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Jose Manuel “Meme” Longoria, 52, has been sentenced for his role in the FBI’s public corruption investigation of former 404th District Court Judge Abel Corral Limas, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.

A former northern Kentucky police chief, arrested Friday on wire fraud and identity theft charges, will appear in court today for a detention hearing.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that former New York State Senator NICHOLAS A. SPANO was sentenced today in White Plains federal court to a year and a day in prison for obstructing the ability of the Internal Revenue Service to assess and collect U.S. income taxes by concealing illegal income and filing fraudulent tax returns. SPANO pled guilty on February 10, 2012 to one count of obstructing and impeding the due administration of the Internal Revenue Laws before United States District Judge Cathy Seibel, who also imposed today’s sentence.

A commodity pool operator and day trader based in Hackensack, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for directing two schemes to defraud individual investors and a financial institution of approximately $2 million and to evading more than $150,000 in tax payments, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Winnie Joanne Barefoot, a/k/a Winnie Jo Budzina, a/k/a Winnie JoAnne Conn, a/k/a Joanne Knopsnyder, a/k/a Olivia JoAnne Morgan, a/k/a Olivia JoAnne Barefoot Morgan, age 59, of Annapolis, Maryland, today to five years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for bank fraud, arising from her use of numerous identities to fraudulently obtain real estate and commercial loans, while applying for and fraudulently receiving Social Security disability benefits.

David Edmonds, the former vice president of worldwide customer service at Rancho Santa Margarita, California-based valve company Control Components Inc. (CCI), pleaded guilty today to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), announced the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, and the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

View across what was once the Atantic Rainforest, just north of Rio de Janeiro

A figure of US police brutality has been found dead at his home.