San Francisco, California - Building on its historic commitment to advance the practice of medicine and improve public health, the American Medical Association (AMA) announced that it is investing $15M to become founding partner of a health care innovation company - Health2047, Inc. – that will conduct rapid exploration of innovative solutions to the biggest challenges facing the nation’s 1.1 million physicians and the patients they serve.

Los Angeles, California - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris issued a statement on recent federal ICE immigration raids targeting Central Americans.

San Francisco, California - Diane Cobb was sentenced to 41 months in prison for her role in a Ponzi scheme, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.  The sentencing follows a guilty plea in which Cobb admitted to running a fraudulent scheme with co-defendant Paul Sloane Davis through which they profited by more than a million dollars.

Sacramento, California - A grand jury in Sacramento, California, returned an indictment charging Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, 23, of Sacramento, with one count of making a false statement involving international terrorism, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner of the Eastern District of California announced.

Los Angeles, California - Amin al-Baroudi, 50, a Syrian-born naturalized U.S. citizen formerly of Irvine, California, pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiring to export U.S.-origin goods from the United States to Syria in violation of sanctions imposed on Syria by the U.S. government.  The guilty plea was accepted by U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady of the Eastern District of Virginia.

Sacramento, California - The California Energy Commission  approved loans, grants and actions to move forward with energy-saving initiatives, including reducing energy use through LED lighting projects and battery storage technologies.