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The owner of a now defunct McAllen-area durable medical equipment (DME) business, his wife, and another former employee have been convicted for their roles in a conspiracy and scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid through fraudulent billings, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced last Thursday.

Millicent D. West, the former director and chief executive officer of a non-profit organization that promotes youth opportunities, pled guilty last Friday to a criminal tax charge for her role in channeling $110,000 in youth grant funds used to pay for an inaugural ball.

Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Daniel McMullen of the FBI in Mississippi confirmed that Paul Winfield, mayor of Vicksburg, Mississippi, was arrested at his residence on February 20, 2013, by FBI special agents pursuant to a criminal complaint and affidavit filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.

The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that on February 20, 2013, it filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking to forfeit assets in the name of James Beckwith, the former chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Southern Vermont College. Beckwith had also served as acting president of the college in 2012.

Carl Edward Washington, a former California assemblyman who represented the state’s 52nd district, has agreed to plead guilty to federal bank fraud charges, admitting that he bilked financial institutions by falsely claiming to be the victim of identity theft.

According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, from about February through June 2012, a check casher in Perrine, Florida (J&S Taxes) cashed thousands of fraudulently obtained U.S. income tax refund checks worth over $12 million.

A former U.S. Army staff sergeant pleaded guilty Wednesday to accepting thousands of dollars in bribes from contractors while he was deployed to Iraq, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee William C. Killian.

Matthew Pendley, 26, a former corrections officer at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of obstructing justice when he lied to law enforcement during their investigation of the assault on an inmate at the hands of another corrections officer.

Former Humana Inc. regional sales director Glen Allan Fine pleaded guilty in United States District Court in Louisville, Kentucky Tuesday to charges of racketeering and bribery in connection with his former position, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.