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Charles C. LoBello, a Nevada-licensed attorney who practices business and personal injury law in Las Vegas, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of tax evasion, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. U.S. District Court Judge James Mahan presided over the plea hearing.

Through an application to register and enforce two orders from United Kingdom courts, the Department of Justice has secured a restraining order against more than $3 million in corruption proceeds located in the United States related to James Onanefe Ibori, the former governor of Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta State, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton.

U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced former Prince George’s County Police officer Richard Delabrer, age 47, of Laurel, Maryland, today to 46 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for conspiracy to interfere with commerce by extortion under color of official right and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, arising from a scheme involving the transport and distribution of untaxed alcohol and cigarettes.

Ernst Pierre, a Port St. Lucie, Fla., tax preparer, was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) announced.

Two men were arrested as a result of information supplied by the Australian Crime Commission (ACC), which prompted the Joint Organised Crime Group (JOCG) to initiate Operation Fenway in early July 2012.

Mohamad Anas Haitham Soueid, 48, a resident of Leesburg, Va., was sentenced today to 18 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for collecting video and audio recordings and other information about individuals in the United States and Syria who were protesting the government of Syria and to providing these materials to Syrian intelligence agencies in order to silence, intimidate and potentially harm the protestors.

Three individuals, including Alabama businessman Ronald Gilley, lobbyist Jarrod Massey, and former Alabama state representative Terry Spicer were sentenced to prison today in Montgomery, Alabama, for bribery-related offenses, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen Richardson.

Mohamad Anas Haitham Soueid, 48, a resident of Leesburg, Virginia, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for collecting video and audio recordings and other information about individuals in the United States and Syria who were protesting the government of Syria and to providing these materials to Syrian intelligence agencies in order to silence, intimidate, and potentially harm the protestors.

Port Arthur Chemical and Environmental Services LLC (PACES) and its former president Matthew L. Bowman have been charged with conspiracy to illegally transport hazardous materials, resulting in the deaths of two employees, in an indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Beaumont, Texas, yesterday, announced Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and John M. Bales, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas.