San Francisco, California - Sanford Wallace was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment and was ordered to pay $310,628.55 in restitution for sending millions of spam messages to Facebook users and disobeying a court order not to access Facebook announced the Office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 

Santa Ana, California - A former Newport Beach resident has been sentenced to 121 months in federal prison for running a Ponzi scheme through his Orange County-based company that defrauded hundreds of investors out nearly $50 million.

Santa Ana, California - A Yorba Linda chiropractor who solicited more than $2 million from investors in a real estate scam has been sentenced to four years in federal prison.

Sacramento, California - The California Energy Commission and the Department of General Services (DGS) today issued a call to all managers of state buildings in Southern California to take immediate steps to conserve energy.

Los Angeles, California - Former California State Senator Ronald S. Calderon has agreed to plead guilty to a federal corruption charge and admits in a plea agreement filed today that he accepted tens of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for performing official acts as a legislator.

Sacramento, California - The California Energy Commission will host public workshops in Sacramento and Denver this month to consider a proposed governance structure for a western regional grid operator. Leaders from government, industry, and other stakeholders in the Western U.S. are exploring the possibility of PacifiCorp merging with the CAISO and becoming a regional grid operator.