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The former owner of a Los Angeles medical clinic management company pleaded guilty in connection with his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare.

The former chief executive officer of Hanover Corporation was sentenced to serve 14 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $14,784,983.75 in restitution for orchestrating an $18 million Ponzi scheme.

A Texas woman who was the manager of a North Carolina tax preparation business was indicted for multiple tax crimes and making false statements to banks on loan applications, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.

Timothy S. Miller, 58, a co-founder of a Chesapeake, Virginia, government contracting company, pleaded guilty to bribing two public officials working for the United States Navy Military Sealift Command.

A Puerto Rico businessman pleaded guilty to bribing Puerto Rico Superior Court Judge Manuel Acevedo-Hernandez, who presided over the businessman’s vehicular homicide trial and acquitted him of all charges.

Sentencing has been set for Dec. 11, for a former vice president of the State Bank of Herscher, David Rabideau, 43, of Clifton, Ill. Rabideau pled guilty to receiving a kickback for procuring a real estate loan and to two counts of filing false tax returns, as announced by Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois. Rabideau remains on bond following his appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge David G. Bernthal.

A former chief executive officer of Chicago’s first red light camera vendor, Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc., and the company’s customer liaison with the city, were indicted on federal corruption charges together with a retired city official who managed the red light camera program for nearly a decade, after he alone was charged initially in May.

The remaining two defendants of 36 accused in the Southern District of Texas of racketeering activities as part of their roles with the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) have pleaded guilty, capping a six-year sweeping effort that has led to 73 convictions across five federal districts and the decimation of the gang’s leadership and violent members and associates. Those convicted were charged with involvement in a criminal organization that engaged in murders, kidnappings, brutal beatings, fire bombings and drug trafficking.

Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former director of information technology for Clarkson Construction Company has been charged in federal court with a mail fraud scheme in which he embezzled more than $300,000 from the company.

A federal grand jury issued a new indictment against Mexican businessman Jose Susumo Azano Matsura and alleged co-conspirators Ravneet Singh, his Washington, D.C.-based campaign-services company ElectionMall Inc. and San Diego lobbyist Marco Polo Cortes, detailing 26 counts of various campaign-finance, falsification of records, bribery, and gun charges.