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A Houston woman pleaded guilty yesterday to bribery charges for her role in a scheme to fraudulently bill the U.S. Army for trucking services in Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

A Chardon woman who stole the identifiable health information of at least 35 individuals from her work place and then provided this information to people who used the information to file the fraudulent tax returns was sentenced to more than three years in prison said on October 23, Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

A federal grand jury has indicted Lauren Jeannette Diggs, age 50, of Rockville, on charges of conspiracy to seek and accept a bribe, witness tampering, and making false statements to the grand jury. The indictment was returned on October 22, then unsealed on October 23, upon the arrest of the defendant.

France should intensify its efforts to combat the bribery of foreign public officials.

On Tuesday the president of a Costa Rican company that sold reinsurance bonds to life settlement companies was sentenced in Richmond, Va., to 60 years in prison for carrying out a half-billion-dollar fraud scheme that affected more than 3,500 victims throughout the United States and abroad, announced U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Neil H. MacBride and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

On tuesday an employee of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was sentenced in Asheville, N.C., to six months in prison for stealing $114,494 in government funds, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge Elton Malone of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG), Office of Investigations, Special Investigations Branch.

The Justice Department and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia Michael J. Moore announced yesterday that Stacy Bloodsworth, the former sheriff of Wilcox County, Ga., pleaded guilty to assaulting an inmate inside the Wilcox County jail and subsequently conspiring to cover up the assault

On 19, October the United States has filed a complaint against Jacintoport International LLC under the False Claims Act in connection with a warehousing and logistics contract for the storage and redelivery of humanitarian food aid, the Justice Department announced. Jacintoport is a cargo handling and stevedoring firm headquartered in Houston.

On 19, October two former officers of Arizona-based residential mortgage loan originator American Mortgage Specialists Inc. (AMS) pleaded guilty for their roles in a $27 million scheme to defraud North Dakota-based BNC National Bank, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon of the District of North Dakota; Christy Romero, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP); and Steve A. Linick, Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Office of Inspector General (FHFA-OIG).

United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that a U.S. Navy official pled guilty the wednesday morning before United States Magistrate Judge Nita L. Stormes in connection with a bribery and corruption scheme at Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island, in Coronado, California.