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Theadora Ross, a former senior corporal with the Dallas Police Department, was sentenced Monday's morning by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 46 months in federal prison, following her guilty plea in August 2012 to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, stemming from her role as head of the Dallas Crime Stoppers office, and one count of willfully attempting to evade assessment of income taxes.

The former co-owner of a Wichita home health care company who pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns has been sentenced to six months in-home detention, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Monday.

Betty Lessard, 74, Wichita, Kansas, will serve a year on supervised release including six months in-home detention. She also was ordered to pay $692,515 in restitution. In addition, she is banned from doing business with Medicare.

Jillian Hanson-Cox, a former member of the El Cajon City Council, was sentenced in federal court today by the Honorable Michael M. Anello to serve 30 months in custody, followed by two years of supervised release, for conducting a scheme to defraud her employer, and filing a false income tax return stemming from her employment at Century Design Inc. (CDI) in San Diego, California.

A woman who helped a bank teller embezzle more than $27,000 from a Kansas City bank has been sentenced to six months home detention followed by two years’ supervised release, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Monday.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that former Pennsylvania State Senator Robert Mellow was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Joel H. Slomsky to 16 months in prison, three years of supervised release, a fine of $40,000, and ordered to pay $79,806.17 in restitution. Mellow previously paid more than $31,000 in restitution for the federal tax charges.

A Brooklyn, N.Y., resident pleaded guilty Monday for his role in a $71 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta E. Lynch, Acting Assistant Director in Charge George Venizelos of the FBI’s New York Field Office and Special Agent in Charge Thomas O’Donnell of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG).

The former borough attorney for Bergenfield, New Jersey was sentenced to three years of probation on last Thursday for his role in a mail fraud scheme and failure to file federal income tax returns, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

David M. Kwiatkowski, 33, a former employee of Exeter Hospital, has been indicted for his alleged role in causing the Hepatitis C outbreak that infected patients in New Hampshire as well as other states, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.

John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Timothy I. Mathwich, 62, of Wausau, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty on November 27, 2012, in U.S. District Court in Madison to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and misappropriation of insurance credits.

Bay E. Ingram, age 50, a resident of Covington, Louisiana, pled guilty on Wednesday in front of United States District Judge Sarah S. Vance to a one-count bill of information charging him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.