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The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Cheryl Cobia, age 27, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 70 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann on July 9, 2013, in U.S. District Court in Williamsport.

Mallinckrodt LLC, a pharmaceutical manufacturer, has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle allegations that it made improper payments to physicians and, as a result, caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid between January 2005 and June 2010, US. Attorney for the Northern District of California Melinda Haag announced.

A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer, his girlfriend, his nephew, and two of their associates were sentenced in federal court for their participation in bribery and alien smuggling activities along the U.S./Mexico border spanning approximately two years, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Toni Weirauch, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI); and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced the filing of a seven-count Indictment charging Glafira Rosales, an art dealer, with participating in a $30 million fraud in which she sold over 60 works of fake art to two Manhattan galleries.

The former chief executive officer and former chief financial officer of ArthroCare Corp., a publicly traded medical device company based in Austin, Texas, were charged for their alleged leading roles in a $400 million scheme to defraud the company’s shareholders and members of the investing public by falsely inflating ArthroCare’s earnings by tens of millions of dollars, 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.

Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division Kathryn Keneally and U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag for the Northern District of California announced that Moshe Handelsman of Saratoga, Calif., pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return for tax year 2007.

Three New Jersey doctors admitted they accepted tens of thousands of dollars in bribes from Parsippany, New Jersey-based Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS) as part of a long-running scheme operated by the lab, its president, and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department’s Tax Division; Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge; Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI); and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that Harvey Zitron, of Boca Raton, was convicted by a federal grand jury on all ten counts charged in the indictment.

Two former law enforcement officers were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee for theft of government funds and property.

The Justice Department announced that Happy Asker, franchise owner of multiple Happy’s Pizza franchises, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit along with Maher Bashi, Tom Yaldo, Arkan Summa, and Tagrid Bashi for multiple tax offenses arising from a conspiracy to underreport taxable income and payroll taxes of nine Happy’s Pizza franchises. All defendants with the exception of Happy Asker were arrested.