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A Topeka lawyer has been charged in federal court with stealing more than $460,000 from clients’ trust funds, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said yesterday.

The former president of a Lexington-based company was sentenced today to 18 years in prison for defrauding thousands of investors nationwide out of more than $18 million.

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Thomas Thorndike, 62, of Milford, pleaded guilty today before Chief United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to one count of aiding and assisting the preparation of a false federal income tax return and one count of willfully filing a false return.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that three former New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers were sentenced in Manhattan federal court for their respective roles in conspiracies to illegally transport firearms and other stolen goods across state lines.

ohn W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Deborah Atherton, 55, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, was sentenced wednesday by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to four years and two months in federal prison for her role in a loan fraud scheme and a separate bribery scheme involving contracts awarded by the Ho-Chunk Nation.

Wednesday federal charges were filed against 40 defendants in 20 separate cases, dealing with thousands of stolen identities and millions of dollars of fraudulent identity theft tax filings. This’s cases reaffirm the joint federal and local commitment to crack-down on stolen identity tax refund (SITR) fraud perpetrators.

Former Camden Police Officer Kevin Parry, 32, of Brooklawn, New Jersey, was sentenced on October 10, 2012, to 20 months in prison for illegally searching homes, stealing money, planting evidence, and lying in court, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Toni Weirauch the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (“IRS-CI”)

Juan Carlos De La Cruz Reyna, 37, has been sentenced to another 11+ years in federal prison after having been convicted of bribery of a public official, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced yesterday.