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Paul Winfield, 40, former mayor of the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to bribery in connection with a pre-event disaster contract for the city of Vicksburg, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen.

Arthur A. Boulette, 64, of Dunedin, Florida, was sentenced to 12 months and a day in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for accepting more than $100,000 in cash bribe payments from taxicab drivers in exchange for giving them priority on a list of prospective drivers to operate a Washington Flyer Taxi cab at Washington Dulles International Airport.

The Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that Richard L. Furnelli, formerly of Holyoke and South Hadley, Mass., was indicted in Springfield, Mass. Furnelli is charged in a nine-count indictment with one count of obstructing the internal revenue laws, four counts of tax evasion and four counts of failing to file his individual income tax returns.

Two New Jersey doctors and a company salesman pleaded guilty to their roles in a long-running bribes-for-test-referrals scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey; its president; and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

A federal grand jury indicted Joseph A. Ferriero, the former chairman of the Bergen County Democratic Organization (BCDO), charging him with a racketeering scheme involving kickbacks paid to a public official, soliciting and accepting bribes as a party official, and extortion, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

The former office manager of the Lake Forest Park Water District pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Seattle to wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. Jackee Bormann-Zweekhorst, 41, used a variety of schemes to embezzle more than $350,000 from the small water district between 2004 and 2011.

Former Customs and Border Protection Officer Hector Rodriguez was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez to serve 78 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for bribery, bringing in aliens for financial gain, and conspiracy.

Sojin Lim, 60, of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, chief executive officer and vice president of General Technologies Corporation, d/b/a CompUtopia, has agreed to plead guilty to one count each of bank fraud and money laundering in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud Rockland Trust Company of more than $5 million, announced by United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha; John G. Collins, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Office of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation; Vincent B. Lisi, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Office of the FBI; and Colonel Steven G. O’Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police.

Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Patrick Pinto, 45, of Bohemia, New York, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to two years of probation, the first six months of which Pinto must spend in home confinement, for bribing an executive of U.S. Bank. Pinto also was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and perform 100 hours of community service.

In Austin, Eusevio Maldonado Huitron, a 50-year-old horse trainer residing in Austin, was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a complex conspiracy to launder millions of dollars in illicit Los Zetas drug trafficking proceeds to purchase, train, breed, and race American quarter horses in the United States announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman; FBI Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez; Richard Weber, Chief, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation; and DEA Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena.