Fresno, California - Gevorg Meroyan, 35, of Los Angeles, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to two years in prison for conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit credit cards and credit card fraud, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

San Francisco, California - A former Secret Service special agent who had been a member of the Baltimore Silk Road Task Force was sentenced to 71 months in prison on charges of money laundering and obstruction of justice.

Los Angeles, California - The former owner, operator and managers of a Southern California ambulance company were sentenced to prison for their role in a fraud scheme that resulted in more than $1.5 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare.

Sacramento, California - California is a bountiful state full of some of the most generous and productive land, as well as people. Farmers care deeply about their local communities and many of them contribute to food banks through California Association of Food Banks’ Farm to Family Program. This December is Farm to Food Bank Month and I want to thank the farmers who have so generously donated more than 150 million pounds of fresh, California-grown fruits, vegetables, nuts, dairy and other farm products in 2015.

Paris, France - U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that the United States will host the seventh Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM7) in San Francisco, California in June 2016. The announcement was made at an event in Paris during the COP21 UN Climate Negotiations.

Davis, California - When the U.S. government looks to measure air quality, it looks to the University of California, Davis.