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A physician based in the McAllen, Texas area was charged in an indictment unsealed for his role in a $240 million health care fraud and international money laundering scheme, on May 14.

A federal court in Wichita, Kansas, permanently barred Ma Guadalupe Valenzuela (a/k/a Maria Guadalupe Valenzuela a/k/a Lupe Valenzuela, individually and doing business as Servicio de Income Tax) from preparing federal income tax returns for others. The civil injunction order, to which Valenzuela agreed, was signed by Judge Broomes, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.

Michael Sang Han, 47, formerly of Palm Beach, Fla, on May 9, was found guilty by a federal jury in the District of Columbia of two counts of tax evasion for evading paying more than $4 million in taxes in 2010 and 2011.

A former corporate officer of a produce vendor in Johnson Creek, Wisconsin was sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax evasion, on May 10, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Scott C. Blader for the Western District of Wisconsin.

Mercy Health, a nonprofit organization based in Cincinnati that operates healthcare facilities in Ohio and Kentucky, has agreed to pay the United States $14,250,000 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians, the Justice Department announced on May 10.

A former contractor at the Military Sealift Command was sentenced to 87 months for his role in a bribery and fraud conspiracy through which he received nearly $3 million in bribes from approximately 1999 to approximately 2014.

A Wilson, North Carolina tax return preparer was sentenced to 24 months in prison for filing a false claim for refund with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS),on May 8th, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

The Justice Department, on May 8, filed denaturalization lawsuits against two individuals convicted of conspiring to defraud the United States Export-Import Bank (“Ex-Im Bank”) of more than $24 million, conduct they allegedly concealed during their naturalization proceedings. The civil complaints were filed in federal court in the Southern District of Florida.

A federal grand jury sitting in Denver, Colorado has returned an indictment, which was unsealed, on May 3, charging an Arvada, Colorado resident with failure to pay over payroll taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and filing false corporate tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

Cary Hudson, a former financial administrator for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in Carswell, Texas, has agreed to pay the United States $50,000 to resolve allegations that he violated the Anti-Kickback Act by accepting improper payments from Mansfield, Texas-based Integrated Medical Solutions Inc. (IMS) in exchange for his assistance in obtaining BOP contracts.