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A former health care clinic consultant and Medicare biller was sentenced to 135 months in prison and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine for her role in laundering money in connection with a $63 million health care fraud scheme involving a now-defunct Miami health provider.

A Leawood, Kansas, business owner was convicted on Tuesday of tax fraud following a month-long jury trial, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Barry R. Grissom of the District of Kansas.

A fugitive and former lawyer, who had been on the run since being sentenced to more than six years in prison on tax charges in 2002 was apprehended last week in Phoenix, Arizona, by the U.S. Marshals Service, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

A Columbus, Georgia, on Tuesday resident was sentenced to 18 months in prison for her role in a stolen identity refund fraud conspiracy, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney G.F. Peterman, III for the Middle District of Georgia.

The owner and operator of a Detroit-area home health care agency pleaded guilty for his participation in a $4 million health care fraud scheme, on April 11.

A federal grand jury sitting in Nashville, Tennessee, returned an indictment on April 6, which was unsealed on April 11, against a Nashville woman charging her with six counts of assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, two counts of filing false personal tax returns and one count of obstructing the due administration of the internal revenue laws, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney David Rivera for the Middle District of Tennessee.

A member of an international child exploitation conspiracy was sentenced to 21 years in prison on April 8 for his participation in two websites that were operated for the purpose of coercing and enticing minors as young as eight years old to engage in sexually explicit conduct on web camera.

Ten people were indicted for their roles in a conspiracy that brought large shipments of crystal methamphetamine to Ohio from California, law enforcement officials said.

A Staten Island, New York, tax return preparer and business owner was sentenced to prison for preparing false federal income tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, on April 7.

A civilian employee of the U.S. Department of Defense’s 501st Military Intelligence Brigade pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Virginia to illegally obtaining over $141,561 in Living Quarters Allowance (LQA) funds, on April 6.