FORMER COUNTY PROSECUTOR GETS 10 YEARS IN FRAUD CASE.Byline: Daily News VENTURA -- A former Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County prosecutor has been sentenced to 10 years in state prison after pleading guilty to three separate fraud schemes, officials said Thursday. Julie Sergojan, 50, a former Westlake Village resident, was sentenced Wednesday in Ventura County Superior Court. She had pleaded guilty to identity theft, grand theft, loan fraud, forgery forgery, in art forgery, in art, the false claim to authenticity for a work of art. The Nature of Forgery Because the provenance of works of art is seldom clear and because their origin is often judged by means of subtle factors, art and passing bad checks, prosecutor Marc Leventhal said. Sergojan previously was convicted in 2003 for identity theft in Los Angeles County, where she worked as a prosecutor for 19 years, Leventhal said. Prosecutors said Sergojan financed the purchase of the Westlake Village home through a fraudulent loan, and lost that home to foreclosure foreclosure Legal proceeding by which a borrower's rights to a mortgaged property may be extinguished if the borrower fails to live up to the obligations agreed to in the loan contract. in 2005. She has been in custody in Ventura County Jail since November, with bail set at $2 million, officials said. She had been free on bond before, but the court revoked that bail after she was caught on videotape videotape Magnetic tape used to record visual images and sound, or the recording itself. There are two types of videotape recorders, the transverse (or quad) and the helical. trying to break into her estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. husband's Tarzana home in violation of a court order, Leventhal said. |
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