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Pleasant Hill Woman Gets Prison Time For Embezzling Walnut Creek Charity

The former finance manager of a Walnut Creek charity serving area youth has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for siphoning off over $1.6 million from the organization, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California said in a press release that Carrie Lynn Grant, 62, of Pleasant…

An East Bay real estate broker and former Lafayette resident surrendered to federal investigators Monday after his indictment for an elaborate scheme to defraud homeowners and mortgage holders during the sale of two properties in Danville and San Francisco. Robert Jacobsen, 67, was charged in an indictment returned Monday with wire fraud and with engaging in financial…