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Michael Mancil Brown was found guilty on Thursday by a federal jury sitting in Nashville for engaging in an extortion and wire fraud scheme involving former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax returns, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, First Assistant United States Attorney Jack Smith of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee and Special Agent in Charge Todd Hudson of the U.S. Secret Service’s Nashville Field Office.

A West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, man pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of filing a false individual income tax return, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced.

The Victorian and Queensland Joint Counter Terrorism Teams (JCTT) can confirm that five Melbourne men arrested in Queensland this week have been charged with foreign incursion offences on May 14.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced on May 12 that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced on May 12 to five years in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury of using his official position to obtain more than $300,000 in bribes and extortion payments that were paid to his son, ADAM SKELOS, in exchange for DEAN SKELOS’s official acts. ADAM SKELOS, who was convicted by the same jury, was also sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison. DEAN SKELOS and ADAM SKELOS were sentenced in Manhattan federal court by U.S. District Judge Kimba M. Wood, who also presided over the four-week jury trial.

A federal grand jury sitting in Macon, Georgia, on May 12, returned two indictments against residents of Columbus, Georgia, charging crimes related to several stolen identity tax refund fraud schemes, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney G.F. Peterman, III, for the Middle District of Georgia.

A former certified public accountant in Georgia was sentenced to seven months in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty in February to one count of filing a false tax return, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney John A. Horn for the Northern District of Georgia.

A federal grand jury in the District of Nevada returned a superseding indictment on May 10 charging a Las Vegas woman with two counts of filing false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and one count of corruptly endeavoring to impair and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden of the District of Nevada.

A federal grand jury sitting in New Orleans, Louisiana, returned an indictment on May 6, which was unsealed on May 11, against a LaPlace, Louisiana, woman charging her with 37 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, eight counts of contempt of court, one count of bank fraud and one count of forgery of a judge’s signature, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Department of Justice’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite Jr. of the Eastern District of Louisiana.

A Kentucky man pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States with respect to claims, one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kerry B. Harvey of the Eastern District of Kentucky.

A federal court has barred a Nashville-area tax return preparer from preparing returns for others, the Justice Department announced on May 10. The court’s injunction forbids LaVergne, Tennessee, resident Michelle Cole Theus, aka Michelle Cole, and Cole Tax Services from preparing federal tax returns or operating a return-preparation business. It also requires Theus to turn over a complete list of her customers to the government.