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A federal grand jury in the District of New Jersey returned an indictment charging a resident of Florida with running a massive operation over many years to traffic in fraudulent and counterfeit Cisco networking equipment with an estimated retail value of over $1 billion.

An Uxbridge, Massachusetts, man has agreed to plead guilty to his role in a conspiracy to defraud the government of thousands of dollars.

A woman from Star, Idaho, was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for falsely claiming that a business she controlled qualified as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business.

A federal jury in San Antonio, Texas, convicted the owner of several companies in the construction industry for his role in a long-running scheme to defraud the United States.

A federal grand jury convicted Milton Boutte, 77, of Moriarty, New Mexico, of conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

A General Services Administration Contracting Official pleaded guilty to accepting bribes.

Jared Newman of Montrose, Colorado, was sentenced to 55 months in federal prison for wire fraud.

Cape Henry Associates (Cape Henry), located in Virginia Beach, has agreed to pay $425,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by failing to inform contracting officers of the company’s organizational conflicts of interest in connection with the award and performance of task orders on government contracts.

Hensel Phelps Construction Company, a large construction company headquartered in Greeley, Colorado, has agreed to pay $2,804,110 to resolve allegations that it improperly manipulated a federal subcontract designated for a business owned and operated by a service-disabled veteran.

A Weatherby Lake, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court for falsely claiming ownership in a firm that fraudulently received hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts set aside for service-disabled veterans and certified minorities.