Notes, Thoughts, Art, Books and Poetry: The novel “The Serape Notebook: A Love Story” by Raul Hernandez is available on Amazon. You can find it in a paperback edition, which offers…
Off-Duty Border Patrol Agent Charged After Allegedly Assaulting Long Beach Officer
LONG BEACH, CA Off-duty U.S. Border Patrol Agent Isaiah Anthony Hodgson, 28, has been charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest while intoxicated and armed at Shoreline Village on July…
Former Banker Arrested for Allegedly Obtaining $2.7 Million in COVID Business-Relief Funds Using Stolen IDs of Disabled Persons
LOS ANGELES A former Wells Fargo & Co. banker and his brother have been arrested on an eight-count federal grand jury indictment alleging they schemed to fraudulently obtain more than $2.7 million…
Nigerian Man Gets Over 11 Years in Prison for $1.3 Million COVID Benefits Fraud, Funded Nigerian Hotel and Nightclub
LOS ANGELES A Pasadena man was sentenced to 135 months (over 11 years) in federal prison for stealing $1.3 million in COVID-era unemployment and disability benefits using stolen identities and funneling the…
Los Angeles Deputy Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Heroin into Jail
LOS ANGELES A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge after admitting he tried to smuggle over a pound of heroin into a county jail, federal officials…
Honduran National Sentenced for Leading Major Alien Smuggling Operation
A Honduran national living illegally in the U.S. was sentenced in the Western District of Texas for leading a massive alien smuggling ring that operated for over three years and brought in…
Two Charged in $650 Million OmegaPro Investment Fraud Scheme
WASHINGTON An indictment unsealed Tuesday in Puerto Rico charges Michael Shannon Sims, 48, and Juan Carlos Reynoso, 57, for their roles in operating OmegaPro, an international investment fraud scheme that stole over…
Two Californians Plead Guilty in $16M Medicare Hospice Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme
WASHINGTON Two California residents have pleaded guilty in a $16 million Medicare fraud and money laundering scheme involving sham hospice companies. Karpis Srapyan, 35, of Winnetka, admitted to conspiring with Petros Fichidzhyan…
JUST SAYING: Trump’s AG Pam Bondi: “That disgusting Jeffrey Epstein.”
Fox News Reporter Confronts Karoline Leavitt Over Bondi’s Epstein Contradiction —Huffington Post Attorney General Pam Bondi has faced rising backlash, particularly from the right, after walking back her promises about Jeffrey Epstein’s…
Three Final Members of $92M Chinese Money Laundering Operation Plead Guilty
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Two Chinese nationals and a New York woman pleaded guilty today to laundering millions in drug trafficking proceeds, marking the final convictions in a sweeping federal case that dismantled a…
Former Northridge Insurance Agent Gets Over 4 Years in Prison for $3.7 Million Fine Art Scam LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES A former Northridge insurance agent was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison for orchestrating a $3.7 million fraud scheme involving bogus fine art insurance policies, officials announced Monday. Tonja…
JUST SAYING: The Reckoning is Coming and God is Furious
Trump’s Tax Bill Plans To Decimate Medicaid. For 1 Group, The Cuts Will Be Unspeakably Cruel.— Huffington Post “I do not believe the cruel cuts to Medicaid in this bill are what…