The Justice Department announced today the results of a coordinated, nationwide enforcement action to combat COVID-19 fraud, which included 718 enforcement actions – including federal criminal charges against 371 defendants…
LOS ANGELES – The lead defendant in an indictment that charges three Southern California men linked to a white supremacy extremist group with planning and engaging in riots at political…
SANTA ANA, California – Two defendants now named in a four-count federal grand jury indictment are scheduled to be arraigned this morning on charges alleging they conducted a firebombing attack…
LOS ANGELES – A federal jury today found a Long Beach man guilty of building and planting a package bomb that detonated inside an Aliso Viejo day spa in May…
The Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced today a crackdown on telemarketing operations responsible for billions of illegal calls to U.S. consumers. The U.S.…
The Justice Department announced that Rosie Hidalgo was sworn in today as the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). As director, she will spearhead the Department’s principal…
LOS ANGELES – An Orange County man was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for stalking a professional online gamer during a long-running harassment campaign. Evan Baltierra, 30,…
SANTA ANA, California – The owner of a Newport Beach-based artificial turf company pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for failing to report nearly $9 million in income…
Edon Kagasoff, a 45-year-old Orange County man from Lake Forest, was sentenced on Wednesday to six months probation and ordered to forfeit $3 million for helping run an illegal bookmaking…
SANTA ANA, California – Special agents with the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service have arrested two Orange County men on federal charges alleging they used a Molotov cocktail…
SANTA ANA, California – An Orange County-based businessman who portrayed himself as a wealthy and successful entrepreneur – sometimes bragging that he was one of the richest men in Africa…
SANTA ANA, California – An Orange County man was sentenced today to 84 months in federal prison for fraudulently applying for more than $1.2 million in COVID-19 pandemic unemployment insurance…
The Department of Justice, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), today announced a civil enforcement action against XCast Labs, Inc. for allegedly violating the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) by…
SANTA ANA, California – A former Long Beach resident pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for leading a telemarketing scheme in which boiler room tactics were used to…
SANTA ANA, California – A Los Angeles man has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging he committed armed robberies at Southern California convenience stores and gas stations during…
