Brian Lagrange News Today

Gina Champion-Cain made a name for herself in the high-pressure restaurant industry and male-dominated world of real estate development, but a felony fraud conviction triggered the question — how much of her professional career was also built on artifice.

A newbie restaurateur, Champion-Cain struggles to build a hospitality empire. But as expenses and debt mount, she masterminds an even bigger enterprise that for eight years was San Diego's best kept secret. Now she's in prison, and her victims still are out millions of dollars.