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“If we permit the rule of law to erode because it doesn't harm our personal interests, that erosion may eventually consume us as well,” said U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, speaking at the BWI Business Partnership's signature breakfast in Linthicum Thursday morning.

Jervis S. Finney, former U.S. attorney for Maryland who had been legal counsel to former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., died Sunday from congestive heart failure at his Stevenson home. He was 85.

Two Baltimore police officers have been suspended by the city police department in connection with the federal criminal indictment of seven other officers earlier this month, according to police.

The seventh and final Baltimore Police officer indicted this week on federal racketeering charges remained behind bars on Friday afternoon after his scheduled detention hearing was postponed without explanation.

An owner of a shuttered Harford County payroll services company pleaded guilty Monday to wire fraud and filing a false tax return in a three-year, $2.6 million scheme to steal money from clients and the federal government, prosecutors said.

A Japanese ship operator was ordered to pay $1.8 million for illegally dumping oil residue and bilge water into the ocean last year, as part of a plea deal in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Friday.

M&T Bank has been ordered to forfeit $560,000 in drug proceeds laundered through its Perry Hall branch.

A federal grand jury indicted two Garrett County developers Tuesday , accusing the two men of working together to use fake documents to secure $3.7 million in bank loans.

A Baltimore car dealer pleaded guilty in federal court to depositing more than $2 million in a way to avoid having the bank report the transactions to the Internal Revenue Service, prosecutors announced Thursday.

According to the plea agreement, on January 30, 2011, police seized a laptop computer, desktop computer, camera, hard drive and other digital media from Michael Dean Ragan Jr., 30, during a search in an unrelated counterfeit currency investigation, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. Ragan later pleaded guilty to state counterfeit charges. A subsequent forensic examination of the items seized during the search found approximately 335 images and 17 videos of minors,

Many Maryland businesses rely on a payroll service provider to handle their tax withholdings, but they still need to make sure the Internal Revenue Service is getting its due.

A Baltimore man claiming to be a financial adviser who could produce high returns with no risk pleaded guilty Friday to mail fraud in connection with a scheme that bilked $890,000 from clients, according to federal prosecutors

A second person charged in connection with a credit card skimming scheme that operated in Harford County pleaded guilty to mail fraud in U.S. District Court in Baltimore Friday.

A Vietnamese national living in California was sentenced last week to six years in federal prison for mail fraud in connection with his role in a credit card skimming scheme that prosecutors say involved an unidentified employee of a Maryland business.

A Havre de Grace man, who pleaded guilty to stealing tons of aluminum from Aberdeen Proving Ground when he was employed at the installation, was sentenced to a year of home detention by a federal judge Wednesday.

A Landover business owner pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to failing to account for and pay over employment taxes, leading to a more than $2.2 million tax loss, federal authorities said.

APG employee pleads guilty in theft of tons of copper wire from APG.

The former chief executive of Severna Park-based Wings to Go pleaded guilty Monday to wire fraud for embezzling more than $885,000 from the franchise company to pay prostitutes in Maryland and three Texas women for telephone sex.

Four Aberdeen Proving Ground employees, including two Harford residents, were indicted this week by a federal grand jury, charged with stealing aluminum and copper they had access to as part of their jobs.

Larry W. Warner Jr., of Joppa, was sentenced Friday to 10 years in a federal prison, followed by supervised release for life, for enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity.

A 56-year-old Gambrills podiatrist was sentenced to more than four years in prison Wednesday for fraudulently billing Medicare $1.1 million over three years, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office.

A Harford County resident who prosecutors say was actively involved in a towing scandal involving Baltimore City police officers entered a guilty plea Monday to extortion charges in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.