RIVERSIDE, CA—A federal grand jury has indicted eight people—four of whom allegedly are members of a South Los Angeles street gang—on charges related to the sex trafficking of teenage girls who were recruited and groomed to work as prostitutes across Southern California.
ANCHORAGE—U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that Donald Lee Smith, 59, of Muldrow, Oklahoma, pled guilty in federal court today, admitting that he fraudulently obtained over $300,000 from victims in Alaska during 2007 and 2008.
SAN ANGELO, TEXAS-Warren Jeffs stood silently as Texas judge Barbara Walther read the the jury's sentencing decision before the court, their decision took less than a half an hour.
From its sprawling, $750 million embassy in Baghdad – the largest, most expensive American diplomatic mission in the world – Washington had hoped for a cozy relationship with the Iraqi government, forged after a U.S.-led military coalition ousted former president Saddam Hussein.