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The former controller of a Russell County, Kentucky manufacturing company was sentenced by Senior District Judge Thomas B. Russell to 41 months in prison for wire fraud and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $625,096, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.

U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced that Rodney Walker, 44, of Atlanta, Georgia, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara, to wire fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a fine of $250,000.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANATOLY GOLUBCHIK was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to five years in prison, and VADIM TRINCHER was also sentenced to five years in prison for participating in a racketeering conspiracy in connection with their roles as members of a Russian-American organized crime enterprise.

Amedisys Inc. and its affiliates (Amedisys) have agreed to pay $150 million to the federal government to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting false home health care billings to the Medicare program, the United States Attorney’s Office announced. Amedisys, a Louisiana-based for-profit company, is one of the nation’s largest providers of home health services and operates in 37 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

Bruce Barlow, 50, former chief of police for the Mendenhall Police Department in Mendenhall, Mississippi, was sentenced to five years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit extortion, bribery, and theft during this tenure as Mendenhall police chief, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen.

Two more Houston residents have been taken into custody on charges contained in a 13-count indictment alleging a conspiracy to pay kickbacks to 10 area personal care home owners and patient advocates, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jacqueline Harris, 51, and Vernon Lacy, III, 29, were patient advocates for Continuum Healthcare LLC. Both were fugitives in the case until they were found and arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force with the assistance of the FBI.

Lenard Fleming, 33, a corrections officer with the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), has been arrested and charged with bribery following an undercover FBI investigation in which he allegedly accepted money for smuggling contraband into the District of Columbia’s Correctional Treatment Facility.

Harvey James was sentenced to serve 110 months in prison for his role 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. James previously pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft on Oct. 25, 2013.

Dr. Dayo Obebe of Muscogee County, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 12 months and one day in prison for tax evasion and ordered to pay $189,661 in restitution, announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore for the Middle District of Georgia. Obebe pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion on Feb. 6, 2014.

Justin Cody, and his wife, Aeshia Wilmore, have been sentenced for their roles in a fraudulent income tax refund scheme.