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The Department of Justice announced Thursday that Hypothekarbank Lenzburg AG (HBL) has reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program.

A San Diego tax return preparer was arrested Thursday after being indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in the Southern District of California on 36 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false federal income tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

A Brunswick, Maine, businessman was sentenced to prison Thursday for tax crimes in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II of the District of Maine.

A former deputy treasurer of Ohio has been extradited from Pakistan to the United States to serve a 15-year prison sentence for his role in a bribery and money laundering scheme involving the Ohio Treasurer’s Office.

An indictment was unsealed Monday charging an Alabama man with multiple tax-related crimes, including one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, three counts of wire fraud, four counts of stealing U.S. Treasury funds and four counts of aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Department of Justice’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama.

A husband and wife residing in Lewis Center, Ohio, were sentenced to prison in U.S. District Court Tuesday for their roles in a fraud scheme related to the company Imperial Integrative Health Research and Development LLC (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.

An analyst with J.P. Morgan Securities and two longtime friends were taken into custody Tuesday after being charged in a federal grand jury indictment that alleges they participated in an insider trading scheme that netted more than $600,000 in illicit profits.

A Wheeling chiropractor and his brother and father have been charged in a federal indictment with scheming to bill insurance carriers for treatment that was medically unnecessary or never performed.

Jason A. Halek, 41, of Southlake, Texas, was indicted in federal court in Bismarck, North Dakota, on 13 felony charges stemming from the operation of a saltwater disposal well near Dickinson, in Stark County, North Dakota, the Justice Department announced.

An Orange Park, Florida man residing in Louisville, was arrested on August 20 at Louisville International Airport and charged by criminal complaint with Resisting, Opposing, Impeding, and Obstructing a Federal Officer or Employee in the course of their duties, and one count of Entering Airport Area in Violation of Security Requirements announced U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.