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The United States filed two lawsuits to shut down three tax preparers in Prince George’s County, Md., the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction complaints were filed in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md. One suit names Tonya Hubbard and her Lanham, Md.-based tax preparation business, Universal Tax Service LLC, as defendants.

Several family members were sentenced Friday in the Middle District of Alabama for their involvement in a $1.9 million dollar stolen identity refund fraud scheme, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.

Donnie Wright, 53, of Lubbock, Texas, appeared on last Thursday in federal court and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to one count of embezzlement of funds by a bank employee. Wright, who remains on bond, faces a maximum statutory penalty of 30 years in federal prison, a $1 million fine, and restitution.

Hashim was charged, along with Anthoneel Allen, 40, of Wellington, in connection with a scheme wherein they paid bribes to Jihad El Eid, who was the director of Traffic Engineering in the Division of Public Works in Broward County.

Lynn Carol Williams, age 56, of Middle River, Maryland, pleaded guilty on last Thursday to wire fraud in connection with a scheme to misuse the corporate purchasing card and cause losses of more than $107,000 to the Freestate Challenge Academy, a Maryland National Guard program located at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

n last Thursday's evening, a federal jury sitting in Albuquerque, New Mexico found Armando C. Gutierrez, 65, of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Joseph C. Kupfer, 49, of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, guilty of conspiracy and theft of government property charges after an eight-day trial.

Roomy Khan was sentenced on Thursday to one year in prison for her participation in insider trading schemes in which Khan provided material, non-public information about various publicly traded companies to a number of individuals, including Raj Rajaratnam, the founder and former head of the Galleon Group, and Doug Whitman, the president and founder of Whitman Capital, announced U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara.

Lauren Jeannette Diggs, age 50, of Rockville, pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiracy to seek and accept a bribe and making false statements to the grand jury.

James Henley, a former contractor with the Detroit Public Library (DPL), was charged in an indictment for bribery of a public official, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced on Thursday.

Three Colombian nationals were deported Monday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). They were convicted of conspiracy to fraudulently attempt to export airplane engines used in F-5 fighter jets from the United States to Iran after an investigation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).