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A federal jury in Houston convicted the president of Riverside General Hospital (Riverside), his son, and two others for their participation in a $158 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false claims for mental health treatment. Ten defendants have now been convicted in connection with the Riverside fraud scheme.

Conducted Electrical Weapons or CEWs (often incorrectly referred to as Tasers, a registered brand of CEW) are issued to sergeants within ACT Policing and AFP Aviation, and to individual members of the AFP’s Specialist Response Group (SRG) and Specialist Support Teams (SST).

The Brisbane Joint Counter Terrorism Team will lay additional charges against a 22-year-old Boronia Heights man as part of its ongoing investigation into terrorism-related offences.

The Department of Justice announced that it has filed its complaint in intervention in a case against defendants Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and two of its subsidiaries, Sikorsky Support Services Inc. and Derco Aerospace Inc., for violating the False Claims Act. Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, with headquarters in Stratford, Connecticut.

Two former Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. (Rabobank) derivative traders – including the bank’s former Global Head of Liquidity & Finance in London – have been charged in a superseding indictment for their alleged roles in a scheme to manipulate the U.S. Dollar (USD) and Yen London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR), a benchmark interest rate to which trillions of dollars in interest rate contracts were tied, the Justice Department announced. Six former Rabobank employees have now been charged in the Rabobank LIBOR investigation.

A Coral Gables, Florida resident and former Miami-Dade County General Services Administration (GSA) employee pleaded guilty to a one-count information charging him with tax evasion, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.

A Florida managing member of a shell company pleaded guilty in federal court in Tampa, Florida, for his role in a multi-million dollar health care fraud and money laundering scheme.

Extendicare Health Services Inc. (Extendicare) and its subsidiary Progressive Step Corporation (ProStep) have agreed to pay $38 million to the United States and eight states to resolve allegations that Extendicare billed Medicare and Medicaid for materially substandard nursing services that were so deficient that they were effectively worthless and billed Medicare for medically unreasonable and unnecessary rehabilitation therapy services, the Justice Department and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) jointly announced.

The Department of Justice has reached a settlement of its civil forfeiture cases against assets in the United States owned by the Second Vice President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue that he purchased with the proceeds of corruption.

The Boeing Company paid $23 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims for labor charges on maintenance contracts with the U.S. Air Force for the C-17 Globemaster aircraft, the Justice Department announced. Boeing, an aerospace and defense industry giant, is headquartered in Chicago.