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The owner and operator of a Miami medical clinic, Merfi Corp., was sentenced to serve 108 months in prison for her participation in multiple health care fraud schemes.

Several patient recruiters, including a medical clinic owner, were sentenced for their participation in a health care fraud scheme involving Flores Home Health Care Inc., a defunct home health care company.

Dmitry Firtash, 48, a Ukrainian businessman, was arrested Wednesday by Austrian authorities in Vienna on a provisional arrest request based on charges filed in the Northern District of Illinois, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon of the Northern District of Illinois.

Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that KISHA PERKINS, a case manager at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury (FCI Danbury), was arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging her with aiding and abetting a scheme to solicit and collect cash bribes from FCI Danbury inmates in exchange for a recommendation that inmates be released early to “halfway houses.”

The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force (Fort Lauderdale team) this morning arrested James Robert Jones, a fugitive wanted by the Department of Defense and listed as one of the U.S. Army’s 15 Most Wanted for escape from a federal prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., announced officials with the U.S. Marshals Service and U.S. Army.

Samuel Goines, 61, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 60 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and obstruction of justice. Goines also was ordered to pay restitution and forfeiture in the amount of $539,187.36.

Memorial Hospital (Memorial), an Ohio nonprofit corporation that operates an acute care hospital in Fremont, Ohio, has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Statute by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians, the Justice Department announced.

The Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that construction company owner Tomas Olazabal, of Fresh Meadows, N.Y., was convicted of two counts of filing false corporate tax returns for his corporation, Tupac Construction Corporation. Olazabal was convicted by a jury sitting in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

A U.S. Army soldier was sentenced to serve 12 months and one day in prison for his role in stealing fuel at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Fenty near Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

George Despotopoulos and Steve Tepelidis pleaded guilty to tax evasion in the District Court for the Eastern District of New York, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.