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Print A Qualcomm engineering manager admitted Tuesday to defrauding the company out of more than $27,000 in charitable corporate matching donations as part of the larger fraud scheme orchestrated by former Chabad of Poway Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein. Rotem Cooper, 54, entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement after pleading guilty in a hearing in San Diego federal court. He admitted engaging in a scheme where he would make fake charitable contributions to the “Friendship Circle,” an organization run out of Goldstein’s chabad, and then get Qualcomm’s corporate matching program to also ...

Qualcomm manager admits role in rabbi fraud case [The San Diego Union-Tribune] A Qualcomm engineering manager admitted Tuesday to defrauding the company out of more than $27,000 in charitable corporate matching donations as part of the larger fraud scheme orchestrated by former Chabad of Poway Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein. Rotem Cooper, 54, entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement after pleading guilty in a hearing in San Diego federal court. He admitted engaging in a scheme where he would make fake charitable contributions to the “Friendship Circle,” an organization run out of Goldstein�...

Brewer seeks 20-year lease STONINGTON — Fisherman and aquaculturist Robert Brewer has applied for a 20-year lease to farm scallops, mussels and sugar kelp on 3.26 acres southwest of Andrews Island off Stonington in Penobscot Bay. In 2017, Brewer applied for an experimental aquaculture lease in the area. The draft application for a standard aquaculture lease was filed with the Maine Department of Marine Resources this past fall and a public scoping session was held virtually last week. According to the application, Brewer proposes to grow up to 500,000 scallops at a time from wild spat and u...

Ex-California contract worker charged in pandemic aid scam with inmate boyfriend [Los Angeles Times] A former employee who worked for California’s unemployment insurance program has been charged with conspiring with her prison inmate boyfriend to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic aid, the U.S. attorney’s office said Thursday. Nyika Gomez, 40, of San Diego was arrested at her home Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to charges of wire fraud and identity theft in San Diego federal court. The scam is among several that investigators have uncovered in recent months involving fra...

Fraudulent unemployment claims filed in name of U.S. senator By ADAM BEAMDecember 18, 2020 GMT FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2013, file photo, visitors use the Unemployment Insurance phone bank at the California Employment Development Department office in Sacramento, Calif. Federal prosecutors in California have accused four women of filing fraudulent unemployment benefits. The charges are part of a broader investigation of fraud in the state's distribution of more than $110 billion in unemployment benefits since the pandemic began. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2013, ...