Los Angeles Embezzlement Lawyer

Embezzlement or employee theft is stealing from your employer.

In California, this is a serious fraud crime carried out by employees who are familiar with the organization and exploit that knowledge for illegal gain.

By definition, embezzlement is the "illegal transfer of money or property for personal use." The significant difference between embezzlement (employee theft) and other kinds of theft is that embezzled property is legally possessed or accessed by the person doing the embezzling; usually as part of the job responsibilities.

Stephen G. Rodriguez is an experienced Los Angeles Embezzlement Attorney. If you have been charged with Embezzlement in Los Angeles, and need a criminal defense attorney, call Stephen G. Rodriguez at (213) 223-2173.

Recent Los Angeles Embezzlement Cases Include:
In October, 2008 Gerald McAfee is standing trial for embezzling $1.6 million. He was hired as comptroller of a small hospital in Downey two decades ago, and quickly convinced his new boss to let him move $1.6 million of the hospital's money from low-risk, low-yield CDs into a more aggressive bond fund. Hospital officials were shocked to learn that the account McAfee set up contained just $11, according to court documents. And McAfee, who was supposedly dealing with a family emergency in Illinois, was nowhere to be found.

In June, 2008 a woman accused of embezzling more than $700,000 from Charlton Heston and television writer and producer Stephen J. Cannell pleaded no contest and was sentenced to more than five years in prison Friday. Sharon M. Walker, 56, pleaded no contest to two counts of grand theft and one count of tax evasion in Los Angeles Superior Court. A judge immediately sentenced her to prison and ordered her to repay nearly $82,000 in back taxes.

In August of 2008, a growing financial scandal in the 2-million-member Service Employees International Union prompted a federal criminal investigation into the labor organization's largest California local, sources familiar with the probe say. U.S. Labor Department authorities are examining payments of hundreds of thousands of dollars by the union and a related charity to firms owned by relatives of the Los Angeles local's president and expenditures of similar sums on a golf tournament, restaurants, a cigar lounge and entertainment companies, according to people with knowledge of the investigation.

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Stephen G. Rodriguez is an experienced Los Angeles Embezzlement Attorney. If you have been charged with Embezzlement in Los Angeles, and need a criminal defense attorney, call Stephen G. Rodriguez at (213) 223-2173.