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Following a two-month long trial in U.S. District Court, a federal jury convicted James J. Bulger, holding him responsible for the murder of 11 people, as well as numerous counts of extortion, money laundering, drug dealing, and firearms possession.

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.

The owner of South Louisiana Home Health Care Inc. and the director of nursing for the Louisiana home health agency were sentenced for their roles in a Medicare fraud scheme involving the payment of kickbacks and the falsification of documents.

Thomas Dickson has pleaded guilty to defrauding more than 50 clients out of funds that were deposited into his law firm’s trust account.

Former Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., 48, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to 30 months in prison for conspiring to defraud his re-election campaigns of about $750,000 in funds that were used to pay for personal items and expenses, including high-end appliances and electronics, and then filing misleading reports to conceal seven years of the illegal activities.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara and Assistant Director-in-Charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office George Venizelos announced the unsealing of criminal complaints against Javier Martin-Artajo and Julien Grout for their alleged participation in a conspiracy to hide the true extent of losses in a credit derivatives trading portfolio maintained by the Chief Investment Office (CIO) of JPMorgan Chase & Company (JPMorgan).

Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, jointly announced that James S. Faller II, of Russell Springs, Ky., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Bowling Green, Ky. Faller, a consultant and private investigator, is charged in an eleven count indictment with obstructing the internal revenue laws, evading his individual income taxes, making and subscribing to a false form that he filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and failing to file his individual income tax returns.

A former loan officer from Henderson, Nevada, who convinced over 30 victims to give him money for a high yield investment scheme involving the foreign currency exchange market, has pleaded guilty to federal fraud and money laundering charges, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.

Southfield, Mich., resident Bashar Saroki pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return and selling drug paraphernalia, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.

Two health care clinic owners pleaded guilty in connection with an $8 million health care fraud scheme involving the now-defunct home health care company Flores Home Health Care Inc.