A Sacramento man has pleaded guilty to stealing millions in a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme, and his remaining property will be liquidated to make restitution for his victims as part of his plea agreement, according to officials.
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Sacramento Man Pleads Guilty To Ponzi Scheme
A Sacramento man has pleaded guilty to stealing millions in a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme, and his remaining property will be liquidated to make restitution for his victims as part of his plea agreement, according to officials.
Sacramento accountant pleads guilty in $13M fraud case
Sacramento accountant William Murray, 55, pleaded guilty to mail fraud and tax charges in relation to his theft of more than $13 million, and he was he was immediately taken into federal custody Tuesday.
Songbird smuggler to be sentenced in LA
A man who smuggled songbirds into Los Angeles from Vietnam by hiding them in his pants is facing up to 20 years in federal prison. Sony Dong of Garden Grove is scheduled to be sentenced Monday in Los Angeles. Dong was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport last March after arriving on a flight from Vietnam
Three plead guilty; impersonated FBI agents
Three people who pretended to be federal agents pleaded guilty to conspiracy in federal court in Sacramento.
Five convicted for poaching sturgeon
Five Sacramento-area men have been convicted in Colusa County of poaching white sturgeon from the Sacramento River. California Department of Fish and Game wardens made the arrests in April in Sacramento after around-the-clock surveillance on the group for weeks. All the sturgeon were caught in the Sacramento River in Colusa County
Sentencing postponed in Foreman child-abuse case
Sentencing for Brandy Sherrie Foreman, who allowed her paralyzed 12-year-old daughter to slowly starve to death in July 2006, has been postponed for a second time. Foreman, 35, pleaded guilty to murder in November just as she was about to begin trial in the death of Daelynn Foreman, an Orangevale girl with cerebral palsy who slowly withered away. When authorities discovered Daelynn’s body, she weighed only 23 pounds and had sores that went down to the bone
Fake Oscar winner gets 4 years in investment scam
A California man who scammed investors by posing as an Oscar-winning sound engineer is going to prison. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 46-year-old Brice Carrington has been sentenced to four years behind bars.
Sacramento woman pleads guilty to Citrus Heights bank robbery
A Sacramento woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to bank robbery and lying to FBI agents. Yulila Stepanisko, 20, entered her plea Monday before U.S. District Judge Frank C.
Former Cal player sentenced in fraud case
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A former University of California lineman who spent time in the Tennessee Titans’ camp in 2001 has been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for his role in a $5 million Ponzi scheme
