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William Robert Hupman Jr., of Mebane, N.C., was sentenced to serve 17 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for tax fraud, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Hupman was also ordered to pay restitution to the IRS of $103,420.

Joshua Lamar Greeson has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for obstructing a public corruption investigation.

William Beavers, a former Cook County Commissioner and, before that, a longtime Chicago alderman and police officer, was sentenced to six months in prison for obstructing the Internal Revenue Service and failing to report and pay taxes on all his income. Beavers was convicted after a trial in March of concealing his under-reporting of income and underpayment of taxes on thousands of dollars that he converted to personal use from his campaign accounts, as well as from his county discretionary spending account.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced the filing of an information in U.S. District Court in Scranton charging Lisa Barrett, age 48, of Shavertown, Luzerne County, with embezzlement of funds of a labor organization.

A federal indictment was unsealed charging two executives at a North Canton, Ohio company with conspiring to violate campaign finance laws, conspiring to obstruct justice, and committing other related crimes, announced Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.

Jing Wang, 51, of Del Mar, California, a former executive vice president and president of Global Business Operations for Qualcomm Inc., was charged with insider trading in shares of both Qualcomm and Atheros Communications Inc. using a secret brokerage account and an offshore shell company in the British Virgin Islands.

A Wabaunsee County woman has been indicted on charges of embezzling from the Bio-Security Research Institute at Kansas State University, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.

UBS Securities Japan Co. Ltd. (UBS Securities Japan), an investment bank, financial advisory securities firm, and wholly owned subsidiary of UBS AG, was sentenced for its role in manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), a leading benchmark used in financial products and transactions around the world, the Justice Department announced.

Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Halliburton) pleaded guilty to destroying evidence pertaining to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster and was sentenced to the statutory maximum fine, the Justice Department announced.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that art dealer Glafira Rosales pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to participating in a scheme to sell more than 60 fake works of modern art to two New York art galleries. Her victims paid more than $80 million for the fake works.