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A former FBI agent and two others have been charged in the Southern District of New York with engaging in a bribery scheme to secure confidential, internal law enforcement documents about a prominent individual in Bangladesh.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged the former executive director of the Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity and her daughter in connection with the theft of close to $500,000 from the non-profit organization, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein, Jr.

Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, the announced that Joseph Casolo, 45, of Norwalk, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Thomas P. Smith in Hartford to one count of extortion.

The Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the FBI announced that James Timothy Turner, also known as Tim Turner, was sentenced to serve 18 years in federal prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States, attempting to pay taxes with fictitious financial instruments, attempting to obstruct and impede the IRS, failing to file a 2009 federal income tax return and falsely testifying under oath in a bankruptcy proceeding.

The Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that John T. Hoang, of Woodbridge, Va., pleaded guilty in federal district court in Washington, D.C., to willfully aiding and assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns for tax year 2004.

While the "aiding the enemy" charges (on which Manning was rightly acquitted) received the most attention from the mainstream media, the Espionage Act itself is a discredited relic of the WWI era, created as a tool to suppress political dissent and antiwar activism, and it is outrageous that the government chose to invoke it in the first place against Manning.

A federal grand jury sitting in Charleston indicted a Red House man in connection with an alleged theft scheme that took thousands of dollars’ worth of diesel fuel from a military facility located in Putnam County, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin.

A former vice president of a company that was based in west suburban Downers Grove pleaded guilty to engaging in a fraudulent invoicing scheme in which he obtained more than 100 company checks totaling more than $3.9 million and stole the money for himself. The defendant, Steven M. Brazile, admitted the fraud at his arraignment after being charged earlier this month in U.S. District Court.

Steven Chen Yu, 39, of Allen, Texas, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney this morning and pleaded guilty to an information charging wire fraud in connection with his attempt to embezzle approximately $1 million from his employer, Hudson Advisors LLC, and its global subsidiaries (Hudson).

United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld, II announced that Anita Ambler, 49 years old of Virginia, was sentenced on July 29, 2013, in Wheeling by Judge Frederick P. Stamp, Jr. to 87 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Ambler also must pay money judgment of $1,305,090.15 as well as forfeit real estate located in Reva, Virginia, and a Dodge Nitro, both of which were assets that she purchased with proceeds from her scheme.