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Three employees of a New York-based U.S. broker-dealer have pleaded guilty for their roles in bribery schemes involving two state economic development banks in Venezuela.

Horng Dai, a/k/a “James Dai,” 46, of Newtown, Pennsylvania, was charged by indictment with seven counts of receipt of commissions or gifts for procuring loans, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.

U.S. Army Sergeant Kevin Bilal Abdullah pleaded guilty to bribery charges for his role in the theft of fuel at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Fenty, near Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

A suburban attorney whose law license was suspended in May was arrested on federal fraud charges for allegedly misappropriating approximately $2.34 million from a husband and wife who were her clients. The defendant, Kathleen Niew, was charged with 10 counts of wire fraud in a federal grand jury indictment that was returned and unsealed following her arrest. FBI agents took Niew into custody without incident at her office in Oak Brook.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia and Attorney General Sam Olens announced they have reached a settlement with Emory University, which agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare and Medicaid for clinical trial services that were not permitted by the Medicare and Medicaid rules.

A former Chicago commodities trader was charged with allegedly fraudulently raising more than $10 million and misappropriating a substantial portion of the money for his personal commodities futures trading to make Ponzi-type payments to investors and to benefit himself and his family, resulting in a loss of at least $5 million. The defendant, Bradley Schiller, allegedly used some of the funds to pay for personal and family expenses, including a Range Rover, jewelry, condominium fees, housing rental fees for his mother-in-law, and country club fees.

A former Chicago White Sox scouting executive was sentenced to two years in federal prison for accepting approximately $440,000 in kickbacks from the signing bonuses and contract buyouts that two of the team’s Latin American scouts paid to secure 23 prospective players between December 2004 and February 2008.

New York-based Imagimed LLC, the company’s former owners, William B. Wolf III and Dr. Timothy J. Greenan, and the company’s former chief radiologist, Dr. Steven Winter, will pay $3.57 million to resolve allegations that they submitted to federal healthcare programs false claims for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) services, the Justice Department announced. Imagimed owns and operates fifteen MRI facilities, located primarily in New York state, under the name “Open MRI.”

Burton Douglas Morriss pled guilty to tax evasion charges associated with his evasion of taxes on millions of dollars of income he earned between 2006 and 2009. According to his plea agreement, the tax liability Morriss attempted to evade in 2007 was $2,888,483. The total tax due and owing by Morriss for all tax years is $5,559,386.

Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service (USSS); Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI); and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that defendant Math Benjamin, 33, of Miami, was convicted on two counts charged in the third superseding indictment.