SANTA ANA, Calif. – A father and son were convicted today of embezzling over $300,000 from employee wages on public works jobs. Daniel Jacob Siapin, 60, and his son Gabriel Daniel Siapin, 37, both of La Habra Heights, pleaded guilty toa court offer of 28 felony counts of taking and receiving a po...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A county contractor was convicted and sentenced yesterday for misappropriation of public funds by falsifying invoices for more than $130,000 submitted to the county for reimbursement and embezzling more than $440,000 by making unauthorized payments with his com...

LOS ANGELES– A man who operated two businesses that sold office supplies to the federal government has been convicted by a federal jury of giving illegal gifts to federal employees who did business with his companies. Ivan Greenhut, 57, of Tarzana, was convicted late yesterday afternoon in United...

FULLERTON, Calif. – A man has been charged with the attempted human trafficking, pimping, and pandering of an undercover police officer, whom he believed to be a minor, on a social media website. Michael Joseph Mata, Los Angeles, 33, is charged with one felony count of attempted human trafficking...

LOS ANGELES – A Northern California man who operated the Internet's best-known “revenge porn” website was sentenced late this afternoon to 30 months in federal prison for hiring another man to hack into e-mail accounts to steal nude photos that were later posted on his website. Hunter Moore, 29, ...

LOS ANGELES– Two former Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies who violated the civil rights of a visitor to the Men's Central Jail by beating him while he was restrained with handcuffs were sentenced today, each being ordered to serve at least six years in federal prison. Fernando Luviano, 37, was sente...

LOS ANGELES– A former Beverly Hills stockbroker has been indicted – along with fugitive hedge fund manager Florian Homm and two others – in an alleged stock manipulation scheme designed to pump up the reported profits of the Homm-managed hedge funds in a fraud that caused investors to lose approx...

The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a settlement with the J.R. Simplot Company that resolves alleged Clean Air Act violations related to modifications made at Simplot's five sulfuric acid plants near Lathrop, California, Pocatello, Idaho, and Ro...

A one-count indictment was unsealed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco against Daniel William Aston and his company, Trod Ltd. (doing business as Buy 4 Less, Buy For Less, and Buy-For-Less-Online), a U.K. company headquartered in Birmingh...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA) is seeking the public's help identifying potential additional victims of a former church pastor charged with forcibly raping a female church member and sexually abusing three other female church members. Sean Patrick Aday, 38...