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A former employee with International Relief and Development Inc. (IRD) pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of bribery in connection with a federal program and conspiracy to structure financial transactions to avoid currency transaction reporting requirements, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

The Justice Department announced on Friday that Walter Investment Management Corp. (WIMC) has agreed to pay $29.63 million to resolve allegations that WIMC, through its subsidiaries, Reverse Mortgage Solution Inc. (RMS), REO Management Solutions LLC and RMS Asset Management Solutions LLC, violated the False Claims Act in connection with their participation in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECM) program, which insures “reverse” mortgage loans. WIMC, through subsidiaries such as RMS and Green Tree Servicing LLC, provides business support to the residential mortgage industry, including servicing of reverse or forward mortgages on behalf of major financial institutions.

Columbus Regional Healthcare System (Columbus Regional) and Dr. Andrew Pippas have agreed to pay more than $25 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims in violation of the Stark Law.

U.S. Department of Justice announced on September 4 that Robert Wingfield, of Texas, and Bill Ma, of New Jersey, have agreed to pay $385,000 and $50,000, respectively, to resolve a lawsuit brought by the United States under the False Claims Act alleging that they engaged in a scheme to evade customs duties on imports of aluminum extrusions from the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

A Federal Grand Jury has returned a 27-count indictment charging an Ashland cardiologist with performing unnecessary cardiac stent procedures, in hundreds of patients, as part of a scheme to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and other insurers.

A California CPA Tuesday admitted abusing his positions at a worship center in New Jersey and a non-profit in California to steal more than $4 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

The former treasurer of the North Brunswick Volunteer Fire Department No. 3 (“NBVFD”) Wednesday admitted embezzling at least $89,000, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that Schroder & Co. Bank AG has reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program.

NEC TOKIN Corp. will plead guilty and pay a $13.8 million criminal fine for conspiring with competitors between 2002 and 2013 to fix prices for electrolytic capacitors sold to customers in the United States and elsewhere.

Parsons Government Services Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $3.8 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly mischarged the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for ineligible or inflated short-term and long-term employee relocation costs in connection with its contract on the DOE Salt Waste Processing Facility Project (SWPF) at the DOE Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina. Parsons is headquartered in Pasadena, California.