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This morning in federal court in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Shavna April Bebo, 36, of Crownpoint, New Mexico, was sentenced to a three-year term of probation for embezzling from an Indian tribal organization, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales. Bebo also was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $38,998.37 to the victim of her criminal conduct.

Charles A. Davis, 63, formerly of Mooresville, N.C. was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 120 months in prison for committing tax fraud, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. U.S. Judge Richard L. Voorhees in the Western District of North Carolina also ordered Davis to serve twelve months of supervised release after his prison term and pay $538,569 as restitution to the IRS.

Former Camden Police Officer Antonio Figueroa, 36, of Camden, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for conspiring with fellow police officers to deprive others of their civil rights and for two specific instances of violating those rights, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

The father and son operators of an adult entertainment club in Elgin were sentenced today to serve federal prison terms for conspiracy to impede the Internal Revenue Service in the collection of federal taxes, as well as separately operating an illegal Internet gambling business, in connection with diverting more than $4.6 million in unreported income to themselves from the two businesses. The cash diversion caused a federal tax loss of more than $1.3 million.

The Justice Department announced today that it has sued two Dallas tax return preparers, seeking to bar them from preparing federal tax returns for others. The civil injunction suit alleges that Ricardo Solomon and Leslie Mosley, who operate a business called Trini Tax, claim false deductions and credits on customers’ federal tax returns.

ANTHONY E. STREET, 48, of Tonkawa, Oklahoma, was sentenced to serve 41 months in prison for a conspiracy to embezzle funds from the Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

Ryan Walker Grant, 34, of Kennedale, Texas, pleaded guilty today to one count of murder-for-hire, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas. He faces a maximum statutory sentence of 10 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine and a three-year term of supervised release. Sentencing is set for December 28, 2012. Grant has been in custody since his arrest on April 2012.

U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that James Bagarozzo, 57, of Buffalo, New York, pleaded guilty to stealing $210,000 from the city of Buffalo, a governmental agency which receives federal funding. The guilty plea, which occurred before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.

A federal judge in Worcester, Mass., sentenced William Scott Dion today to 84 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States, and for obstructing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Justice Department and IRS announced. U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor also ordered Dion to pay restitution in the amount of $3 million.

Former Gwinnett County Commissioner, Shirley Lasseter, 64, of Duluth, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Charles A. Pannell, Jr., to serve 33 months in federal prison for accepting bribes in exchange for her support for a proposed real estate development in her district.