A former La Cañada Flintridge assistant metropolis supervisor is going through embezzlement and insurance coverage fraud prices for allegedly stealing practically $200,000 in proceeds from insurance coverage claims paid to town, Los Angeles County prosecutors stated Thursday.
Carl F. Alameda, 44, pleaded not responsible on Wednesday to 11 felony counts of embezzlement and 23 counts of insurance coverage fraud, in response to prosecutors. If convicted of all prices, he faces a most sentence of 33 years in state jail.
Alameda couldn’t instantly be reached for touch upon Thursday.
Prosecutors allege that between 2016 and 2022, Alameda despatched demand letters to insurance coverage firms utilizing metropolis letterhead requesting reimbursement for accidents or property harm attributable to insured drivers in La Cañada Flintridge. Authorities allege he falsified invoices and requested for funds to be despatched to an tackle he supplied.
Alameda allegedly deposited checks totaling $193,086 from the insurance coverage firms into his private checking account, prosecutors stated.
“It’s a main disservice and betrayal of belief when public officers place their very own egocentric pursuits over the communities they serve,” Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman stated in a ready assertion. “It undermines religion in our authorities and sends the mistaken message to the general public that the people who find themselves purported to be working for you might be corrupt and stealing from you.”
La Cañada Flintridge officers first discovered of the accusations from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division once they launched an investigation triggered by “suspicious checks” that had been arriving on the Los Angeles County Public Works workplace, in response to a metropolis assertion.
Alameda was positioned on go away and in April 2023 ended his employment with La Cañada Flintridge, in response to town.
“The Metropolis has modified our inner controls to deal with the situations that allowed the alleged monetary crimes to happen. Importantly, subsequent audits have completely reviewed our strengthened monetary controls,” Metropolis Supervisor Dan Jordan stated in an announcement.
A number of months after leaving La Cañada Flintridge, Alameda took a job as assistant metropolis supervisor in Ojai. He was positioned on paid administrative go away from that metropolis on Thursday, Ojai officers stated.
“The Metropolis can also be conducting its personal inner monetary audit to make sure there was no monetary misconduct by means of his function as Ojai Assistant Metropolis Supervisor and prior service as Performing Metropolis Supervisor,” town wrote in a ready assertion.
