SANTA ANA, California – A Garden Grove man who convinced a 13-year-old girl he met online to send him explicit videos – and then traveled to Canada to have sex with the victim – was ordered this afternoon to serve 87 months in federal prison. Paul Binh Do, 30, was sentenced by United States Dis...

LOS ANGELES –The United States Attorney's Office and IRS Criminal Investigation today announced a 10-year prison sentence against one defendant and the filing of three criminal cases against four individuals who were involved in the preparation of fraudulent income tax returns. While the vast m...

U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd sentenced a Bakersfield man to 15 years in prison for federal hate crimes for firing a shotgun while yelling racist slurs at a Latino man, Acting Assistant Attorney General Tom Wheeler of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Phillip A...

SANTA ANA, California – A Brea man was sentenced today to 109 months in custody for operating a multi-million dollar fraudulent mortgage modification scheme that posed as a successful law firm. Bryan D'Antonio, 50, was sentenced by United States District Judge David O. Carter, who ordered the d...

An Orange County, California man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, California to serve 109 months in prison including the last 12 months in a halfway house for his role as the owner and operator of a multi-million dollar fraudulent mortgage modification scheme that posed as...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Defendants not licensed to effectuate trades in securities were arraigned last week for defrauding investors and stealing more than $200,000 in a securities scheme involving boiler room high-pressured sales tactics. Kevin David Grace, 51, Long Beach, was charged on March 20, 2...

LOS ANGELES – The fifth and final defendant charged with using credit and debit cards obtained from a series of cyberattacks on U.S. companies that resulted in an estimated $5 million in losses – and caused one victim company to go out of business – has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges. ...

SACRAMENTO – Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced today that California has joined a multistate settlement with Western Union, which resolves an investigation that focused on complaints by consumers who used the financial institution's wire transfer service to inadvertently send money to thi...

LOS ANGELES – The owners of two local drug wholesale companies were among four defendants taken into custody this morning on federal “structuring” charges that allege they made millions of dollars in cash deposits designed to circumvent federal reporting requirements. Law enforcement authoritie...

Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes, who is charged with participating in the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, was taken into custody by Mexican authorities in Chihuahua, Mexico on Wednesday based on a provisional arrest warrant issued at the request of the United States. “The Department of ...