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A Northern California man has been convicted of federal fraud charges for his involvement in a $7 million investment scheme that lured investors with false promises relating to the development of an alternative energy technology, Richard S. Hartunian, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced.

Australian law enforcement agencies have conducted a strategic blitz on illicit drugs and prohibited goods arriving into Darwin airport in a two-day canine operation on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 February.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Lauri Love, a citizen of the United Kingdom, with computer hacking and aggravated identity theft. The charges stem from Love’s efforts in late 2012 and early 2013 to secretly infiltrate computer servers belonging to the Federal Reserve Bank, remove non-public information from those servers, and publicly disclose that information by posting it on certain websites.

The owner of two Flint, Michigan adult day care centers was sentenced for his leadership role in a $3.2 million Medicare fraud scheme.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced that Anthonie R. Sparrow pled guilty for his role in perpetrating a $16 million investment scheme that victimized hundreds of investors around the world. Sparrow, who was charged in December 2009 and extradited from Spain in August 2013, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman.

A federal grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday charging Charles Fredrick McCusker, age 62, of Salt Lake City, a licensed Utah psychologist, with health care fraud and mail fraud in connection with a health care fraud scheme the indictment alleges caused federal and private benefit programs to pay more than $1.3 million for services not provided to patients. The indictment alleges the conduct occurred from around 2007 to around August 2013.

The United States has asked a federal court in McAllen, Texas, to permanently bar Melissa Alvarez and her companies, Best & Unique Income Services, Best & Unique Income Tax Melissa and Best & Unique Income Tax Services LLC, from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced.

Diagnostic Imaging Group (DIG) has agreed to pay a total of $15.5 million to resolve allegations that its diagnostic testing facility falsely billed federal and state health care programs for tests that were not performed or not medically necessary and by paying kickbacks to physicians. Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Division Stuart F. Delery, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Paul J. Fishman and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta E. Lynch announced the settlement.

A civilian employee of the U.S. Navy posted at the Capodichino Navy Base near Naples, Italy, was arraigned in Norfolk, Va., for allegedly obtaining more than $360,000 in housing benefits that he was not entitled to receive.

Aaron H. Kelly, a United States Postal Service employee, was indicted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland for four counts of mail fraud, two counts of bank fraud, one count of corruptly endeavoring to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and two counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, the Justice Department and IRS announced following the unsealing of the indictment.