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Misr Sons Development S.A.E. (Hassan Allam Sons, “HAS”), a construction company with its principal place of business in Cairo, Egypt, has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle allegations that HAS submitted false claims in connection with U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contracts, the Justice Department announced on June 13th.

A former employee of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security on June 13th, pleaded guilty to defrauding the government of approximately $198,000 in funds paid under the Federal Employee’s Compensation Act (FECA), commonly referred to as workers’ compensation.

A Suburban Chicago physician was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to 30 months in federal prison, to be followed by a term of supervised release of one year, for bribery concerning health care programs receiving federal funds.

A federal jury convicted a Manhattan Beach, California resident of wire fraud and filing false tax returns, on June 12th, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Alana W. Robinson for the Southern District of California.

Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, on June 12th, announced that a Springfield accountant and former CPA pleaded guilty in federal court to two embezzlement schemes totaling more than $3 million and to failing to pay more than $2 million in taxes over the past six years.

The former owner of a Las Vegas, Nevada strip club pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in the District of Nevada to evading employment taxes, on June 8th, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.

The Justice Department announced an agreement with the City of Des Plaines, on June 6th, Illinois, to resolve allegations that the City violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) when it denied a rezoning application to allow The Society of American Bosnians and Herzegovinans (SABAH), a Bosnian Muslim religious organization, to use a vacant building as a mosque.

As the result of long-running litigation to redress invasion of consumer privacy, most notably through violation of the National Do Not Call Registry brought by the U.S. Department of Justice as well as the States of California, Illinois, North Carolina, and Ohio, a federal court in Illinois has ordered penalties totaling $280 million and strong injunctive relief against Englewood, Colorado-based satellite television provider Dish Network.

North Texas Contractor and Executive Agree to Pay United States $2.475 Million to Resolve False Claims Act and Anti-kickback Act Allegations

An Ohio resident was convicted Friday by a federal jury sitting in Cincinnati, Ohio of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, evasion of employment taxes and failure to pay over employment taxes, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.