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A Kings Mountain, North Carolina, man, who set up straw companies to evade income taxes and used cash from his business to build an underground bunker, on 31 August pleaded guilty to tax evasion and possession of an unregistered firearm, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose for the Western District of North Carolina.

The owner and manager of three now-defunct Miami-area home health agencies was sentenced to 240 months in prison for his role in a $57 million Medicare fraud scheme, on August 30.

A mother and son based in Miami each pleaded guilty to fraud charges for their roles in a $16 million Medicare fraud scheme, on August 30.

Three individuals were charged in an indictment unsealed for their roles in a $2.5 million high-yield investment fraud scheme on 25 August, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina.

An Arizona real estate developer was sentenced on 26 August to 24 months in prison for submitting false statements in his bankruptcy petition with the intent to conceal assets and property transfers from the bankruptcy trustee.

A federal jury on 25 August convicted a Vladivostok, Russia, man of 38 counts related to his scheme to hack into point-of-sale computers to steal and sell credit card numbers to the criminal underworld, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes of the Western District of Washington.

A Crystal Lake, Illinois, woman on 24 August pleaded guilty to stealing more than $197,000 from the United States, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

A former Virgin Islands senator was arrested on June 29, 2016, in Modena, Italy, and extradited for allegedly defrauding the government of the Virgin Islands of tens of thousands of dollars while he served as a senator in the territorial legislature, on August 24.

A congressional staffer was charged with five counts of willfully failing to file a tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente for the Eastern District of Virginia, on August 22.

The CEO of Preferred Merchants LLC, a financial services company based in Napa, California, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina to 15 months in prison for engaging in an elaborate obstruction of justice scheme to conceal from the government millions of dollars, which were subject to a freeze order and seizure warrant, on August 23.