Recent Posts in California Category
Posted on Apr 6, 2011 By admin
The owner of a Los Angeles medical supply company that fraudulently collected about $2 million from Medicare for unneeded medical equipment has been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison. Marlon ...
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Posted on Feb 4, 2011 By admin
A Union City, California man pled guilty and was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for conspiring with a woman in the Philippines to produce ...
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Posted on Feb 2, 2011 By admin
In Sacramento, California, Shane Burreson, of Orland, pleaded guilty before a United States District Judge for his role in a multi-million-dollar builder bailout mortgage fraud scheme. According to ...
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Posted on Jan 24, 2011 By admin
In Bakersfield, California, David Marshall Crisp, Carlyle Lee Cole, Julie Dianne Farmer, Sneha Ramesh Mohammadi, Jayson Peter Costa, Jeriel Salinas, Robinson Dinh Nguyen, Michael Angelo Munoz, ...
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Posted on Jan 21, 2011 By admin
A San Diego FBI Special Agent in Charge announced the arrest of United States Border Patrol Agent Marcos Gerardo Manzano, Jr., and Jose Alfredo Garrido-Morena, as a result of an investigation ...
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Posted on Jan 18, 2011 By admin
The co-founder of a criminal enterprise known as the Tran Organization pled guilty in San Diego to conspiring to participate in the organization’s scheme to cheat casinos across the country out of ...
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Posted on Jan 13, 2011 By admin
In Riverside, California, a former official with Chase Bank has been found guilty of disclosing the existence of a suspicious activity report (SAR) filed with federal officials, and then soliciting ...
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Posted on Jan 10, 2011 By admin
In San Jose, California, former FBI employee pled guilty in federal court in San Jose to making false statements to a government agency. Rachelle Thomas-Zuill admitted during her plea agreement that ...
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Posted on Jan 7, 2011 By admin
In Fresno, California, a United States District Judge sentenced Steven Patrick Arthur, of Porterville, to 120 years in prison for sexual exploitation of a minor. Should Arthur ever be released from ...
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Posted on Jan 6, 2011 By admin
In Sacramento, California, a United States attorney announced that Melissa Villegas, of Sacramento, the last defendant in a mortgage fraud scheme, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Rick ...
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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 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 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 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 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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