LOS ANGELES – The organizer of a bank fraud scheme in which Wells Fargo Bank employees stole customer account data – information that was used to impersonate scores of customers and steal well over a half-million dollars from their accounts – was sentenced today to 89 months in federal prison. ...

LOS ANGELES – A San Fernando Valley woman who pleaded guilty to three felony charges stemming from a scheme in which she submitted fraudulent bills and illegally collected approximately $1 million from HBO was sentenced this morning to 30 months in federal prison. Jennifer Choi, 39, of Valley V...

LOS ANGELES – Acting Attorney General Kathleen A. Kenealy, along with the U.S. Department of Justice and the attorneys general of 20 other states and the District of Columbia, today announced an $863.8 million settlement with Moody's Corporation (Moody's), a business and financial services compan...

A U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for accepting cash, hotel expenses and the services of a prostitute from foreign defense contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA) in exchange for classified Navy information. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwe...

LOS ANGELES – A member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), Local 13, has been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme in which two medical clinics submitted more than a quarter-million dollars in bills to the union's health care plan for chiroprac...

Three Orange County, California residents pleaded guilty today to willfully failing to report their foreign bank accounts in Switzerland and Israel, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department's Tax Division. Dan Farhad Kalili, 55, a r...

LOS ANGELES – A British man who traveled to the Coachella Valley to have sex with pre-teen boys and later pleaded guilty to transportation of child pornography was sentenced today to 13 years in federal prison. Paul Charles Wilkins, 70, of Littleport in East Cambridgeshire, England, a dual Unit...

A 44-year-old man was charged today for allegedly killing a woman and stabbing three others over a span of ten hours, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. John Ralph Perales (dob 5/4/72) of Temple City has been charged with seven felony counts in case KA114353: one count o...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former volunteer treasurer for Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's re-election committee was convicted today of embezzling over $300,000 from campaign funds and business the where the defendant worked. Jack Wenpo Wu, 46, Newport Beach, pleaded guilty to three felony counts of gra...

McKesson Corporation (McKesson), one of the nation's largest distributors of pharmaceutical drugs, agreed to pay a record $150 million civil penalty for alleged violations of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the Justice Department announced today. The nationwide settlement requires McKesson ...