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A man convicted in Omaha of embezzling government funds has been ordered to make restitution to two federal agencies.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to issue an unusually quick ruling on the Pentagon’s policy of restricting military service by transgender people.

Keith Hudson, 71, was sentenced this week to six months in federal prison, the Justice Department said in a news release. He was also sentenced to house arrest for six months after his release from prison.

Lawyers for Maria Butina and prosecutors in Washington made the disclosure in a joint court filing, the first acknowledgement that the 30-year-old is potentially working on a plea deal or some other conclusion to her case.

Trey Glenn was appointed in August 2017 to serve as chief of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in Atlanta, which oversees operations in eight states stretching from the Carolinas to Mississippi.

Federal investigators had been looking into the finances behind a real estate deal for the now defunct Burlington College, where Jane Sanders served as president from 2004 to 2011.

Northrop contractors overcharged the government between 2010 and 2013, the Department of Justice has concluded.

The prosecution comes amid heightened trade tensions between China and the U.S. and as the Trump administration raises alarms that Beijing remains intent on stealing technology and inventions to gain an economic upper hand.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley wrote in a letter to the Justice Department that Julie Swetnick and her attorney, Michael Avenatti, made serious allegations that required significant resources to investigate.

A Russian woman accused by the U.S. of helping oversee a social media effort to influence the 2018 U.S. midterm elections has mocked the accusations.