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Warner Chilcott U.S. Sales LLC, a subsidiary of pharmaceutical manufacturer Warner Chilcott PLC, has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge of health care fraud, the Justice Department announced on October 29.

A resident of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, was sentenced to serve 15 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for his involvement in a stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) scheme, 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 announced on October 27.

APL Limited has agreed to pay the government $9.8 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in connection with a contract to provide GPS tracking of shipping containers in Afghanistan, the Justice Department announced on October 27. APL, an ocean carrier based in Scottsdale, Arizona, is a wholly-owned American subsidiary of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines Limited.

Timothy Francis Cashman, a Building Manager for the General Services Administration (“GSA”), was sentenced to 16 months in custody on Friday for accepting bribes and stealing property owned by the United States.

The chief executive of Chicago-based Mobile Doctors pleaded guilty to charges that he fraudulently increased Medicare bills for in-home treatment that was shorter and less complicated than the claims indicated on October 23.

The owner of two medical clinics in Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty Monday to her role in a $55 million health care fraud and money laundering conspiracy.

An Enterprise, Alabama, resident pleaded guilty on Friday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to accepting unlawful kickbacks and tax evasion, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

A resident of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, was sentenced to serve 12 months and one day in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for his involvement in a stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) scheme, 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 announced on October 23.

The FBI joined law enforcement officials from across Canada in Toronto on October 22 to announce the results of Operation Northern Spotlight, a human trafficking investigation that led to the recovery of 20 sexually exploited juveniles and the arrests of numerous individuals.

Mozaffar Khazaee, 61, formerly of Manchester, Connecticut, was sentenced on October 23, to 97 months in prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant of the District of Connecticut for violating the Arms Export Control Act by attempting to send to Iran highly sensitive, proprietary, trade secret and export controlled material relating to U.S. military jet engines, which he had stolen from multiple U.S. defense contractors where he had previously been employed.