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Megan Horton, 54, of Owego, Tioga County, New York; and Gwenn Gooding, 43, also of Owego, Tioga County, New York, pled guilty Wednesday in United States District Court to the felony crime of bank embezzlement.

A Nevada federal court has permanently barred Benyam Tewolde from preparing tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced on last Friday. Tewolde and his wife, Yordanos Kidanits, are the alleged co-owners of an Instant Tax Service franchise that operates at multiple locations in the Las Vegas area. Instant Tax Service is a nationally franchised tax preparation company based in Dayton, Ohio.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced on Friday that former Long Island Railroad (LIRR) employees Thomas Delalla, Frank Plaia, Sharon Falloon, and Kevin Nugent pled guilty to federal charges in connection with their participation in an alleged massive fraud scheme in which LIRR workers claimed to be disabled upon early retirement so that they could receive disability benefits to which they were not entitled.

The state media continues their non-stop misinformation campaign on the impeachment move by the government. Several ministers also participated in this media campaign. The central topics of the campaign are that it is the charges that are important, and not the process – meaning that whether the inquiry took place by a competent and impartial tribunal does not matter - and that judicial review into the proposed actions of the executive, such as the Divenaguma Bill, amount to sabotage.

U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Will Johnson, 31, of League City, Texas, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, kilograms of cocaine and to money laundering conspiracy. Johnson was arrested along with 17 others in August 2010 for narcotics trafficking. The drug conspiracy charge against Johnson carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison up to life, a $5,000,000 fine, or both; and the money laundering conspiracy carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.

Caddell Construction Company Inc., a major commercial and industrial federal government construction contractor based in Montgomery, Ala., has entered into an agreement with the Department of Justice to resolve criminal fraud violations arising from Caddell’s intentional overstating of developmental assistance provided to a disadvantaged small business as part of a Department of Defense (DoD) program.

Victory Pharma Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company headquartered in San Diego, has agreed to pay $11,420,743 to resolve federal civil and criminal liability arising from its marketing of the pharmaceutical products Naprelan, Xodol, Fexmid, and Dolgic, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

Victory Pharma Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company headquartered in San Diego, has agreed to pay $11,420,743 to resolve federal civil and criminal liability arising from its marketing of the pharmaceutical products Naprelan, Xodol, Fexmid, and Dolgic, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi; Daniel McMullen, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Mississippi; and Robert Anderson, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General in New Orleans, announced that Connie Lewis, 52, of Jackson, Mississippi, and Linda Balducci, 59, of Shelby, Mississippi, were named in a superseding indictment charging them in connection with an embezzlement and bribery scheme related to federal grant funds and the construction of community housing projects in the Mississippi Delta.

The FBI worked thousands of investigations during 2012, involving everything from extremists bent on terror to cyber thieves, financial fraudsters, and child predators. As the year comes to a close, we take our annual look back at some of the Bureau’s most significant cases.