SANTA ANA, California– A former sales representative for AFLAC has been found guilty of federal fraud charges stemming from a scheme that bilked the insurance company out of $4 million with fake disability claims. Patricia Diane Smith Sledge, 60, of Redlands, was convicted late Tuesday in the s...

LOS ANGELES– A medical doctor who was facing charges in a federal health care fraud case when he fled the United States 14 years ago and faked his own death in Russia has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to his flight from justice. Tigran Svadjian, 58, a naturalized U.S. citizen original...

Two Northern California real estate investors have agreed to plead guilty today for their role in a conspiracy to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, the Department of Justice announced. California real estate investors John Michael Galloway and Nicholas D...