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The Department of Justice announced Thursday that BHF-Bank (Schweiz) AG (BHF) has reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program.

A former resident of Portland, Oregon, pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to file fraudulent income tax returns claiming more than $1 million in refunds, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams of the District of Oregon.

A co-founder of Imperial Integrative Health Research and Development LLC (Imperial) was sentenced to serve 83 months in prison in federal court Thursday for his role in a fraud scheme related to Imperial and its product, OXYwater, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Carter M. Stewart of the Southern District of Ohio.

The former chief financial officer (CFO) of Siemens S.A. – Argentina (Siemens Argentina) pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to pay tens of millions of dollars in bribes to Argentine government officials to secure, implement and enforce a $1 billion contract to create national identity cards.

A resident of Hammond, Louisiana, was sentenced to more than six years in prison for his involvement in a stolen identity tax fraud 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 September 29.

The estimated number of violent crimes in the nation decreased 0.2 percent in 2014 when compared with 2013 data, according to FBI figures released on September 28. Property crimes decreased by 4.3 percent, marking the 12th straight year the collective estimates for these offenses declined.

A Westlake cardiologist was convicted of performing unnecessary catheterizations, tests, stent insertions and causing unnecessary coronary artery bypass surgeries as part of a scheme to overbill Medicare and other insurers by $7.2 million, law enforcement officials said.

United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger Wed nesday announced the indictment of ELENA LEV POLUKHIN, 58, for writing prescriptions for pain medication as part of a health care fraud conspiracy in which POLUKHIN received kickbacks from Best Aid Pharmacy The charges contained in the indictment are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

The owner of a business in Cleveland’s Lee-Harvard neighborhood was indicted for paying bribes to city officials in order to receive payment from a $25,000 city grant despite failing to achieve the equal opportunity employment goals required by the grant agreement, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.

Christi Romano, aka Christi Machala, 36, of Smithfield, R.I., was sentenced Thursday to four years’ probation, the first six months to be served in home confinement, for embezzling more than $274,000 from Christa Creations, a toy manufacturer and distributor in Smithfield where she was employed, and for lying to FBI agents during the investigation into the theft, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Office of the FBI.