A Los Angeles man was found guilty of sexually abusing three minor girls during trips to Russia over a two-year period.  Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division made the announcement. Yusef Yunosovich Abramov, 58, was convicted on Friday night a...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA) has charged a man with illegally reimbursing contributors for Janet Nguyen's 2012 Orange County Board of Supervisors election campaign. Son Truong Nguyen, 38, Fountain Valley, is charged with 10 misdemeanor counts of unlawful...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – An Orange County Social Services Agency (SSA) group counselor has been charged and is expected to be arraigned tomorrow for defrauding over $30,000 from the County of Orange by making fraudulent statements relating to his workers' compensation claim. Maluelue Tafua, 40, Orange...

LOS ANGELES – Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a high-profile affirmative action case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Fisher v. University of Texas, urging the Court to reaffirm its 2003 ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger and allow public universities to con...

LOS ANGELES– A woman with a 40-year history of fraudulent conduct who used checks stolen from a woman in a West Hills nursing home to purchase hundreds of dollars in merchandise – a crime she committed while on supervised released in another federal fraud case – was sentenced today to 58 months i...

LOS ANGELES– A former Pico Rivera businessman pleaded guilty late this afternoon in relation to a stolen identity refund fraud scheme in which he conspired to use stolen identities to file fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service that fraudulently generated approximately $550,000 ...

LOS ANGELES– The Department of Justice has returned $1,126,951.45 in forfeited assets to the government of the Republic of Korea. The forfeited assets – which were returned yesterday – were the profits of a public corruption scheme orchestrated by former Korean President Chun Doo Hwan in the 1990...

SANTA ANA, California– A Newport Beach man has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for running a multi-million dollar fraud scheme that bilked investors with false promises of In-N-Out Burger franchises in the Middle East. Craig Stevens, 56, was sentenced Monday afternoon by United Stat...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A criminal defense attorney was sentenced to 90 days in jail today for submitting altered psychological reports to the Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA) and Orange County Superior Court in a sexual assault case. David Robert Cohn, 51, Coto De Caza, pleaded guilty...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A felon who had two of his prior felony convictions reduced to misdemeanors under Proposition 47 (Prop 47), which resulted in his release from custody, was charged today with shooting his firearm at police officers while leading them on a chase. Jimmy Hoang Truong, 28, Santa A...