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A Jersey County resident pleaded guilty to felony charges of tax evasion and possession of a firearm by a user of controlled substances on July 23, 2013, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Stephen R. Wigginton announced.

A former senior executive of ArthroCare Corp., a publicly traded medical device company based in Austin, Texas, pleaded guilty for his role in a scheme to defraud the company’s shareholders and members of the investing public by falsely inflating ArthroCare’s earnings, announced Acting Assistant Attorney Mythili Raman of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman of the Western District of Texas. The plea was taken under seal on June 24, 2013, and unsealed late.

U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced that Daniel C. Gillick, 63, a physician residing in Youngstown, New York, pleaded guilty to obtaining controlled substances by fraud and health care fraud. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, a $500,000 fine, or both.

Jeffery Allan Johnston, age 46, of Parker, Colorado, has been arrested based on a criminal complaint charging him with the drug trafficking related crimes, United States Attorney John Walsh, FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle, and Littleton Police Chief Doug Stephens announced.

A federal jury convicted Daren Kareem Gadsden, aka “D,” age 36, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, on charges related to a conspiracy to steal almost $1.4 million from a Housing Authority of Baltimore City bank account.

The Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union will be in federal court for oral argument in their lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the U.S. government’s killing of three U.S. citizens in Yemen in 2011: Anwar Al-Aulaqi and Samir Khan in September and Al-Aulaqi’s 16-year-old son Abdulrahman the following month.

The Center for Constitutional Rights appealed the dismissal of a federal lawsuit challenging the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) as a violation of the First Amendment.

Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced the sentencing of Jarrod “J. D.” Murkerson, 35, a resident of Blakely, Georgia, on July 18, 2013, by the Honorable W. Louis Sands, United States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia. On March 27, 2013, Mr. Murkerson entered a plea of guilty to extortion by a public official.

It’s been billed as the “largest domestic bribery and bid-rigging scheme in the history of federal contracting cases.”

The Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that Angela Myers, a resident of Baton Rouge, La., was sentenced in the Middle District of Louisiana to 132 months in federal prison for wire fraud, making false claims, subscribing to false tax returns and aggravated identity theft.