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A New Jersey doctor admitted to accepting bribes 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, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

A Houston doctor has been arrested on charges related to her alleged participation in a $158 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false claims for mental health treatment.

A special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) pleaded guilty to participating in a massive international fraud and bribery scheme, admitting he shared with a foreign Navy contractor confidential information about ongoing criminal probes into the contractor’s billing practices in exchange for prostitutes, cash and luxury travel.

A Monmouth County, New Jersey man admitted to evading taxes on income from his ownership of a casino in Trinidad, resulting in an approximately $1.3 million loss to the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

A Mercer County, New Jersey man admitted he conspired with the mayor of Trenton and others to extort bribes and kickbacks in connection with a Trenton parking garage project, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Former Clarkston City Councilwoman Joan Swaney has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $60,000 from a local community center.

Robert A. Rizzo, who for years was the top administrator in the city of Bell and who became a symbol of municipal corruption, has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges in a scheme that resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid federal income tax.

Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Mission Hills, Kansas woman was indicted by a federal grand jury for using numerous foreign trusts and secret Cayman Island bank accounts as part of a scheme to avoid paying more than $7 million in income taxes and for lying to federal authorities concerning her Cayman Island interests.

Dr. Michael Austin, 57, of Atlanta, Ga., was sentenced to serve one year and one day in federal prison for willfully failing to file individual income tax returns for tax years 2008 and 2009, announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department's Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore for the Middle District of Georgia. Austin was further ordered to serve one year of supervised release and to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Austin previously pleaded guilty to these charges on Aug. 27, 2013.

A federal court in Atlanta permanently barred Matthew Adegbite and his companies, MAS & Associates CPA LLC and Mathew A. Adegbite CPA PC, from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced. The permanent injunction order was signed by Judge Clarence Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.