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David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that David Kinney, 54, of Woodbridge, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 21 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for participating in a mortgage fraud scheme and for making false statements to federal law enforcement.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced Thursday that Todd Newman, a former portfolio manager at Diamondback Capital Management LLC (“Diamondback”), was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 54 months in prison for crimes stemming from his involvement in a multi-million-dollar insider trading scheme.

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that David Kinney, 54, of Woodbridge, was sentenced Thursday by Senior United States District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 21 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for participating in a mortgage fraud scheme and for making false statements to federal law enforcement.

A Lawrence County woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of embezzlement from a credit union, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced Wednesday.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced the filing of criminal charges Tuesday against August John Stile, Jr., age 49, of Hughestown, Pennsylvania.

A former executive of the U.S. subsidiary of a French power and transportation company was charged in a superseding indictment for his alleged participation in a scheme to pay bribes to foreign government officials, Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut David B. Fein, and Assistant Director in Charge Valerie Parlave of the FBI’s Washington Field Office announced.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler announced the sentencing of a defendant who engaged in a fraud scheme targeting companies across the country, including at least one business in Indiana. At a hearing this morning, U.S. District Judge Jane E. Magnus-Stinson ordered Dina Wein Reis, age 49, of New York, to serve 19 months in federal prison, as well as pay restitution of $5,227,340 to the victim companies. Reis was also ordered by the court to pay a $1 million criminal fine. Two additional defendants will be sentenced later this afternoon.

Eric Anderson, of Dix Hills, N.Y., was arrested Monday following his indictment on April 25, 2013, on numerous tax crimes, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.

Shelly S. Singhal, Dennis L. Pelino, and Loretta Fredy Bush, formerly of Xinhua Finance Limited (Xinhua Finance), a Chinese company trading publicly in Japan, were sentenced Monday to prison terms after earlier pleading guilty to a charge of conspiracy to impede the lawful functions of the Internal Revenue Service.

A former North Carolina probation officer was sentenced on Thursday, April 25, 2013, in U.S. District Court to serve 17 months in prison for extortion and drug trafficking offenses involving persons under his supervision, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.