down towing companies while serving as a Harvey police officer. U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall also ordered him to pay $75,000 to the government.
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FBI's high-tech hunt led to alleged bank robbery 'mastermind' killed in shootout on Chicago's West Side

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By Frank Main Verified
| Chicago Sun-Times Verified
The alleged leader of a bank robbery crew killed in a shootout on the West Side last week was tracked down in a weekslong manhunt powered by surveillance cameras, tracking devices and cellphone monitoring. Abdulhafedh Abdulhafedh, 25, was behind the wheel of a black Cadillac Escalade on May 28 when FBI agents boxed in the SUV on West Lexington Street, according to court records and officials. What happened next was captured in part on a resident’s cellphone video.
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