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Lee A. Khan, 32, of Fairfax, Virginia, was sentenced for Thursday to 37 months in prison for his role in a money laundering scheme meant to keep law enforcement from learning about a larger conspiracy involving bribery, kickbacks, and federal government contracts.

Federal authorities arrested 12 former Ector County Correctional Center (ECCC) guards and one former ECCC employee Wednesday's morning for allegedly accepting bribes in exchange for smuggling contraband to inmates inside the federal detention facility announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Mark Morgan, El Paso Division.

Ryan Lohr, 26, a former correctional officer at the Roxbury Correctional Institution (RCI) in Hagerstown, Maryland, pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to obstruct justice and destroy evidence from a March 9, 2008 assault of an inmate by RCI officers.

Two now-former TSA officers who conspired and attempted to smuggle drugs through Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport security have been sentenced by United States District Judge Charles Pannell. Wednesday, Richard C. Cook, II, 28, of Henry County, Georgia, was sentenced to 11 years in prison; and on January 4, 2013, Timothy G. Gregory, 26, of DeKalb County, Georgia, was sentenced to six years in prison.

Earlier Wednesday, at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn, New York, former New York State Senator Shirley Huntley plchaeaded guilty to a criminal information charging her with conspiracy to commit mail fraud.

Mark Olkowski, 62, of North Wildwood, New Jersey, a business partner in K&O Sports, was indicted Tuesday on tax charges, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. K&O sports, on Moyamensing Avenue, is a South Philadelphia distributor of T-shirts and other clothing items for labor unions, municipalities, and political candidates.

Joseph McIntyre, 38, of Philadelphia, was sentenced Tuesday to six months’ incarceration for his role in a conspiracy to illegally distribute anabolic steroids. McIntyre, a former Philadelphia Police officer, was charged in an indictment that named 14 others including fellow officers Keith Gidelson and George Sambuca.

A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned an indictment charging LaQuanta Clayton with aggravated identity theft and theft of government money, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced Tuesday.

Manuel Ernesto Ortiz-Barraza, an independent financial consultant, was extradited to the United States on last Friday for his alleged role in a scheme to defraud the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) of over $2.5 million, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas Robert Pitman and Osvaldo L. Gratacos, Inspector General of the Ex-Im Bank.

Steven Kern of Marine City, Mich., pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Court Judge Arthur J. Tarnow in the Eastern District of Michigan to eight counts of filing false corporate tax returns and eight counts of failing to file his individual tax returns, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced Monday.