REDWOOD CITY – A jury on Wednesday found a former Caltrain deputy director guilty of embezzling public funds to build a personal “crash pad” in a historic Burlingame train station, declining the defense’s argument that his supervisor had given him permission to put the funds toward renovating the apartment and residing there while working 80-hour
Homeboy Industries, the world’s largest gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program, will celebrate the grand opening of Homeboy Puppy Fades dog grooming salon at 10:30 a.m. Monday, April 21, at the new business, 446 S. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena. The Rev. Greg Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries, will be on hand, together with Victor M.
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Noah Michael Urban, 20, faces decades in federal prison and has agreed to make restitution of more than $13 million. He has yet to be sentenced. A Palm Coast man who called himself “King Bob” has pleaded guilty to charges in Florida and California for his role in a cryptocurrency heist and hacking cases; he faces decades
OAKLAND — Nearly six months after Sheng Thao took office, she still owed tens of thousands of dollars to the campaign manager who had helped deliver her a victory. Long-established state law prohibits politicians from using public funds to finance election campaigns, but in newly released records, Thao’s top staffer said her boss had considered
Fannie Mae tightened the screws on every condo association in America after the 2021 Chaplain Towers collapse in Surfside, Florida, where 98 lives were tragically lost. Financial and operational standards must be met, or the association is blacklisted. That’s budgeting, financial reserves, acceptable property maintenance and the like. In industry parlance, these blacklisted associations are
The father said he didn’t know the interest rate on the loan, other than it was absurdly high. When I looked up the online lender, an apparently legitimate business called Clear Air Lending, I was stunned to see it charges as much as 725 percent on its loans. That’s right, 725 percent. With excellent credit
California’s political watchdog organization is slapping former Assemblymember Evan Low with a $106,000 fine for 23 counts of violating state campaign finance laws — allegations that include using his tech nonprofit to pay actor Alec Baldwin more than $227,000 to appear at an event for the group and a fundraiser for Low, which investigators said
California’s political watchdog organization is slapping former Assemblymember Evan Low with a $106,000 fine for 23 counts of violating state campaign finance laws — allegations that include using his tech nonprofit to pay actor Alec Baldwin more than $227,000 to appear at an event for the group and a fundraiser for Low, which investigators said
Sausalito has fired its finance director on the brink of budget drafting season, but it won’t say why. Chad Hess had held the position since July 18, 2023, after an interim period performing the job, according to the city. His most recent annual salary was $174,573. City Manager Chris Zapata said Hess’ dismissal is a