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Bay E. Ingram, age 50, a resident of Covington, Louisiana, was charged today in a bill of information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.

Rezwan Ferdaus was sentenced today for plotting an attack on American soil and attempting to provide detonation devices to terrorists.

On October 31, Antoinette Djonret pleaded guilty in two cases: one involving the filing of more than a million dollars worth of false tax returns using stolen identities and the other case involving the filing of false tax returns for clients, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced on Wednesday.

A federal court has permanently barred Cynthia Carter, a Columbus, Miss., tax return preparer, from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday.

Carl W. Shye, Jr., 57, of New Albany, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 24 months in prison and ordered to repay $472,579.90 in federal funds that he embezzled between 2005 and 2011 while serving as treasurer for four community schools in Ohio.

Andrew Park, an owner and executive of Asian Village Detroit Inc. (“Asian Village”), Pangborn Technovations Inc. (PTI), and the Security Communication Alert Network (SCAN), was sentenced on Wednesday to one year in prison based on his felony conviction for evading the payment of more than $300,000 in taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced yesterday.

United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated on Wednesday that Fred Allen Inabinett, age 39, of Walterboro, pled guilty Tuesday in federal court in Charleston to making false statements to federal agents, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001.

Nagoya, Japan-based Tokai Rika Co. Ltd., has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $17.7 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices of heater control panels (HCPs) installed in cars sold in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced on Tuesday.

John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that P. Edwin Gray, 59, Oregon, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb to three years’ probation and ordered to pay $336,100 in restitution for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme.

Kathy J. Mascarenas, aka Kathy Oliver, 53, of Westminster, Colorado, was sentenced late last week by U.S. District Court Judge Blackburn to serve 24 months in federal prison for wire fraud, U.S. Attorney John Walsh, FBI Special Agent in Charge James Yacone, and IRS-Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Lilia Ruiz announced. Following her prison sentencing, Mascarenas was ordered to spend three years on supervised release.