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Los Angeles

College Admission Scam Brings Racketeering Charges for Athletic Fraud, Bribery

LOS ANGELES – When students were admitted to Ivy-League colleges under false pretenses, the inevitable happened. William Rick Singer (59) of Newport Beach, with an office in Sacramento, was arrested

California Celebrity News

Actress Lori Loughlin and others arrested in multi-million dollar college bribery scandal

ABOVE: Actresses Felicity Huffman (L) and Lori Loughlin (R) are two of over four dozen accused of participating in the scheme LOS ANGELES — Actress Lori Loughlin has been taken into

Orange

Car thief makes new road on Westminster train tracks

Photo: stolen car recovered If a car were a horse and Westminster, California, were a town in the Old, Wild West, a stolen vehicle incident on November 25th, 2018, would

Los Angeles

False Promises: Immigration Services Fraud and Felony Grand Theft

LOS ANGELES – A supposed immigration attorney landed himself in the slammer for duping his clients with promises of new beginnings in the USA. First of all, thirty-five victims were

Solano

“She Must be the Returner of the Operation”

Photo: Tiffany Thomas SOLANO – The press release declares, “She must be the ‘returner’ of the operation.” It began when an alert outlet employee noticed 31-year-old Tiffany Thomas returning merchandise.

Solano

11 year Sentence for Benicia Man’s Felony Auto Fraud

FAIRFIELD  — A man received an 11 year sentence for a fraud attempt after his auto accident. 34-year-old Lamont Jarome James rear-ended another vehicle as he drove without insurance. Then

Los Angeles

Will He “Go” to Jail for Insurance Fraud?

LOS ANGELES— Will Andrew Barcoma Go, 51, “go” to jail for insurance fraud? The Bellflower resident recently faced seven felony counts, including six for identity theft and one for grand

Los Angeles

Ex-Insurance Agent Stole $10,000 from Client

LOS ANGELES – Ex-insurance agent Nadja Fuentes Ocampo, 59, of Glendale, stole $10,000 from a client she once represented. She faces multiple felony counts of grand theft and insurance fraud “after

Santa Clara

Retired Employee Faces 68 Felony Counts of Embezzlement

Photo: Jennifer Chang SANTA CLARA COUNTY – The SCCSO arrested a retired employee with the City of Cupertino The arrest stems from a city audit that detected embezzlement of city

Los Angeles

Duo Busted for Decade-Long Fraud Scheme

LOS ANGELES – Law enforcement busted a duo for their part in a decade-long fraud scheme. 64-year-old Castaic resident Brian Scott Krasnoff and 52-year-old Valencia resident Lori Michelle Russum face