A crooked bookkeeper for a Brisbane engineering company was ordered to pay nearly $80,000 in restitution Tuesday, after prosecutors say the unmonitored employee went to town on the company’s credit card and checkbook.Claudia Prior, 37, pleaded no contest this past fall to felony charges of embezzlement and identity theft stemming from thefts that occurred between July 2009 and July 2011, San Mateo County Chief Deputy District Attorney Karen Guidotti said.
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Federal prosecutors have expanded to $2.2 million the amount that they accuse a former San Francisco Giants payroll manager of embezzling from the team.The revised charge against Robin O’Connor, 41, of American Canyon, was set forth in a criminal information filed by prosecutors in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Thursday.
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A Brisbane bookkeeper charged with swindling a widowed soldier serving in Iraq will face a jury after a judge on Thursday denied a defense motion to dismiss the case.
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A Brisbane bookkeeper charged with swindling a widowed soldier serving in Iraq says there’s not enough evidence to prosecute him.The defense attorney for 65-year-old Kenneth McCall filed a motion to dismiss the charges against his client. A judge is scheduled to decide on the matter Thursday.Prosecutors say McCall embezzled from the widowed soldier while he fought overseas from 2006 to 2008.
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WHO: Democratic state Sen. Pedro Espada of New YorkWHAT: New York and federal authorities indicted the state senator and his son on six charges that they more than $500,000 from their New York City health clinic for lavish spending, including Broadway shows, a Bentley automobile and a pony for a birthday party.
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A widowed soldier serving a two-year tour in Iraq was allegedly swindled by a Brisbane bookkeeper who is accused of spending the money on himself.The alleged ruse began when the widowed soldier needed care for his children and finances while he fought overseas. The soldier’s wife had died of natural causes about a year before his deployment, and he left his children in the care of his neighbor, Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko, who settled in the Bay Area after losing a power struggle in his home country, goes before a U.S. District Court judge today in San Francisco for re-sentencing.
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