Tag: money laundering
Charles Randol Plead Guilty To Cryptocurrency Scheme
SANTA MONICA—Charles James Randol, 33, of Santa Monica has agreed to plea guilty to using his cryptocurrency exchange business to help scammers and drug...
Harlan Kelly Charged With Honest Services Wire Fraud
CALIFORNIA—On Monday, November 30, the U.S Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that Harlan Kelly, the General Manager of the San...
Nine People Arrested In Money Laundering Scheme
WOODLAND HILLS/LOS FELIZ—On Thursday, November 12, federal authorities arrested nine defendants, who allegedly laundered millions of dollars derived from health care fraud and tax...
Hawaii Businesswoman Pleads Guilty To Lobbying Trump Officials
CALIFORNIA—Businesswoman Nickie Mali Lum Davis, 45, pleaded guilty to an illicit lobbying effort to get the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar...
Man Allegedly Stole $2.1 Million From PPP Loans
WASHINGTON D.C. — A D.C. man was arrested and charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $2.1 million in Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loans and...
Kais Mohammad Pleads Guilty To Bitcoin Money Laundering
CALIFORNIA — Kais Mohammad, 36, of Yorba Linda has agreed to plead guilty to operating an illegal virtual-currency money services business that exchanged up...
Interstate Narcotics Trafficking Ring Leader, Money Launderer Pleads Guilty
LOS ANGELES—On Thursday, May 21, a Texan woman who led an interstate narcotics trafficking ring pled guilty to federal criminal charges stemming from an...
US Recovers More Than $49 Million In Assets Laundered
UNITED STATES—According to the United States Department of Justice, the U.S. government reached a settlement of its civil forfeiture cases against more than $49...
Man Sentenced For Drug Smuggling, Money Laundering
STUDIO CITY—A North Hollywood man has been sentenced to 9 years in prison for plotting to smuggle more than 88 pounds of cocaine and...
Man Pleads Guilty For Charter School Theft
SHERMAN OAKS—A Sherman Oaks man plead guilty on Friday, February 14 for what has been called the largest charter school theft in California history.
Jeremy...
Lonzo Ball Alleges Former Manager Stole $1.5 Million
LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles Lakers Point Guard Lonzo Ball is suing Gregory Alan Foster, 52, for defrauding the Ball family out of $1.5 million. It...
Jeweler Pleads Guilty To Money Laundering
WESTWOOD—The owner of Elyahouzadeh’s R.S.D. Trading Company, pled guilty to federal money laundering charges on Monday, February 11. Saeed Elyahouzadeh, 53, of Westwood, was...
“Claws” Has Been Entertaining TV!
HOLLYWOOD—It was the summer series of 2017 that surprised me in more ways than I expected. I wasn’t certain how the second season of...
