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.
John Giacomini, 73, of Atherton, pleaded guilty to the charge on March 2. He practiced medicine and cardiology from 1985 to 2018 and was chief of the cardiology section at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Palo Alto.
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.
The CEO and president of Innovate Solutions appeared in federal court this week in San Jose, accused of submitting approximately 54 fraudulent H-1B Visa applications.
Scott Shaw, 54, the former Director of Sports Medicine and athletic trainer at San Jose State University, was charged March 8 with civil rights violations for engaging in sexual misconduct with female student-athletes under the guise of treating them for their injuries
U.S. Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins approved a settlement of a federal lawsuit, Babu vs. Alameda County, that aimed to improve the "horrific" treatment of inmates with mental health disabilities.
The three San Jose men pleaded guilty in October to conspiring to roll back the odometers of high-mileage vehicles in order to sell them for higher prices.
A federal jury had returned 28 convictions of Michael Kail of Los Gatos onfraud and money laundering for payments from tech startups seeking Netflix contracts.