The federal government took action against executives in Ohio and California accused of stealing money from employee retirement plans.

In the California case, the owners of a Glendale post-production company that provided services to film studios and kept changing its name, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to one count of embezzlement from an employee benefit plan and one count of failure to collect or pay taxes.

Ronald Burdett, 75, and Karen Burdett, 70, of Shadow Hills, owned the companies, which went under the names Sunset Post Inc., Sunset Digital Studies Inc. and Sunset Teleproduction.

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