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Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally for the Tax Division and U.S. Attorney David A. Capp of the Northern District of Indiana announced that Ronald Eugene Jamerson, 56, of Schererville, Ind., was sentenced to serve 12 months and one day in prison by U.S. District Judge Phillip P. Simon. Jamerson was also ordered to pay $541,083 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for unpaid individual income taxes and employment taxes, which represents the total tax loss owed for all tax periods from 2003 through 2008, according to the plea agreement.

The Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that Celamour Berus, of Springfield Gardens, N.Y., was arrested for multiple tax crimes following his indictment on April 3, 2014. The indictment was unsealed in the District Court for the Eastern District of New York following his arrest.

A clerk for the City of Chicago’s Department of Transportation (CDOT) was arrested for allegedly embezzling more than $741,000 from fees that were paid for certain city permits. The defendant, Antionette Chenier, a city clerk since 1990, allegedly diverted the funds from checks that were written by companies that applied for and received city permits to block public ways with dumpsters or moving vans.

The two primary traders in an extensive insider trading network were sentenced to prison for repeatedly using information divulged by insiders at pharmaceutical/medical technology firms operating in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

A physician with a practice in Madison, New Jersey admitted to accepting bribes of $2,000 per month in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS) of Parsippany, New Jersey; its president; and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

A chiropractor with a practice in Toms River, New Jersey admitted to accepting bribes to refer a number of his patients to a New Jersey-licensed pain management physician, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

The United States filed a complaint seeking to bar Joyce Bougere-Keyes, and her business, Joyce Tax & Financial Service LLC, from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced.

A former vice president of a Chesapeake, Va., government contracting company pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pay bribes to public officials in exchange for favorable treatment in connection with U.S. government contract work.

Tommy Edward Clack was sentenced to serve 66 months in federal prison for tax and fraud crimes by U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder in Winston-Salem, N.C., the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Clack was also ordered to pay $1,350,597 in restitution to the IRS and $20,945 in restitution to a bank he defrauded, and to serve five years of supervised release.

A co-owner of a Middlesex, N.J., industrial pipes, valves and fittings supply company pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement, the Department of Justice announced.