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The Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) announced that Matthew Bender, of Detroit, was convicted following a jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan of failing to appear at a bond hearing on July 2, 2013. The bond hearing had been set to adjudicate Bender's noncompliance with the conditions of his pretrial release on federal tax charges.

Wesley Yui Chew, of Edmond, Oklahoma; his company, Icon Telecom Inc., also of Edmond; and Oscar Enrique Perez-Zumaeta, of Cancun, Mexico, have been charged with crimes involving more than $25 million of fraudulent claims against the federal Lifeline telephone program, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, and David L. Hunt, Inspector General of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

A Detroit federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against a former top executive of a Japanese manufacturer of automotive parts for his participation in a conspiracy to fix prices of seatbelts, the Department of Justice announced.

Kelvin Robinson, a former candidate for the Council of the District of Columbia, pled guilty to a felony charge for conspiring to defraud the District of Columbia’s Office of Campaign Finance by receiving and concealing campaign contributions in excess of those permitted under D.C. campaign finance laws.

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A former soldier in the U.S. Army National Guard pleaded guilty to bribery and fraud on the U.S. Army National Guard Bureau, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas.

Zebbie Joe Usher, III, 46, of Knoxville, Tennessee, pleaded guilty on June 2, 2014, in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville to a two-count information charging him with tax evasion and conspiracy to commit tax evasion. The Honorable Pamela L. Reeves, U.S. District Judge, scheduled a status conference for September 15, 2014, at which time a date for sentencing will be scheduled.

Former Charlotte Mayor Patrick D. Cannon pleaded guilty to one count of honest services wire fraud, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, and John A. Strong, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Charlotte Division.

Paul F. Pytko, 49, owner of Pytko Construction Corp. in North Smithfield, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a conspiracy to conceal the sale of company assets he agreed to sell in order to satisfy more than $1 million owed to the IRS, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of IRS-Criminal Investigation, and Vincent B. Lisi, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Office of the FBI.

Bryant Thompson was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison and Quincy Walton was sentenced to serve 84 months in prison for their roles in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama.