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Los Angeles (CA) – Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced today that a 56-year-old woman has been charged with scamming more than a dozen immigrants by pretending to be a consultant -- and at times -- an attorney. “We have seen time and time again predatory practices against the most vulnerable victims,” District Attorney Gascón said. “This person...

By Don Thompson The Pill Club, an online women’s pharmacy, has reached an $18.3 million settlement with California authorities over claims it defrauded the state’s Medicaid program by prescribing birth control pills without adequate consultation and shipping tens of thousands of female condoms to customers who didn’t want them. Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the agreement Tuesday, a day after a...

A federal jury has convicted a former producer from Puerto Rico of extortion and obstruction of justice related to his involvement in a scheme to obtain money in exchange for preventing the release of chat messages involving senior officials in the Government of Puerto Rico. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Sixto Jorge Díaz Colón, 54, of...

Los Ángeles (CA) – Situada a unos 50 kilómetros de San Francisco, Half Moon Bay es una pequeña localidad costera de California dedicada a la agricultura. Sobre sus colinas trabajan de sol a sombra campesinos latinos y asiáticos dedicados al cultivo de setas, alcachofas, coles de Bruselas o judías. Hace unos días, esta tranquila comunidad de inmigrantes ––muchos de...

Los Ángeles (CA) – Eran apenas las ocho de la mañana cuando Marisa González recibió una llamada urgente de una vecina cuya familia había recibido una orden de evacuación que afectaba al Cañón de Matilija, situado en el condado de Ventura. Durante días, este paraíso natural de California había sido duramente castigado por las lluvias torrenciales, que provocaron derrumbes...

A Puerto Rico man was scheduled to make his initial appearance this week at the federal courthouse in Manhattan to face commodities fraud, commodities market manipulation, and wire fraud charges in connection with the manipulation of the Mango Markets decentralized cryptocurrency exchange. According to court documents, Avraham Eisenberg, 27, engaged in a scheme to fraudulently obtain approximately $110 million worth...

Los Ángeles (CA) – Un año más, el estado de la educación en EEUU es uno de los debates más polarizantes y polémicos entre expertos, activistas y estudiantes de todo el país. De igual manera, divide a los magistrados del Tribunal Supremo de EEUU, sobre cuyas manos recaen dos importantes decisiones: El futuro del programa del Presidente estadounidense, Joe...

MIAMI — Daniela Rendon, 31, of Miami made her appearance in federal magistrate court today and was charged with fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief loans and grants under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury Disaster Relief Program. According to the indictment, Rendon submitted fraudulent applications seeking COVID-19 relief funds from the Small Business Administration and PPP. She is...

A federal grand jury in Las Vegas returned an indictment yesterday charging three individuals with operating a mail fraud scheme that defrauded thousands of U.S. victims, many of whom were elderly and vulnerable. According to court documents, Kimberly Stamps, 46, of Gilbert, Arizona; John Kyle Muller, 56, of Boulder, Colorado; and Barbara Trickle, 78, of Las Vegas, conspired to operate...

Three California companies have agreed to pay a total of $530,000 to settle allegations that they knowingly violated the False Claims Act when they received and retained more than one Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan prior to Dec. 31, 2020, in violation of PPP rules. La Baguette, LLC, which operates a bakery in Palo Alto, has agreed to pay $430,000...