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A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned an indictment charging Dick Reid Jenkins, a resident of Heber City, Utah with eighteen counts of presenting false claims to the United States.

Eric Hinson was sentenced to 35 months in prison on mail fraud and multiple tax evasion charges involving his misuse of approximately $593,236 of St. Clair Fire Protection District funds between January 2006 and September 2011. As a result of the federal investigation, Hinson resigned his positions as chief at both the St. Clair Fire Protection District and the Ladue Fire Department. In addition to the prison sentence, he was ordered to pay restitution of $615,298.

Al J. Hurley, a former county commissioner in Sumter County, Ga., was sentenced to 36 months in prison stemming from his acceptance of illicit payments in exchange for his official efforts to secure government contracts for a private contractor, Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Middle District of Georgia U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore announced.

A managing partner of a U.S. broker-dealer was arrested on felony charges arising from a conspiracy to pay bribes to a senior official in Venezuela’s state economic development bank, Banco de Desarrollo Económico y Social de Venezuela (BANDES).

Christopher Cordelle Davis, of Montgomery County, Ala., was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama for his role in a scheme to file fraudulent tax returns using stolen identities, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced following Davis’s arrest.

The president of Parsippany, New Jersey-based Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), three BLS employees, and three associates admitted to a conspiracy in which millions of dollars in bribes were paid to physicians over a number of years in exchange for blood sample referrals worth more than $100 million to the company, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Mary Helen Perez, 50, of Sanger, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to two years and three months in prison for stealing and embezzling from a federally insured bank, announced United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner. Judge O’Neill also ordered Perez to pay $249,793 in restitution to the bank.

A former U.S. Congressman and a real estate investor were convicted by a federal jury in Tucson, Arizona, of conspiring together to extort and bribe individuals seeking a federal land exchange.

A former U.S. Congressman and a real-estate investor were convicted by a federal jury in Tucson, Arizona, of conspiring together to extort and bribe individuals seeking a federal land exchange.

A former executive with global pharmaceuticals giant Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMS) admitted to trading on inside information regarding a public company that BMS was in the process of acquiring, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.