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Bruce King, the founder and operator of Premier Tax, was sentenced Wednesday in Montgomery, Ala., to 70 months in prison and ordered to pay $781,305 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for orchestrating a tax fraud scheme at his business, the Justice Department and the IRS announced.

Veteran District of Columbia defense attorney Charles F. Daum was sentenced Tuesday to serve 63 months in prison on three counts of obstructing justice in a federal drug trafficking case, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; Chief Cathy L. Lanier of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department; and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

April Johnston, a former corrections officer, pled guilty Tuesday to a federal bribery charge for accepting money to bring contraband into a District of Columbia correctional facility, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen, Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Thomas Thorndike, 62, a Woodbury-based tax preparer, was sentenced Tuesday by Chief United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for engaging in tax fraud over the course of several years.

Extortion of Municipal Contractors
At the heart of the conspiracy was a scheme to use the power and authority of Kwame Kilpatrick’s office as mayor of Detroit to extort municipal contractors by coercing them to include Ferguson in public contracts and to rig the award of public contracts to ensure Ferguson obtained a portion of the revenue from those contracts.

Monday, a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against Kwame M. Kilpatrick, 42, of Southlake, Texas, and Bobby W. Ferguson, 44, of Detroit, on charges that they used Kwame Kilpatrick’s positions as mayor of Detroit and Michigan State House Representative to execute a wide-ranging racketeering conspiracy involving extortion, bribery, and fraud, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced. Bernard Kilpatrick, 70, of Detroit, was convicted of a felony tax offense.

Initial appearance of Francis Muthaura (right) and Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta before the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 8 April 2011.

The Justice Department announced on last Friday that Chattanooga, Tenn., based nursing home manager Grace Healthcare LLC and its affiliate Grace Ancillary Services LLC (collectively, Grace) have agreed to pay $2.7 million, plus interest, to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting or causing the submission to the Medicare and TennCare/Medicaid programs of false claims for medically unreasonable and unnecessary rehabilitation therapy.

United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that Troy Teague, former executive director of the La Posta Gaming Commission (the “commission”) pled guilty on Friday in front of Magistrate Judge Jan Adler to embezzling $57,000 from the La Posta Band of Mission Indians.

A 29-count indictment was unsealed on Friday in Montgomery, Ala., charging Bryant Thompson, an Alabama corrections officer, and Quincy Walton, a former Alabama corrections officer, with federal tax crimes, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Thompson and Walton are both charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States.