Danhong Chen and her business partner and ex-spouse, Jianyun Ye, were indicted by a federal grand jury in March 2019 for committing fraud to obtain immigration benefits for foreign investors. Ye pleaded guilty in 2021 and served a year in prison.

Two of Google’s A.I. researchers, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper,  shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, just hours after the Justice Department started spelling out plans that could lead to its break up.

San Jose State trainer Scott Shaw was sentenced Tuesday to serve 24 months in federal prison for unlawfully touching female student athletes under the guise of providing medical treatment.

The ruling did not affect other claims in the antitrust case about Google's  search engine, which is scheduled to go to trial next month.

Data breaches involved millions of Uber user records and tens of thousands of driver licenses, federal prosecutors said.

Airlines, airports and other transportation agencies, including BART and Caltrain. had followed suit in making masks optional.

In a stunning announcement this week, Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco is leading the prosecution of a Russia-based mastermind accused of running Hydra, the world’s largest and longest-running illegal 'darknet' crptocurrency market, which federal agencies say they have put out of business.

The next SJSU president will have to deal with lingering legal claims, and manage the wide-ranging reforms in its athletic programs required by the Justice Department settlement, not to mention dealing with issues of trust, reputation and accountability in the broader community.

A 20-year-old California would remove guns from people deemed too dangerous to be armed. The measure, plagued by problems, has not achieved its promise.

The joint enforcement actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department involved a high school biology teacher, a gambling debt, a group of friends, WhatsApp messages and two Silicon Valley tech companies.

The number of Justice Department and other police requests has soared in recent years to thousands a week, putting Apple and other tech giants like Google and Microsoft in an uncomfortable position between law enforcement, the courts and the customers whose privacy they have promised to protect.