Frank Main is a Staff Reporter at various notable outlets, including Fox 32 Chicago and NBC Chicago. He primarily covers crime in Chicago, with a focus on themes such as crime and justice, white-collar crime, and the intersection of culture and society. Frank's work has been featured in prominent publications like the Chicago Sun-Times and ABC 7 Chicago.
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Frank Main's coverage heavily focuses on local crime and government & politics in Chicago. He tends to cover breaking news, evolving stories, and government announcements related to crime, law enforcement, corruption, and political developments in the area.
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By: Frank Main
A sealed indictment, obtained by the Sun-Times, shows Vladimir Sklarov is charged with posing as the operator of a company tied to the wealthy Astor family and stole the money through a stock-backed loan scheme. Sklarov was named in a court filing Monday for a removal proceeding in Chicago that's connected to the indictment in New York.
By: Frank Main
In 2021, Sgt. Brandi Wright filed applications for two loans for a bakery that didn't exist, prosecutors say. The Paycheck Protection Program, which was riddled with billions of dollars in fraud, was supposed to help struggling businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By: Frank Main
Vladimir Sklarov came to Chicago as a child when his family moved here from Ukraine. Now, he's in a downtown jail awaiting a possible transfer to New York to face federal charges that he defrauded Mexican corporate titan Ricardo Salinas Pliego.
By: Frank Main
Dr. Gary Slutkin, an epidemiologist and author of the new book “The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic,” says authoritarian leaders are like “superspreaders” who use their power and platforms to mass “infect” populations.
By: Frank Main
It's the latest twist in the story of the Chicago man who, upon being freed from prison in 2009 after serving 16 years for a murder he said he didn't commit, used the money to try to buy a gang, fueling a gang war that one cop said “blew up the West Side.” He went back to prison for shooting a man, did his time, but was arrested again earlier this year in Homewood on a weapons charge.
By: Sophie Sherry Frank Main
Vladimir Sklarov will remain locked up at the federal jail in Chicago as he awaits extradition to Manhattan to face charges for allegedly conning Mexican businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego. A retired police officer who investigated welfare fraud at one of Sklarov's companies told the Sun-Times the convicted felon “could truly sell snow to an Eskimo.”
By: Frank Main
La DEA comenzó a ver en 2015 a lavadores de dinero chinos reemplazando a los mexicanos. Weiliang Zheng podría enfrentar al menos 70 meses de prisión por ayudar a mover ganancias ilegales provenientes de drogas de Chicago a México a través de China.
By: Frank Main Tina Sfondeles, Tom Schuba
Rev. Michael Pfleger and former Chicago mayoral candidate Ja'Mal Green said they've lobbied Pritzker to free the onetime gang kingpin. Hoover's clemency petition poses potential political costs and benefits for the governor as he seeks reelection and mulls a possible run for the presidency.
By: Frank Main
Reporter Frank Main, with his son's amateur detective work, found that more than a century ago, his missionary great-grandfather lived in a summer home in Kuliang, a town that's become a symbol of cultural ties between the U.S. and China — and is close to the heart of China's President Xi Jinping.
By: Frank Main
People who fail to pay court-ordered support to their children or former spouses can land in jail. Expanding access to lawyers for parents at the start of divorce cases could mean fewer problems in paying, as would a better take on what they can pay, experts say.
