Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - A Pennsylvania man was sentenced Thursday to over 15 years in prison plus a lifetime of supervised release, and ordered to pay $16,000 in restitution for engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place.

Brownsville, Texas - The CEO of a Texas-based group of hospice and home health entities was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for falsely telling thousands of patients with long-term incurable diseases they had less than six months to live in order to enroll the patients in hospice programs for which they were otherwise unqualified, thereby increasing revenue to the company.

Washington, DC - A Washington, D.C., man was sentenced Wednesday to over 17 years in prison for advertising videos and images of children being sexually abused.

Jacksonville, Florida - A former University of Florida (UF) professor and researcher and resident of China has been indicted for fraudulently obtaining $1.75 million in federal grant money from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by concealing support he received from the Chinese government and a company that he founded in China to profit from that research.

Washington, DC - The United States filed a forfeiture complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that all oil aboard a Liberian-flagged vessel, the M/T Achilleas (Achilleas), is subject to forfeiture based on U.S. terrorism forfeiture laws.

Great Falls, Montana - A Great Falls man who admitted breaking into an outfitting business and stealing 27 firearms was sentenced Thursday to six years and three months in prison and to three years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.