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The Justice Department announced that Kevin Casaus, 24, a former corrections officer at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was sentenced this morning to serve 15 months in federal prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for his conviction on obstruction of justice and falsification of records charges.

A former Wayne County official was sentenced to more than three years in prison for obstructing justice in the investigation of a bribery and extortion scheme, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.

Brooklyn resident Gregory Konoplya, 57, pleaded guilty in federal court in the Eastern District of New York to conspiracy to pay and receive illegal health care kickback payments in connection with his role in a $13 million health care fraud scheme. Konoplya is the fourth defendant to plead guilty in connection with the scheme, which was based at the Cropsey Medical Care PLLC clinic in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

Former U.S. Army Specialist Stephanie Charboneau pleaded guilty to bribery charges for her role in the theft of fuel at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Fenty, near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

David Haigler, of Montgomery County, Ala., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama to one count of theft of public funds and to one count of passing U.S. Treasury checks with forged endorsements, the Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Secret Service announced.

Four current and former soldiers of the U.S. Army National Guard pleaded guilty for their roles in bribery and fraud schemes that caused a total of more than $210,000 in losses to the U.S. Army National Guard Bureau.

Sergio Lagos, 44, Aurelio “Jim” Aleman, 59, and Oscar Barbosa, 50, have been arrested following the return of a six-count federal indictment charging wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.

Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that two former councilmen of the city of Forsyth, Georgia, James Edward Calloway and Desi Surtane Hansford, pled guilty in United States District Court in Macon, Georgia, to one count each of accepting bribes in connection with the performance of their official duties. Each man faces a maximum sentence of up to 10 years’ imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000.

In a case filed on behalf of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), attorneys argued that video recordings of CCR client Mohammed al Qahtani at Guantanamo Bay should be released to the public under the Freedom of Information Act.

Angeline Morago George, 36, of Plummer, Idaho, and Portland, Oregon, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit theft from a tribal organization, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. George and co-conspirator Billy E. Moffitt, 26, of Plummer and Lewiston, Idaho, were charged in a federal indictment on May 21, 2013. Moffitt pleaded guilty to the charge on August 20.