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A Bedford, Virginia couple was convicted on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia of theft of government funds and other federal crimes, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Larry J. Wszalek of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Anthony P. Giorno of the Western District of Virginia.

The former CEO of TierOne Bank, a $3 billion publicly traded commercial bank formerly headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, was convicted by a federal jury on Friday for orchestrating a scheme to defraud TierOne’s shareholders and to mislead regulators by concealing more than $100 million in losses on loans and declining real estate.

A Glenn Dale, Maryland, man and former U.S. Postal Service contracting officer was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in prison for receiving bribes in connection with the awarding of mail delivery contracts.

A federal jury convicted two former Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. (Rabobank) derivative traders – including the bank’s former Global Head of Liquidity & Finance in London – Thursday for manipulating the London InterBank Offered Rates (LIBOR) for the U.S. Dollar (USD) and the Yen, benchmark interest rates to which trillions of dollars in interest rate contracts were tied. Five former Rabobank employees have now been convicted in the Rabobank LIBOR investigation.

A federal jury Thursday convicted Chaka Fattah Jr., 32, of Philadelphia, of 22 of 23 counts in connection with a scheme to defraud banks, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Philadelphia School District of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Senior U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania scheduled a sentencing hearing for Feb. 3, 2015. The defendant faces a substantial term of imprisonment, restitution to the IRS, fines, a special assessment and supervised release.

The former director of operations of a Department of Defense contracting company in Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty Wednesday to soliciting and receiving $193,665 in kickback proceeds in return for steering U.S. government subcontracts to a U.K. company, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente of the Eastern District of Virginia.

An Alaskan plastic surgeon was convicted Wednesday of four counts of wire fraud and three counts of tax evasion by a federal jury sitting in Anchorage, Alaska, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler of the District of Alaska.

A former Portland, Oregon, resident was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his involvement in a fraudulent income tax refund scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

NetCracker Technology Corp. has agreed to pay $11.4 million and Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) has agreed to pay $1.35 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that they used individuals without security clearances on a Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) contract, the Justice Department announced on November 2. NetCracker is a telecom software and services company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, and CSC is an information technology services company with its headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia.

A Fort Washington, Maryland man pleaded guilty Monday to aiding in the preparation of false tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein for the District of Maryland and Special Agent in Charge Thomas Jankowski of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Criminal Investigation’s Washington, D.C. Field Office.