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Former ABAG official sentenced in $3.9 million embezzlement

Original post made on Mar 26, 2016

A former finance official with the Association of Bay Area Governments was sentenced in federal court in San Francisco on March 23 to one year and one day in prison for a fraud in which he admitted embezzling nearly $3.9 million in bond funds.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Saturday, March 26, 2016, 9:17 AM

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Posted by whatever
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Mar 26, 2016 at 2:23 pm

A decade per million would be a much more just sentence. A hungry homeless person stealing a few bucks of food can get a stiffer sentence than was given to this embezzler of millions.


Posted by Mike Keenly
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Mar 26, 2016 at 5:54 pm

It would be useful to know where the other $400K went.


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