{"id":173535,"date":"2026-02-11T15:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173535\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:01:11","slug":"an-embezzlement-investigation-rocks-the-fresno-arts-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173535\/","title":{"rendered":"An Embezzlement Investigation Rocks The Fresno Arts Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Fresno has terminated its contract with the Fresno Arts Council. This comes as local and federal law enforcement investigate a former employee who allegedly embezzled $1.5 million. On today\u2019s episode, Omar Rashad, with our news partner Fresnoland, breaks down what we know so far. <\/p>\n<p>Plus, the latest news headlines: Clovis considers adding \u201cIn God We Trust\u201d in city council chambers, and the World Ag Expo is in full swing in Tulare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Fresno has terminated its contract with the Fresno Arts Council. This comes as local and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[12837,5282,37810,37811,1610,10009,37812,57654,53107,1055,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-173535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-artist","tag-arts","tag-central-valley-daily","tag-central-valley-journalism-collaborative","tag-city-council","tag-clovis","tag-cvjc","tag-elizabeth-arakelian","tag-embezzlement","tag-fbi","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}