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Douglas Kuester, 43, a tax preparer from Silver City, N.M., was sentenced Monday to 48 months in prison for filing false claims and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced Monday.

The former insurance broker for the Toms River Regional School District was sentenced on Friday to 135 months in prison for his role in a scheme to pay bribes and other benefits to the then-superintendent of schools to get and maintain a contract to provide insurance services for the district, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Mohammad Jafar Nikbakht, aka Freydoon Nikbakht, was sentenced Friday to 15 months in prison for evading his individual income taxes, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. According to the indictment and other documents filed with the court, Nikbakht ran a series of lucrative auto dealerships in the greater San Diego area and significantly under-reported income earned through these businesses. John A. Houston, U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of California, who presided over the sentencing hearing, found that Nikbakht caused over $200,000 in tax loss.

A former Police of Puerto Rico officer was sentenced on Friday to 181 months in prison for her role in providing armed security for a drug transaction, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Rosa E. Rodriguez-Velez of the District of Puerto Rico, and Special Agent in Charge Joseph S. Campbell of the FBI’s San Juan Field Office.

A former River Rouge School District official was found guilty on Friday of bribery and mail fraud by a federal jury in Detroit, United States Attorney Barbara McQuade announced on Friday.

A federal judge sentenced Spokane, Washington Police Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr. to 51 months in prison, followed by three years’ supervised release, for civil rights and obstruction violations stemming from his March 18, 2006 beating of an unarmed citizen and an extensive cover-up that followed, the Justice Department announced.

A Chicago Police officer was indicted on federal charges alleging that he schemed to defraud two insurance companies by making a false police report of an actual auto accident and, separately, staging a purported auto accident.

A federal court has permanently barred a Michigan lawyer, Tammy Daniels of Farmington Hills, from promoting an alleged tax fraud scheme, the Justice Department announced on Friday.

James Lee Loman, 70, of McLoud, Oklahoma, a former Item Manager at Tinker Air Force Base, was arrested on Thursday on charges of conspiring to commit wire fraud, accepting bribes, and participating in government contracting under an illegal conflict of interest, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. A federal grand jury returned the sealed indictment against Loman on November 7, 2012. The indictment was unsealed on Thursday when Loman appeared in federal court.

The former business manager of an ironworker’s local from Jersey City, New Jersey, was sentenced on Thursday to six months in prison or a halfway house for unlawfully demanding and receiving a bribe, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.