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Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York announced that a Glen Ridge, New Jersey, man was sentenced Monday to serve six months in prison for failing to report income on his tax returns for the 2007, 2008 and 2009 tax years.

United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) has agreed to pay $25 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the federal government in connection with its delivery of Next Day Air overnight packages, the Justice Department announced on May 19. UPS is a package delivery company based in Atlanta.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a plan to clean up contaminated groundwater at the Curtis Specialty Papers Superfund site in Milford and Alexandria Township, New Jersey. The site includes the 86-acre historic former Milford Mill, which converted paper pulp to paper for 96 years before shutting down in 2003.

A Phenix City, Alabama, resident and former state employee was sentenced to serve more than seven years in prison for her role in a stolen identity tax refund fraud ring, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama.

A federal jury in Chicago on May 15, 2015, convicted the administrator and biller of a Schaumburg, Illinois, in-home visiting physician group for their participation in a $4.5 million health care fraud scheme that included billing Medicare for services rendered to patients who were dead and services rendered by medical professionals who worked over 24 hours in a day.

Across Town Movers, a San Diego-based storage company, and its owner, Daniel E. Homan, have agreed to pay nearly $170,000 to resolve allegations by the Department of Justice that it unlawfully sold U.S. Navy service members’ stored goods.

A former Bank of America executive was sentenced Monday for his participation in a conspiracy and scheme to defraud related to bidding for contracts for the investment of municipal bond proceeds and other municipal finance contracts, the Department of Justice announced on May 18.

United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Roger Eugene Hagood (43, Fort Myers) with 13 counts of bank fraud and two counts of obstruction of justice. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison for each bank fraud count and up to 20 years’ imprisonment for each obstruction of justice count. The indictment also notifies Hagood that the United States is seeking a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $1,592,121.00, the proceeds of the bank fraud offenses.

U.S. Federal charges have been filed against Jesus Javier Garcia Jr., of Laredo, alleging he committed larceny by wrongfully collecting more than $40,000 in government pay for hours he did not work, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.

Khalid al Fawwaz, 52, a citizen of Saudi Arabia, was sentenced to life in prison for multiple terrorism offenses relating to his participation in al Qaeda’s conspiracy to kill Americans on May 15.