Joseph Sullivan of Palo Alto also was ordered to pay a $50,000 fine for hiding information from Uber executives and the Federal Trade Commission.

If he is confirmed, Ismail Ramsey will replace acting U.S. Attorney Stephanie Hinds, who has served in the role since Feb. 2021, when previous U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California David Anderson announced that he would step down following Biden's inauguration.

Ahmad Abouammo, formerly of Walnut Creek, and a former media partnerships manager for Twitter's Middle East/North Africa region, was found guilty acting as a foreign agent of Saudi Arabia without providing notice to the Attorney General, money laundering and conspiracy. 

The suspect, still in Romania, is charged for his alleged role as a 'money mule' in a scheme that defrauded 117 buyers and netted nearly $2 million.

Federal prosecutors said Jonathan Yet Wing Soong funneled payments for Army aviation software to a restricted Beijing University.

The Justice Department said Twitter obtained data from more than 140 million users for security purposes but then used data to target users with ads, the company's primary source of revenue.

The DEA and U.S. attorney announced the arrests of Victor Nevarez, Juan Rivera Arzate and Pedro Gaona Salse, all of San Jose, and Adhemar Castaneda Becerril, of Gilroy.

San Jose police and the IRS discover that Amanda Riley faked cancer to defraud victims out of more than $105,000.

San Bruno man found guilty in federal court of taking $84,000 from union and lying on annual financial reports.

Shelbee Szeto admitted to buying luxury cars, handbags, jewelry over four years, using fraudulent H-P credit cards.

According to the plea agreement, Brooke Campbell Solis of Austin, Tex., acknowledged that she used these privileges to defraud her former employer and embezzle money from the company, which was not identified.

Between 2011 and 2019, Racho Jordanov, as President and CEO of JHL Biotech, obtained and possessed confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information from Genentech, and used it to accelerate the timeline for and to reduce the costs of JHL Biotech’s development and production of copies of Genentech products.

Charges filed last week allege that Dhirendra Prasad, 52 of Mountain House in San Joaquin County, committed federal felonies over more than a decade while employed at Apple.

The federal Indictment alleges that the CEO of San Jose firm submitted fraudulent H-1B visa applications and laundered $1 million In fraud proceeds.