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		<title>Detroit Area Physical Therapist Pleads Guilty to Causing More Than $1.6 Million in Fraudulent Medicare Billing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gerald Rosen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jay Jha]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Detroit area physical therapist Jay Jha, 45, pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program of approximately $18.3 million. Jha, of Troy, Mich., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud before U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen. At sentencing, scheduled for Dec. 16, 2009, Jha faces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tennessee Demolition and Salvage Companies Indicted for Clean Air Act Violations and Defrauding the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two demolition and salvage companies and three of their respective owners and supervisors were indicted today by a federal grand jury in Chattanooga, Tenn., the Justice Department announced. The indictment describes a year-long scheme in which the former Standard Coosa Thatcher plant in Chattanooga was illegally demolished while still containing large amounts of asbestos. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United States Transfers Guantanamo Bay Detainee to Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Justice today announced that Mohammed Jawad, a native of Afghanistan, has been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan. On July 30, 2009, consistent with the U.S. government’s notice that it would no longer treat Jawad as detainable under the Authorization for Use of Military Force, a federal court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Government Official Indicted on Public Corruption Charges Related to Ongoing Abramoff Investigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A former Congressional staffer and chief of staff in two federal agencies was indicted today by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on public corruption charges, the Justice Department announced. The five-count indictment charges Horace M. Cooper, 44, of Lorton, Va., with one count of conspiracy, one count of fraudulent concealment, two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Military Contractor Sentenced for Participating in Scheme to Steal Large Quantities of Fuel from U.S. Army in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dana J. Boente]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Raschad L. "Sean" Lewis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Raschad L. &#8220;Sean&#8221; Lewis, a former fuel section employee of Kellogg Brown and Root Inc. (KBR) assigned to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for his role in a bribery and a fuel diversion scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swiss Banking Executive and Swiss Lawyer Charged with Conspiring to Defraud the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hansruedi Schumacher]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defendants Aided Wealthy Americans Conceal Assets in Secret Swiss Bank Accounts Hansruedi Schumacher and Matthias Rickenbach, both of Switzerland, were indicted today for conspiring to defraud the United States, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. According to the indictment, Schumacher worked as an executive manager at Neue Zuercher Bank (NZB), a Swiss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Judge Permanently Bars Suffolk County, N.Y., Tax Preparer from Doing Returns for Others</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allegedly Reported Excessive Deductions and Losses on Customers’ Returns; Causing a Loss to Date to the Treasury Exceeding $2.8 MillionA federal district judge in New York has permanently barred Howard Levine from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The court also ordered Levine to provide his customer lists to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Mexico Farmer Charged with Tax Fraud, Fraudulently Collecting Farm Subsidies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Melot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Melot, a resident of Hobbs, N.M., appeared in federal court today before Magistrate Karen B. Molzen in Las Cruces, N.M., on tax and false statement charges, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Melot, a farmer who owns approximately 250 acres in Lea County, N.M., was charged with tax evasion, failing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pipeline Firms to Pay $3.65 Million to Settle Claims Related to 2004 Ammonia Spills in Nebraska and Kansas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pipeline company and two of its former operating firms will jointly pay a civil penalty of $3.65 million to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act resulting from anhydrous ammonia spills in Nebraska and Kansas, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. The spills which occurred in 2004 resulted in significant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Virginia Residents Sentenced for Their Role in Scheme to Defraud Clients of Funds Allegedly Held in Trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[$126 million]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward H. Okun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lara Coleman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert E. Payne]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two former employees of Edward H. Okun, who was sentenced to 100 years in prison on Aug. 4, 2009, after a three-week jury trial, were sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne for their roles in a scheme to defraud and obtain approximately $126 million in client funds held by The 1031 Tax [...]]]></description>
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