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Every day in communities around the nation, the FBI works with its state and local partners to identify and arrest criminals who threaten public safety—including terrorist groups, violent gangs, drug trafficking enterprises, and producers of counterfeit pharmaceuticals, auto parts, and airplane parts.

A Raleigh, North Carolina, man pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of conspiracy to commit theft of public money and one count of theft of public money, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney John Stuart Bruce for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced.

Amsterdam-based VimpelCom Limited, the world’s sixth-largest telecommunications company and an issuer of publicly traded securities in the United States, and its wholly owned Uzbek subsidiary, Unitel LLC, entered into resolutions with the Department of Justice on February 18 (Thursday) in which they admitted to a conspiracy to make more than $114 million in bribery payments to a government official in Uzbekistan between 2006 and 2012 to enable them to enter and continue operating in the Uzbek telecommunications market.

A former deputy director of the Arkansas Department of Human Services (ADHS), a multibillion-dollar state agency, and a former probation officer in Crittenden County, Arkansas, and West Memphis, Arkansas, councilmember were sentenced Thursday in Little Rock, Arkansas, for engaging in a bribery scheme involving the owner of two mental health companies, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and First Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick C. Harris of the Eastern District of Arkansas.

The Justice Department on February 11 announced that Morgan Stanley will pay a $2.6 billion penalty to resolve claims related to Morgan Stanley’s marketing, sale and issuance of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). This settlement constitutes the largest component of the set of resolutions with Morgan Stanley entered by members of the RMBS Working Group, which have totaled approximately $5 billion.

Richard Wyatt, 52, of Evergreen, Colorado, on February 11 surrendered to authorities on charges of conspiracy, dealing in firearms without a license and tax related charges, U.S. Attorney John Walsh for the District of Colorado, Special Agent in Charge Stephen Boyd for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – Criminal Investigations (CI) Denver Division and Special Agent in Charge Ken Croke for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Denver Field Division announced. Wyatt will make his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kristen L. Mix on February 11, where he will be advised of his rights and the charges pending against him.

The FBI’s Atlanta Division on February 11 announced the results of an investigation into widespread public corruption within the Georgia prison system that uncovered extensive crimes carried out by inmates with the help of corrupt guards—crimes whose impact was felt well beyond prison walls.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Mark Bialek, Inspector General for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“Federal Reserve”), announced on February 10 the unsealing of an indictment charging RICHARD MOSELEY, SR. with wire fraud and violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”) and the Truth in Lending Act (“TILA”) for operating a payday lending enterprise that systematically evaded state usury laws in order to charge illegally high interest rates, and for issuing payday loans to consumers who never even sought them. MOSELEY was arrested this morning and will be presented later on February 10 in federal court in Kansas City, Missouri. The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos.

A 22-year-old Chinese national has been arrested and 26.4 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine has been seized in Perth following a joint agency investigation to reduce the flow of ice into Western Australia.

Nisreen Assad Ibrahim Bahar, aka Umm Sayyaf, 25, an Iraqi citizen and wife of Abu Sayyaf, a senior leader within the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) until his death last year, was charged by criminal complaint on February 8 for her role in a conspiracy that resulted in the death of American citizen Kayla Jean Mueller in February 2015.