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Nancy O’Donnell pled guilty to mail fraud involving her embezzlement of donor funds.

Seven people were sentenced to federal prison Wednesday for their roles in a drug trafficking and money laundering scheme that used Arkansas businesses to hide $315,000 in illegal proceeds from a California-based drug ring. The charges stemmed from a joint investigation launched in May 2011 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and members of the Washington County Sheriff's Department, Springdale Police Department and Rogers Police Department.

Seven people were sentenced to federal prison Wednesday for their roles in a drug trafficking and money laundering scheme that used Arkansas businesses to hide $315,000 in illegal proceeds from a California-based drug ring. The charges stemmed from a joint investigation launched in May 2011 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and members of the Washington County Sheriff's Department, Springdale Police Department and Rogers Police Department.

A former city clerk of the city of Thayer in Neosho County, Kansas, has been sentenced to 12 months and a day for embezzling $120,000, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.

Tuesday afternoon, a federal judge in Las Cruces, New Mexico sentenced Debbie Ayala, 26, of San Elizardo, Texas, and David Rogelio Leyva, 27, of Socorro, Texas, to five-year prison terms for conspiring to bribe a public official, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales. Ayala and Leyva will be on supervised release for three years after they complete their prison sentences.

A former Texas state parole officer was arrested in Dallas on charges of engaging in a bribery scheme involving one of her assigned parolees, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

A north suburban certified public accountant and tax preparer pleaded guilty to engaging in a scheme to defraud U.S. Bankcorp and five of his clients of more than $1.8 million.

John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Timothy Whiteagle, 61, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 10 years in federal prison for his central role in a bribery and scheme involving contracts awarded by the Ho-Chunk Nation.

On Oct. 16, 2012, Vernon Harrison, of Montgomery, Ala., was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to file false claims, mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and embezzlement from the mail, the Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the U.S. Postal Service, Office of the Inspector General (OIG), announced yesterday after the indictment was unsealed.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Mary E. Galligan, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced on October 24 the unsealing of fraud and obstruction of justice charges against Albert Baldeo, a Democratic male district leader in Queens, New York, who was a 2010 candidate for the New York City Council representing Queens District 28.