Des Plaines

You'll get to spin that wheel and try to solve some puzzles.

Tomorrow, the Wheel of Fortune tour moves to Des Plaines.

And while there is a whole lot of game show fun there, Ryan and Vanna... are not actually there in person.

We will be talking with them live next week, though, right here on ABC7 Eyewitness News at 11 o'clock.

I'm sure you hear it.

It's like next stop, Des Plaines.

Next stop, Robinson Heights.

Next stop, Woodstock.

Uh, there was a firefighter there that, uh, took matters into his own hands because in my, uh, conjecture, uh, Ill- uh, Chicago police, uh, did not.

Uh, Chief Bill Kushner joins us this morning, retired Chief of Police Des Plaines, to kinda give us, uh, his, uh, professional take on what went on, uh, there.

Coming up this morning at, uh, 7:35, Tirade Tuesday.

Uh, we've got Matchbox Twenty tickets for you, see Rod Thomas and the guys, Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre.

He's a friend.

He's, uh, uh, one of these guys that's always there when you need him.

I've done, uh, a Cop on a Rooftop events for him when he was the chief of Des Plaines.

He's, uh, worked in Chicago.

Indian National pleads guilty to $227 million Medicare fraud.

An Indian guy in Des Plaines, Illinois.

You know where Des Plaines is? You know what's in Des Plaines? Nothing.

The original McDonald's.

Not quite the contrary to nothing.

Pure Americana was born in Des Plaines, Illinois.

So true.

You know what else happened in Des Plaines, Illinois? What? Um, that movie, uh, with those two dumb guys.

So it was just wonderful.

And In fact, on the higher level, there was a place, I think it was Arlington Heights or Des Plaines, called The Cellar.

Oh.

Right.

I spent 20 years in Montana and then the last two decades in the Chicago, Illinois area in the north suburbs.

Currently, I'm teaching pastor at the Evangelical Free Church of Des Plaines.

And I also serve as a professor of preaching at both Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and then Moody Theological Seminary here in the Chicago area.

A lot of people know me for my book, The Art of Preaching Old Testament Narrative.

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Cabalza 36, an Indian national residing in Des Plaines, Illinois, engaged in a scheme to defraud the Medicare program by submitting false and fraudulent claims for over-the-counter COVID-19 test kits that were not requested by beneficiaries or provided to them.

Over the course of six months, starting in January 2023, Kabalzada and his co-schemers acquired three Chicago-area laboratories, Chicago Care, V-Care, and Al-Amir Kabalza, then paid approximately $11 million to the purported telemarketing company based in Pakistan to obtain personally identifiable information for hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries.

Using those Medicare beneficiaries' information, Kabalzada caused the laboratories to submit $227 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for test kits that he knew were never requested by or shipped to the Medicare beneficiaries, for which Medicare paid approximately $136 million.