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An information and a separate indictment, filed, charge Erica N. Brown, 38, of Glenolden, PA, and Nathaniel E. Robinson, 62, of Philadelphia, of using funds intended to help the homeless to pay for their own personal and living expenses. The charges were announced by United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and Philadelphia Inspector General Amy Kurland.

Six defendants are facing federal fraud charges involving separate schemes to obtain a total of more than $2.7 million through fraudulent statements in loan applications submitted to banks, mortgage lenders, several community colleges, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Small Business Administration since 2006. Five of the defendants were indicted together for scheming to fraudulently obtain more than $2.4 million. The sixth defendant, who alone was arrested, was indicted separately for allegedly scheming to fraudulently obtain an additional $300,000 in mortgage fraud and student loan fraud. Both indictments stem from the same investigation of fraudulent loan applications.

The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that a Durham, North Carolina, woman was sentenced to serve 30 months in federal prison for conspiring to defraud the IRS.

A former Northfield, New Hampshire, man was indicted on three counts of tax evasion for tax years 2008, 2009 and 2010, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.

A former project manager of a U.S. construction company working on U.S. government contracts in Afghanistan who solicited a $60,000 kickback from an Afghan subcontractor pleaded guilty in federal court in Tucson, Arizona.

The Justice Department announced that it has asked a federal court in Detroit to permanently bar Brandon Lee and Tamika Lee, a husband and wife who do business as Quick Money Tax & Loan Center, from preparing federal tax returns. The civil injunction suit alleges that the Lees falsify income on customers’ tax returns in order to claim false and inflated earned income tax credits (EITC).

Kenny E. Toy, 54, the former Afloat Programs Manager at the United States Navy Military Sealift Command, was sentenced to serve 96 months in prison for receiving bribes.

A former director of nursing pleaded guilty in connection with a health care fraud scheme involving Anna Nursing Services Corp. (Anna Nursing), a defunct home health care company in Miami.

Lloyds Banking Group plc has entered into an agreement with the Department of Justice to pay an $86 million penalty for manipulation of submissions for the London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR), a leading global benchmark interest rate.

Vascular Solutions Inc. (VSI) has agreed to pay $520,000 to resolve allegations that it caused false claims to be submitted to federal health programs by marketing a medical device for the ablation (or sealing) of perforator veins without FDA approval and despite the failure of its own clinical trial, the Justice Department announced. VSI is a medical device company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.