A New Jersey man has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with his role in arranging bribes for the awarding of contracts with Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy corporation, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday.

Boris Rubizhevsky, 67, of Closter, New Jersey, was sentenced to prison along with three years of supervised release and a $26,500 fine by U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang for the District of Maryland, the department said in a statement.

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A former Alexandria Fire Department employee, Monique Jackson Asante, pleaded guilty in Alexandria Circuit Court today to money laundering related to public theft. She was indicted by the Grand Jury for the City of Alexandria on July 11, 2016, related to a lengthy scheme to steal and launder public money from the City government.

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MIAMI, Aug. 2, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Trillions of dollars may be missing from U.S. government coffers due to widespread corporate tax evasion and criminal money laundering strategies.

FIU College of Business professor John Zdanowicz conducted an analysis of 12 years’ worth of U.S. Customs data and found that abnormally priced goods imported and exported by U.S. companies are masking complex tax avoidance strategies that have cost the U.S. government more than $2.3 trillion in revenue from 2003 to 2014.

Called false invoicing, it is the same kind of scheme used to fund domestic terrorism by moving money into the U.S., and moving proceeds of illegal activities, such as drug profits, out of the United States undetected.

“Criminals and tax evaders have discovered that laundering money through the banking system is dangerous, especially with the new financial institution reporting requirements under the Patriot Act and other banking regulations,” Zdanowicz said.  “However, moving money through international trade can be virtually undetectable.”

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NEW YORK — A two count indictment unsealed Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court charged six people with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and/or money laundering.  The indictments follow an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), United States Postal Inspection Service, Office of Inspector General (OIG).

The defendants allegedly conspired to transport cocaine through the U.S. mail from Puerto Rico to New York.  On Wednesday, HSI agents arrested, Jermaine Sandifer, a U.S. postal carrier assigned to the Highbridge postal station in the Bronx.

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The mother of the “affluenza teen” Ethan Couch was charged with aiding her son in his escape to Mexico last year.

A grand jury Thursday indicted Tonya Couch on charges including hindering apprehension and money laundering, according to a report by the Associated Press. Couch and her son were taken into custody in December after the two fled to Mexico after a video surfaced online of her son drinking, which violated his probation.

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DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas man accused of posing as his slain neighbor to sell the dead man’s home has been charged with money laundering and other counts.

Dallas Police Maj. Max Geron tells KXAS-TV (http://bit.ly/1nkAGUK ) that 43-year-old Christopher Brian Colbert was arrested in Los Angeles on Thursday.

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WASHINGTON, USA — Fourteen nations in the wider Caribbean have been named by the US as “major money laundering” countries in the 2016 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) released by the US State Department on Wednesday.

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