Federal penalties for a cocaine trafficking conviction are very serious. Their severity ultimately depends on two factors: 1) how much cocaine federal authorities convicted you of trafficking; and 2) how many times you have been convicted of drug offenses. Let's take...
According to investigators with the Fullerton Police Department, a 42-year-old Yorba woman was charged with embezzling around $266,000 from the Fullerton Aquatics Sports Team. Police reportedly took the woman into custody on Oct. 25.Police reported that the woman had...
According to the California Department of Insurance, a 64-year-old woman from the Sacramento area pleaded no contest to two felonies involving theft of more than $100,000 from her mother. The woman was sentenced to 18 months in jail, five years of probation and to...
Painkiller addiction is an issue which has boomed in the last decade in America. The rate of sales of prescription pain killers has grown four times from 1999 to 2010. Addiction follows in the path of pill sales. Overdose deaths from painkillers have also grown four...
On Sept. 23, it was reported that a 48-year-old California man who was the former manager of SeaWorld in San Diego was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to embezzlement. According to the report, he had taken more than $800,000 from the park. The man was taken...
There are potential changes coming to California's fixed-term system for criminal sentences. On the ballot this fall is Prop. 57, which calls for reducing sentence lengths and making early parole possible for people convicted of certain felonies that the law doesn't...
On Sept. 19, the sister of reality TV star Jesse James was sentenced to three years in federal prison for embezzling approximately $336,000 from her former California employer. She was also ordered to pay $368,152 in restitution. In February, a jury convicted the...
On Aug. 27, it was reported that 33 postal workers were charged by federal authorities in California with mail theft, embezzlement and other crimes. One of the accused postal workers allegedly was found with tens of thousands of pieces of mail in her direct...
In a presidential election year, the passions and possibilities of the political process are naturally front and center. Scrutiny falls on candidates at every level, whether seeking a school board spot, the White House or something in between.Part of this scrutiny of...
California congressman Ami Bera's father was recently sentenced to serve a year and a day in prison after pleading guilty in May 2016 to making nearly $270,000 in illegal contributions to his son's 2010 congressional campaign. The elder Bera, who is 83 years old, was...