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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Todd Hansen, the former president of the United States division of an international outdoor advertising company (the “company”), was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to four months in prison in connection with his participation in a five-year, $19.75 million accounting fraud scheme designed to make it appear that the company was meeting certain performance targets so that he could receive higher salary increases and bonuses.

David M. Ketchmark, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former employee of Jefferson Bank in Jefferson City, Missouri was sentenced in federal court Thursday for embezzling more than $540,000 from the bank and another former employer as well as for tax fraud.

John Giannelli, Sr., 66, of Danvers, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison today after pleading guilty on September 27, 2012, in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to one count of money laundering, one count of operating an illegal gambling business, and five counts of impeding the administration of the Internal Revenue laws, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.

The motion for the impeachment of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake has caused the most important constitutional crisis experienced in Sri Lanka in the recent decades.

Renewed protests against public apathy and police incompetence erupted in India Saturday after the boyfriend of the New Delhi gang-rape victim recounted witnessing the gruesome crime. Police are refuting his claims.

The leader of the Internet piracy group "IMAGiNE" was sentenced today to 60 months in prison following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Washington, D.C.

A U.S. Army Major has pleaded guilty today to accepting thousands of dollars in gratuities from contractors while he was a U.S. Army captain deployed to Iraq, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina William N. Nettles.

A former financial services broker was sentenced today in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, for his participation in conspiracies related to bidding for contracts for the investment of municipal bond proceeds and other municipal finance contracts, the Department of Justice announced.

Carolyn Dawson, of Oklahoma City, has pled guilty to using interstate wire communications to defraud her former employer, American Plant Products, and to evading federal payroll taxes, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

Thomas William Quintin, 65, formerly of Denver, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States with respect to claims, and one count of misuse of a Social Security number (SSN), before U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson, the U.S. Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Quintin is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Jackson on April 2, 2013.