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In Del Rio, Texas, Eduardo De La Garza, owner of Rio Bravo Construction in Eagle Pass, faces up to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty Wednesday's morning to paying a bribe to an agent of an organization receiving federal funds in connection with an alleged bribery, kickback, and bid-rigging scheme in Maverick County, announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez.

The former New Jersey-based operator of Suarez Investment and Development LLC was sentenced Wednesday to 54 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy that bilked victims out of $1 million through fraudulent investment schemes, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Joon Park, a/k/a “Joon Pak,” and “Joon Paik,” age 43, of Falls Church, Virginia, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to commit bank fraud in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain business loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration, with resulting losses of over $100 million.

A former investment fund manager and radio personality who admitted bilking investors out of millions of dollars by falsely promising to purchase corporate bonds backed by the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was sentenced Monday's afternoon to 120 months in federal prison.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that William Landberg, former chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of West End Financial Advisors LLC (“West End”), was sentenced Monday to 42 months in prison in connection with an $8.7 million investment scheme.

A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Alfred J. Villalobos, of Reno, Nevada, and Federico R. Buenrostro, Jr., aka Fred Buenrostro, of Sacramento, California, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, engaging in a false scheme against the United States, and conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag announced. Mr. Buenrostro was also charged in the same indictment with making a false statement to the United States and obstruction of justice.

Richard Bryan Nutt, 45, a former Harris County Sheriff’s Office (HSCO) deputy, has been sentenced to federal prison for conspiring with others to use his position as a law enforcement officer to steal drug loads from dealers and split the proceeds with others, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced Monday

The conviction of the defendants stemmed from the investigation of Safe Home Health Care Inc., a home health agency in Miami that was offering and paying kickbacks to obtain beneficiaries to serve as patients for home health services, mostly physical therapy.

Phoenix FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven R. Hooper announces the arrest of Customs and Border Protection Officer Lauro Tobias, 59, by the FBI’s Southern Arizona Corruption Task Force. Tobias was arrested on Thursday, March 14, 2013, without incident.

A former medical director for Biscayne Milieu, a Miami-based mental-health clinic, was sentenced on Friday to serve 144 months in prison for his role in a fraud scheme involving the submission of more than $50 million in fraudulent billings to Medicare, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.