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The Justice Department announced an agreement with the owners and operators of Woodland Garden Apartments in Fremont, California, to settle allegations of discrimination against families with children. Under the consent order, which must still be approved by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the defendants are required to pay $77,500 to the victims of their discrimination and an additional $2,500 to the government as a civil penalty. The settlement resolves a complaint filed by the department on Oct. 25, 2013.

The Detroit One collaboration of local, state and federal law enforcement has led to the arrests and indictments of 33 defendants in southwest Detroit, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.

Frederic Cilins, a 51-year old French citizen, was sentenced in the Southern District of New York to 24 months in prison for obstructing a federal criminal investigation into alleged bribes to obtain mining concessions in the Republic of Guinea.

St. Charles County attorney Jeffrey Witt pled guilty to three (3) federal felony charges: falsifying documents to obtain a bank loan secured by a St. Louis County home which did not actually belong to him, using an associate to impersonate the true home owner at the bank loan closing, and cashing legal client settlement checks without their knowledge.

Cecil Franklin Speight, also known as Frank Speight, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and securities fraud for engaging in a conspiracy to steal over three million dollars from investors.

The former president and chief executive officer of BizJet International Sales and Support Inc., a U.S.-based subsidiary of Lufthansa Technik AG with headquarters in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that provides aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services, pleaded guilty for his participation in a scheme to pay bribes to foreign government officials.

A former sales manager at Serra Nissan in Birmingham pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to a scheme at the car dealership to falsify auto loan documents, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr., and IRS-CI Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.

United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury found Tanya Fox (38, Clermont) guilty of one count of conspiracy to defraud the government with respect to claims, five counts of wire fraud, 10 counts of theft of government property, and 10 counts of aggravated identity theft.

A Miami resident who owned a home health care company and was the administrator of another home health care company pleaded guilty for her participation in a $74 million Medicare fraud scheme.