SAN CLEMENTE–The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed a $116,000 civil penalty to Southern California Edison Co. for two violations of NRC requirements related to an Aug. 3 fuel-loading incident. The San Clemente, Calif., plant, owned by Southern California Edison, permanently ceased operations in 2013. The violations related to the failure to ensure the availability of […]

Irish authorities extradited a dual national citizen of the United States and Ireland to the United States to face federal charges that he allegedly advertised and distributed child pornography on the dark web.  Eric Eoin Marques, 33, arrived in the United States on March 23, and had his initial appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge […]

SACRAMENTO–Building on lessons learned from past catastrophic wildfires, Governor Gavin Newsom Friday proclaimed a state of emergency throughout California ahead of the coming fire season. The governor is directing his administration to immediately expedite forest management projects that will protect 200 of California’s most wildfire-vulnerable communities. This action follows the release of a report earlier […]

A former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives pleaded guilty to wire fraud and willfully violating the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) by operating fraudulent and unregistered political action committees. Harold Russell Taub, 30, of Cranston, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of willfully violating FECA before […]

A California woman was sentenced to 60 months in prison on conspiracy and bank fraud charges, federal authorities said. According to court filings, Jacqueline Ramos, aka Jackie Acosta, of Salinas, conspired with her co-defendants to file false income tax returns seeking refunds from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).  These returns reported fake wages and fraudulently claimed […]

Two brothers were sentenced Thursday for their participation in a 2014 fraudulent scheme to trade in options ahead of SAP SE’s (SAP) acquisition of Concur Technologies (Concur), which netted them and their co-conspirators hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits.   Douglas Miller, 44, of Dyer, Indiana, who pleaded guilty in September 2018 to one count […]

Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc. (Lumber Liquidators) has agreed to pay a total penalty of $33 million for filing a materially false and misleading statement to investors regarding the sale of its laminate flooring from China to its customers in the United States. Lumber Liquidators, a public corporation headquartered in Toano, Virginia, and one of the […]

A former U.S. Border Patrol Agent was sentenced to 114 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for accepting bribes in return for helping to smuggle illegal drugs into the United States. Robert Hall, 45, of La Feria,Texas, a former Border Patrol Agent, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein Jr. […]