A Chicago-area man who made a national media splash when he filed a lawsuit against dozens of women who allegedly bad-mouthed him on a tell-all Facebook dating page was sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison for a tax fraud.
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CHICAGO — Chicago-area native Nikko D’Ambrosio made a national media splash earlier this month when he filed a lawsuit against dozens of women who allegedly bad-mouthed him on a tell-all Facebook dating page, describing him as “clingy,” a ghoster and a show-off with money. Turns out D’Ambrosio’s dating reviews were the least of his worries. On Friday, D’Ambrosio, 32, of Des Plaines, was .
CHICAGO — James Weiss, the son-in-law of former Cook County Democratic boss Joseph Berrios, was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison Wednesday, bringing an end to a bribery case centered on the shady world of sweepstakes gaming with elements of political corruption, a state senator turned government mole, and even alleged mob ties. In handing down the sentence, U.S. District Judge Steven Seeger .
The now-convicted son-in-law of former Cook County Democratic boss Joseph Berrios was allegedly “good friends” with notorious mob hitman Frank “The German” Schweihs and once went to him for protection for his massage parlors being threatened by other gangsters. That’s the story about James Weiss that was caught on a federal wiretap and revealed in a court filing late Wednesday, where .