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F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli comments on today's guilty verdict against Andrew Left, a securities analyst an...
06/02/2026

F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli comments on today's guilty verdict against Andrew Left, a securities analyst and business TV guest who manipulated the stock market via media campaigns.

06/02/2026

Stock analyst and frequent guest on business television news channels was found guilty by a jury today for using his public platform to illicitly profit by manipulating stock market activity and trading opposite to the position he presented to the public.

F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli comments on today's 14-year prison sentence handed down to an Orange County man...
06/01/2026

F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli comments on today's 14-year prison sentence handed down to an Orange County man and co-founder of an environmentally friendly finance company who duped investors out of at least $248 million.

06/01/2026

An Orange County man who co-founded and served as board member of the financial technology and sustainability services company formerly known as Aspiration Partners Inc., was sentenced today to 168 months in federal prison for a years-long scheme in which he defrauded investors and lenders, causing....

If you or someone you know are being s*x trafficked, call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at (888) 373-7888 or te...
06/01/2026

If you or someone you know are being s*x trafficked, call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at (888) 373-7888 or text 233733.

06/01/2026

F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli appeared on CBS News with Adam Yamaguchi to display and discuss an Orange County man’s proceeds — homes, cars, rare baseball cards — from health care fraud.

If you or someone you know is age 60 or older and has been a victim of fraud, help is standing by at the National Elder ...
06/01/2026

If you or someone you know is age 60 or older and has been a victim of fraud, help is standing by at the National Elder Fraud Hotline

www.justice.gov/StopElderFraud

National Elder Fraud Hotline 1-833-FRAUD-11

05/29/2026

A South Los Angeles man was sentenced today to 308 months in federal prison for committing the armed robbery of an armored truck in Hawthorne on St. Valentine’s Day in 2022, a heist in which more than $166,000 in cash and customer checks were stolen and a firearm was discharged after the truck’s...

05/29/2026

A convicted murderer, whom law enforcement believes is an active member of the 18th Street gang while being paid with City of Los Angeles funds to work as a “Peace Ambassador,” was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with illegally possessing two body armor plates near th...

Jose Manuel Perez, 34, of Oxnard, was sentenced today to 65 months in federal prison for smuggling at least 1,700 reptil...
05/28/2026

Jose Manuel Perez, 34, of Oxnard, was sentenced today to 65 months in federal prison for smuggling at least 1,700 reptiles from Mexico to the United States over a six-year period. Perez pleaded guilty in August 2022 to two counts of smuggling goods into the United States and one count of wildlife trafficking.

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