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The government has intervened in a lawsuit against CH2M Hill Hanford Group Inc. (CH2M Hill) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, the Department of Justice announced on Sep. 28, 2012.

Eastern Tennessee residents are continuing to report incidents of the Reveton ransomware Internet scam. Reveton is a computer visus that is installed on a computer when a user visits a compromised website. Once installed, the computer locks up while displaying a warning that the FBI or the Department of Justice has identified the computer as being involved in criminal activity.

Timothy F. Mobley, a real estate developer based in Tampa, Florida, and accountant Timothy F. Hohl pleaded guilty today in Jacksonville, Florida federal court for their roles in illegal contributions to the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) and the campaign of an elected member of the U.S. Congress, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer.

A federal judge in Boston sentenced Charles Adams today to 48 months in prison for tax evasion, conspiring to defraud the United States and obstructing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Justice Department and IRS announced. U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor also ordered Adams to pay restitution in the amount of $401,000.

Ronald Lee Brito and Bonnie Brito of California, John James Missitti of Genesee Township, Thomas Winston Moore of California, and Mark J. Carpenter of Ann Arbor have been indicted for conspiring to commit wire fraud in operating an investment Ponzi scheme, United States Attorney Barbara McQuade announced today. Missitti is also charged with having filed false income tax returns.

Kevin Wirth Jannell, 49, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, pled guilty yesterday to taking more than $200,000 in bribes to ensure a Virginia Railway Express (VRE) subcontractor would be retained by VRE.

A former branch manager of a local bank who pleaded guilty in June was sentenced this morning in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Lynchburg to a charge of embezzlement.

A federal judge before yesterday sentenced a former Jasper Police officer to 15 months in prison for soliciting and accepting a $5,000 bribe while a member of the city police force, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge Robert E. Haley, III announced.

Oh Sung Kwon, 47, a Northern Virginia businessman, pled guilty today to federal charges stemming from a bribery scheme in which he paid thousands of dollars to an Army official in return for government contracts, as well as a separate scheme involving fraudulent real estate sales and refinances.

A 44-count indictment was filed against Paulette Roberts related to a scheme that resulted in the loss of $12 million while she was employed at Fifth Third Bank, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Steven D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Cleveland Field Office.