Blog Posts in 2010
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Posted on Dec 20, 2010 By admin
A United States Attorney announced that federal juries returned guilty verdicts, in two separate trials, against eight defendants accused of drug trafficking. U.S. v. Amaro et al.; 2:07-cr-00248-WBS ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2010 By admin
Federal authorities announced the indictments of 16 men who allegedly accessed a password-protected Internet forum on child pornography containing thousands of graphic images and videos of young boys. ...
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Posted on Dec 10, 2010 By admin
Following an announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder in Washington, D.C., representatives of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force in Los Angeles, including the United States Attorney, ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2010 By admin
Federal law enforcement authorities arrested 14 of 22 federal defendants linked to a Riverside street gang engaged in the trafficking of methamphetamine and other federal offenses that include ...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2010 By admin
A United States Attorney announced that Mauricio Mendez was sentenced in federal court in San Diego by United States District Court Judge Janis L. Sammartino to serve 318 months in custody, based on ...
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Posted on Dec 3, 2010 By admin
Federal authorities have arrested a Beverly Hills woman on federal wire fraud charges for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme that collected nearly $11 million from scores of Southland victims who were ...
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Posted on Dec 1, 2010 By admin
A federal appeals court overturned the 1984 murder convictions of an alleged serial killer dubbed the "Skid Row Stabber," calling the government's chief witness an "infamous" jailhouse informant and a ...
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Posted on Nov 29, 2010 By admin
In Los Angeles, California, a Vancouver, Canada man has been sentenced to 171 months in federal prison for running an international lottery scam that took in $1.8 million from mostly elderly victims ...
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Posted on Nov 23, 2010 By admin
In Fresno, California, a United States Attorney announced that Norma Pena, of Delhi, California, was arrested after a federal grand jury returned a 14-count indictment, charging her with embezzlement ...
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Posted on Nov 22, 2010 By admin
A Hollywood, California based drug trafficking ring that used chartered planes to ship hundreds of pounds of cocaine and millions of dollars between Los Angeles and Baltimore was broken up as a ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2010 By admin
An admitted swindler was sentenced in San Diego federal court to serve 41 months in prison and pay more than $15 million restitution to more than 200 victims of his Ponzi scheme. Mohit A. Khanna, ran ...
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Posted on Nov 11, 2010 By admin
In San Francisco, California, the owner of an illegal internet pharmacy pleaded guilty to distributing controlled substances outside the scope of professional medical practice, a United States ...
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Posted on Nov 8, 2010 By admin
In Brownsville, Texas, a 13-count indictment charging a former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) inspector with drug trafficking, alien smuggling, and bribery has been partially unsealed as a result ...
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Posted on Nov 5, 2010 By admin
In San Francisco, California, Lily C. Aspillera was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for embezzling approximately $1.77 million from a client of a major professional services firm and for not ...
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Posted on Nov 1, 2010 By Jerry Kastler
Two physicians were arrested for allegedly subjecting mentally ill homeless people to unnecessary tests and other procedures at a North Hollywood clinic in order to submit fraudulent bills to ...
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Posted on Oct 28, 2010 By admin
A patient recruiter who sold the personal information of Medicare beneficiaries from San Diego and Los Angeles to fraudulent Los Angeles medical clinics and durable medical equipment (DME) companies ...
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Posted on Oct 25, 2010 By admin
United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that four men have been charged in four separate indictments with receipt or distribution of visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually ...
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Posted on Oct 19, 2010 By admin
A federal grand jury in San Jose, California indicted Barbra Alexander, of Monterey, California, Beth Pina, of Fairfield, Idaho, and Michael Swanson, of Seaside, California, with mail fraud, wire ...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2010 By admin
Federal authorities arrested more than two dozen Los Angeles-area residents for their alleged roles in a nationwide scheme to bilk Medicare out of more than $160 million. The investigation, dubbed ...
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Posted on Oct 8, 2010 By admin
An Orange County, California attorney has been indicted on charges related to a mortgage fraud scheme in which 30 homes were purchased at inflated prices, with the excess proceeds going to the lawyer ...
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Posted on Oct 4, 2010 By admin
A federal grand jury has indicted a Downey man on a series of fraud charges for allegedly running two related fraud schemes, a Ponzi scheme that took more than $11 million from more than 300 victims, ...
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Posted on Sep 29, 2010 By admin
A federal grand jury has indicted a prominent Los Angeles businessman on charges of stealing approximately $23 million from five clients who allowed his "qualified intermediary" company to hold their ...
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Posted on Sep 22, 2010 By admin
A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a superseding indictment charging 10 individuals with narcotics and firearms offenses, federal racketeering conspiracy, and three murders in ...
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Posted on Sep 20, 2010 By admin
A retired special agent for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and his wife, who also worked for the federal agency in Los Angeles, were arrested on charges of stealing from the ...
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Posted on Sep 16, 2010 By admin
In Sacramento, California, a United States Attorney announced that Bismark Martin Ocampo, of San Francisco, pled guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine. The plea agreement calls for a sentence of ...
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