{"id":261506,"date":"2026-04-10T19:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261506\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:31:07","slug":"former-fresno-arts-council-manager-admits-to-1-8m-embezzlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261506\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Fresno Arts Council manager admits to $1.8M embezzlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A former operations manager for the Fresno Arts Council has been identified in a <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/15m-missing-from-fresno-arts-council-as-measure-p-projects-stall-city-takes-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">federal embezzlement case involving nearly $1.8 million.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to federal court documents, Suliana Caldwell has reached a deal with prosecutors and admitted to embezzling the funds from the nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>Embezzlement case court documents (Courtesy: Pacer)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"PdfEmbed_downloadLink__tZFvP\" href=\"http:\/\/kmph.com\/resources\/pdf\/dea1775c-180e-4d86-8525-c14eefb9a372-COMBINEDPDF.pdf#toolbar=0&amp;navpanes=0&amp;scrollbar=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view the PDF file<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/fresno-arts-council-pledges-transparency-amid-embezzlement-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fresno Arts Council pledges transparency amid embezzlement allegations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, Caldwell will plead guilty to one count of wire fraud and pay restitution of up to $1.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Additional details about sentencing have not yet been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A former operations manager for the Fresno Arts Council has been identified in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-261506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261506","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=261506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}