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A state representative in the Massachusetts General Court has agreed to plead guilty to civil rights violations and resign his elected position for his role in submitting fraudulent absentee ballot applications and casting invalid ballots in multiple elections in 2009 and 2010.

Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael B. Steinbach, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce the sentencing of Henry L. Bryant, a former city of Miami Beach Firefighter, Daniel L. Mack, a Miami-Dade Police officer, and Octavius Mclendon, for their participation in a drug trafficking conspiracy and the use of a firearm during that crime.

A former employee of a U.S. Army contractor and two former U.S. Army staff sergeants pleaded guilty Wednesday for their roles in a fraud scheme involving a contract to provide armored vehicles to the U.S. Military in Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

Beginning at the launch of Aranesp in 2002 and extending until 2007, Amgen illegally introduced Aranesp for uses and at dosage levels that the FDA had specifically declined to approve due to insufficient clinical evidence to establish their safety and efficacy.

Earlier Wednesday, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. District Judge Sterling Johnson, Jr. accepted a guilty plea by American biotechnology giant Amgen Inc. (Amgen) for illegally introducing a misbranded drug into interstate commerce.

U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced Tuesday that Timothy Wanamaker, 47, former head of a city agency responsible for overseeing the revitalization of Buffalo, who was convicted of theft from programs receiving federal funds, was sentenced to three years’ probation by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also ordered to pay $27,702.03 in restitution to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Debra Mitchell, a/k/a Debra Wessleman, a/k/a Debra Spence, 43, of Carriere, Mississippi, pled guilty in U.S. District Court Tuesday to bank fraud, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen announced.

April J. Rampton, 41, formerly of Heber City, Utah,before yesterday was convicted in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City of nine counts of filing false claims for income tax refunds, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.

Following a three-week trial, a federal jury in San Francisco Tuesday convicted an executive of the largest Taiwan liquid crystal display (LCD) producer for his participation in a worldwide conspiracy to fix the prices of thin-film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels sold worldwide, the Department of Justice announced.

A defendant who tried to escape fraud charges against him by exerting pressure on a U.S. Attorney’s spouse and candidate for office pleaded guilty Tuesday to obstruction of justice for perpetrating the scheme, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced Tuesday.