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$9 million lawsuit settlement limits debt-collection phone calls

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Eighteen counties, including Riverside and Los Angeles, have reached a $9 million settlement with a debt-collection company that requires it to change its calling practices. Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin, in a news release Wednesday, Oct. 31, announced that his office will receive $1.6 million in penalties and $150,000 for its costs. The lawsuit was…

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Former federal agent testifies about his years undercover with the Mongols Motorcycle Club

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A veteran federal agent who spent years undercover after infiltrating the notorious Mongols Motorcycle Club offered his first-hand account Thursday of a secretive culture of violence and intimidation during testimony in an ongoing federal racketeering trial. The three years that Darrin Kozlowski and three other U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Officers spent embedded in the…