FORMER DEPUTY D.A. ADMITS GUILT IN NEW SCAMS.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 is scheduled to be sentenced in November after pleading guilty this week to fraud in connection with two real-estate scams. Julie Marie Sergojan was accused of engineering a series of frauds in 2002 so she could purchase a $500,000 home in the Westlake Village area. While working as a L.A. County deputy district attorney, she stole the identity of two people, taking money from the bank account of one while opening an account in the name of the second victim to launder Launder To move illegally acquired cash through financial systems so that it appears to be legally acquired. the stolen money, authorities said. She pleaded guilty in 2003 in Los Angeles to four felonies in connection with this scam (SCSI Configured AutoMatically) A subset of Plug and Play that allows SCSI IDs to be changed by software rather than by flipping switches or changing jumpers. Both the SCSI host adapter and peripheral must support SCAM. See SCSI. that netted her about $43,000. She received probation by paying full restitution to the victim, officials said. But prosecutors in Ventura County said she repaid her Los Angeles victims with proceeds from a new fraud, using 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 identity to get a $200,000 loan. Prosecutors said they also discovered that she financed the purchase of the Westlake Village home through another loan fraud, misrepresenting her income and assets. ``It's unfortunate a person who had a position of the public's trust used the experience and the skill she developed to commit these aggravated ag·gra·vate tr.v. ag·gra·vat·ed, ag·gra·vat·ing, ag·gra·vates 1. To make worse or more troublesome. 2. To rouse to exasperation or anger; provoke. See Synonyms at annoy. fraud schemes,'' said Marc Leventhal, a Ventura County deputy district attorney. Sergojan pleaded guilty Tuesday to six charges, including multiple counts of grand theft, identity theft and 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 . She has posted a $500,000 bond and remains free pending her sentencing scheduled for Nov. 9, when she faces a maximum of eight years, four months in prison. |
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