Fresno, California - Tuesday, Barry Halajian, 56, of Fresno, was found guilty of two counts of filing false liens on federal bankruptcy judges, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

Los Angeles, California - A San Fernando Valley man who hacked into e-mail accounts to steal nude photos that were later posted on a well-known “revenge porn” website was sentenced Monday to 25 months in federal prison on computer crime and identity theft charges.

Los Angeles, California - Concluding one of the largest Ponzi schemes ever seen in Southern California, two men who operated a Calabasas firm at the center of a scam that cost victims approximately $135 million were sentenced today, with one man being ordered to serve nine years, and the other a decade, in federal prison.

Los Angeles, California - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists assigned to the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) seized 450 prohibited pork meat tamales discovered inside the luggage of a passenger arriving from Mexico, on November 2.

Sacramento, California - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration (Board) today approved, in part, the decision of an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) that addressed the appeal of former City of Vernon Administrator, Bruce Malkenhorst, Sr.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. issued the following statement in response to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration action this morning to adopt a new policy regarding its assumed rate of investment returns: