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Mark Olkowski, 62, of North Wildwood, New Jersey, a business partner in K&O Sporting Goods, pleaded guilty Wednesday to tax charges for filing false personal income tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service from 2006 through 2009. K&O, on Moyamensing Avenue in South Philadelphia, is a distributor of T-shirts and other clothing items to labor unions, municipalities, and political candidates.

A Vermilion man was charged with financial crimes that resulted in nearly 100 clients losing more than $4.4 million over a decade, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

Tuesday announced the arrest of Melanie Ferreira for engaging in a series of frauds, which included cheating the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of nearly half-a-million dollars and perpetrating a bank fraud scheme.

A federal indictment was unsealed Monday charging former Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Richard Dwight Farmer, Jr. with misusing and misappropriating money and property belonging to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture (KDA) during his tenure.

Ralph Lauren Corporation (RLC), a New York based apparel company, has agreed to pay an $882,000 penalty to resolve allegations that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by bribing government officials in Argentina to obtain improper customs clearance of merchandise, announced Mythili Raman, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, and Loretta E. Lynch, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

Former Jersey City Council candidate Lori Serrano Monday admitted to converting federal funds illegally for her own use, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, a U.S. citizen and resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction against persons and property at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, resulting in the death of three people and injuries to more than 200 people.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) appealed the dismissal by a federal judge of a lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) without addressing the central First Amendment question in the case. The Center for Constitutional Rights brought the case on behalf of five long-time animal rights activists who say the 2006 law violates their right to free speech.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released a statement in response to U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, a case that raised the question of whether corporations could be held accountable for human rights abuses and whether U.S. federal courts can hear claims arising from human rights violations committed abroad under the Alien Tort Statute. The Center for Constitutional Rights brought the ground-breaking case Filártiga v Peña-Irala, which first launched ATS human rights litigation in 1980.

United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that Richard Francis Garmo was sentenced today in federal court in San Diego by the Honorable Anthony J. Battaglia to serve 24 months in custody, followed by three years’ supervised release, for his role in a criminal conspiracy. Garmo is the eighth and final defendant to be sentenced in the FBI investigation known as Operation Hook Shot.