U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California
Recent News About U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California
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A man from Fremont in the San Francisco Bay Area has been charged with stealing rare and historical Chinese manuscripts valued at about $216,000 from a university library system, according to an announcement by the Justice Department.
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A San Bernardino County man was arrested on federal charges for allegedly obtaining more than $800,000 in COVID-19 relief funds by hiding his prior criminal conviction.
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A Guatemalan national and former Los Angeles resident, Miguel Angel Batz Jr., was extradited from Guatemala to the United States and arraigned on federal charges in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
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A Glendale resident has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for her role in a hospice fraud scheme that resulted in more than $10 million in false Medicare claims.
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Two Chinese nationals have been arrested in Los Angeles on allegations of illegally exporting sensitive microchips used in artificial intelligence applications to China.
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A Romanian citizen living in Hollywood was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for his role in a scheme that skimmed tens of thousands of Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards from ATMs and point-of-sale terminals across California and New...
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A former San Gabriel Valley resident and financial television analyst was sentenced to five years in federal prison for defrauding investors out of millions of dollars.
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A Long Beach resident was arrested on federal charges for allegedly sending a dozen payments to individuals linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.
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A Victorville man has been convicted on federal charges after posing as a teenage boy online and transporting a 15-year-old girl from San Luis Obispo County to Mexico for illicit sexual activity, according to the Justice Department.
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A Burbank resident has been convicted by a federal jury of embezzling approximately $2.2 million from an elderly victim’s inheritance, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.
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Former NBA player Gilbert Arenas and five other individuals were arrested on charges of operating an illegal gambling business that allegedly hosted high-stakes poker games at a mansion in Encino, California.
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An Arizona resident has pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering and conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with a scheme that defrauded investors of more than $13 million.
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Two staff members at a San Bernardino County surgery center have been charged in a federal criminal complaint for allegedly assaulting and interfering with U.S. immigration officers.
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A former Amtrak employee has been sentenced to 25 months in federal prison for conspiring with her husband to steal nearly $1 million in COVID-19 unemployment insurance benefits and fraudulently obtaining more than $63,000 in sickness benefits.
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An illegal immigrant from Mexico has been charged with orchestrating a fake kidnapping to gain public sympathy and solicit donations, according to the Justice Department.
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A Nevada woman has been sentenced to 50 months in federal prison for defrauding a lender of $3.7 million through false applications for fine art insurance policies.
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An Inglewood woman has been arrested following a federal grand jury indictment, which alleges she fraudulently obtained over $1.3 million in COVID-19 pandemic relief funds.
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A former FBI electronics technician and his sister have been charged with conspiring to defraud the United States by securing at least $350,000 in electronics contracts through deceitful means.
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An Orange County man, Paul Richard Randall, 66, has been charged with aiding and abetting health care fraud.
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A Riverside County man has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison for tax fraud related to the sale of Stan Lee memorabilia.