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Jan 28 8:00 am
  • police shootings

State Justice Department hasn’t probed — or even logged — all police shootings of possibly unarmed people

Nigel Duara, CalMatters

The department told CalMatters it can’t say how many cases it chose not to investigate during the past 18 months under a new state law, which aimed to ensure state oversight of police shootings.

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Jan 12 1:16 pm
  • Department of Justice

Bank to pay $31M redlining settlement, DOJ’s largest ever

Ken Sweet, Associated Press

The Justice Department says that between 2017 and 2020, City National Bank avoided marketing and underwriting mortgages in majority Black and Latino neighborhoods in LA County.

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Sep 20 1:23 pm
  • Department of Justice

Paramount clothing company dodged $6.4 million in customs duties, feds say

Fernando Haro Garcia

Prosecutors allege the parent company of the Platini clothing brand faked invoices to avoid $6.4 million in customs fees. The feds say the company also worked with a known money launderer connected to the Sinaloa Cartel.

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Jul 26 8:46 am
  • Department of Justice

New police accountability laws up demands on state agencies

Nigel Duara and Byrhonda Lyons, CalMatters

New state laws on police accountability are testing the limits of several agencies, including the Department of Justice, which say they need more resources for these new duties.

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Jan 31 2021 4:29 pm
  • Department of Justice

Feds arrest Inglewood man suspected of making, distributing PCP in clandestine Long Beach lab, other locations

City News Service

Last year, Dept. of Justice spokesman Thom Mrozek said that authorities observed the suspect “distributing suspected chemicals to several locations, including a building in Long Beach, where a clandestine PCP lab was discovered last May.”

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Aug 3 2020 7:36 am
  • Long Beach Police Department

Statistics show LBPD seriously injures people at high rate, but police say database is flawed

Jeremiah Dobruck

Over the past four years, LBPD officers killed 13 people and severely injured 56, according to the database, which tracks the worst wounds inflicted by law enforcement.

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Nov 11 2016 12:00 am
  • Department of Justice

UPDATE: Ex-City Council Candidate Pleads Guilty for Failing to Report Income From Illegal Marijuana Sales

Stephanie Rivera & Keeley Smith

Former Long Beach City Council candidate and lobbyist Carl Kemp was sentenced to one year in prison Monday, after pleading guilty to filing a false tax return and failing to report over $750,000 in income while working as a lobbyist for clients that included Long Beach-based marijuana stores.

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Dec 9 2015 12:11 am
  • Department of Justice

Long Beach Woman Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Participating in Distressed Homeowner Loan Scam

Keeley Smith

A Long Beach woman was one of 11 defendants sentenced Monday for their role in a bogus loan modification program that duped thousands of financially distressed homeowners out of more than $7 million.

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Nov 24 2015 10:30 pm
  • Department of Justice

Five Former Pacific Hospital Long Beach Employees Charged in $600M Fraud Scheme

Keeley Smith

Federal prosecutors filed two new cases today against a group of former employees of the now-defunct Pacific Hospital Long Beach, charging the group with gaining nearly $600 million in fraudulent billings from referrals in a scheme now dubbed “Operation Spinal Cap.” 

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Oct 21 2015 11:56 pm
  • Department of Justice

Eight Charged with “Skimming” Financial Information at Gas Stations in Cities Across the Southwest, Including Long Beach

Keeley Smith

Today, authorities arrested four defendants charged with federal fraud and identity theft for allegedly working with four others to install credit card “skimmers” at gas stations across Southern California and Southern Nevada, including some in Long Beach.

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