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Darlene Ford, 46, of Temple Hills, Maryland, pled guilty to a federal charge stemming from the theft of more than $75,000 from a charter school where she worked as a temporary accounting employee.

David P. Rowley, a resident of Jackson, Michigan, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Denise Page Hood to filing a false individual income tax return, announced Kathryn Keneally, the Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Tax Division, and Barbara L. McQuade, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.

A former employee at the Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany (MCLB-Albany) and two local businessmen were sentenced for their roles in a bribery scheme related to the award of contracts for machine products that resulted in approximately $907,000 in fraudulent overcharges to the U.S. Marines, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore of the Middle District of Georgia.

The Justice Department announced that a number of related entities and individuals agreed to pay $2,883,947 to resolve allegations that they falsely claimed disadvantaged business status on a number of federally-funded transportation projects.

U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Darryl A. Stuckey, age 48, formerly of Fort Washington, Maryland, to two years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for corruptly obstructing the Internal Revenue Code and fraudulently concealing assets in a bankruptcy proceeding. Judge Titus also ordered Stuckey to pay restitution of $300,632.

U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced that Graciela Serra, 36, of Rochester, New York, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer to conspiracy to commit tax fraud in connection with a large nationwide tax refund scheme. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Maxwell B. Smith, a Monmouth County, New Jersey-based financial adviser and broker, was sentenced to 84 months in prison for defrauding New Jersey investors of more than $9 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) responses to breaking news first published in The Guardian showing a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court order requiring Verizon to turn over phone records of all telephone calls from the U.S. to abroad, and within the United States, including local calls, between now and July 19, 2013.

A Livingston, New Jersey tax return preparer admitted filing false claims with the IRS using a dead tax return preparer’s identification and preparing false documents for numerous fraudulent loans, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.