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A former executive of Lender Processing Services Inc. (LPS) – a publicly traded company based in Jacksonville, Fla. – was sentenced to serve five years in prison for her participation in a six-year scheme to prepare and file more than 1 million fraudulently signed and notarized mortgage-related documents with property recorders’ offices throughout the United States, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida Robert E. O’Neill, and Special Agent in Charge Michelle S. Klimt of the FBI Jacksonville Division.

After a two-week trial, a federal jury has convicted Lawrence Eppelbaum, 54, of Roswell, Georgia, on health care fraud, tax fraud, and money laundering in relation to a scheme in which he illegally induced patients from all over the country to be treated at his medical clinic in Atlanta by providing free travel accommodations through a purported charitable entity that he controlled.

Stanley L. Straughter, the owner of a business based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pled guilty to a federal charge stemming from a scheme in which he and others helped conceal the actual source of more than $125,000 in campaign contributions.

Portugal’s enforcement of its foreign bribery laws has been extremely low. Not a single prosecution has resulted from 15 allegations of Portuguese companies bribing foreign officials in high-risk countries. Several investigations have been closed prematurely.

Lee A. Calhoun, an executive for a Washington, D.C.-based company, pled guilty to a federal charge stemming from a scheme in which he and others helped disguise the actual source of more than $150,000 in campaign contributions.

Earlier, Luis Adorno, formerly the supervisory construction project manager of the Department of Architecture and Construction Engineering at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 18 months, followed by 300 hours of community service, for his corruption conviction for taking bribes.

Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce the filing of a criminal complaint charging defendant George Brown, 50, of Hollywood, Florida, with accepting bribes in connection with programs receiving federal funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 666. Brown was arrested and is scheduled to appear in federal court in Fort Lauderdale before Magistrate Judge Lurana S. Snow.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Melvin Duarte pled guilty in Manhattan federal court for his role in a scheme to fraudulently generate and then steal more than $50 million in federal tax refund checks.

United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced today that David J. Langemak, age 41, formerly of Plymouth, Wisconsin, and former bank president of Community Bank and Trust (CB&T), Plymouth Branch, was indicted June 18, 2013, on 18 counts of wire fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344 (2). If convicted, Landemak faces a maximum of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine on each count.

Elton Augustin, a former Atlanta Police Department officer, was sentenced to two years in prison for conspiring to accept bribes and lying to FBI agents.