An El Monte man who pled guilty to four separate crimes gang-related to gang activity has been sentenced to serve 17 years and six months in federal prison, federal officials announced today.
U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt sentenced Christian “Bossy” Lafargo, 30, last week after Lafargo plead guilt to multiple charges, including Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Conspiracy, Violent Crime in Aid of Racketeering -– Attempted Murder, Violent Crime in Aid of Racketeering – Conspiracy to Commit Murder, and Discharging a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence.
Just Saying: Newspapers Outsourcing Jobs, Gannett Eyeing L.A. Times and Mexico’s Adios to El Chapo
You’re being laid off. But before you pack up and leave, could you please train your IT replacement?
That’s the way it is at two major newspaper chains.
More than 300 IT jobs from two major newspaper chains are being transferred to India.
Worth Watching: Left For Dead: Myanmar’s Muslim Minority
In recent years, democratic reforms have swept through Myanmar, a country that for decades was ruled by a military junta. As the reforms took hold, however, things were growing progressively worse for the Rohingya, a heavily persecuted ethnic Muslim minority concentrated in the country’s western state of Rakhine.
Nineteen Defendants, including a Lawyer, Charged with Marriage Immigration Fraud to Enter U.S.
A 16 count marriage fraud indictment alleges that illegal aliens would enter into marriages between persons who were LADYJUSTICEalready citizens of the United States solely for the purpose of getting immigration status to which the aliens would not otherwise be entitled, according to officials.
Genius Albert Einstein was a Slow Learner as a Child and Spoke Very Slowly – This and Other Facts About Einstein
Considered as 20th Century’s most influential physicist, Albert Einstein is one of the most popular scientists of modern science. Though most of us today know him for this Theory of Relativity, he actually did not win the Noble Prize for that theory, according to Factslides.com.
Businessman, Lawyer Admit Stealing More than $30 Million Through Fraudulent Real Estate Loans
San Diego businessman Courtland Gettel and Arizona attorney Jeffrey Greenberg plead guilty this week to participating in a massive scheme in which they obtained tens of millions of dollars in fraudulently-obtained loan proceeds, officials said.
Former Cop Charged With Using Excessive Force Against a Suspect Shackled to a Hospital Gurney
A federal grand jury today charged former Tukwila, Washington, Police Department Officer Nicholas Hogan with using excessive force on a restrained arrestee on May 20, 2011, officials said.
SF Police Chief Resigns Amid Heightened Racial Tensions, Shooting of Unarmed Black Woman by Officer
Police Chief Greg Suhr has resigned from the San Francisco Police Department in the midst of the shooting of a black woman by SFPD officers and other racial tensions, Mayor Ed Lee announced at a news conference late Thursday afternoon.
Judge Sentences Operator of $11 Million Oil and Gas Investment Scam to 10 Years in Prison
A former Orange County resident who oversaw a company that claimed to be developing oil and gas wells and bilked investors by, among other things, falsely claiming they would see 50 percent annual returns has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
Man Who Made Threats and Racial Slurs Against Vietnamese Family Pleads Guilty to Civil Rights Violations
OREGON John Blayne Vangastel, 37, of Klamath Falls, Oregon, pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of using threats of force to injure, intimidate and interfere with his neighbors in…
Man Who Set Fire to a Somali Restaurant Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime
Matthew Gust, 25, is facing up to 30 years in prison after he plead guilty today to a federal hate crime for setting fire to a Somali restaurant in Grand Forks, North Dakota,
According to his plea agreement, Gust admitted that he set the Dec. 8, 2015, fire in order to intimidate and interfere with the Somali employees and patrons of the Juba Café.
Mass reduction of California prison population didn’t cause rise in crime, two studies find
By Tom Jackman May 18 By Tom Jackman Jose Gonzalez, 36, was released from a California prison after serving 17 years for murder, under a new plan to reduce massive prison overcrowding…