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Former law enforcement and military officers are accused of using threats and violence in an effort to extort an Irvine man for nearly $37 million. 'Mercenary group' with ex-L.A. County deputies ...
Taylor, No. 20-1459, 596 U.S. ___ (2022) The Hobbs Act, named after United States Representative Sam Hobbs ( D - AL) and codified as 18 U.S.C. § 1951, is a United States federal law enacted in 1946 that prohibits actual or attempted robbery or extortion that affect interstate or foreign commerce. It also forbids conspiracy to do so.
The Oregon land fraud scandal of the early 20th century involved U.S. government land grants in the U.S. state of Oregon being illegally obtained with the assistance of public officials. Most of Oregon's U.S. congressional delegation received indictments in the case: U.S. Senator John H. Mitchell and U.S. Representatives John N. Williamson and ...
Cal-OSHA kept Fazlollahi on staff for an additional year. In 2019, the year after he was arrested, between extra pay, a full year of retirement earnings and his salary for six months, the ...
The long-running federal investigation into the Los Angeles city attorney's office and the Department of Water and Power is over. But many questions remain.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 ( CFAA) is a United States cybersecurity bill that was enacted in 1986 as an amendment to existing computer fraud law ( 18 U.S.C. § 1030 ), which had been included in the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. [ 1] Prior to computer-specific criminal laws, computer crimes were prosecuted as mail and ...
Blackmail is a criminal act of coercion using a threat . As a criminal offence, blackmail is defined in various ways in common law jurisdictions. In the United States, blackmail is generally defined as a crime of information, involving a threat to do something that would cause a person to suffer embarrassment or financial loss. [1]
Federal prosecutors have charged high-profile lawyer Michael Avenatti with extortion in New York and bank and wire fraud in California.