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A broker-dealer admitted Wednesday to participating in a five-year insider trading scheme that relied on information stolen from a prominent, international law firm, yielding net profits of more than $5.6 million, announced U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman for the District of New Jersey.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that late Sept. 15 a federal grand jury in Scranton indicted five federal inmates at the United States Penitentiary Canaan (“USP Canaan”), in Waymart, Pennsylvania, in separate cases involving alleged assaults with a dangerous weapon.

North Broward Hospital District, a special taxing district of the state of Florida that operates hospitals and other health care facilities in the Broward County, Florida, area, has agreed to pay the United States $69.5 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians, the Justice Department announced on September 15.

A Nashville, Tennessee, resident pleaded guilty to filing a false claim with the U.S. government, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney David Rivera of the Middle District of Tennessee.

A resident of Hammond, Louisiana, was sentenced Tuesday to serve 33 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a triple-object conspiracy to defraud the United States, to commit theft of public money, and mail fraud, announced 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.

A former FBI special agent was sentenced Monday to serve five years in prison, to be served consecutively with a 10 year federal sentence imposed on him previously in the District of Utah, for accepting and soliciting bribes in exchange for providing internal law enforcement documents and other confidential information about a prominent citizen of Bangladesh for use by a political rival.

Two foreign nationals have been indicted on federal fraud charges for running a $10 million telemarketing scam that targeted elderly investors in the United States.

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson of the Western District of Missouri announced that former Independence, Missouri, police officer Timothy Runnels pleaded guilty on September 11 for violating the constitutional rights of a minor who was in his custody.

A former civilian employee and a former contractor of the Marine Corps Logistics Base (MCLB) in Albany, Georgia, as well as one outside contractor were sentenced Thursday to prison terms for bribery and fraud arising from their handling of military trucking contracts and theft of surplus military equipment.

The owner and president of a dietary supplement manufacturing company in Flanders, New Jersey, was sentenced to prison Wednesday for the sale of diluted and adulterated dietary ingredients and supplements, the Department of Justice announced.