David Tai Leung, of Sacramento, part-owner of Tomi Sushi and Seafood Buffet in the Eastridge Mall in San Jose, admitted in federal court that he spent $3.36 million of Covid relief business loan money on personal expenses. He had previously confessed in state court to multiple felony wage theft and tax evasion charges.

Jonathan Vu Hoang, formerly of San Jose, admitted he created a bogus investment company and defrauded multiple investors by falsely promising them he would invest their money.

The lawsuit alleges that Google leverages control over online advertising, driving out competition and receiving profits that far exceed what could be made in a competitive market.

A Union City man admitted  to robberies and attempted robberies of gas stations and convenience stores using fake rubber gun.

A federal jury convicted 65-year-old Johnny Ray Wolfenbarger last August of attempted production of child pornography, the attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in child pornography production, and the receipt of child pornography.

The unusual orders require the plaintiffs and their lawyers to submit declarations under the penalty of perjury that prove they genuinely intend to return to the places that were inaccessible when they first visited.

Away from the constant media frenzy surrounding the Trial of the Decade, jurors in the Holmes trial in San Jose dealt with the disruption to their lives.

A San Jose jury on Jan. 3 found Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes guilty of four federal charges for defrauding investors, but not guilty of four charges related to defrauding patients.  Holmes, founder and CEO of the now-defunct blood-testing company, had been charged with 11 counts related to lying to investors, doctors and patients.   

This story has been updated to include information about Amanda Riley's background. A former Gilroy educator pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud for soliciting donations from individuals to help her pay for cancer treatments she did not need nor received, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Amanda Christine Riley admitted to purposely deceiving people into thinking she had Hodgkin’s lymphoma in order to receive monetary donations from 2013 to 2019, says a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office Northern District of California.

The California Highway Patrol still impounds thousands of unlicensed drivers’ cars for 30 days, despite a 2017 federal court ruling calling the holds unconstitutional.

The two were also charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a case that included four other people.

 Mounir Gad, 34, of San Jose, was charged with a friend, Nathan Guido, 38, also of San Jose, in separate criminal and civil cases involving insider trading, and agreed to pay SEC fines.

The convictions are for crimes for which Calderon was arrested on Aug. 20, 2018, near San Jose State University and on Sept. 25, 2018, in Menlo Park.