An Orange County, California, man pleaded guilty today for his role in operating fraudulent debt relief firms that offered to settle credit card debts but instead took victims' payments as undisclosed up-front fees, the Justice Department and U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced. Jeremy Nelso...

LOS ANGELES – A Riverside resident has pled guilty to possessing child pornography and now faces a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence in federal prison. James Gregory O'Neill, 58, of Riverside pleaded guilty on Monday, January 25 before United States District Judge R. Gary Klausner to possession ...

The former owner and the former operator of a durable medical equipment supply company based in Long Beach, California, were sentenced today for their roles in a $1.5 million Medicare fraud scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. ...

LOS ANGELES– Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that she has lodged a lawsuit against Southern California Gas Company for violations of California law in connection with a massive methane leak from its Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility.  In addition to filing suit in her in...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former volunteer treasurer for Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's re-election committee is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow for embezzling over $300,000 from campaign funds and business the where the defendant worked. Jack Wenpo Wu, 45, Newport Beach, is charged with three fel...

LOS ANGELES– A federal grand jury has returned a 44-count indictment that charges nine defendants with violating the Clean Air Act by conducting hundreds of fraudulent smog check inspections that falsely certified vehicles had passed emissions tests when different cars and trucks had actually be...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Two former Detention and Release Officers (DRO) were convicted and sentenced today for abusing their timecards and costing the taxpayers of Orange County thousands of dollars. Glen Alan Green, 65, Huntington Beach, and Clyde Richard Nelson, 67, Chino Hills, pleaded guilty toda...

LOS ANGELES– Two Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies who were assigned to the 3000 Floor of the Men's Central Jail were found guilty this afternoon of falsifying reports with the intent to obstruct justice. The false reports were filed after an incident in which a shackled inmate was struck, kicked, ...

LOS ANGELES– The former chief of police for the Port of Los Angeles pleaded guilty today to federal charges of tax evasion and making false statements to FBI agents who were investigating his acceptance of a bribe in connection with the development of a social networking program that would becom...

FULLERTON, Calif. – A former treasurer for a youth soccer club organization is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow for embezzling and laundering over $174,000 from the organization. Laura Alicia Zellerbach, 41, Long Beach, is charged with one felony count of embezzlement by fiduciary of trust, one...