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Three Northern California real estate investors have agreed to plead guilty for their roles in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, the Department of Justice announced.

Abbott Laboratories has agreed to pay the United States $5.475 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to induce doctors to implant the company’s carotid, biliary and peripheral vascular products, the Justice Department announced. Abbott is a global pharmaceuticals and health care products company based in Abbott Park, Ill.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged a 25-year-old Canley Heights man with attempting to possess approximately 29kg of methamphetamine disguised as vitamin capsules.

Between January and the end of November UK HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) investigations led to 690 successful convictions – up from 477 in 2012, and the highest since the 2010 Spending Review. These convictions led to sentences totalling 355 years in prison.

With our partners in the law enforcement and intelligence communities, the FBI worked thousands of investigations during 2013, from cyber crimes to espionage and multi-million-dollar fraud schemes. As the year draws to a close, we take a look back at some of 2013’s most significant cases.

The U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) worked thousands of investigations during 2013, involving everything from extremists bent on terror to cyber thieves, financial fraudsters, and murder and hostage situations. As the year comes to a close, we take our annual look back at some of the Bureau’s most significant cases.

A 21-year-old Taiwanese man is scheduled to appear before the Parramatta Local Court this morning, charged by Australian Federal Police (AFP) for attempting to possess approximately 16kg of methamphetamine ‘ice’.

Conrad Alvin Barrett, 27, has been charged with a federal hate crime related to a racially motivated assault of a 79-year-old African-American man, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson, along with Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels of the Civil Rights Division and Special Agent in Charge Stephen L. Morris of the FBI.

A 63-count superseding indictment charging Chatonda Khofi, Ishmael Kosh, Amadou Sangaray and Francis Saygbay in a conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was unsealed on Monday, December 23, in Minneapolis, Minn., the Justice Department and IRS announced.

Former Cuyahoga County employee and Parma School Board member J. Kevin Kelley was sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay $605,035 for his involvement in several bribery schemes, federal law enforcement officials announced.