Westminster private investigator Deanna Short has begun serving 120 days in Orange County Jail on a misdemeanor charge of food-stamp fraud.
A Westminster attorney and his former office manager were charged Friday with embezzling more than $100,000 from the accounts of 11 clients.
participate in a $350,000 insurance fraud scheme surrendered to authorities Thursday.
By next March 31 Japan's auto companies are likely to have easily sold the 2.3 million cars that they had fixed as their annual maximum to the American market, and with President Reagan committed not to seek an extension of import quotas they will be looking to greater sales in...
million was convicted in Los Angeles Federal Court on 20 counts of mail fraud.
Seven businessmen--six of them from Orange County-- swindled 21 banks and savings and loan companies out of $21 million in real estate loans, according to a federal grand jury indictment.
Crown Bancorp on Monday filed a $10-million lawsuit against dissident shareholder Ed Schmidt, accusing him of trying to illegally gain control of the bank holding company and asking for a temporary restraining order to prevent him from gathering additional proxies in his bid to land at least two seats on...
The commission said the Louisville, Colo.
-reporting sales taxes of $2.2 million in what authorities said may be the largest sales tax fraud case since the tax was first imposed 50 years ago.
and creditors in the dark, on Friday pleaded not guilty to federal charges of mail and wire fraud.
The special presidential election in the Philippines has produced not only deceit, chaos and violence, but also landmark TV in the United States.
A former Northrop Corp. engineer pleaded guilty Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court to charges that he persuaded Northrop officials to award $600,000 in subcontract work on the Air Force's top-secret Stealth bomber to an Orange County firm that he secretly owned.
swindling about 100 victims out of more than $3 million in a wholesale carpet investment fraud scheme, the FBI said Tuesday.
The wife and the sister-in-law of Compton Mayor Walter R.
California medical authorities filed charges of dishonesty and misrepresentation against former University of California, San Diego, heart researcher Dr.
A federal grand jury has charged a California, man and a Utah man with buying high-mileage motor vehicles in the Los Angeles area, turning back the odometers and reselling the cars here.
Diego's, a popular Pacific Beach restaurant, has agreed to pay a penalty of about $10,000 after an investigation by the state and city concluded that substitute ingredients were used in a dish the menu stated contained pure crab meat.
Chrysler Corp. and two senior executives were indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges of selling as new more than 60,000 vehicles that had been driven by company managers for as long as five weeks with the odometers disconnected.
Donald Lee Carpenter, the president of La Jolla-based Monarch Equity Corp. who was arrested on a fugitive warrant Monday during a raid on his investment firm, was released from County Jail Wednesday after prosecutors in Las Vegas declined to seek an extradition order so he could face embezzlement charges there.
The former Newport Beach businessman told a federal judge in Los Angeles earlier this week that he is not guilty of the 13 charges in connection with a precious-metals investment business he operated in 1980 and 1981.