Los Angeles, California - Twenty high-level managers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week became the first representatives from a federal law enforcement agency to complete an intensive training program at the Museum of Tolerance (MOT) in Los Angeles focused on promoting greater cultural awareness among members of the agency’s leadership team.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has granted 59 pardons.

San Francisco, California - Clarke J. Howatt was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison for his conviction for wire fraud stemming from a series of embezzlements from the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the related ABAG Finance Authority for Nonprofit Corporations (FAN), announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments:

Los Angeles, California - An East Los Angeles man who oversaw a scheme that embezzled more than $8 million from an industrial launderer that provided finishing services for Citizens of Humanity, a manufacturer of high-end designer jeans, pleaded guilty Monday morning to federal charges.

Berkeley, California - Many bacteria build miniature magnets and use them to navigate their environment, and UC Berkeley’s Arash Komeili has found a neat trick they use to do it.