{"id":247035,"date":"2026-04-01T18:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247035\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:03:12","slug":"ex-capradio-gm-reina-faces-embezzlement-charges-can-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247035\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CapRadio GM Reina faces embezzlement charges, can travel"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Sacramento Superior Court judge granted Jun Reina, Capital Public Radio\u2019s former general manager,<\/a> permission to travel for a family vacation \u2014 overruling prosecutors\u2019 objection \u2014 as he faces charges for misappropriating more than one million dollars from the radio station.<\/a><\/p>\n

Reina faces embezzlement, fraud and grand theft charges<\/a> in connection to what prosecutors described as a multi-year scheme to finance luxury international travel, home renovations and paying for his kids\u2019 college tuition. Capital Public Radio is a NPR-affiliate licensed to Sacramento State.<\/p>\n

Reina did not appear Wednesday in Sacramento Superior Court for his court appearance. Judge David Bonilla granted Reina\u2019s attorney permission to appear on his behalf.<\/p>\n

Stockton-based attorney Mary Ann Bird said her client is traveling from June 6 to June 12 for a \u201cfamily vacation.\u201d She declined to say where Reina is going when asked by a reporter.<\/p>\n

He has surrendered his passports, and he traveled while he was under investigation from the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office, even informing the investigator on the case of his journeys, Bird said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe does not pose a flight risk,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Return to court in June<\/p>\n

Prosecutor David Bass said instead Reina does pose \u201csome\u201d flight risk, though he was not challenging Bird\u2019s assertions.<\/p>\n

Bonilla granted Reina to travel, and allowed him to appear over Zoom for his court date. Reina must offer proof he is back in California, Bonilla said.<\/p>\n

The attorneys will be back in court June 17.<\/p>\n

Reina\u2019s conduct at CapRadio had been questioned for years prior to his January arrest. He posted his 200,000 bail and is no longer in custody.<\/p>\n

In 2024, a forensic examination delving into CapRadio\u2019s finances linked a credit card under Reina\u2019s name to at least $460,800 spent on international travel, fine dining and luxury goods. The analyst behind the examination could not find reciepts or expense reports explaining each purchase.<\/p>\n

Reina became CapRadio\u2019s general manager after he spent more than a decade at the station. He first joined the broadcaster in 2007 as its chief financial officer and ascended to the top position in 2020.<\/p>\n

He left the station in 2023 just before CapRadio embarked on deep layoffs and programming cuts.<\/p>\n

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Ishani Desai is a government watchdog reporter for The Sacramento Bee. She previously covered crime and courts for The Bakersfield Californian.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sacramento Superior Court judge granted Jun Reina, Capital Public Radio\u2019s former general manager, permission to travel for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[701,53107,3130,76484,121,123,122,5481],"class_list":{"0":"post-247035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-capital-public-radio","9":"tag-embezzlement","10":"tag-fraud","11":"tag-jun-reina","12":"tag-sacramento","13":"tag-sacramento-headlines","14":"tag-sacramento-news","15":"tag-sacramento-state"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247035","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=247035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}