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United States Attorney David Capp announced that Chad Shedron, 36, of Rossville, Indiana, was sentenced by Chief Judge Philip Simon to 57 months’ imprisonment and one year of supervised release after pleading guilty to a two-count Information charging him with the felony offenses of executing a scheme to defraud the Indiana Medicaid health benefit program and evading federal income tax.

For the past 14 years, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been responsible for training ICE officers and special agents to become computer forensic investigators.

A Portsmouth, Va., man pleaded guilty today to conspiring to willfully reproduce and distribute tens of thousands of infringing copies of copyrighted works without permission, including infringing copies of movies before they were commercially released on DVD.

The former chief information officer of an international law firm based in Chicago was arrested today on federal charges for allegedly defrauding the firm of at least $850,000 over the last year as a result of an allegedly fraudulent billing scheme with a vendor company.

Bryan Underwood, a former civilian guard at a U.S. Consulate compound under construction in China, pleaded guilty today in the District of Columbia in connection with his efforts to sell for personal financial gain classified photographs, information, and access related to the U.S. Consulate to China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS).

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that an indictment charging James Pearson, 37, formerly of Montoursville, Pennsylvania, was unsealed following his arrest Tuesday.

The former branch manager of Blue Ridge Federal Credit Union in Lynchburg was sentenced this morning in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Lynchburg to a false bookkeeping charge.

Two former Lincoln County officials were sentenced to federal prison on felony charges in connection with a 2010 primary election fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin.

A suburban woman who was authorized by the Illinois Department of Public Health to teach food service sanitation classes and administer state certification exams was sentenced today to two-and-a-half years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bribery for accepting at least $96,930 for herself in return for fraudulently arranging to provide bogus certificates for at least 531 individuals.

A U.S. Army master sergeant pleaded guilty today to accepting thousands of dollars in gratuities from contractors during his deployment to Iraq as a field ordering officer at a forward operating base in Iraq, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina William N. Nettles.