SANTA ANA, Calif. – A criminal defense attorney was sentenced to 90 days in jail today for submitting altered psychological reports to the Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA) and Orange County Superior Court in a sexual assault case. David Robert Cohn, 51, Coto De Caza, pleaded guilty...

SANTA ANA, California– A Newport Beach man has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for running a multi-million dollar fraud scheme that bilked investors with false promises of In-N-Out Burger franchises in the Middle East. Craig Stevens, 56, was sentenced Monday afternoon by United Stat...

LOS ANGELES– The Department of Justice has returned $1,126,951.45 in forfeited assets to the government of the Republic of Korea. The forfeited assets – which were returned yesterday – were the profits of a public corruption scheme orchestrated by former Korean President Chun Doo Hwan in the 1990...

LOS ANGELES– A former Pico Rivera businessman pleaded guilty late this afternoon in relation to a stolen identity refund fraud scheme in which he conspired to use stolen identities to file fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service that fraudulently generated approximately $550,000 ...

LOS ANGELES– A woman with a 40-year history of fraudulent conduct who used checks stolen from a woman in a West Hills nursing home to purchase hundreds of dollars in merchandise – a crime she committed while on supervised released in another federal fraud case – was sentenced today to 58 months i...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Three men have been charged with the armed robbery of a Mission Viejo jewelry store and throwing the stolen items out of a car window on the 405 freeway. Levon Michael Tippit, 23, Inglewood, Devan Devell Howard, 18, Los Angeles, and Marshawn Marshall, 18, Palmdale, are each ch...

LOS ANGELES– A Downey man who falsely certified that beef being sold by his employer was free of E. coli bacteria – which later proved to be false when one beef sample was found to be contaminated with the pathogen – has pleaded guilty to a federal offense of making and using a false writing and ...

A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted a Los Angeles man and owner of a medical supply company today for his role in a $4 million Medicare fraud scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Eileen M. Decker of the Central Dis...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former Disneyland employee pleaded guilty today to a court offer and was sentenced to one year in jail, five years of formal probation, and mandatory lifetime sex offender registration for attempting to sell tickets to Disneyland in exchange for sex with a minor. Darreck Mic...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A daughter is scheduled to face trial Monday for shooting and murdering her 96-year-old mother. Christine Marie Reynolds, 72, Rossmoor, is charged with one felony count of murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal discharge of a firearm causing death. If convicted,...

The Department of Justice's U.S. Trustee Program has entered into a national settlement agreement with Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (Wells Fargo) requiring Wells Fargo to pay $81.6 million in remediation for its repeated failure to provide homeowners with legally required notices, thereby denying homeow...

A Yuba City, California, man pleaded guilty today to producing child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner of the Eastern District of California, Special Agent in Charge Ryan Spradlin of...

Forensic Evidence Showed Accuser Self-inflicted Her Wounds Los Angeles. After ten years, two trials and two reversals on appeal, the prosecution and the defense reached an agreement releasing Daniel Clarke from state prison. Prominent defense attorney Fay Arfa, fought for Clarke's freedom and nev...

A former defensive lineman was found guilty today of a 1999 double homicide and a 2001 murder, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. A jury deliberated for about eight days before finding Anthony Wayne Smith, 48, guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and found true ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A drunken driver is scheduled to be arraigned today for hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian sitting on a sidewalk. Ramon Horta, 55, Santa Ana, is charged with one felony count of murder, one felony count of driving under the influence of alcohol causing bodily injury, h...

A Lancaster man has been found guilty of directing a teenage boy to perform sexual acts with a teenage family member and then joining in, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jurors deliberated for about two hours before convicting Richard Michael Kelso, 35, yesterday of t...

A motorist has been charged with murdering a bicyclist near the University of Southern California last week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Andrew Williams (dob 9/5/83) was charged in case BA440824 with one count each of murder and hitand-run resulting in death or se...

LOS ANGELES – Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a high-profile affirmative action case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Fisher v. University of Texas, urging the Court to reaffirm its 2003 ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger and allow public universities to con...

LOS ANGELES– A Los Angeles company has paid $4 million to resolve civil allegations that it fraudulently overcharged the U.S. military for fresh fruits and vegetables that it supplied to military dining facilities and Navy ships in Southern California. As part of a second agreement with criminal ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – An Orange County Social Services Agency (SSA) group counselor has been charged and is expected to be arraigned tomorrow for defrauding over $30,000 from the County of Orange by making fraudulent statements relating to his workers' compensation claim. Maluelue Tafua, 40, Orange...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – The Orange County District Attorney's Office (OCDA) has charged a man with illegally reimbursing contributors for Janet Nguyen's 2012 Orange County Board of Supervisors election campaign. Son Truong Nguyen, 38, Fountain Valley, is charged with 10 misdemeanor counts of unlawful...

A Los Angeles man was found guilty of sexually abusing three minor girls during trips to Russia over a two-year period.  Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division made the announcement. Yusef Yunosovich Abramov, 58, was convicted on Friday night a...

LOS ANGELES– A former sergeant with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, who was found guilty this summer of federal civil rights offenses related to the beating of a handcuffed visitor to the Men's Central Jail, was sentenced today to 96 months in federal prison. Eric Gonzalez, 46, received the...

LOS ANGELES– Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced a stipulated judgment resolving allegations that JPMorgan Chase (Chase) committed credit card debt-collection abuses against tens of thousands of Californians. The settlement specifically addresses debt collection wrongdoing that incl...

LOS ANGELES– A Peruvian national who possessed orchids in violation of an international wildlife treaty has pleaded guilty to a federal offense of illegal trade in a protected species. Victor Manuel Arias Cucho, 46, of Lima, Peru, pleaded guilty to the offense Wednesday in United States District ...