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A suburban Chicago woman was sentenced to six years in federal prison for operating a federal income tax fraud scheme as well as one of the largest fictitious employer unemployment fraud schemes ever prosecuted nationwide.

A former manager of a credit union in Lawrence pleaded guilty Tuesday to embezzling more than $93,500, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. She also admitted allowing a teller to steal more than $81,000 from the credit union.

Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Hartford has returned a four-count indictment charging GEORGE DOBUZINSKY, 57, of Durham, with conspiracy and fraud offenses stemming from a kickback scheme he allegedly operated while employed at Yale University.

The owner of several New Jersey businesses was sentenced to 46 months in prison for evading taxes on income from his ownership of a casino in Trinidad, costing the United States approximately $1.3 million in tax losses, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Sonny Pilcher of Casper, Wyoming, pleaded guilty to tax fraud in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. The sentencing hearing was set for Oct. 28, 2014 before U.S District Judge Alan B. Johnson.

A federal district judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida permanently barred Lazaro Jesus Toyos and his daughter Dilma Carida Garcia, aka Dilma Toyos Garcia, and their respective companies, L. Toyos Tax Service Inc. and Toyos Garcia Tax Service Inc., from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced.

Ali Vaziri was sentenced to one year and one day in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and $116,703 in restitution for tax fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson, IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez, and Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Ivan Negroni.

A man is scheduled to appear before the Melbourne Magistrates Court regarding the importation of almost six kilograms of methamphetamine, identity crime offences and money laundering.

A former bank officer with Texas State Bank has been ordered to federal prison for defrauding her former employer, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Sondra Tredaway, 65, of Mission, was the former manager of the Texas State Bank branch located in McAllen. She pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud on June 7, 2011.

Pamela Morris, former secretary of a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Ozark, Alabama, pleaded guilty to committing perjury during a grand jury’s investigation into a racially motivated cross-burning in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.