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A Department of Defense (DOD) employee has pleaded guilty to filing a false claim with the DOD while stationed in the Republic of Korea (ROK) to fraudulently obtain $64,000 in housing allowance, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden of the District of Nevada.

Pamela B. Reid pleaded guilty last night to one count of filing a false individual income tax return for the 2006 tax year, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Reid was charged in the District of Minnesota by an information filed on Sept. 27, 2013.

In El Paso, FBI agents arrested a former El Paso County Assistant District Attorney Antonio Reyes based on a federal grand jury indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and the deprivation of honest services, announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist.

Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Missouri business owner pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to his scheme to embezzle more than $1.3 million from the Missouri Petroleum Storage Tank Insurance Fund.

United States Attorney Joseph H. Hogsett announced that U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson has sentenced Michele Spurgeon to 60 months (five years) in federal prison and has ordered the defendant to pay more than $1.7 million in restitution to a victim company and the government.

The owner of a Brooklyn medical clinic was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison for her leading role in a $77 million Medicare fraud scheme.

Keith Johnson, 46, and his wife, Angela Johnson, 44, of Maryville, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to their roles in a $9.7 million procurement fraud scheme.

Ethan George Banaszak, 35, of Cameron Park pleaded guilty to one count of bank embezzlement, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

A federal grand jury in Albuquerque, N.M., has returned a one-count indictment charging former Belen Police Department Detective John Lytle with unlawfully assaulting a victim, identified in the indictment as R.A., during an investigative stop and arrest on March 15, 2012.

In a case stemming from what is believed to be the largest bribe ever accepted by a public official in an undercover operation, a former member of the Moreno Valley City Council has agreed to plead guilty to a federal bribery charge for taking a $2.36 million cash payment from an undercover operative posing as a real estate broker.