Author Archives: Fred Shuster, City News Service

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — A federal judge blasted the city and county of Los Angeles for continuing to “bicker” and “waste time” instead of quickly finalizing an agreement to provide […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Los Angeles-based civil rights advocates are applauding a federal judge’s order that the government immediately reduce the population of the Adelanto ICE Processing Center due to […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to 41 months behind bars for his role in a cross-border fraud scheme that duped elderly residents of Los Angeles, […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Two Los Angeles pharmacy owners were sentenced to a dozen years behind bars for operating a multimillion-dollar health care fraud and money laundering scheme to bill […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — A longtime international fugitive who willingly returned to Los Angeles to face federal charges for his role in a multimillion-dollar bank swindle against Wells Fargo was […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The former manager of the now-defunct CBS Employees Federal Credit Union, who methodically embezzled $40 million from his Studio City-based employer over two decades, was sentenced […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The leader of a pizza-style telephone-order heroin and cocaine ring that operated in the San Fernando Valley has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — A 29-year-old Los Angeles woman has been sentenced to six years behind bars for her role in a series of violent takeover-style stick-ups that left bank […]