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In June 2005, in Los Angeles, California, John C. Jeffers was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $26 million in restitution to more than 80 victims. Jeffers and his confederate John Minderhout ran what they said was a high-yield investment program they called the "Short Term Financing Transaction".
This week, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department arrested three suspects in the scheme that sold rented vehicles illegally on Facebook's popular shopping platform for used goods.
Wildfires have decimated more than 40,000 acres of the Los Angeles metropolitan area over the last week, charring more than 12,000 structures, displacing over 150,000 residents and leaving at ...
The QR codes, which appear to be connected to a 'quishing' scam, were found on about 150 parking meters along the Esplanade and in the Riviera Village area, police said.
Bright Horizons Children's Centers, Inc. was founded in 1986 by Linda A. Mason and Roger H. Brown. [2] Mason and Brown's Cambridge home was used as the company headquarters. In 1987, the first two Bright Horizons child care centers were opened at the Prudential Center in Boston and at One Kendall Square in Cambridge, both on the same day.
The McMartin preschool trial was a day care sexual abuse case in the 1980s, prosecuted by the Los Angeles District Attorney, Ira Reiner. [1] Members of the McMartin family, who operated a preschool in Manhattan Beach, California , were charged with hundreds of acts of sexual abuse of children in their care.
Barry Jay Minkow (born March 22, 1966) [1] is a former American businessman, pastor, and convicted felon.While still in high school, Minkow founded ZZZZ Best (/ ˈ z iː b ɛ s t / [2]), which appeared to be an immensely successful carpet-cleaning and restoration company.
The miracle cars scam was an advance-fee scam run from 1997 to 2002 by Californians James R. Nichols and Robert Gomez. In its run of just over four years, over 4,000 people bought 7,000 cars that did not exist, netting over US$ 21 million from the victims.