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A Kansas City, Kansas return preparer was sentenced to serve 27 months in prison on February 21, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Thomas Beall for the District of Kansas.

A Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana return preparer on February 21 pleaded guilty to her role in a scheme to file federal tax returns using stolen IDS, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Three people were found guilty by a jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia of federal charges for participating in a scheme to file false federal income tax returns in order to fraudulently obtain tax refunds to which they were not entitled, on February 17, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division

Thousands of frontline staff in London and the South East will benefit from an immediate boost to their pay, thanks to a new £12 million package announced on 19 February by Justice Secretary Elizabeth Truss.

A Portland, Oregon woman was sentenced to 72 months in prison, on February 16, for conspiring to file tax returns that claimed more than $1.2 million in fraudulent refunds, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams for the District of Oregon.

A current U.S. Navy Commander was charged in a complaint unsealed with accepting luxury travel, on February 16, elaborate dinners and services of prostitutes from foreign defense contractor Leonard Francis in exchange for classified and internal U.S. Navy information.

A Chelan Falls, Washington man on February 15, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Yakima, Washington to filing a fraudulent 2011 federal tax return, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

Two managers of a Brooklyn, New York medical clinic were charged in an indictment on February 15, unsealed related to their alleged participation in a $2.1 million fraud scheme involving medically unnecessary occupational therapy services.