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A federal district judge in Miami has ordered a tax return preparation business based in Miami and its owner to stop assisting in the preparation of federal income tax returns that knowingly understate federal income tax liability, the Justice Department announced on September 23.

A former specialist with the U.S. Army stationed at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Gardez, Afghanistan, was sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in prison for accepting a $20,000 bribe from a truck driver in exchange for allowing him to take thousands of gallons of fuel from the base.

A Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina, millionaire businessman was sentenced to prison Monday for his involvement in a decades-long scheme to evade paying his federal income taxes, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ripley Rand of the Middle District of North Carolina.

A Brooklyn, New York, tax return preparer pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York to two counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

Adventist Healthcare has agreed to pay the United States $115 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by maintaining improper compensation arrangements with referring physicians and by miscoding claims, the Justice Department announced on September 21. Adventist is a non-profit healthcare organization that operates hospitals and other health care facilities in 10 states.

A former Navy noncommissioned officer pleaded guilty on Friday to accepting approximately $25,000 in cash bribes from vendors while he served in Afghanistan.

Itzhak Loz, 48, of Rishon Le Zion, Israel, the leader of an international counterfeit currency ring responsible for over $70 million in counterfeit U.S. currency, was sentenced on September 18 to 180 months in prison for leading a RICO conspiracy involving multiple acts of counterfeiting and money structuring. Loz was also ordered to forfeit $20 million and specific assets including a warehouse in New Jersey where the counterfeit currency was most recently printed.

Pope Francis’ visit to three major metropolitan areas during his first visit to the United States presents special security challenges. But federal agencies—working closely with state and local law enforcement—have a well-rehearsed template to follow.

A former chief deputy auditor for LaPorte County, Indiana, was convicted Thursday by a federal jury in the Northern District of Indiana of embezzling over $150,000 from the LaPorte County government, tax fraud and defrauding her elderly father-in-law out of at least $400,000.

A federal jury sitting in Denver convicted a Grand Junction, Colorado, man of two counts of tax evasion on September 16, three counts of willful failure to file an individual federal income tax return and three counts of willful failure to file a corporate income tax return, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.