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The Justice Department filed suit today asking the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida to permanently bar Torrey Burden from preparing federal tax returns for others. The civil injunction suit alleges that Burden prepares returns through A&L Financial Solutions in St. Petersburg, Fla.

An employee of a global wealth management firm (identified only as “Brokerage Firm A”) was arrested at his home on Friday's morning on insider trading charges related to Gilead Sciences Inc.’s $11 billion acquisition of New Jersey-based Pharmasset Inc., New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

A former director of a Georgia bank who managed two private investment funds has been charged by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of New York with securities fraud and wire fraud.

A federal criminal complaint was unsealed last Friday charging four Highland Park Police officers with accepting bribes, conspiring to distribute six kilograms of cocaine, and carrying firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced last Friday.

Former Fort Deposit, Ala., police officer Carlos Tyson Bennett, 37, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller to 37 months in prison, two years of supervised release and ordered to pay $500 in restitution.

The United States has asked a federal court in Florence, S.C., to permanently bar Susann Allen of Darlington County, S.C., and Rachel D. Watson of Florence County, S.C., from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

A former Chicago man was taken into custody after he was sentenced last Friday to 12 years in federal prison for an investment and tax fraud scheme in which he swindled 57 investors, some of whom he had purported to befriend, of just under $8 million and failed to pay nearly $1.5 million in federal income taxes.

An Enumclaw financial adviser whose crimes were uncovered when he tried to collect a half-million-dollar death benefit on a client who was still living was sentenced last Friday to seven years in prison, three years of supervised release, and restitution in the amount of $5,705,023.24, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. Aaron Travis Beaird, 39, was arrested in July 2012 after he faked his suicide, traveled to Scotland for a week, and then returned to Sea-Tac airport, where he was taken into federal custody for investigation of mail fraud and wire fraud.

C. Ray Nagin, 56, a resident of Frisco, Texas, and formerly the mayor of New Orleans, was charged in a 21-count indictment with bribery, honest service wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy, and filing false tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente, FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael Anderson, and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge James Lee.

Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Michael B. Steinbach, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office; and Manuel Orosa, Chief, City of Miami Police Department (MPD), announced the conviction of Raul Iglesias, 40, of Miami, Florida, a city of Miami Police sergeant, on eight counts, including two civil rights violations, conspiracy to possess and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine, obstruction of justice, and making false official statements.