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The Justice Department announced that Justin Watson, 29, a former deputy with the Madison County Sheriff’s Office, turned himself in Tuesday following an indictment on July 30, 2015, when he was charged with deprivation of rights under color of law for allegedly assaulting and injuring R.B. on Aug. 22, 2012.

The United States Tuesday filed a motion to intervene and a complaint in intervention on its own behalf and as trustee for the Tulalip Tribes in their lawsuit against the state of Washington and Snohomish County over the imposition of taxes on non-Indian businesses operating on lands held in trust for Tulalip on the Tulalip Reservation. The intervention seeks to protect the authority of tribes under the U.S. Constitution and federal law to develop reservation resources and fund governmental services without unlawful interference from state and local taxation.

An Enterprise, Alabama, resident was arrested Tuesday after a federal grand jury sitting in the Southern District of Florida in Fort Lauderdale indicted him on one count of accepting unlawful kickbacks from 2009 through 2014, and five counts of tax evasion for tax years 2009 through 2013, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Department of Justice’s Tax Division.

A Troy, Alabama, man was sentenced to prison Monday in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama for his involvement in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme, 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.

The Department of Justice announced Monday that Bank EKI Genossenschaft (Bank EKI) has reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program.

Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department announced its findings regarding the Family Court of the Twenty-First Judicial Circuit of the state of Missouri, commonly known as the St. Louis County Family Court on July 31. The Justice Department found that the family court fails to provide constitutionally required due process to children appearing for delinquency proceedings, and that the court’s administration of juvenile justice discriminates against Black children. The investigation was conducted under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which gives the department the authority to seek a remedy for a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the constitutional or federal statutory rights of youths in the administration of juvenile justice.

The petitions were issued following confidential inquiries carried out by UK's Company Investigations, part of the Insolvency Service.

California-based medical device manufacturer NuVasive Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $13.5 million to resolve allegations that the company caused health care providers to submit false claims to Medicare and other federal health care programs for spine surgeries by marketing the company’s CoRoent System for surgical uses that were not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Justice Department announced on July 30. The settlement further resolves allegations that NuVasive caused false claims by paying kickbacks to induce physicians to use the company’s CoRoent System.

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that PKB Privatbank AG, Falcon Private Bank AG and Credito Privato Commerciale in liquidazione SA (CPC) have reached resolutions under the department’s Swiss Bank Program.

Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Pamela Bondi, Florida Attorney General, and Margaret Moore-Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, United States Social Security Administration, Office of Inspector General (SSA-OIG), Shimon R. Richmond, Special Agent in Charge, Miami Region, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), made the announcement.