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A North Royalton loan officer was sentenced to more than two years in prison for a mortgage-fraud scheme that resulted in a loss of more than $1 million, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that the government will return approximately $9,000,000 in forfeited funds to the victims of a Ponzi scheme allegedly perpetrated by the late Ashvin Zaveri of Honeoye Falls, New York. More than 120 victims of the scheme may be eligible to receive a share of the forfeited funds. The victims’ claims will be reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Mary Galligan, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Wednesday announced conspiracy and securities fraud charges against Thomas C. Conradt and David J. Weishaus, two former stock brokers at a securities trading firm (“Securities Trading Firm-1”), for their alleged involvement in an insider trading scheme.

Tuesday in federal court in St. Paul, a former payroll agent for Land O’Lakes was sentenced for embezzling more than $1 million from the company.

Chris Barna, 33, of Manteca, was arrested today for a 20-count indictment brought by a grand jury on November 21, 2012, charging him with embezzling more than $950,000 from his employer M & C Association Management Services Inc., United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

The United States Attorney for the District of Colorado announces that a former employee of Paragon Dynamics, a defense contractor based in Aurora, has agreed to pay $60,000 for improperly obtaining competitors’ bid and proposal information on contracts for the National Reconnaissance Office. Earlier this year, Paragon Dynamics paid $1.15 million to resolve allegations that it violated the Procurement Integrity Act.

U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller sentenced Kinde Durkee, 59, of Long Beach, California, Wednesday to eight years and one month in prison for five counts of mail fraud related to a long-running scheme in which she misappropriated millions of dollars from various federal and state campaign committees, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

An indictment was unsealed Wednesday charging three people, including a former city employee, in a scheme to defraud the city of Philadelphia of more than $1 million, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger, FBI Special Agent in Charge George C. Venizelos, and City of Philadelphia Inspector General Amy Kurland.

The former fire chief of the Mint Hill Volunteer Fire Department has agreed to plead guilty to embezzling more than $225,000 from the Town of Mint Hill and the Fire Department, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.