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Kansas Tax Return Preparer Pleads Guilty to Stealing More than $2 Million in Government Funds

A Stillwell, Kansas, man on 6 June pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated identity theft and one count of theft of government funds, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting...

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Pharmaceutical Companies to Pay $67 Million To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Tarceva

Pharmaceutical companies Genentech Inc. and OSI Pharmaceuticals LLC will pay $67 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they made misleading statements about the effectiveness of the drug Tarceva to treat non-small cell lung cancer, the...

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Three-month operation nets 140 kilos of meth

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North Carolina Man Sentenced for Tax Evasion and Serving as a Pilot without a License

A North Carolina man was on 1 June sentenced to 21 months in prison for tax evasion and four counts of serving as a pilot without an airman’s certificate, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax...

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Two Former Deutsche Bank Employees Indicted on Fraud Charges in Connection with Long-Running Manipulation of Libor

Two former Deutsche Bank AG (Deutsche Bank) traders—the bank’s supervisor of the Pool Trading Desk in New York and a derivatives trader in London—were indicted for their alleged roles in a scheme to manipulate the U.S. Dollar (USD) London InterBank...

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Owners of Home Health Care Agency Sentenced to Prison for Taking Part in $80 Million Medicaid Fraud

Florence Bikundi, 53, and her husband, Michael D. Bikundi Sr. 63, of Mitchellville, Maryland, and the owners of Global Healthcare Inc., a home care agency, on 1 June, were sentenced to prison terms for health care fraud, money laundering, and other...

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Deloitte Consulting LLP Agrees to Pay $11 Million for Alleged False Claims Related to General Services Administration Contract

The Department of Justice announced that Deloitte Consulting LLP (Deloitte) has agreed to pay $11.38 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that it submitted false claims under a General Services Administration (GSA) contract, on 31...

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Virginia Business Owner Sentenced to Prison for Employment Tax Fraud

An Ashland, Virginia, man was sentenced to prison in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for failing to collect on 31 May, account for and pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Acting...

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