SAN FRANCISCO– Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced a $15 million settlement securing restitution for Californians who invested money with Beverly Hills-based investment adviser Stanley Chais, money that he then funneled into Bernard Madoff's notorious Ponzi scheme. Chais was respons...

LOS ANGELES– Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, along with the attorneys general of 33 other states and the District of Columbia, today announced a $41.2 million settlement with automakers Hyundai and Kia to resolve allegations that the companies misrepresented the mileage and fuel economy rating...

LOS ANGELES– An Australian geneticist who pleaded guilty to a federal charge of traveling to Los Angeles to engage in criminal sexual conduct with a 6-year-old boy was sentenced today to 144 months in prison. Michael Quinn, 33, of Melbourne, was sentenced today by United States District Judge J...

A federal jury sitting in Oakland, California convicted a resident of Richmond, California yesterday for his role in a conspiracy to steal identities and cash fraudulently obtained and stolen U.S. Treasury checks, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA), as part of the California Food, Drug, and Medical Device Task Force, comprised of ten district attorneys' offices including Alameda, Marin, Monterey, Napa, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Solano, and Sonoma Counties, announ...

Two men were charged today with murder for a fatal beating outside a Hollywood nightclub over the weekend, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Dietrich Canterberry (12/20/81) and Cordell Shields (3/25/81) were each charged in case BA451429 with one count of murder. Shield...

A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today charging a total of six executives from four different companies for conspiring to fix prices of electrolytic capacitors sold to customers in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced today. The indictment, f...

The Department of Justice sued DIRECTV and its corporate successor, AT&T Inc., today for acting as the ringleader of a series of unlawful information exchanges between DIRECTV and three of its competitors – Cox Communications Inc., Charter Communications Inc. and AT&T – during the companies' nego...

Four defendants were sentenced today in connection with a fraudulent Orange County, California, debt relief firm, the Justice Department and U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced.  The defendants all worked at Nelson Gamble and Associates and Jackson Hunter Morris and Knight, companies that of...

Satish Kartan, 43, and his wife, Sharmistha Barai, 38, of Stockton, California, were indicted by a grand jury today for forced labor and conspiracy to commit forced labor.  Kartan was also charged with fraud in contacting foreign labor and Barai was also charged with benefiting from forced labor....