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Even the worst of criminals have a right to a fair trial before an independent judiciary. A judge in an impeachment proceeding in Sri Lanka does not have that right. Article 107 of the Constitution and the standing orders as they stand now preclude that right.

A former Lincoln County official was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for making a false statement in connection with a 2010 election fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Former Lincoln County Commissioner Thomas Ramey, Jr., 32, of Lincoln County, West Virginia, previously pleaded guilty in August to making a false statement to an FBI agent in connection with an absentee voting fraud investigation in Lincoln County.

Timothy McGee, 48, of Philadelphia, was convicted today of one count of securities fraud and one count of perjury in a case of insider trading, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Between July 14, 2008 and July 22, 2008, McGee purchased shares of a publicly traded company based on non-public information he received from a fellow member of Alcoholics Anonymous immediately following a meeting the two had attended together.

United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court Thursday Robert Alan Walker, 36, of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, pled guilty before United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle to conspiring to steal property of the United States, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, and to theft of government property, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 641 and 2.

Robin R. Lockwood, 44, a dentist from Oklahoma City, was sentenced last week to serve 18 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to committing health care fraud, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. In addition, Lockwood was ordered to pay $375,672.27 in restitution to Medicaid.

A Chicago psychiatrist received illegal kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies and submitted at least 140,000 false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for antipsychotic medications he prescribed for thousands of mentally ill patients in area nursing homes, according to a civil health care fraud lawsuit filed Thursday by the United States.

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Hartford returned a two-count indictment today charging Meriden Police Officer Evan Cossestte, 25, with federal civil rights violations.

Two former employees of the Alabama Administrative Office of the Courts were indicted today in Montgomery, Ala., for stealing the programming code for a sensitive court data system, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance for the Northern District of Alabama.

The former comptroller of the city of Dixon, Illinois, Rita A. Crundwell, pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge Wednesday, admitting that she stole more than $53 million from the city since 1990 and used the proceeds to finance her quarter horse farming business and lavish lifestyle.

The Wednesday, former Queens County Assemblyman Jimmy Meng waived indictment and pled guilty to an information charging him with wire fraud for soliciting $80,000 in cash from a state court defendant and falsely claiming that he would use the money to bribe prosecutors in the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan to obtain a reduced sentence.