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 well-known tattoo artist from Los Angeles, Daniel Joseph Winter, has admitted to filing false tax returns that resulted in evading over $641,000 in federal income tax.
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A Southern California man has been sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for a racially motivated attack on an Asian American woman, the Justice Department announced.
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A Hollywood woman, Mirela Todorova, also known as "Mimi," has been found guilty of running a tech-savvy drug delivery business that resulted in three near-fatal fentanyl overdoses.
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A Gardena resident has been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for assaulting a United States Postal Service (USPS) employee.
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An illegal immigrant from Guatemala has been apprehended in Los Angeles on charges of leading a significant human smuggling organization, according to the Justice Department.
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Federal prosecutors, in collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal law enforcement agencies, have charged 126 individuals for allegedly re-entering the United States after being previously removed.
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Joseph Neal Sanberg, co-founder and largest shareholder of Aspiration Partners, Inc., was arrested in Santa Ana, California.
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The Department of Justice has taken legal action to support access to places of worship, following an incident at the Adas Torah Synagogue in Los Angeles.
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A Los Angeles woman has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining over $2 million in COVID-19 relief loans and attempting to secure nearly $1.3 million in pandemic-related tax credits, according to the Justice...
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A woman from San Luis Obispo County has been arrested following allegations of creating fraudulent immigration documents, according to the Justice Department.
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An alleged leader of a transnational drug trafficking organization, Andrew Clark, has been extradited from Mexico to the United States to face federal charges.
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A San Bernardino County resident has pleaded guilty to charges related to the illegal possession of trade secrets.
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A Riverside County man has agreed to plead guilty to tax fraud charges after failing to report over $1.2 million in income from selling Stan Lee-signed memorabilia, according to the Justice Department.
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A Simi Valley couple, Carolina Rojas and Jairo John Gastelo, were arrested on charges of exploiting asylum-seeking immigrants from Latin America.
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A Russian national, Maksim Zaitsev, has been charged with assaulting a federal employee resulting in bodily injury.
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Three individuals have been arrested in Santa Ana, California, on federal criminal complaints for allegedly laundering over $13 million obtained from victims of investment scams known as "pig butchering."
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A federal grand jury has indicted two San Fernando Valley residents and one Long Beach resident on charges of armed robbery across Southern California.
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A former financial TV news analyst, James Arthur McDonald Jr., has agreed to plead guilty to securities fraud, according to an announcement by the Justice Department.
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A former gynecologist from Newport Beach, Mark Albert Rettenmaier, has entered a guilty plea to federal charges related to the possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
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A Palmdale resident, Darius Desean Edwards, is set to appear in court today following a federal grand jury indictment.