LOS ANGELES– The former chief information officer for the Screen Actors Guild's Producers Pension and Health Plan (PPHP) has pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return in which he failed to report income he received from contractors hired to upgrade the PPHP computer system. Nader Karimi, 51, of...

LOS ANGELES– A San Fernando Valley man who hacked into e-mail accounts to steal nude photos that were later posted on a well-known “revenge porn” website was sentenced today to 25 months in federal prison on computer crime and identity theft charges. Charles Evens, 26, of Studio City, was sentenc...

LOS ANGELES– Concluding one of the largest Ponzi schemes ever seen in Southern California, two men who operated a Calabasas firm at the center of a scam that cost victims approximately $135 million were sentenced today, with one man being ordered to serve nine years, and the other a decade, in fe...