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A chiropractor who partly owned six suburban clinics was sentenced on Monday to six-and-a-half years in federal prison for intending to defraud a private health insurance company of nearly $5.9 million and causing an actual loss of more than $2 million by submitting false claims for certain services that were not medically necessary or were not provided to patients.

British contractor APTx Vehicle Systems Limited agreed Monday to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States, the Coalition Provisional Authority that governed Iraq from April 2003 to June 2004, the government of Iraq and JP Morgan Chase Bank. A civil settlement agreement resolving a related action filed under the False Claims Act was also announced on Monday.

Standard Chartered Bank, a financial institution headquartered in London, has agreed to forfeit $227 million to the Justice Department for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

A former securities broker pleaded guilty on Monday for his role in a scheme to defraud thousands of investors through the manipulation of publicly traded stocks, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma.

The former supervisor of Athletics and Special Projects for the Toms River, New Jersey Regional School District was sentenced on Monday to 37 months in prison in connection with a scheme to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to the superintendent of the school district in exchange for his official assistance, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

An Atlanta man was charged in an indictment, unsealed to Friday, with defrauding and embezzling more than $3 million from the two city of Detroit pension funds and a city of Pontiac pension fund U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced on Friday.

An indictment was unsealed on Friday charging Arlene Gerson, 46, of Philadelphia, with abusing her position as a pharmacist to conspire with Jeffrey Handy, 33, of Norristown, Pennsylvania, in the illegal distribution of oxycodone, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Gerson and Handy were arrested Friday morning by the FBI.

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, on Friday announced that Patrick Pinto, 44, of Bohemia, New York, was arrested on Friday on a federal criminal complaint charging him with conspiracy to commit bank bribery while he was an executive of Oxford Collection Agency.

Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael B. Steinbach, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that Claudio Eleazar Osorio, a/k/a “Claudio Osorio Rodriguez,” 54, of Aventura, and Craig Stanley Toll, 64, of Pembroke Pines, were arrested on Friday based on a federal fraud indictment.

According to statistics released today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 6,222 criminal incidents involving 7,254 offenses were reported in 2011 as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability. The statistics, published by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program in Hate Crime Statistics, 2011, provide data about the offenses, victims, offenders, and locations of the bias-motivated incidents reported by law enforcement agencies throughout the nation. Due to the unique nature of hate crime, however, the UCR program does not estimate offenses for the jurisdictions of agencies that do not submit reports.