LOS ANGELES, California, June 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: The Justice Department today announced a 10-count superseding indictment charging Los Angeles-based associates of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel with conspiring with money-laundering groups linked to Chinese underground banking to launder drug trafficking proceeds. During the conspiracy, more than $50 million in drug proceeds flowed between the  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: Alex Altoh, 64, of Roseville, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit money laundering, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, between January 2021 and November 2021, Altoh and his co-defendant Oumar Sidibe, 30, were involved in a conspiracy to launder the proceeds from two large business email comp  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: Holly Danielle Adams, 34, of Indio, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine and to conspiring to launder money, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, between 2020 and 2022, Adams and co-conspirator Devlin Hosner, 35, operated vendor accounts on the dark web marketp  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on June 17, 2024: A Southern California man pleaded guilty yesterday to preparing and filing false tax returns for his clients. According to court documents and statements made in court, starting in 2013, Salvador Gonzalez, of Corona, operated Grace's Lighthouse Resource Center Inc., a return-preparation business. Since then, Gonzalez has prepared or assisted in the preparation of more than 11,000 tax retur  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: PUBLIC NOTICE SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation today announces continued public negotiation sessions with the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority for an Operations Agreement and Cost Share Agreement for the B.F. Sisk Dam and Reservoir Expansion Project, located on the west side of California's Central Valley near Los Banos. Reclamation and SLDMWA are partner  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: PUBLIC NOTICE SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation today announces continued public negotiation sessions with the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority for an Operations Agreement and Cost Share Agreement for the B.F. Sisk Dam and Reservoir Expansion Project, located on the west side of California's Central Valley near Los Banos. Reclamation and SLDMWA are partner  more