Tag: embezzlement
Los Angeles Councilmember Curren Price Charged In Pay-To-Play Scheme
LOS ANGELES—On Tuesday, June 13, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced that Los Angeles Councilmember Curren Price, 72, was charged for having...
Suspects Charged In Grand Theft And Embezzlement
CALIFORNIA—The Los Angeles Police Department’s Commercial Crimes Division (CCD), announced that charges were filed against three individuals for crimes of Grant Theft and Embezzlement...
Chiropractors Charged In $2.5 Million Auto Insurance Fraud
STUDIO CITY—On Tuesday, June 15, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced that 12 chiropractors were charged in a $2.5 million insurance fraud...
Former Executive Sentenced For Embezzling Over $22 Million
SANTA MONICA- On Wednesday, June 9, the Department of Justice announced that a former digital marketing executive who represents influencers on YouTube and Instagram...
Eleven Charged In 34-Count Complaint Alleging Widespread Corruption
STUDIO CITY—On Thursday, February 4, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced that the former mayor of Maywood and 10 other individuals are...
Erika Jayne, Tom Girardi Sued For Allegedly Embezzling Funds
BEVERLY HILLS—On December 3, a class-action, federal lawsuit alleged that "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star, Erika Jayne, and her divorce from her...
Hawaii Businesswoman Pleads Guilty To Lobbying Trump Officials
CALIFORNIA—Businesswoman Nickie Mali Lum Davis, 45, pleaded guilty to an illicit lobbying effort to get the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar...
Woman Accused Of Embezzling Money From Nonprofit Organization
WASHINGTON D.C.—A D.C. woman who was charged with financial fraud appeared in federal court on a one-count criminal complaint on Tuesday, August 11.
Maxine Williams,...
Corruption Charges Refiled Against Former Assessor And Others
CALIFORNIA— The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office sent a press release out on July 28 in relation to 78 felony charges refiled against former...
Victor Noval Accused Of Participating In Kuwait Embezzlement
WESTWOOD—The U.S. Department of Justice in Los Angeles filed a suit to recover more than $100 million embezzled by Kuwait Ministry of Defense's former...
Date Set For Viceroy L’Ermitage Hotel Auction
BEVERLY HILLS—The Viceroy L’Ermitage Beverly Hills Hotel will be auctioned off on August 19, federal representatives said on July 9.
Federal prosecutors seized the luxury...
Stockbroker Cost Investors $200M In Stock Manipulation
BEVERLY HILLS — A former Beverly Hills stockbroker who partnered with a fugitive hedge fund manager was sentenced Monday, July 6 to serve six years in...
Beverly Hills Hotel On Market After Embezzlement Scandal
BEVERLY HILLS— The Viceroy L’Ermitage Beverly Hills has recently hit the market on Friday, July 3 after an investigation was conducted on the owner...
Hollywood Executive Charged With Embezzling Over $30 Million
HOLLYWOOD—On Friday, May 22, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Security and Exchange Committee, and the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of...
Accountant Sentenced After Embezzling From Girl Scouts
BEVERLY HILLS—An accountant who was the CFO of a Beverly Hills Cancer Center, was sentenced on Friday, December 20 for embezzling from both the...
Former Hollywood Executive Pleads Guilty To Embezzlement
SANTA MONICA—A former Hollywood digital marketing executive and professional poker player admitted on Tuesday, November 26 to embezzelment from his employer.
Dennis Blieden, 30, is...
Men Defraud 11 Victims In Automobile Sublease Scam
HOLLYWOOD—On Wednesday, October 30, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office announced that Arman Mave Hazarian, 48, aka Dean Hazrian, of Tarzana and his business...
Musical Director Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud Charge
WOODLAND HILLS—A former musical director for "The Aresnio Hall Show" pled guilty in court on Wednesday, September 25, for embezzling $750,000 from a homeless...
Edward Rostohar Sentenced For Embezzling From Credit Union
STUDIO CITY—Former CBS Employees Federal Credit Union Manager, Edward Martin Rostohar, 62, was sentenced to 169 months in prison on one felony count of...
Beverly Hills Man Sentenced For Embezzlement
BEVERLY HILLS—Adam Reed Zucker, 42, was sentenced to more than 14 years in state prison on charges of embezzling $2.4 million from an El...
