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A former lobbyist and a former securities broker have been sentenced for their roles in a bribery and money laundering scheme involving the Ohio Treasurer’s Office.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara for the Southern District of New York and Acting Special Agent in Charge Shantelle P. Kitchen of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service- Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) announced the indictment of Martin Dunki, a former client advisor and Senior Vice President at a Swiss bank headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland (Swiss Bank No. 1), for conspiring with U.S. taxpayer-clients and others to hide hundreds of millions of dollars in offshore accounts from the IRS, and to evade U.S. taxes on the income earned in those accounts.

An owner of a Miami home health care company pleaded guilty for his role in a $30 million home health Medicare fraud scheme.

CareAll Management LLC and its affiliated entities (collectively “CareAll”) have agreed to pay $25 million, plus interest, to the United States and the state of Tennessee to resolve allegations that CareAll violated the False Claims Act by submitting false and upcoded home healthcare billings to the Medicare and Medicaid programs, the Department of Justice announced. CareAll is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and is one of Tennessee’s largest home health providers.

A commercial real estate developer and mortgage broker was sentenced to serve 121 months in prison for his role in a $50 million securities fraud scheme.

Former Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Mark Hebert, 49, was sentenced to serve 92 years in prison for a series of offenses Hebert committed while he was a sheriff’s deputy. The sentence was announced by Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta for the Civil Rights Division; U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite Jr. for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Special Agent in Charge Michael J. Anderson of the FBI New Orleans Field Office; and Sheriff Newell Normand from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.

The Department of Justice has filed a civil forfeiture complaint made public late seeking the forfeiture of $106,488.31 in allegedly laundered funds traceable to a $2 million bribe payment made by a Canadian energy company to Chad’s former Ambassador to the United States and Canada and his wife.

A former contractor for the U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command (MSC) and a co-founder of a Chesapeake, Virginia, government contracting company were sentenced for their roles in a scheme to bribe and provide illegal gratuities to public officials to secure lucrative military contracts.

A joint operation has resulted in a 27-year-old Hong Kong national being charged in Melbourne with importing approximately seven kilograms of methamphetamine.

A robber suspected of carrying out more than a dozen Chicago-area bank robberies during a seven-month period starting in late 2012, but then seemingly inactive for months, is thought to be the individual responsible for three recent robberies. The FBI is once again asking for help in identifying and locating the individual they have dubbed the “Bully Bandit.” Robert J. Holley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Office of the FBI, made the appeal for the public’s assistance and confirmed that a reward of up to $17,500 remains available to anyone who provides information that leads to the identification and arrest of the robber.