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Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ronald A. Cimino for the Tax Division of the Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara for the Southern District of New York announced that Paul M. Daugerdas, 63, a tax attorney and certified public accountant, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to serve 15 years in prison for orchestrating a massive fraudulent tax shelter scheme in which he and his co-conspirators designed, marketed and implemented fraudulent tax shelters used by wealthy individuals to evade over $1.6 billion in taxes owed to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Roderic J. Smith, 50, the co-founder and former president of a government contracting company, was sentenced to 48 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for conspiracy to bribe public officials. Smith was ordered to forfeit $175,000.

The owner and operator of Nestor’s Health Services, Inc. (Nestor HH), a now-defunct Miami home health care agency, pleaded guilty in connection with a $6.5 million health care fraud scheme.

JC Stamps, a former union official, pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $190,000 from two labor organizations he founded and an employee benefit plan.

Owners of two home health agencies, a doctor, and a hospital employee who sold patient information were all sentenced for their roles in an $3 million Medicare fraud scheme.

U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced that Felix Santos, 41, has been arrested and charged by criminal complaint with assaulting an officer of the United States. The charge carries a maximum penalty of eight years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Kristopher Michael Montemayor, a county commissioner for Precinct 1 of the Webb County Commissioners Court in Texas, pleaded guilty to bribery.

A Florida man who was convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud was sentenced to serve 27 months in prison in federal court in Tampa, Florida

A former patient recruiter pleaded guilty in Miami, Florida, for his role in a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme.

The Justice Department, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), along with 49 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia’s attorney general have reached a $968 million agreement with SunTrust Mortgage Inc. (SunTrust) to address mortgage origination, servicing, and foreclosure abuses.