Forensic Evidence Showed Accuser Self-inflicted Her Wounds Los Angeles. After ten years, two trials and two reversals on appeal, the prosecution and the defense reached an agreement releasing Daniel Clarke from state prison. Prominent defense attorney Fay Arfa, fought for Clarke's freedom and nev...

LOS ANGELES– Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced a stipulated judgment resolving allegations that JPMorgan Chase (Chase) committed credit card debt-collection abuses against tens of thousands of Californians. The settlement specifically addresses debt collection wrongdoing that incl...

SAN DIEGO – Eight medical professionals and associates are charged in federal grand jury indictments with buying and selling patients in a bribery scheme involving $25 million in improper claims for medical services and devices which were then billed to California Workers' Compensation insurance ...

A federal court in San Diego, California, has permanently barred Lawrence Preston Siegel from preparing federal tax returns for others, providing tax advice for compensation or any promise of compensation and working for any business that provides tax advice or prepares tax returns, the Justice D...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former Marine was sentenced today to life in state prison without the possibility of parole for the special circumstances stabbing murder of a pregnant woman. Ahmad Rashad Siddiqi, 27, Alexandria, Virginia, was found guilty by a jury Sept. 23, 2015, of one felony count of sp...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Honorable John D. Conley found today that the accusations of outrageous governmental conduct by the Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA) were untrue. Several other motions filed by the Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders in People v. Daniel Wozniak, including t...

LOS ANGELES– A man who threatened to kill a United States Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer who came to the man's home to ask about trash dumped in the San Bernardino National Forest has been convicted by a federal jury. Richard Latka, 56, of Hemet, was convicted yesterday afternoon in Unite...

LOS ANGELES– A Peruvian national who possessed orchids in violation of an international wildlife treaty has pleaded guilty to a federal offense of illegal trade in a protected species. Victor Manuel Arias Cucho, 46, of Lima, Peru, pleaded guilty to the offense Wednesday in United States District ...

LOS ANGELES– A Los Angeles company has paid $4 million to resolve civil allegations that it fraudulently overcharged the U.S. military for fresh fruits and vegetables that it supplied to military dining facilities and Navy ships in Southern California. As part of a second agreement with criminal ...

LOS ANGELES– A former sergeant with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, who was found guilty this summer of federal civil rights offenses related to the beating of a handcuffed visitor to the Men's Central Jail, was sentenced today to 96 months in federal prison. Eric Gonzalez, 46, received the...