Juan Martin Gaspar, a well-known planner for 15th-birthday celebrations, took large fees from at least seven families and then did not pay the vendors.
Prosecutors contend that Wag Hotels failed to properly report dog bite incidents to local health officials, had insufficient employee training and suffered lapses in facility hygiene and pest control.
The suspect, 60-year-old Christina Jean Johnson, was arrested in Shasta County last month, and appeared at the South County courthouse in Morgan Hill last week. She operated a daycare facility in Gilroy.
Joseph Vicencio was charged today with three murder counts, in the shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her two friends in South San Jose early Tuesday. Two witnesses told police he admitted he was the killer.
The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office obtained the settlement in Superior Court in a consumer protection lawsuit filed against the meal delivery company for misleading consumers, making it difficult to cancel subscriptions.
Six former Apple employees defrauded both the State of California and Apple’s Matching Gifts Program, obtaining approximately $152,000 for a cultural exchange program, then overreporting around $100,000 in charitable contributions as tax deductions, according to prosecutors.
The grants come from the district attorney’s Asset Forfeiture Fund, which is money seized from gangs, drug traffickers and criminal organizations, with the goal of helping to repair some of the harm caused by those criminal enterprises.
Investigators found that the fire code violations were not isolated to a single Home Depot store: Between 2018 and 2023, the 13 other Home Depot stores across Santa Clara County had been issued notices of fire code violations.
Prosecutors said Charles Hill of Los Gatos, star of 'Flip It to Win It,' admitted that while he claimed he bought dilapidated homes, fixed them up and then sold them for a profit, in reality he pocketed millions in fraudulently obtained money.