SACRAMENTO, California, April 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release: Stephen Joseph Crittenden, 44, of Suisun City, pleaded guilty today to bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, Crittenden was a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation correctional officer at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville. From 2021 throu  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VICTOR RODRIGUEZ-GOMEZ, also known as "Calami," 49, of Desert Hot Springs, California, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 156 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking l  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 11 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a proposed settlement with Shasta-Siskiyou Transport of Redding, Calif. to resolve claims of Clean Water Act (CWA) violations after one of the company's trucks overturned and a fuel product spilled into storm drains in downtown Redding. The fuel reached the Sacramento River. The proposed settlement requires  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted a California man this week for insider trading. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Shahriyar Bolandian, 35, of Brentwood, Los Angeles, participated in an insider trading scheme that netted more than $650,000 in illicit profits. Between 2012 and 2013, Bolandian received material non-public information about two upcoming corporate acquisitio  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release: A former resident of Oxnard, California, pleaded guilty in federal court on April 10, 2024, to a drug trafficking charge, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Christopher Andrew Salgado, 24, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge W. Scott Hardy to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribut  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release: A Brentwood man has been found guilty by a jury of participating in an insider trading scheme that netted more than $650,000 in illicit profits, the Justice Department announced today. Shahriyar Bolandian, 35, was found guilty Tuesday of six counts of insider trading. According to court documents and evidence presented at a five-day trial, in 2012 and 2013  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release: A Japanese-language translator was charged today via federal criminal complaint with unlawfully transferring more than $16 million from a Major League Baseball (MLB) player's bank account - without the player's knowledge or permission - to pay off his own substantial gambling debts incurred with an illegal bookmaking operation. Ippei Mizuhara, 39, of Newpor  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release: A woman from the Mid-City area of Los Angeles pleaded guilty today to fraudulently obtaining more than $2 million in COVID-19 government loans and to submitting false claims in an unsuccessful effort to secure from the IRS nearly $1.3 million in pandemic-related tax credits. Casie Hynes, 37, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of false c  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: A California man is charged by indictment with a felony and multiple misdemeanor charges related to his conduct during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and those of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Joshua Kaleb Youngerman, 23, of Imper  more