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Three employees of Parking Management Inc. (PMI) were arrested late Saturday afternoon on charges of stealing at least $400,000 of visitor parking fees collected at the Smithsonian Institution’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.

Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman was resentenced today to serve 78 months in prison for his role in bribery, conspiracy, fraud and obstruction of justice charges involving former HealthSouth CEO Richard M. Scrushy, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin Sr. of the Middle District of Alabama.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has entered into settlement agreements with PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker—two of three online poker companies sued by the U.S. in a money laundering and forfeiture complaint that was originally filed in April 2012—that were approved today by U.S. District Judge Leonard B. Sand. Under the terms of the settlement with Full Tilt Poker (“Full Tilt”), the company agreed to forfeit virtually all of its assets to the U.S. to fully resolve the charges in the complaint. Under the terms of the settlement with PokerStars, the company agreed to forfeit $547 million to the U.S. and to reimburse the approximately $184 million owed by Full Tilt to foreign players in order to fully resolve the allegations in the complaint. The settlement further provides that PokerStars will acquire the forfeited Full Tilt assets from the government. Full Tilt’s U.S. fraud victims will be able to seek compensation for their losses from the Department of Justice from the $547 million forfeited by PokerStars.

A U.S. Army contract translator was re-sentenced today to 108 months of imprisonment for illegally possessing national defense documents and using a false identity to procure his United States citizenship and to gain access to classified military materials. The proceeding was held before United States District Judge Brian M. Cogan at the U.S. Courthouse in Brooklyn, New York.

John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Timothy Whiteagle, 60, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, was convicted of bribery and tax crimes today following an eight-day jury trial in federal court in Madison. The jury deliberated for approximately seven hours before finding Whiteagle guilty on all counts.

A federal jury in Valdosta, Georgia, convicted defendant Walter Young, 54, the former chief of the Omega Police Department in Omega, Georgia, for physically abusing a man in his custody, the Justice Department announced.

An executive with global pharmaceuticals giant Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMS) was arrested this morning on insider trading charges related to illegal trades he made based on information concerning three BMS acquisition targets, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

An indictment was filed today charging the former Berks County Recorder of Deeds, Elba Antoine, a/k/a Ellie, 68, of Bluffton, South Carolina, with defrauding the County of tens of thousands of dollars in fees paid to the Recorder of Deeds Office, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Antoine is alleged to have carried out the fraud while serving in the elected position between the years 2004 and 2007.

Zayd Allebban, Wayne County’s director of enterprise application, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Detroit for obstructing justice and falsifying documents to conceal a bribery scheme by Allebban’s close friend and supervisor, Tahir Kazmi, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.

Michael Lavery, a resident of Sandy, Utah, pleaded guilty yesterday for presenting a false claim to the United States, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Lavery appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul M. Warner in Salt Lake City.