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Thomas Hampton, formerly the managing director of Hampton Capital Markets LLC, pleaded guilty in New York federal court to commodities fraud in connection with an investment scheme in which Hampton concealed millions of dollars in losses he incurred trading various securities, including S&P 500 futures contracts tied to the S&P 500 stock index, announced U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara. Hampton was charged in December 2012 and pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge James C. Francis, IV.

James S. Bedell, 58, of Edwardsville, Illinois, the former police chief from that city, pled guilty to an information charging four counts of embezzlement and theft from the city of Edwardsville—a local government that received federal funds for the calendar years 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Stephen R. Wigginton announced Wednesday.

The owner and another senior executive of Sacred Heart Hospital and four physicians affiliated with the west side facility were arrested Tuesday for allegedly conspiring to pay and receive illegal kickbacks, including more than $225,000 in cash, along with other forms of payment, in exchange for the referral of patients insured by Medicare and Medicaid to the hospital, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Gary S. Shapiro.

Raymond W. Kelly, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York (NYPD), announced Tuesday the unsealing of charges against 34 alleged members and associates of two related Russian-American organized crime enterprises, including a Russian “Vor,” for a range of offenses including the operation of at least two international bookmaking organizations—or “sportsbooks”—that catered to multi- millionaires and billionaires in the U.S., Russia, and the Ukraine.

United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated Tuesday that Daion Ali Bowers, age 27, of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code Sections 1343 and 1349. United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson, Jr. of Columbia sentenced Bowers to 63 months’ imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release.

Charges have been unsealed against one current and one former executive of the U.S. subsidiary of a French power and transportation company for their 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 Fein and Assistant Director in Charge Valerie Parlave of the FBI’s Washington Field Office announced Tuesday.

A former San Francisco investment banker and his college friend both pleaded guilty Tuesday for their roles in an insider trading scheme involving two impending corporate mergers, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Melinda Haag.

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that David Miller, 40, of Rockville Centre, New York, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty Monday before United States Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford to conspiracy and fraud offenses related to his role in a fraudulent scheme to make large purchases of stock in Apple Inc. as an institutional sales trader for Rochdale Securities LLC of Stamford.

Frederic Cilins, 50, a French citizen, has been arrested and accused of attempting to obstruct an ongoing investigation into whether a mining company paid bribes to win lucrative mining rights in the Republic of Guinea.

The leader in Chicago of a Romanian-based international conspiracy to fraudulently obtain millions of U.S. tax dollars was sentenced to just over seven years in federal prison.