The owner of an aircraft leasing company, who was indicted earlier this year on commercial bribery charges, his corporation, and five new individual defendants are facing an expanded federal indictment alleging that they engaged in a fraudulent financing scheme that raised more than $50 million.

Thomas John Hunter, of Maple Grove, Minnesota, the part owner of Legacy Lending, was sentenced to 40 months in prison for participating in a mortgage fraud scheme that involved 37 separate real estate transactions and $20 million in loan proceeds.

Richard Valentine Kozak, of Long Lake, Minnesota, was charged in connection with allegedly sending a suspicious white powder to Dow Jones and Co. after receiving unsolicited mail from the company.

Gale A. Rachuy, of Duluth, Minnesota, was charged in connection with purchasing vehicles from dealerships and from an individual using closed account checks and then transporting the vehicles in interstate commerce knowing that they were stolen vehicles.

Jason Jewell, of Frankfort, Indiana, was sentenced to six years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for possession and transportation of child pornography.

James Thomas Flocker, of Chico, California, was sentenced to seven years in prison after being convicted of transporting child pornography, distributing child pornography, and possession of child pornography.

John Durante, of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, the owner of several small health care businesses in Connecticut, pled guilty to one count of tax evasion stemming from a multi-year scheme to evade payment of employee withholdings and other payroll taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.

Tillman Byrd, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was indicted on a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Richard Margulies, of Edison, New Jersey, the former chief financial officer for Advatech, Inc., was sentenced in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to 51 months in prison for his attempt to artificially inflate the company's stock price.

Abdalaziz Aziz Hamayel, of West Bank Palestinian Authority, and Yanny Aguila Urbay, of Hialeah, Florida, were charged in connection with negotiating to purchase 300 stolen, fully automatic weapons. In addition to the firearms, Hamayel wanted to purchase grenades and improvised explosive devices.

Yousuf Masood, a doctor with a practice in Elizabeth, New Jersey that received more than $13.7 million in Medicaid payments over the past year, was charged, along with four others, with fraudulently obtaining at least $1.8 million from Medicaid by billing for services actually provided by people illegally posing as physicians.

Jama Idle Ibrahim, of Somalia, pled guilty in Washington, D.C. to commit piracy under the law of nations and conspiracy to use a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. The charges stem from a violent act of piracy in the Gulf of Aden against a merchant vessel, the MV/CEC Future, that began in November 2008 and lasted for 71 days.

Michael David Sanders, of Fair Oaks, California, was sentenced to two years of probation for his role in conspiring to impersonate an FBI agent in what was an attempt to recoup investor money lost in a Ponzi scheme.

Jerryca P. Chavez, of Englewood and Sheridan, Colorado, was sentenced to five years in federal prison on charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with her scheme to defraud and obtain money and property from various Wal-Mart stores and credit card companies by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses.

Dennis Earl Hecker, of Medina, Minnesota, who owned and operated numerous Minnesota auto dealerships and businesses that provided fleet vehicles to car rental companies, pled guilty to bankruptcy fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with orchestrating a scheme to defraud financial lenders and others out of millions of dollars.

James Nash, of Troy, New York, pled guilty to possessing still images and videos depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Eddarian D. Lawrence, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced to 30 years in prison in connection with his role in a major cocaine distribution organization.

Former National Republican Congressional Committee treasurer Christopher J. Ward, formerly of Bethesda, Maryland, pled guilty to embezzling $844,718 from political committees which were clients of his accounting and consulting business.

Edgar D. Romero, of Bladensburg, Maryland, pled guilty to charges stemming from the armed sexual assault and armed burglary of four women he met through their Craiglist postings.

Terrrion Williams, of East St. Louis, Illinois, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute marijuana.

Giuseppe Cracchiolo, of Romeo, Michigan, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in approximately $2.5 million in losses to lenders.

Carlos Molinares-Nunez, who headed the drug trafficking organization component of the Sinaloa Cartel, was sentenced in Tucson, Arizona to 27 years in prison and ordered to forfeit to the United States $4,000,000 as well as thousands of dollars worth of property, vehicles, and jewelry seized in the United States.

David T. Terry, of Hinckley, Ohio, was charged with one count of bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds in connection with the ongoing Cuyahoga County public corruption investigation.

Frank J. Lomanno, of Medina, Ohio, was charged with mail fraud in connection with the theft of almost $1.5 million from his former employer, First Communications.

Robin Brant, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, without the possibility of parole, for armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during the commission of that robbery.