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Deepal Wannakuwatte, 63, of Sacramento, California, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in furtherance of a long-running and large-scale fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner of the Eastern District of California, Special Agent in Charge Monica M. Miller of the FBI’s Sacramento Field Office, Jose M. Martinez Special Agent in Charge for the IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Wade V. Walters Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Office of Inspector General (OIG).

The United States has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against Stevens-Henager College, Inc. and its owner, The Center for Excellence in Higher Education, for illegally compensating recruiters, the Department of Justice announced. Stevens-Henager operates a chain of for-profit colleges in Idaho and Utah.

Former Fulton County Deputy Sheriff Reginald Warren pleaded guilty in federal court to charges that he demanded bribe payments from security officers assigned to work at the city of Atlanta’s public swimming pools.

The former longtime elected clerk for the Village of Burnham was charged with stealing more than $650,862 from her office at the south suburb’s village hall and using most of the cash to gamble at casinos. The defendant, Nancy Dobrowski, was charged with one count each of wire fraud and filing a false federal income tax return in a criminal information filed in U.S. District Court.

Local businessman and former Hattiesburg Fire Chief T.L. Pittman, Jr., 82, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to a kickback scheme that defrauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen, and Special Agent in Charge Mary L. Lewis of USDA Office of Inspector General.

Baptist Health System Inc. (Baptist Health), the parent company for a network of affiliated hospitals and medical providers in the Jacksonville, Florida, area, has agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle allegations that its subsidiaries violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims to federal health care programs for medically unnecessary services and drugs, the Department of Justice announced. The alleged misconduct involved Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE and the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program.

A campaign worker pleaded guilty for paying voters to vote in the November 2012 school board election in Donna, Texas, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General David A. O’Neil of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas.

The United States has asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami to stop Lazaro Jesus Toyos, Shirley Ester Almazan, Dilma Toyos Garcia and Daniel Almazan, and their companies L. Toyos Tax Service Inc., Toyos Garcia Tax Service Inc., Toyos Tax Service Inc. and Total Income Tax Services from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced.

WA and Australian Government agencies attached to Project Tricord and Operation Polo executed a series of search warrants this morning, Saturday 3 May 2014, as part of their ongoing efforts to identify, target and dismantle organised crime syndicates operating in Western Australia.

Attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court of appeals to allow a case to go forward against high-level Bush administration officials alleged to have ordered the post-9/11 immigration sweeps, detention, and racial and religious profiling of Muslim, Arab, and South Asian men.