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Miami Man Charged in $12 Million Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud Scheme Involving Thousands of Fraudulently Obtained U.S. Treasury Checks

According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, from about February through June 2012, a check casher in Perrine, Florida (J&S Taxes) cashed thousands of fraudulently obtained U.S. income tax refund checks worth over $12...

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Former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Pleads Guilty in Tennessee to Bribery Scheme

A former U.S. Army staff sergeant pleaded guilty Wednesday to accepting thousands of dollars in bribes from contractors while he was deployed to Iraq, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division...

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Former Albuquerque Corrections Officer Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of Justice

Matthew Pendley, 26, a former corrections officer at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of obstructing justice when he lied to law enforcement during their...

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Second Former Humana Inc. Employee Admits to Taking Kickbacks Totaling $2 Million in an Insurance Sales Bribery Scheme

Former Humana Inc. regional sales director Glen Allan Fine pleaded guilty in United States District Court in Louisville, Kentucky Tuesday to charges of racketeering and bribery in connection with his former position, announced David J. Hale, United...

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Kingsville Woman Arrested in Ohio in Corpus Christi Embezzlement Case

Maricella Garza, 37, of Kingsville, has been arrested following the return of an indictment charging her with embezzling funds from the Kingsville Community Federal Credit Union, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced Tuesday.

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Former Wayne County Official Found Guilty of Falsifying Documents to Conceal Bribery Scheme

Zayd Allebban, former Wayne County Director of Enterprise Applications, the office that does software application development for Wayne County, was found guilty Tuesday by a federal jury in Detroit on charges of falsifying documents with the intent to...

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Former Bank Teller Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud

Vonetta Jordan, 37, of Poplarville, Mississippi, pled guilty to bank fraud on February 19, 2013, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen announced. She will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden on May...

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Former CEO and Two Associates Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Impede the Lawful Functions of the Internal Revenue Service

Shelly S. Singhal, Loretta Fredy Bush, and Dennis L. Pelino, formerly of Xinhua Finance Limited (Xinhua Finance), a Chinese company trading publicly in Japan, each have pled guilty in a one-count information to conspiracy to impede the lawful...

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