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A federal jury has convicted a Buena Park doctor for participating in a health care fraud scheme involving unnecessary procedures and prescriptions that led to Medicare paying out nearly $3 million on fraudulent claims for durable medical equipment and nutritional supplies.

A federal jury late Wednesday convicted Kevin Casaus, 25, a former corrections officer at the Bernalillo County, New Mexico Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on obstruction of justice and falsification of records charges, announced the Justice Department.

Michael Duye Campbell, 30, of Houston, appeared in federal court in Dallas Wednesday and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis to an information charging one count of mail fraud, stemming from a scheme he ran from 2010 to 2012 to obtain financial assistance so that he could play professional golf.

A federal court permanently barred Toney Fields and Trumekia Shaw, who do business as Fields Mo’ Money Taxes in Nashville, Tenn., from preparing federal tax returns, the Justice Department announced Monday.

William B. Clayton, a residential builder formerly of Corolla, N.C., pleaded guilty today before Judge Terrence W. Boyle to corruptly obstructing and impeding the due administration of the tax laws, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Toni Weirauch; the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI)

United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that Brandon Johnson was sentenced on Friday in federal court in San Diego by the Honorable Anthony J. Battaglia to serve six months in custody, followed by one year of supervised release, for his role in a conspiracy to commit sports bribery in connection with influencing the outcome of University of San Diego (USD) basketball games during the 2009-2010 season and soliciting a USD player to do the same during the 2010-2011 season.

In Corpus Christi, a federal jury convicted 51–year-old Austin attorney Marc Garrett Rosenthal of federal charges related to a bribery scheme in South Texas, announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman;, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez, San Antonio Division; Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena, Houston Field Division; and Brownsville Police Chief Carlos Garcia.

Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office; and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced that, after a four-week trial before U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams, a federal jury sitting in Miami convicted defendant Steven Steiner, a/k/a “Steven Steinger,” 60, on 19 of 54 counts, including conspiracy to commit money laundering offenses, money laundering, conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, and various obstruction of justice offenses relating to Steiner’s participation in a scheme to launder and conceal more than $15 million in proceeds derived from the Mutual Benefits Corporation (MBC) fraud, and Steiner’s obstruction of United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC”), the court-appointed receiver for MBC, and the United States District Court, in their efforts to secure and recover assets traceable to the fraud. Co-defendant Henry Fecker, III was acquitted on all charges. Steiner is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Williams on May 8, 2013.

Former Jackson Police Officers Monyette Quintel Jefferson, 27; Terence Dale Jenkins, 25; and Anthony Ricardo Payne, Jr., 26, were sentenced in U.S. District Court for accepting bribes from an undercover FBI agent, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen announced.