Law and Legal News for L.A.
October 31st, 2009
Highest Official With Inland Empire Indian Tribe Surrenders To Federal Authorities On Bribery ChargesOctober 27th, 2009
L.a. Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges 20 In Health Care Fraud Cases Involving Durable Medical EquipmentOctober 23rd, 2009
Two Daughters Of Rialto Tax Return Preparer Sentenced To 6 Years In Federal PrisonOctober 13th, 2009
Man Who Abused Young Girl Sentenced To 25 Years In Federal Prison For Producing Child PornographyOctober 10th, 2009
Chicago-area Man Arrested On Federal Stalking Charges Related To Nude Videos Of Espn ReporterOctober 8th, 2009
Orange County Attorney Agrees To Plead Guilty In Misappropriation Of More Than $2 Million Obtained For Clients He Represented In Employment Class ActionOctober 7th, 2009
Federal Jury Awards Over $36 Million To Compensate Government For Losses Suffered During 2002 Copper FireOctober 6th, 2009
Operator Of Mx Factors Sentenced To 100 Years In Prison For Ponzi Scheme That Cost Victims $39 MillionSeptember 30th, 2009
Inland Empire Woman Sentenced To Prison For Embezzling Money From Homeless ShelterSeptember 25th, 2009
October 23rd, 2009
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.
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September 2nd, 2009
The former president of Service Employees International Union, Local 660, has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges in a scheme that defrauded a non-profit organization formed by another labor leader through the use of bogus consulting contracts.
In a plea agreement filed this afternoon in United States District Court in Los Angeles, Alejandro Stephens, 65, a resident of the Koreatown District of Los Angeles, agreed to plead guilty to two counts of mail fraud and one count of filing a false federal income tax return.
August 18th, 2009
Los Angeles Investigators Examine Tax Fraud Related to Foreign Bank Accounts
A Malibu man was charged today with failing to inform the government of a Swiss bank account as part of a scheme to move at least $1 million from the United States into Swiss bank accounts with the goal of avoiding the payment of federal income taxes.
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July 29th, 2009
The former Armenian Consul in Los Angeles and a Beverly Hills immigration attorney are among five people arrested last night and this morning on federal criminal charges that allege they obtained and sold to illegal aliens documents called “letters of refusal,” which allowed those illegal aliens to avoid deportation.
Issued by embassies and consulates, a letter of refusal states that a country will not issue a travel document for a particular individual, essentially blocking that person’s deportation to that nation. According to the criminal charges that led to this week’s arrests, the five defendants sold official letters of refusal from the Armenian consulate for as much as $35,000. Those letters prevented the removal of the Armenian nationals to Armenia. The investigation revealed that many of those who purchased the letters were Armenian nationals facing deportation after being convicted in the United States of felony offenses.
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