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A retired U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to unlawfully disclosing confidential procurement information and filing a false tax return, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

The United States filed a civil injunction suit seeking to bar Christopher Lawrence and Kenneth Aikens from owning, operating or franchising a tax return preparation business and from preparing tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced on October 22.

A Montgomery County, Alabama, resident was sentenced to prison Thursday for his involvement in a stolen identity tax refund fraud (SIRF) scheme, Acting Assistant Attorney Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama announced on October 22.

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (CACIB), a corporate and investment bank owned by Crédit Agricole S.A. and headquartered in Paris, has agreed to forfeit $312 million and enter into a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Columbia for CACIB’s violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Trading With the Enemy Act (TWEA).

A resident of Islamorada, Florida, pleaded guilty Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to one count of filing a false tax return, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced on October 20.

Millennium Health, formerly Millennium Laboratories, has agreed to pay $256 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act for billing Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health care programs for medically unnecessary urine drug and genetic testing and for providing free items to physicians who agreed to refer expensive laboratory testing business to Millennium, the Justice Department announced on October 19. Millennium, headquartered in San Diego, is one of the largest urine drug testing laboratories in the United States and conducts business nationwide.

A federal grand jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, has indicted two former executives of Swisher Hygiene Inc. (Swisher) on securities fraud and obstruction of justice charges, announced U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina. Joining in the announcement is Special Agent in Charge John A. Strong of the FBI’s Charlotte Division on October 19.

A military contractor has been levied with a monetary judgment for accepting gifts and gratuities from sub-contractors, announced Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney John M. Bales on October 16.

Andra Smith, 44, of Canton, pled guilty on October 16, 2015, before Senior U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee, to a Criminal Information charging him with bribery, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway. Smith is a former Probation and Parole Officer with the Mississippi Department of Corrections who worked out of Madison County.

A Kenilworth businessman has been indicted on charges he evaded federal income taxes by concealing $3 million he earned in connection with a high-rise real estate deal in downtown Chicago, federal authorities announced on October 16.