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A Romanian man was sentenced to serve 63 months in prison for his role in receiving and sending overseas approximately $690,000 in proceeds from an international fraud scheme involving online marketplace websites, as well as for the use of a fraudulent passport.

Francis J. Cinelli, Sr., M.D., 87, of Wind Gap, PA, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the filing of a false tax return. Cinelli’s son, Francis J. Cinelli, Jr., 49, also of Wind Gap, PA, is charged with filing a false tax return for 2007 which failed to declare approximately $163,000 in income he had earned during that year. U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl scheduled a March 20, 2015 sentencing hearing for Cinelli, Sr.

Brian Paluch, former Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President of PARIC Construction was indicted on three charges of mail fraud involving his scheme to use the company’s corporate funds to pay his own personal expenses during the period January, 2010 through February, 2014.

Dallas Airmotive Inc., a provider of aircraft engine maintenance, repair and overhaul services based in Grapevine, Texas, has admitted to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and agreed to pay a $14 million criminal penalty to resolve charges that it bribed Latin American government officials in order to secure lucrative government contracts.

A Heber City, Utah, man was sentenced Wednesday to serve 78 months in prison for filing false claims for income tax refunds and for filing a fictitious financial instrument, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Larry J. Wszalek for the Department’s Tax Division and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Robin Jean Bitseedy, 41, of Anadarko, Oklahoma, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange to serve twelve months and one day in federal prison for embezzlement from the Wichita and Affiliated, Caddo, and Delaware Tribes, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. Bitseedy was also ordered to pay $141,820.47 in restitution to the tribes.

A Miami licensed nursing assistant was sentenced Monday to serve 150 months in prison for participating in a $200 million Medicare fraud scheme involving fraudulent billings by American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), a mental health company headquartered in Miami.

Supreme Foodservice GmbH, a privately held Swiss company, and Supreme Foodservice FZE, a privately-held United Arab Emirates (UAE) company, pleaded guilty on December 8, 2014 to major fraud against the United States and agreed to resolve civil violations of the False Claims Act, in connection with a contract to provide food and water to the U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan, the Justice Department announced on December 8, 2014. The companies pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (EDPA) and paid $288.36 million in the criminal case, a sum that includes the maximum criminal fine allowed.

On December 5, 2014 a California attorney was sentenced to serve 17 years in prison in the Southern District of Florida for operating a five-year, multi-million dollar market manipulation and fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida.

CHRISTOPHER HOUSTON HENSLEY, 56, of Yukon, Oklahoma, has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with bribing a public official, conspiracy to commit bribery, and making false statements to the federal government, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.