Recent Posts in Federal Court 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 15, 2011 By admin
In Los Angeles, California, a Downey man was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for running two fraud schemes. A Ponzi scheme that took in at least $30 million from about 500 victims, and a ...
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Posted on Feb 7, 2011 By admin
A federal judge sentenced a South Los Angeles gang leader to life in prison without parole, capping a years-long investigation into a large drug-trafficking operation run out of Los Angeles and San ...
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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 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 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 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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