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Former Jersey City Council candidate Lavern Webb-Washington admitted illegally using contributions to her political campaign for her personal use, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Nakia Jackson, of Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to serve 87 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States and one count of aggravated identity theft for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department's Tax Division, U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Velma I. Salinas-Nix and Kenneth H. Nix, of Boerne, Texas, were sentenced to serve 20 months in prison and 30 months in prison, respectively, for filing false tax returns and making false statements to the U.S. Army by filing false financial ethics disclosure forms, the Justice Department announced. On Jan. 22, 2014, Kenneth Nix pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false federal income tax return. The next day, Velma Salinas-Nix pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false tax return and one count of making false statements.

Ivory Bolen, of Dothan, Alabama, was sentenced to serve 42 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for committing stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) crimes, 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. Bolen previously pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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 healthcare billings to the Medicare program, the Department of Justice 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.

Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI); George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office; and Daniel C. Alexander, Chief, Boca Raton Police Department, announce that Brandon James, of Miami, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley to 81 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release.

Glenn Richard Unger, 62, of Ogdensburg, New York, was sentenced to 97 months’ imprisonment by Senior U.S. District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy and ordered to pay $200,000 in restitution, announced Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York, and Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General of the Tax Division.

A San Francisco man who made approximately $192,000 in profits by purchasing Marvel Entertainment Inc. stock options immediately prior to its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in August 2009 pleaded guilty this morning to a federal securities fraud charge.

A federal jury has convicted two men for their roles in an extensive mortgage fraud scheme arising from the fraudulent purchases of more than 40 properties in New Haven, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman, District of New Jersey, announced.

A federal grand jury in Oklahoma City has returned an indictment charging Paula Kluding, 38, from Chandler, Oklahoma; Patricia Carter, 42, from Tecumseh, Oklahoma; and Prairie View Hospic Inc. (Prairie View Hospice), an Oklahoma corporation located in Chandler, Oklahoma, with 39 separate counts relating to Medicare fraud, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.