The president of two Irvine-based defense firms pleaded guilty in federal court in Los Angeles Monday to submitting $53,000 in false billings to the Department of Defense Thomas Snooks, 47, faces a maximum prison term of 15 years and a $17,000 fine when he returns Oct. 21 for sentencing by Chief U.S.
A Northridge woman, who state insurance officials believe falsely reported her mother's death to collect on life insurance, failed to show up for her arraignment Friday and may have fled to her native Philippines, a state investigator said.
Jerome C. Gatto, who federal prosecutors believe tried to bilk J.
Alan Jay Bianco, owner of Bianco Welding in Oceanside, was found guilty last week by a federal judge of 13 counts of filing false payroll reports and taking kickbacks from public-works employees.
A federal appeals court agreed Thursday with a former Dutch journalist who contended that he was improperly sentenced for his admitted part in a scheme that cheated thousands of European investors who paid millions of dollars for desolate American land at highly inflated prices.
A federal grand jury issued a 15-count criminal indictment Friday charging that former auto maker John Z.
A veteran Internal Revenue Service auditor was sentenced in federal court today to a year and a day in prison for filing bogus tax returns as part of a scheme to defraud the government of $115,000.
A nine-month investigation into a computerized insurance fraud scheme involving former employees of
Over objections that some poor people will opt for the streets rather than be fingerprinted for a hotel room, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to require photographs and fingerprints of general relief applicants who fail to produce acceptable identification.
Debt-burdened and desperate, Ronald and Erin Zickefoose ran a classified ad in the Los Angeles Times early in 1985: "Family Farm For Sale," it began.
Five groups associated with Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. pleaded not guilty Friday in U.S.
Another defendant has been indicted on charges of mail fraud in a $3-million phone solicitation scheme, the U.S. attorney's office announced Monday.
The former general director of the now-defunct Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera Co. has pleaded guilty to 13 felony charges stemming from a scheme to find financial backers for a 1984 production of "Aida," officials with the state Department of Corporations said.
Carson Councilman Walter J.
Former Pasadena developer Stanley S.
Federal regulators on Wednesday fined what was once one of the nation's largest commodity firms a record $1.5 million in connection with its role in alleged silver manipulation in 1979 and 1980 and its slipshod supervision of a multimillion-dollar sugar and cocoa futures trading program.
The State Department issued a statement Friday denying assertions that U.S. funds for food and other non-combat aid to Nicaraguan rebels are being improperly spent or diverted in Honduras.
Six weeks after the primary election, Bruce Sumner became the official Democratic nominee in Orange County's 40th congressional race, after a court commissioner rejected a Lyndon H.
mail fraud and making a false statement in connection with travel rebates it should have turned over to the federal government.
The estranged husband of attorney Gloria Allred, his daughter and two other officers of his North Hollywood aircraft parts firm were ordered Friday by a federal magistrate to return to Texas to face an indictment charging them with selling counterfeit parts to the Air Force.