SANTA ANA, California – Two men from Orange County have been sentenced to federal prison for participating in a “builder bailout” mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in the fraudulent purchase of more than 100 condominium units around the country, causing more than $10 million in losses when the...

Naum Morgovsky, 69, and Irina Morgovsky, 66, both of Hillsborough, California, pleaded guilty today for their respective roles in a scheme to export components for the production of night vision and thermal devices in violation of the Arms Export Control Act. Naum Morgovsky also pleaded guilty to...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former insurance agent was convicted and sentenced today to 15 years in state prison for defrauding approximately $2 million from his clients. Defendant Charges Court-Offered Sentence Brian Smart, 41, Lehi, UT Pleaded guilty today to the follow...

SANTA ANA, California – Two men who participated in a series of armed bank robberies attributed to the “Bladed Bandit” because one of the robbers brandished a large knife each have pleaded guilty in federal court to multiple counts of armed robbery. Chad Dupape, 29, of Fountain Valley, and Vinc...

A 77-year-old man was charged today with murdering a Long Beach fire captain and wounding two others after he allegedly set off an explosive device, causing a blaze at a senior housing complex where he lived, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Thomas Man Kim (dob 10/19/4...

Tokuo Tatai, an executive of Japan-based capacitor manufacturer Elna Co. Ltd., pleaded guilty for his role in a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids for electrolytic capacitors sold to customers in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced today. A December 2016 indict...

The Department of Justice announced today that it will require The Walt Disney Company to divest 22 Regional Sports Networks (“RSNs”) as a condition of its $71.3 billion acquisition of certain assets from Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. The Justice Department's Antitrust Division filed a civil an...

LOS ANGELES – In another massive law enforcement action targeting health care fraud, federal authorities here announced today criminal cases naming a total of 33 defendants – including doctors, pharmacists and an attorney – who have been charged in a wide-range of schemes that collectively attem...

LOS ANGELES – A Simi Valley man has pleaded guilty to impersonating a special agent with U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations and, in that false persona, ordering a teenage boy out of a car before seizing and searching the minor's cellphones without permissi...

SACRAMENTO – Leading a coalition of eight Attorneys General and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its f...