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Andrew J. Watts, a Barbados national, was sentenced in Chicago by U.S. District Judge Joan Gottschall to 114 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of just under $1.7 million for devising and executing a stolen identity federal income tax refund fraud scheme, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced yesterday.

Larry Murphy, 54, of Antioch, Tennessee, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges in connection with the solicitation and acceptance of more than $5,000 in bribes in exchange for issuing driver’s licenses and permits, announced Jerry E. Martin, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.

Lawrence Etsitty , 31, a former police officer with the Navajo Police Department (NPD), the Tuesday was sentenced in federal court on charges related to the sexual abuse of a woman who was in his custody on January 25, 2009.

David M. Ketchmark, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former public administrator of Jasper County, the Tuesday Missouri pleaded guilty in federal court to document fraud, which was part of a scheme in which she illegally obtained federal benefits for her wards.

A Newport News, Va., federal jury has found Jeffrey Charles guilty for conspiring with his daughter and son-in-law to defraud the United States, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced on Tuesday. Charles was found guilty of one count of conspiracy, three counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns and one count of filing a false tax return.

A man who was a member of the Santa Fe Springs City Council was sentenced on Monday to two years in federal prison for taking $10,000 in bribes from the operator of a marijuana store who wanted to influence the city to allow his store to stay open.

The owner of a Miami-Dade County assisted living facility (ALF) was sentenced on Monday to 15 months in prison for her role in a kickback scheme that funneled ALF patients to fraudulent mental health providers American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC) and Health Care Solutions Network (HCSN), announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department's Criminal Division

A Rowan County woman and her Mecklenburg County co-conspirator were sentenced to prison on Friday, November 2, 2012, in U.S. District Court for their role in a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid and related offenses, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.

Freeman Health System, a health care provider and hospital system located in Joplin, Missouri, has agreed to pay $9,316,139 to resolve allegations that it violated the Stark Law and the False Claims Act by knowingly providing incentive pay to physicians in a manner that violated federal law, the Justice Department announced yesterday.

U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Sandy P. Kim, age 43, of Ellicott City, Maryland,on Friday to two years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for wire fraud. Judge Hollander also entered an order that Kim forfeit $684,283, the amount Kim stole from mortgage escrow accounts.