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Marek Leszczynski, a former sales broker, pleaded guilty in New York federal court to conspiring with others to commit securities fraud and wire fraud, announced Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

A former bookkeeper for a Spencer-based oil and gas company who admitted embezzling more than $800,000 from her employer pleaded guilty to a federal charge, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Rosalie J. Seabolt, 59, of Spencer, West Virginia, pleaded guilty to mail fraud before United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. in Charleston.

Mark Olkowski, 62, of North Wildwood, New Jersey, was sentenced to three months in prison for filing false personal income tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service from 2006 through 2009 and wire fraud.

Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Thomas J. Turey, 64, of Norwalk, was sentenced by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 54 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzling more than $3.4 million from his employer.

Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division, announced the guilty plea of Thomas Nastasi III, 46, of Mt. Kisco, N.Y., to one count of willful failure to pay the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) the payroll taxes of his company, Nastasi Maintenance & Construction LLC. Nastasi pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe in the Southern District of New York.

The former vice president of a Detroit based construction management firm entered a plea of guilty today as part of the ongoing federal investigation and prosecution involving the Garden View Estates public housing project in Detroit, Michigan, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.

Arnold Tobias Gervais, has been sentenced for defrauding the IRS of more than $3.4 million in federal income tax refunds while he was in state custody.

U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced that James Bagarozzo, 57, of Buffalo, New York, who was convicted of stealing $210,000 from the city of Buffalo, a governmental agency that receives federal funding, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant has also been ordered to pay $210,000 in restitution.

Mahendra Patel has pleaded guilty to conspiring with former Atlanta Public Schools (APS) Chief Information Officer (CIO) Jerome Oberlton to receive kickbacks in exchange for Oberlton using his influence at APS to award a $780,000 computer project to the firm.

Fourteen current and former recruiters and soldiers of the U.S. Army National Guard have been charged in the Southern District of Texas for engaging in a multi-year scheme to defraud the U.S. Army National Guard Bureau, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas.