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Four South Florida residents were sentenced in connection with a long-running $6.2 million Medicare fraud scheme involving Professional Medical Home Health LLC (Professional Home Health) on January 29 , a Miami home health care agency that purported to provide home health and therapy services. Two of the defendants were also sentenced in connection with their conduct in similar schemes at other Miami home health care agencies.

A Washington, D.C., tax return preparer and former Washington, D.C., public school teacher and her son, a current Washington, D.C., public school teacher, were convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy and preparing and filing false tax returns, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced on January 29.

An attorney licensed to practice in New York was found guilty the day before of three counts of subscribing to false tax returns for the 2007, 2008 and 2009 tax years following a bench trial before U.S. District Judge Vincent L. Briccetti, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara for the Southern District of New York, announced on January 27.

A federal jury sitting in Providence, Rhode Island, convicted a Cranston, Rhode Island, man of one count of corruptly endeavoring to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), one count of tax evasion and two counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation and filing of false corporate tax returns, the Justice Department and the IRS announced.

The owner and operator of a Miami home health care agency was sentenced to 106 months in prison for his participation in a $30 million Medicare fraud scheme on January 26.

An elected county commissioner for Precinct 1 of the Webb County Commissioners Court in Texas was sentenced to 76 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for official actions on January 26.

A federal court in Las Vegas has permanently barred a husband and wife from preparing federal tax returns for others and from providing any advice related to federal taxes, the Justice Department announced on January 23.

A historic settlement reached with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Kerr McGee has gone into effect, allowing funds to be disbursed for cleanups across the country, announced Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden for the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York, and Assistant Administrator Cynthia Giles of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

A Plymouth, Michigan, resident was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to serve 42 months in prison to be followed by one year of supervised release for committing wire fraud and tax evasion, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced on January 23.