SANTA ANA, Calif. – A mother pleaded guilty today to the special circumstances murder of her two children after losing custody of them to her former husband. Marilyn Kay Edge, 44, Scottsdale, Ariz., pleaded guilty to two felony counts of murder with special circumstance enhancements for committin...

LOS ANGELES– A Corona woman who was the chief executive officer of a high-end jean company that outfitted Hollywood celebrities was sentenced today to 79 months in federal prison for running what prosecutors called “two fraud schemes of epic proportions.” Carolyn Marie Jones, 52, was sentenced th...

RIVERSIDE, California– The founder and co-owner of a Rancho Cucamonga business was sentenced today to 18 years in federal prison for orchestrating a scheme that offered bogus loan modification programs to thousands of financially distressed homeowners who lost more than $7 million when they paid ...

SANTA ANA, California– A Santa Barbara-area physician who wrote numerous prescriptions for powerful painkillers for “patients” – many of whom were drug addicts, and some of whom died from drug overdoses – was sentenced today to 327 months in federal prison. Julio Gabriel Diaz, 67, a Goleta reside...

LOS ANGELES– A former deputy U.S. marshal was sentenced today to 15 months in federal prison after being convicted of obstruction of justice – a charge stemming from lies he told to police after he fatally shot a man. Matthew Itkowitz, 47, who now lives in Suffern, New York, was sentenced by Unit...

SANTA ANA, California– A commercial firefighter who resides in Huntington Beach has been sentenced to 135 months in federal prison for attempting to produce child pornography by sending money to the Philippines to purchase a camera to take sexually explicit photos of a 13-year-old girl and her fr...

The former owner, operator and managers of a Southern California ambulance company were sentenced to prison for their role in a fraud scheme that resulted in more than $1.5 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Crimina...

LOS ANGELES – The United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California collected $42,370,356 as a result of criminal prosecutions and civil lawsuits during the 2015 fiscal year, United States Attorney Eileen M. Decker announced today. The amount collected for U.S. taxpayers duri...

LOS ANGELES– Two members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), Local 13, have been arrested on federal fraud charges that allege they caused two medical clinics to bill the union's health care plan for chiropractic services that either were not provided or were not medically ...

LOS ANGELES– Federal authorities today arrested 11 defendants named in a sweeping racketeering indictment that alleges a series of money laundering schemes that revolved around the former head Westminster-based Saigon National Bank. Four other defendants who are named in two separate money launde...