– TRENTON, N.J. A New York man pleaded guilty to leading one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the U.S. Department of Justice, a release from the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey said. Tahir Lodhi, 53, of Hicksville, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Anne E. Thompson in Trenton, N.J., federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

Vytlingum Kandasawmi of Alexandria, Va., was sentenced June 10 to 120 months in prison for selling a bomb, or an improvised explosive device (IED), believing that it would be used to commit murder. Kandasawmi, 34, also known as Tony, had already pleaded guilty March 26. He was also sentenced to three years of supervised release by Judge Gerald Bruce Lee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria.

– NEW YORK  A film student pleaded guilty to attempted murder as a hate crime on Tuesday for stabbing a New York City taxi driver in what prosecutors said was an anti-Muslim attack. Michael Enright, 24, faces 9-1/2 years in prison when he is sentenced later this month. After hailing a taxi in Manhattan one evening in August 2010, Enright asked the driver, Ahmed Sharif, whether he was a Muslim, according to prosecutors.

Drs. Arun and Kiran Sharma, two Houston   physicians previously sentenced for 15 and eight years respectively for defrauding Medicare, Medicaid, and more than a dozen private insurers, appeared in federal court in Houston, Texas, on June 3, for a resentencing hearing on restitution and forfeiture issues.

A London, Ky., cardiologist pleaded guilty to charges that he falsely recorded the severity of patients’ illnesses in order to receive payment for numerous heart procedures. According to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Sandesh Rajaram Patil, 51, a former cardiologist at St. Joseph’s Hospital in London, admitted June 4 to making false statements regarding the placement of heart stents.

– NEWARK, N.J. An Indian engineer who recently quit a global medical technology company in New Jersey was arreste June 5 as he was about to leave for India, allegedly with trade secrets stolen from his employer. Ketankumar Maniar, 36, an Indian national who had worked as an engineer at the Franklin Lakes, N.J.-based Becton, Dickinson and Company was arrested by special agents of the FBI at a hotel in Ramsey, N.J., a press release from the U.S.

Police arrested three men on Thursday accused of raping a 30-year-old American woman in Manali in Himachal Pradesh, in a case that has thrown fresh scrutiny on the high rate of sex crimes against women in the country. The woman, who has not been identified, was picked up by three men in a truck on Monday night while hitch-hiking back to her guest house in Manali after spending an evening with friends, police said.