Frank Main
Staff Reporter
Frank Main began his newspaper career in 1987 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and worked in Louisiana and Kentucky, covering local politics and crime. He was on the ground for Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, the Bosnia conflict, the first Gulf War and the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in New York. In 2011, Main, another reporter and a photographer won the Pulitzer Prize for their stories in the Sun-Times about a ‘no-snitch code’ among Chicago’s victims of gun violence. For that project, Main spent six months embedded with homicide detectives. He’s a graduate of Emory University and Northwestern University’s graduate journalism program and teaches journalism at Loyola University.
Sean Grusd pleaded guilty last year to stealing $23 million from investors in Chicago and elsewhere. With the latest allegation, prosecutors now want him locked up until sentencing.
Raid Ghanimah is accused of covering his name and star number on his uniform during a march last year. At the time, he was on a leave of absence from the police department, and he’s seeking full disability payments for an unrelated injury, records show.
Officer Daniel Fair already was facing felony charges accusing him of lying about a gun arrest when the Civilian Office of Police Accountability found that he and other tactical officers also lied about other gun seizures. Now, a judge has rejected prosecutors’ bid to cite those new accusations in the pending gun case.
Those agencies are expected to see big declines in the number of cases federal prosecutors approve in the 2024 fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, according to a federal court tracking program affiliated with Syracuse University.
The Chicago Illusions building gets a tax break because it has two apartments — even though it appears those units are used as part of the business.
Syed Shaukat Ahmed’s companies were paid more than $30 million by the federal government to provide free COVID-19 test kits to Medicare recipients. He has been charged with health care fraud.
The investigation into the death of Chrys Carvajal led to last month’s highly publicized FBI raid in Lincoln Square.
In one case, the CHA revoked a rent voucher for a woman accused of getting fraudulent loans through the Paycheck Protection Program that a broker on Facebook offered to arrange. And six fired Illinois state workers also said they kicked back some of their loans. But the people arranging them escaped punishment.
Officers Daniel Fair, Jeffery Morrow, Kevin Taylor and Rupert Collins are accused of engaging in misconduct that the Civilian Office of Police Accountability deemed “substantial and irrefutable.”