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The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced Thursday that Brian Bolus of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, owner of BPK Management has been charged with income tax evasion.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced that MARC WIESELTHIER, a certified public accountant and partner at a New York accounting firm (the “Firm”), pled guilty Wednesday to participating in a scheme to obtain millions of dollars in loans by making false statements and providing false and fraudulent documents to two commercial banks based in New York (the “Banks”) concerning the financial condition of a Florida-based cosmetics company (the “Company”) that was a client of WIESELTHIER. WIESELTHIER pled guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman.

Two owners of a Metairie, Louisiana, business each pleaded guilty to one count of willfully filing false 2011 income tax returns on November 18, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite of the Eastern District of Louisiana.

A federal grand jury sitting in Portland, Oregon, returned an indictment Tuesday charging a resident of Lake Oswego, Oregon, with 10 counts of willfully failing to collect, truthfully account for and pay over federal employment taxes to the United States, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

A Houston, Texas, man was arrested Friday after a federal grand jury sitting in Houston indicted him for three counts of wire fraud, four counts of theft of public money and seven counts of aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Department of Justice’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has permanently barred a Liberty Tax Service franchise owner and his companies from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced on November 16.

The United States has reached a landmark global settlement with Education Management Corp. (EDMC), the second-largest for-profit education company in the country, the Department of Justice announced on November 16. The $95.5 million settlement resolves allegations that EDMC violated federal and state False Claims Act (FCA) provisions by falsely certifying that it was in compliance with Title IV of the Higher Education Act (HEA) and parallel state statutes.

Alstom S.A., a French power and transportation company, was sentenced on Friday to pay a $772,290,000 fine to resolve criminal charges related to a widespread corruption scheme involving at least $75 million in secret bribes paid to government officials in countries around the world, including Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the Bahamas and Taiwan.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas unsealed an indictment on Friday charging two elected members of the School Board of Donna, Texas, with bribery and attempted extortion in connection with a services contract held by the Donna Independent School District (DISD). A private citizen who served as a middleman in the scheme also was charged.

A federal court in San Diego, California, has permanently barred Lawrence Preston Siegel from preparing federal tax returns for others, providing tax advice for compensation or any promise of compensation and working for any business that provides tax advice or prepares tax returns, the Justice Department announced. Siegel is also a fugitive from the State of California, wanted on a 20-count criminal complaint, filed in 2014, charging him with Medi-Cal fraud, grand theft, forgery, identity theft, financial dependent adult abuse and tax evasion.