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		<title>Highest Official With Inland Empire Indian Tribe Surrenders To Federal Authorities On Bribery Charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Salgado Sr]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chairman of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians surrendered this afternoon to federal agents after being indicted on federal charges of accepting a quarter million dollars in bribes from tribal vendors and concealing income from the IRS.
Robert Salgado Sr., 67, was arrested by special agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation when he arrived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highest Official With Inland Empire Indian Tribe Surrenders To Federal Authorities On Bribery Charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chairman of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians surrendered this afternoon to federal agents after being indicted on federal charges of accepting a quarter million dollars in bribes from tribal vendors and concealing income from the IRS.
Robert Salgado Sr., 67, was arrested by special agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation when he arrived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L.a. Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges 20 In Health Care Fraud Cases Involving Durable Medical Equipment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cases Involve More Than $26 Million in Fraudulent Medicare Claims
Twenty defendants, most of them residing in the Los Angeles area, have been charged in seven separate cases with participating in Medicare fraud schemes that resulted in over $26 million in fraudulent bills to the Medicare program.

Federal and state authorities arrested seven of the defendants this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Daughters Of Rialto Tax Return Preparer Sentenced To 6 Years In Federal Prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[$30+ Million Scheme]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Karen Denise Berry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Father Previously Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison in $30+ Million Scheme
Two daughters of a Rialto man who previously was sent to prison for crimes related to his fraudulent operation of an income tax preparation business have both been sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for their roles in a scheme to defraud the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man Who Abused Young Girl Sentenced To 25 Years In Federal Prison For Producing Child Pornography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Prison Sentence to Run Consecutively to 16-Year State Prison Term
An Ecuadorian citizen who lived in Los Angeles was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child pornography, a sentence that will run consecutively to a 16-year term the defendant received in state court for sexually abusing a young girl.

Freddy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago-area Man Arrested On Federal Stalking Charges Related To Nude Videos Of Espn Reporter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special Agents with the FBI arrested a Chicago-area man Friday night on federal charges of interstate stalking for allegedly taking nude videos of a television broadcaster and posting those videos on the Internet after attempting to sell the videos to a celebrity website.
Michael David Barrett, 48, of Westmont, Illinois, was taken into custody without incident [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orange County Attorney Agrees To Plead Guilty In Misappropriation Of More Than $2 Million Obtained For Clients He Represented In Employment Class Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Orange County lawyer agreed in court papers filed today to plead guilty to two felony charges related to a scheme in which he took more than $2 million awarded to employees of a company he sued in a class action and lost almost all of the funds while day trading in the stock market.
Sandeep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Jury Awards Over $36 Million To Compensate Government For Losses Suffered During 2002 Copper Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In First Jury Verdict of its Kind, Construction Companies Ordered to Pay Nearly $29 Million for Losses Suffered by National Forest
A federal jury in Los Angeles this afternoon ordered two construction companies to pay nearly $36.5 million to reimburse the government for costs associated with a massive wildfire near Santa Clarita in 2002.

After a weeklong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operator Of Mx Factors Sentenced To 100 Years In Prison For Ponzi Scheme That Cost Victims $39 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what is believed to be the longest sentence ever handed down in a white-collar case in this district, the mastermind of a Riverside-based Ponzi scheme that collected well over $60 million from hundreds of investors – and caused more than $39 million in losses – was sentenced today to 100 years in federal prison.
Richard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inland Empire Woman Sentenced To Prison For Embezzling Money From Homeless Shelter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Fontana woman has been sentenced to one year in federal prison after pleading guilty in a scheme in which she embezzled nearly a quarter million dollars from a Los Angeles non-profit that provides shelter to homeless women and children.
Barbara Alvarado, 32, was sentenced Monday afternoon by United States District Judge Christina A. Snyder in [...]]]></description>
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