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The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in McAllen, Texas, permanently barred Maria I. Cantu from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced. Cantu, a tax preparer in McAllen, agreed to the civil injunction order.

As discussions on the need to improve effectiveness of the judiciary are gaining pace in Ukraine, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator supported a roundtable meeting on 2 June 2014 with the aim of facilitating dialogue on reforms to the justice system.

A federal jury convicted the former chief executive officer and the former chief financial officer of ArthroCare Corporation, a publicly traded medical device company based in Austin, Texas, for orchestrating a fraud scheme that resulted in shareholder losses of over $400 million.

A 63-year-old German man will face Melbourne Magistrate court charged with attempting to import approximately two kilograms of methamphetamine into Australia.

Federal inmate James Ninete Leon Guerrero, 48, of Guam, was sentenced to serve life in prison for the murder of United States Correctional Officer Jose Rivera, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner of the Eastern District of California. Guerrero was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Phillip Pro of the District of Nevada.

A federal grand jury indicted Travis Wetzel, age 35, of Frederick, Maryland, on charges arising from the illegal transfer of $1,282,224 from a client’s annuity account. The indictment was returned on May 28, 2014, and Wetzel was arrested.

Former Atlanta Public Schools (APS) Chief Information Officer (CIO) Jerome Oberlton was sentenced to three years and five months in federal prison for conspiring to receive kickbacks in exchange for awarding a $780,000 contract to a computer vendor.

Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally for the Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada announced that Damon Boswell of Las Vegas pleaded guilty to conspiracy to submit false federal income tax returns. Boswell was indicted on May 21, 2013.

A current Puerto Rico Superior Court Judge and Puerto Rico businessman were charged with orchestrating a criminal scheme in which the businessman paid bribes to the judge presiding over the criminal case against the businessman according to an indictment unsealed.

Ashland Hospital Corp. d/b/a King’s Daughters Medical Center (KDMC) has agreed to pay $40.9 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid programs for medically unnecessary coronary stents and diagnostic catheterizations and had prohibited financial relationships with physicians referring patients to the hospital, the Justice Department announced.