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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Wesley Wang, a former consultant with Trellus Management, was sentenced Wednesday to two years’ probation for his participation in insider trading schemes in which Wang provided material, non-public information (“inside information”) about various publicly traded companies to several individuals, including Doug Whitman, the president and founder of Whitman Capital.

Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Missouri woman was sentenced in federal court Wednesday for tax evasion related to unreported income from the theft of more than $257,000 from her employer.

A federal grand jury has returned a six-count indictment against Jonathan Trevino, Alexis Rigoberto Espinoza, Fabian Rodriguez, and Gerardo Mendoza-Duran, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced Wednesday.

Miles Lamar Gammage, 59, a recently disbarred attorney from Cedartown, Georgia, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to charges that he defrauded more than 50 of his seriously injured worker’s compensation clients out of settlement funds they were owed.

Mary Estelle Curran of Palm Beach, Fla., pleaded guilty Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to filing false tax returns for tax years 2006 and 2007, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) announced.

Former Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tem Michael Steven Morgan, 57, of Stillwater, Oklahoma, was sentenced Tuesday by United States District Judge Robin J. Cauthron to serve five years’ probation for bribery, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

A former Pennsville, New Jersey Police officer Tuesday admitted obstructing the FBI’s investigation of his alleged possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

A Chinese national has pleaded guilty to charges related to selling illegally copied American software worth more than $100 million. U.S. officials say it is one of the most significant cases of copyright infringement ever uncovered by law enforcement authorities.

A physician who owned weight loss clinics in northwest Indiana and south suburban Chicago pleaded guilty to illegally dispensing millions of pills containing amphetamine-based controlled substances to patients, and he and his wife also pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion relating to their operation of the clinics, federal law enforcement officials announced Tuesday.

Demetrio Juan Gonzales, 40, a former corrections officer at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was sentenced today in federal court to 33 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for violating the civil rights of an individual in his custody when he struck and choked the victim in the shower room/dress-out area of MDC. Gonzales pleaded guilty in October 2012.