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David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that David Moffa, 53, of Middlebury,the Friday pleaded guilty United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to a federal conspiracy charge stemming from a scheme to direct illegal campaign contributions into the campaign of a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Bruce King, the owner and operator of Premier Tax, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiring to defraud the United States and filing false tax returns, on Friday the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced . Additionally, on Thursday, Vonecia Orum, a return preparer who worked at Premier Tax, pleaded guilty to delivering false tax returns to the IRS.

Jacqueline Wheeler, 55, on Friday the chief executive officer and owner of two health care companies, was sentenced to six years and three months in prison for health care fraud and other federal offenses stemming from the submission of more than $7 million in fraudulent claims to the District of Columbia Medicaid program.

On Friday the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that attorney Aristotle R. Matsa (Rick Matsa), of Worthington, Ohio, was sentenced to 85 months in prison by the Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Judge Sargus also ordered Matsa to pay a criminal fine of $265,000, make restitution to the IRS in the amount of $388,000, and pay restitution to a client from whom Rick Matsa embezzled funds in the amount of $24,069.

A bail bondsman in Portsmouth, Virginia was sentenced on Friday to serve 30 months in prison for bribing public officials in exchange for receiving favorable treatment, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Neil H. MacBride.

Keely E. Thompson, Jr., executive director of Keely’s District Boxing and Youth Center, and his wife, Bianca Thompson, the center’s deputy director, were indicted on Friday on federal charges alleging they conspired to spend District of Columbia and private grant funds meant for youth programs and activities on personal goods, entertainment, and services.

Two members of the Internet piracy group “IMAGiNE” were sentenced to prison on Friday in Virginia, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District of Virginia and Special Agent in Charge John P. Torres of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) in Washington, D.C.

The November 1, 2012, Freweyni Mebrahtu, 45, of Sterling, Virginia, pled guilty to stealing at least $400,000 of visitor parking fees belonging to the Smithsonian Institution’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.

The United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts announced on November 2, that the United States has reached a settlement with Orthofix International NV (Orthofix) subsidiary Blackstone Medical Inc. (BMI) in connection with an investigation of alleged violations of the False Claims Act.

A Guatemalan woman wanted for her alleged role in the murder of a former top security advisor to the Guatemalan government was handed over to authorities in Guatemala City Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), capping a two-year effort by her native country to secure her capture and return.