The shocked father of an Orange County mother accused of embezzling greater than $400,000 from a highschool soccer crew to pay her mortgage and bank cards says she has stored her arrest a secret from him.
Julie Hanway Molina, 56, was dramatically arrested at her $1.4 million Aliso Viejo house on Sept. 10 and appeared in courtroom the identical day to be charged with 4 felony counts that might land her behind bars for as much as 20 years.
The indictment doesn’t title the sufferer nonprofit. Primarily based on public sources recognized in courtroom paperwork, the sufferer seems to be the Wolverines Soccer Membership at Aliso Niguel Excessive College.
Aliso Niguel Excessive College is a public highschool throughout the Capistrano Unified College District serving college students in grades 9 via 12 from the communities of Aliso Viejo and Laguna Niguel.
Situated on Wolverine Approach, it has been acknowledged as a California Distinguished College. Its soccer crew is very standard.
In 1996, the varsity’s varsity crew went undefeated and gained the CIF-SS Division VIII championship. Its document within the present season is 0–3.
The mother of 1, who has pleaded not responsible and was launched on $10,000 bond, was ordered out of her house together with her fingers within the air throughout a daybreak raid by federal brokers.
William Hanway advised the California Submit Sunday he had no information of the claims in opposition to Molina, who lives with husband Anthony Molina, 52, and their teenage son.
“I haven’t heard about it. She hasn’t advised me something that’s occurring,” he mentioned. “She in all probability didn’t wish to.”
Hanway, 90, mentioned his daughter by no means disclosed to him that she was experiencing monetary difficulties. “She hasn’t ever requested me to present her cash to do something,” he mentioned. “She ought to have come to me. I might have given her fairly a bit of cash if I wanted to however she was eager to do it independently.”
The widower, whose spouse handed away 10 years in the past, lives alone and mentioned his daughter and her husband go to him a number of occasions per week.
“She’s taking good care of me,” Hanway mentioned. “Julie and Anthony come right here virtually daily to verify on me.”
The previous enterprise proprietor mentioned his daughter beforehand managed the accounts for his fireplace alarm firm known as Security Techniques Know-how, which designed fireplace detection tools and closed 4 years in the past.
In the meantime, Los Angeles’ prime federal prosecutor Invoice Essayli mentioned her alleged actions signify a severe breach of belief and that prosecutors will search a stiff jail sentence.
“This defendant was entrusted by the group with safeguarding cash raised for younger adults. She violated that belief and is now a charged felon,” Essayli advised the California Submit. “Our prosecutors are dedicated to holding her absolutely accountable, together with in search of a federal jail sentence.”
Molina was arraigned Thursday in Santa Ana and pleaded not responsible to the costs. She was ordered launched on $10,000 bond, together with her trial scheduled for Nov. 2.
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