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Garcetti v. Ceballos, 547 U.S. 410 (2006), is a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving First Amendment free speech protections for government employees. The plaintiff in the case was a district attorney who claimed that he had been passed up for a promotion for criticizing the legitimacy of a warrant.
The former head of the Panoche Water District stole more than $25 million in water from a federal canal from 1992 to 2015, prosecutors say.
An Orange County woman was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of stealing more than $200,000 from people through a rental scam.
On the other hand, if the same employee were to steal cosmetics from the cosmetics department of the store, the crime would not be embezzlement but larceny. For a case that exemplifies the difficulty of distinguishing larceny and embezzlement see State v. Weaver, 359 N.C. 246; 607 S.E.2d 599 (2005). [3]
In the United States, threatening government officials is a felony under federal law. Threatening the president of the United States is a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 871 , punishable by up to 5 years of imprisonment, that is investigated by the United States Secret Service . [ 1 ]
California Attorney General Rob Bonta unveiled charges Friday against a woman accused of orchestrating a nearly $8 million organized retail theft spree across 21 counties — including Sacramento ...
Under common law, false pretense is defined as a representation of a present or past fact, which the thief knows to be false, and which he intends will and does cause the victim to pass title of his property. That is, false pretense is the acquisition of title from a victim by fraud or misrepresentation of a material past or present fact.
A surprise objection by labor unions helped delay a state investigation into California's broken wage theft system, putting pressure on Gov. Gavin Newsom to fix a backlog of worker claims and ...