San Francisco, California - Paul Fredrick Giusti, the former Group Government & Community Relations Manager for the San Francisco group of a waste management company, was charged in an information filed Tuesday with one count of conspiracy to bribe a local official and commit honest services fraud and has agreed in a plea agreement to plead guilty and cooperate with federal investigators in the corruption investigation into San Francisco City Hall, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair, and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael Daniels.

Los Angeles, California - Federal prosecutors Wednesday filed a criminal information charging a San Luis Obispo man with bribery for paying a county supervisor approximately $32,000 – most of that in cash – in exchange for the supervisor’s votes and influence on other votes affecting his cannabis business interests.

Los Angeles, California - A West Hollywood man was found guilty by a federal jury Tuesday of nine felonies, including that he provided fatal doses of methamphetamine to two men who died at his apartment after being injected with the drug.

San Diego, California - Jonathan Devon Price, aka “Lil’ Ty,” a North Park street gang member previously convicted of Racketeering Conspiracy, was sentenced in federal court Monday by Senior U.S. District Court Judge John A. Houston to 142 months in prison for committing the new crime of sex trafficking of children, and 24 months in prison for violating the conditions of supervised release in his racketeering case.

Los Angeles, California - A noted art dealer was arrested Tuesday on federal charges accusing him of embezzling more than $260,000 from the bankruptcy estate of Ace Gallery, a Miracle Mile-based art gallery, while acting as the estate’s trustee and custodian.

Washington, DC - A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment Friday charging a Canadian national with the unlawful export of laboratory equipment from the United States to Iran, through Canada and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).