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Masai Skief, 32, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to an information charging him with two counts of wire fraud, arising from the abuse of his leadership positions at a Philadelphia charter school, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.

The chief executive of Vida Life International Ltd., a public company that traded on the over-the-counter securities market, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud, and mail fraud.

A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man is expected to appear in federal court on charges of tax evasion and failing to file federal personal tax returns on income derived from his ownership of a casino in Trinidad, resulting in a $1 million loss to the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

An accountant in Manhattan, Kansas has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for embezzling from a commercial construction company where he worked, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. He was ordered to pay more than $640,000 in restitution.

A Burke County drug and alcohol treatment center, its owner, and two of its employees have been indicted on False Claims Act conspiracy and bribery charges, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The six-count indictment was returned by a federal grand jury sitting in Asheville on August 6, 2013.

The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that former professional tax return preparers Greene Wylie Sheppard, Sabrina Johnson-Lavant and Chandra Henderson were sentenced this month to serve 56 months, 18 months, and 8 months in prison, respectively, for conspiring to defraud the United States by filing false tax returns in order to receive fraudulently-inflated refunds for their clients. In addition to conspiracy, Sheppard was also sentenced for aggravated identity theft.

The Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that Tomas Olazabal, of Fresh Meadows, N.Y., was arrested following his indictment in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Aug. 8, 2013, on multiple tax crimes.

The United States has filed suit against PharMerica Corp. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, the Justice Department announced. The lawsuit alleges that PharMerica violated the False Claims Act and the Controlled Substances Act by dispensing controlled drugs without valid prescriptions and causing claims for illegally dispensed drugs to be submitted to the Medicare program.

A four-count indictment unsealed in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware charges David T. Matusiewicz, his mother, Lenore Matusiewicz, and his sister, Amy Gonzalez, with conspiring to commit interstate stalking and cyberstalking, interstate stalking, and cyberstalking, announced David C. Weiss, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware; Stephen Vogt, Special Agent in Charge, FBI, Baltimore Division; and Nathaniel McQueen, Jr., Colonel, Delaware State Police.

Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; John P. Carlin, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office; and the members of the South Florida Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), announce that two individuals, one a U.S. citizen, made their initial appearance in federal court in Miami on an indictment returned in the Southern District of Florida.