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The former president and vice president of Osaka, Japan-based Diamond Electric Mfg. Co. Ltd. have agreed to plead guilty for their participation in a global conspiracy to fix prices of ignition coils installed in cars sold in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced. Ignition coils are part of a car’s fuel ignition system and release electric energy suddenly to ignite a fuel mixture.

The Department of Justice announced that JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) will pay $614 million for violating the False Claims Act by knowingly originating and underwriting non-compliant mortgage loans submitted for insurance coverage and guarantees by the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

A federal court in the Eastern District of North Carolina permanently barred Sharon D. Rhodes and her businesses, R&S Freedom Tax Service and Changing Faces Annoited Tax Services, from preparing tax returns for others. Rhodes consented to the entry of the injunction without admitting she was guilty of the allegations against her.

A former U.S. Army soldier was sentenced to serve 87 months in prison for her role in stealing fuel at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Fenty, Afghanistan, Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced.

The FBI, in partnership with more than 50 law enforcement agencies, recovered 16 juveniles during an enforcement action focused on commercial child sex trafficking. Additionally, more than 45 pimps and their associates were arrested, some of whom claimed to have traveled to New Jersey from other states specifically for the purpose of prostituting women and children at the Super Bowl.

The Justice Department, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, and the FBI announced that Josh Hummer, a sergeant at the Roxbury Correctional Institution (RCI) in Hagerstown, Maryland, was convicted by a federal jury of obstructing justice during the investigation of an assault against an inmate.

Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud, a cabdriver from Anaheim, was sentenced to six years in prison for his part in a San Diego-based conspiracy to provide material support to the terrorist group al Shabaab.

Two decades ago, a group of enterprising criminals on multiple continents—led by a young computer programmer in St. Petersburg, Russia—hacked into the electronic systems of a major U.S. bank and secretly started stealing money. No mask, no note, no gun—this was bank robbery for the technological age.

Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced that Ronald Reed, age 46, has been charged with conspiring to commit health care fraud in a scheme that involved the sale of electric wheelchairs and scooters and the potential loss of hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars. This comes as Hogsett’s office has continued an effort to crack down on white-collar fraud in Indiana’s business community.

Dallas Chase Barth, 22, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was sentenced this afternoon to 27 months in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for assaulting an Indian with a dangerous weapon on August 28, 2013, in Taos Pueblo.