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A federal jury in Montgomery, Alabama found James Timothy Turner, also known as Tim Turner, guilty late Friday of conspiracy to defraud the United States, attempting to pay taxes with fictitious financial instruments, attempting to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), failing to file a 2009 federal income tax return, and falsely testifying under oath in a bankruptcy proceeding, the Justice Department, the IRS, and the FBI announced Monday.

A registered nurse who fabricated nursing visit forms in connection with a $24 million home health care fraud conspiracy in Detroit pleaded guilty today for her role in the scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Barbara L. McQuade, Special Agent in Charge Robert D. Foley III of the FBI’s Detroit Field Office and Special Agent in Charge Lamont Pugh III of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), Chicago Regional Office.

A superseding indictment against four Police of Puerto Rico (POPR) officers was announced today by Roy L. Austin Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division; Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico; and Carlos Cases, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI San Juan Field Office.

A federal grand jury in Fresno returned three indictments charging three men and one woman under new federal legislation that makes it a crime to point the beam of a laser at an aircraft, announced U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Herbert M. Brown, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Sacramento Field Office.

Marshall D. Banks and James Garvin, who helped lead the Langston in the 21st Century Foundation, a non-profit organization that operated youth programs in the District of Columbia, were sentenced Thursday to three years of supervised probation, 80 hours of community service, and ordered to pay full restitution for failing to report and concealing the misappropriation of $392,000 in government grants.

Rengan Rajaratnam allegedly conspired with his brother, Galleon founder Raj Rajaratnam, to trade on the basis of material, non-public information (“inside information”) concerning Clearwire Corp. (“Clearwire”) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (“AMD”) in 2008, earning nearly $1.2 million in profits in the aggregate. v Rajaratnam has not yet been arrested on these charges.

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that Daniel Monteiro, 33, of Wolcott, pleaded guilty Wednesday before United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to a federal conspiracy charge stemming from a scheme to direct illegal campaign contributions into the campaign of a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives.

A federal jury Wednesday convicted Ricardo O. Curry II, age 42, of Randallstown, Maryland, on two counts of assisting in the filing of a false tax return, four counts of bankruptcy fraud, four counts of falsifying bankruptcy records, and one count of false testimony under oath at a bankruptcy proceeding.

Hospice of Arizona L.C., along with a related entity, American Hospice Management LLC, and their parent corporation, American Hospice Management Holdings LLC, have agreed to pay $12 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting or causing the submission of false claims to the Medicare program for ineligible hospice services, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

Ronald Zajac, of Northville, Michigan, the general counsel of Detroit’s two pension funds, and Paul Stewart, of Detroit, Michigan, a former trustee of Detroit’s Police and Fire Retirement System, were both charged Wednesday in a superseding indictment with participating in a bribery and kickback conspiracy involving over $200 million in investments before the two city of Detroit pension funds United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced Wednesday.