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A 49-year-old Dominican Republic man wanted for document fraud and identity theft was arrested earlier this week at the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working jointly with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District announced that Rajat K. Gupta, former corporate chairman of an international consulting firm and a member of the Boards of Directors of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (“Goldman Sachs”) and the Procter & Gamble Company (“P&G”), was found guilty today by a jury in Manhattan federal court of conspiracy and securities fraud crimes stemming from his involvement in an insider trading scheme with his business partner and friend, Raj Rajaratnam, the founder and former head of the Galleon Group.

Brianna LaFrance, age 31, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced to two years’ probation by the U.S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo after admitting she conspired to bribe a mitigation analyst in the state’s home elevation program, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.

R. Allen Stanford, the former board of directors chairman of Stanford International Bank (SIB), has been sentenced to a total of 110 years in prison for orchestrating a 20-year investment fraud scheme in which he misappropriated $7 billion from SIB to finance his personal businesses.

A Barren County, Kentucky financial advisor has been indicted by a federal grand jury meeting in Bowling Green on charges of defrauding clients residing in Kentucky and southern Indiana of approximately $2.4 million, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.

United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Mark Morgan, and U.S. Department of Education Inspector General Kathleen S. Tighe announced that in El Paso this afternoon, 56-year-old Lorenzo Garcia, former Superintendent of the El Paso Independent School District (EPISD), pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with schemes to defraud EPISD and the federal government.

The US justice department has dropped the criminal case against former senator and two-time presidential hopeful John Edwards after his corruption trial ended last month in a deadlocked jury.

Lance E. Faulkner, 46, from Tecumseh, Oklahoma, was sentenced by United States District Judge Timothy D. DeGiusti to serve 51 months in prison for health care fraud in connection with sales of prosthetic limbs and components, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANNUNZIATA GERMANA, also known as Annunziata Acquarlo, 31, of Guilford, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to two counts of willfully failing to file a tax return.