Thursday, September 22, 2011
The final person charged in the St. Isidore embezzlement cases, Evelyn Peinado of Alamo, will next appear in court on Nov. 17 for a preliminary hearing.
A former St. Isidore Catholic Church volunteer charged with taking more than $90,000 from the church is waiting to find out how much, if any money she must pay back in restitution. Evelyn Peinado, 64, a longtime church volunteer from Alamo, pleaded not guilty to three counts of embezzlement in connection with the more than $90,000 missing from the church. She is next scheduled to appear in court in Walnut Creek on Nov. 17 for her preliminary hearing. Peinado turned herself in at court for her arraignment in May after she and two other former church staffers were charged with taking money from the church. Some of the purchases made by Peinado were from a church credit card to buy groceries, said Supervising Deputy District Attorney Steve …
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Friday, September 16, 2011
Virgilio Lukban pleaded no contest Thursday, to charges that he took over $68,000 from St. Isidore Catholic Church in Danville. He was sentenced to three years probation during which time he must pay back $35,000 to the church.
St. Isidore Catholic Church's former facilities manager, Virgilio Lukban, will spend the next three years paying back $35,000 of $68,802 he is charged with stealing from the Danville church. The 47-year-old Danville resident pleaded no contest Thursday to one count of petty theft and was sentenced to three years probation and 65 days in jail but received credit for time he served after his arrest in May. The five counts of embezzlement he faced in May were dropped in exchange for his plea. Lukban's attorney, Bill Gagen, said Lukban, who began working at the church in 2003, believed many of the purchases he made using church money were approved by St. Isidore's former bookkeeper, Kathleen Dake. Dake, of Blackhawk, was sentenced last month …
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Kathleen Dake of Blackhawk was sentenced last week to almost a year in jail and three years probation. She pleaded no contest to five counts of grand theft through embezzlement from St. Isidore Catholic Church.
St. Isidore Catholic Church's former bookkeeper, Kathleen Dake, will spend the next several months behind bars, serving time for stealing more than $400,000 from the church. The 58-year-old Blackhawk resident, who worked for the church from 2002 to 2010, was sentenced last week to 300 days in jail and three years probation after pleading no contest to five counts of grand theft through embezzlement. She admitted to an enhancement that she took more than $150,000 from the church. She was also ordered to pay back the $425,244 she took from the church over about five years, using a credit card and checks. Supervising Deputy District Attorney Steve Bolen said Dake used the church's money to pay for plastic surgery, vet clinic bills and utility…
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Virgilio Lukban, 46, of Danville appeared in court Wednesday. Judge Nancy Davis Stark made a motion to consolidate his case with two related ones.
Virgilio Lukban, a former facilities manager at St. Isidore Catholic Church in Danville, appeared in court Wednesday to set his preliminary hearing date. During the short proceeding, three people were in court to show their support — including his wife, who declined to comment on her husband's case, and a young woman who left the courtroom in tears. Lukban, 46, who is being held on $134,000 bail, began working at the church in 2003, according to Diocese of Oakland spokesman Mike Brown. He entered a not-guilty plea on five felony embezzlement charges earlier this month. During the hearing, at which the date for his next appearance was set for June 13, there also was a motion from Judge Nancy Davis Stark to have Lukban's case consolidated …
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Kathleen Dake, 58, of Blackhawk, will appear in court again June 23 to set a preliminary hearing date.
A former St. Isidore employee pleaded not guilty Thursday morning to five felony embezzlement charges alleging the theft of about $220,000 from the church. Kathleen Dake, 58, of Blackhawk is being held on $433,000 bail in Martinez. She will next appear at the Martinez courthouse June 23 to set a date for a preliminary hearing. Also charged in the case are former St. Isidore employee Virgilio Lukban and volunteer Evelyn Peinado, who police said are charged with taking about $360,000 from the church through fraudulent use of credit cards. Dake appeared in a Martinez courtroom Thursday, wearing an orange inmate jumpsuit, and spoke briefly to her attorney from behind the courtroom barrier. She was an office manager who began working at the …
Monday, May 2, 2011
A nine-month police investigation led to the arrests of two of the Danville parish's employees and one parish volunteer.
After a nine-month police investigation, the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office filed charges Monday against three people it says embezzled a total of $580,000 from St. Isidore Catholic church in Danville. Danville Police Chief Steve Simpkins said the investigation found that former St. Isidore employees Kathleen Dake and Virgilio Lukban and volunteer Evelyn Peinado stole about $360,000 from the church through fraudulent use of credit cards. Dake also is charged in connection with stealing about $220,000 more, using checks from St. Isidore for personal expenses. Dake was an office manager who began working at the church in 2002, and Lukban was a facilities manager who began working at the church in 2003, according to Diocese of…
Monday, September 27, 2010
Danville Police Chief Steve Simpkins said the church contacted the department a couple of weeks ago to investigate the case.
St. Isidore parishioners attending Sunday Mass were told during services that local police are investigating an embezzlement involving the church. Danville Police Chief Steve Simpkins confirmed Monday that the Police Department was contacted by the church about two weeks ago to investigate a possible theft. The Rev. Gerard Moran, pastor at St. Isidore, said he could not comment on the case because the investigation is ongoing. Mike Brown, a spokesman with the Diocese of Oakland, which is in charge of parishes in Contra Costa and Alameda counties, said he could not comment. Simpkins said the department hopes to send the case to the district attorney's office within the next couple of weeks. No arrests have been made. We will update this …
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Corinne
6:39 pm on Friday, September 16, 2011
His wife works at the church? Guess she has job security, now that she will be paying back the monies owed from her salary! more ›