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Two employees of a U.S. broker-dealer and a senior official in Venezuela’s state economic development bank have been charged in New York’s federal court for their alleged roles in a massive international bribery scheme.

Corey Thompson was sentenced Tuesday to serve 30 months in prison for his involvement in a sophisticated stolen identity refund fraud conspiracy, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.

Last week in federal court, a 64-year-old woman from the southeastern Minnesota community of Wykoff was charged with embezzling approximately $35,520 from the Security State Bank where she was employed as the head teller.

The owner of a San Fernando Valley jewelry store was charged yesterday with receiving insider information from a senior partner with KPMG LLP and using that confidential information about KPMG’s clients to make illegal stock trades that generated well over $1 million in illicit profits.

Jeffrey A. Martinovich, 46, of Norfolk, Virginia, was convicted Monday by a federal jury for his involvement in fraud related to the mismanagement of a Newport News-based hedge fund.

Monday, we add one more name to the ever-lengthening list of corrupt New York elected officials. We could view this as an achievement for the FBI and federal prosecutors.

An indictment was unsealed Monday's morning in federal court in Brooklyn charging New York State Senator John Sampson with two counts of embezzlement, five counts of obstruction of justice, and two counts of making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

A former consultant for Willbros International Inc. (Willbros International), a subsidiary of Houston-based Willbros Group Inc. (Willbros), was sentenced on Friday for his role in a conspiracy to pay more than $6 million in bribes to government officials of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and officials from a Nigerian political party, Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Criminal Division and Assistant Director in Charge Valerie Parlave of the FBI’s Washington Field Office announced on Friday.

Adventist Health System/West, dba Adventist Health, and its affiliated hospital White Memorial Medical Center have agreed to pay the United States and the state of California $14.1 million to settle claims that they violated the False Claims Act, the Justice Department announced on Friday.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JIA HOU, a/k/a “Jenny Hou,” and XING WU PAN, a/k/a “Oliver Pan,” were found guilty today in Manhattan federal court of fraud in connection with a fraudulent scheme that involved the use of “straw donors” to funnel large, illegal campaign contributions to the campaign of a candidate (the candidate) for city-wide elective office in 2013 (the campaign). The straw donor scheme was fraudulent in two primary ways.