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A former Whitman, Massachusetts police sergeant pleaded guilty to wire fraud, on May 16th, opreparing false income tax returns for clients of his tax preparation business, obstructing the internal revenue laws and misappropriating funds from the accounts of disabled veterans while he was a fiduciary appointed by the U.S. Department of Veterans ffairs (VA), announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney William D. Weinreb for the District of Massachusetts.

Former U.S. Congresswoman Corrine Brown was convicted by a federal jury in Jacksonville, Florida, on May 11th, for her role in a conspiracy and fraud scheme involving a fraudulent scholarship charity.

A Blackfoot, Idaho small business owner was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for filing false tax returns, on May 11th, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez Jr. for the District of Idaho.

A 67-year-old resident of Napa, California was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Seattle to five years in prison, on May 9th, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. TERRANCE L. COSGROVE pleaded guilty in December 2016 to two counts of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud for a series of embezzlements totaling nearly $4 million. The funds were stolen from a fishing company and from trusts set up by COSGROVE’s close friends to provide for those friends’ wives and children.

Two former executives of a foreign defense contractor on May 9th, pleaded guilty in federal court for participating in a conspiracy to submit bogus bids, claims and invoices to the U.S. Navy in an effort to steal tens of millions of dollars as part of a years-long corruption and fraud scheme.

A former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revenue officer who is a resident of Greensboro, North Carolina, was sentenced to serve 43 months in prison for tax evasion and corruptly endeavoring to impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws, on May 9th, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Hairston for the Middle District of North Carolina.

A Bronx, New York attorney, who ran a tax preparation business, was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison for filing thousands of fraudulent tax returns that claimed more than $6 million in bogus deductions, on May 8th, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim for the Southern District of New York.

A federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland has found that Marvin L. Binion Sr. violated the Court’s previous permanent injunction barring him from preparing tax returns for others and from operating a tax preparation business, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General David A. Hubbert of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. The Court ordered Binion Sr. to comply with the previously entered injunction and to pay the United States $29,914.38 for its costs incurred in investigating whether Binion Sr. had complied with the injunction.

A former contractor at the Military Sealift Command (MSC) was indicted for his role in a bribery and fraud conspiracy from approximately 1999 to 2014, in which he allegedly received almost $3 million dollars in bribes. Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente of the Eastern District of Virginia made the announcement.

A former Minister of Mines and Geology of the Republic of Guinea, has been convicted by a federal jury for his role in a scheme to launder bribes paid to him by executives of China Sonangol International Ltd. (China Sonangol) and China International Fund, SA (CIF). The jury reached its verdict on May 3th after five hours of deliberations, following a seven-day trial.