The California Assembly spent nearly $200,000 in public funds fighting against release of member-by-member budgets allocating tens of millions in public funds, records show.
Assembly administrator Jon Waldie said the sum does not include hundreds of hours, perhaps more than a thousand hours, consumed by Capitol employees in gathering records ultimately ordered released by a Sacramento court.
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley ruled in December against the Assembly in the public-records suit filed by The Bee and Los Angeles Times.
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WASHINGTON – An assistant administrator of a Houston hospital was arrested today on charges related to his alleged participation in a $116 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false claims for mental health treatment, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
An indictment filed in the Southern District of Texas and unsealed today charges Mohammed Khan, 62, of Houston, with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, one count of conspiracy to pay and receive illegal health care kickbacks and five counts of paying or offering to pay health care kickbacks. Khan is expected to make his initial appearance in federal court today in Houston.
“The indictment against Mr. Kahn alleges that he used his position as a hospital assistant adm
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Simi Valley police arrested a man at his home Friday night for having sex with a minor.
The man, Leonard Domka, 42, of Simi Valley was arrested for sodomy and oral copulation with a minor after allegedly meeting a male juvenile on the Internet and knowing the victim was a minor, according to the Simi Valley Police Department.
Police investigated the case after a male juvenile reported to the department Jan. 18 that he engaged in sodomy and oral copulation with a man he met on a website, said Lt. Joesph May.
Detectives and Special Enforcement officers learned through their investigation that Domka knew the victim was a minor, police said. Officers arrested Domka around 10 p.m.
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For more than 30 years, Modesto toiled in the central San Joaquin Valley fields, saving every spare penny to bring his family north from Mexico. Last year, he wrote a $30,000 check to an immigration consultant in Fresno County.
The day had finally arrived when Modesto — a legal U.S. resident since 1980 — could afford to bring his wife and five children to live with him in the U.S.
Or so he thought.
The immigration consultant filed sloppy and incomplete paperwork, took the money and ran. Modesto’s family didn’t get the visas, and he lost his life’s savings.
It’s stories like Modesto’s that inspired professors and students at the San Joaquin College of Law to open a free law clinic at the Consulate of Mexico to help legal immigrants in the Valley.
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Supporters of the Rev. Uriel Ojeda waited into the darkness Monday to see if the Catholic priest jailed on child molestation charges would be able to post bail.
More than 50 people sang songs in Spanish and flew balloons outside the Sacramento County Main Jail while Ojeda’s attorney and bail bondsmen worked on the details to gain what they expected would be the priest’s release.
Ojeda, 32, is accused of seven counts of molesting a girl under the age of 14 while he served at parishes in Woodland and Redding. He had been jailed in lieu of $5 million bail until Sacramento Superior Court Judge Marjorie Koller last week lowered it to $700,000.
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