May 13, 2025

crime and public safety

Investors

California attorney sentenced to prison for scamming investors out of $8.7 million to finance lavish lifestyle

A Newport Beach attorney who admitted that she swindled investors out of $8.7 million in order to bankroll her lavish lifestyle and high-rolling gambling habit was sentenced Monday, May 5 to one year and nine months in federal prison. A luxuriant lifestyle of high-end jewelry, luxury cars, a six-month stay at a opulent Las Vegas

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Finance

Oakland finance director resigns; mayor delays release of budget

OAKLAND — Oakland’s interim mayor is delaying the release of a deeply consequential, two-year budget proposal that had been expected to detail how the city would balance a looming $265 million budget shortfall. The move by Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins comes just two weeks after Oakland’s top finance official quietly resigned from the job she’s

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Funds

Caltrain employee guilty of using public funds to build secret apartment in train station – The Mercury News

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

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Funds

Immigration groups sue Trump administration over cuts to legal funds for unaccompanied minors – The Mercury News

Several nonprofit groups across the country are suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a bid to restore funding tied to providing legal representation for roughly 26,000 unaccompanied children in the United States, days after the Trump administration moved to cancel such contracts. The federal lawsuit announced Wednesday, March 26, was filed

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