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Amazon Agrees to Provide Clearer Pricing Information to Customers Due to Lawsuit

San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan announced today that the DA’s Consumer Protection Unit, working with the Santa Cruz, Alameda, Santa Clara, Yolo and Riverside District Attorney’s offices, obtained a multi-million dollar civil judgment in a consumer protection lawsuit against e-commerce giant, Amazon.com. The District Attorney’s complaint alleges that some Amazon reference price advertisements […]

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Murderer Released Under New Laws, Robs and Stabs Stranger

A murderer sentenced to 196 years-to-life in prison, who was released under Prop 57 and Senate Bill 1391 just four months ago, was charged today with a violent robbery after he allegedly took cash from a stranger and stabbed him in the back, causing his lung to collapse. Dejon Satterwhite, 31, was arraigned in Superior […]

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Classmates.com Settles Consumer Protection Lawsuit

San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan announced today that PeopleConnect, Inc., the parent company for the popular social networking site, Classmates.com, agreed to pay $400,000 in penalties and costs and up to $150,000 in restitution as part of the settlement of a consumer protection lawsuit alleging that Classmates violated California’s Automatic Renewal Laws.  The lawsuit […]

Welk Resorts Will Pay Up To $ 5.5 Million To Settle Consumer Protection Lawsuit

Guilty Pleas in Massive Charter School Fraud

San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan announced today that two defendants have pleaded guilty connection with the A3 Charter School scheme that siphoned more than $50 million from the State of California. The defendants pleaded guilty in San Diego Superior Court to a variety of felony criminal charges including conspiracy and conflict of interest […]

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Meet DA Investigator Christopher Everett

Meet District Attorney Investigator Christopher Everett, who has worked in law enforcement for 33 years. The first four years of his career began at the Los Angeles Police Department and then the San Diego Police Department, where he retired after 25 years. For the past five years, he has been working as an Investigator for […]

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Meet Deputy District Attorney Sherry Thompson-Taylor

Meet Deputy District Attorney Sherry Thompson-Taylor, who has worked at the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office for 25 years and is the Chief of the Insurance Fraud and Workplace Justice Division. She runs a diverse and complex division made up of seven units, which are grant funded through the California Department of Insurance to […]