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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Mary Galligan, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”); Robert L. Panella, Special Agent in Charge for the New York Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of the Inspector General; Office of Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigations (“DOL-OIG”); and Jonathan Kay, the Regional Director for the New York Regional Office of the United States Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (“DOL-EBSA”), announced today that IRWIN LIPKIN, the former controller of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (“BLMIS”), pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to a two-count superseding information charging him with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, to falsify records, to make false filings with the SEC, and to falsify statements in relation to documents required by ERISA, as well as a substantive count of falsifying statements in relation to documents required by ERISA. LIPKIN pled guilty before United States District Judge Laura Taylor Swain.

The Thursday in federal court, a Stillwater couple was sentenced in connection with a $5 million mortgage fraud scheme. United States District Judge David S. Doty sentenced James Warren Hoffman, age 52, to 78 months in federal prison on one count of engaging in a monetary transaction in criminally derived property and one count of evasion of payment of United States income taxes.

A criminal information was filed yesterday charging the former executive director of the Flats Oxbow Association with stealing more than $580,000 from the organization, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Field Office.

Two former members of the U.S. military were sentenced yesterday for their participation in a conspiracy to obtain approximately $244,000 in fraudulent recruiting referral bonuses from various U.S. military components and their contractor, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

Kelley Williams, age 38, a resident of Terrytown, Louisiana, the Wednesday was sentenced in federal court before United States District Court Judge Martin L.C. Feldman, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.

Eric M. Martin, 42, of Roswell, Georgia, former head of investor relations for Carter’s Inc., the major children’s clothing company,the Wednesday was charged by a federal grand jury with conspiracy, securities fraud, and wire fraud in connection with multi-year, multi-state insider trading schemes primarily involving Carter’s stock.

The government has intervened in a lawsuit against Fluor Hanford Inc. and its parent company, Fluor Corporation (collectively Fluor), in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, the Justice Department announced yesterday.

The owner of a pecan brokerage company in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico,the Wednesday was sentenced to serve 48 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) of approximately $400,000, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas Robert Pitman and Osvaldo L. Gratacos, Inspector General of the Ex-Im Bank.

John B. Langley, 62, of Harrah, Oklahoma, has entered a guilty plea to making a false statement to a federally insured credit union, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.