{"id":261972,"date":"2026-04-11T01:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261972\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T01:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:10:10","slug":"guilty-plea-expected-in-measure-p-embezzlement-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261972\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty Plea Expected in Measure P Embezzlement Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, CA (KMJ)\u00a0 The former Fresno Arts Council employee at the center of the Measure P embezzlement scandal is expected to plead guilty to federal wire fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Court records show Suliana Caldwell reached a plea agreement with prosecutors, filed this week in Fresno federal court.<\/p>\n<p>City leaders revealed earlier this year that about $1.5 million dollars in Measure P funds\u2014meant for arts grants\u2014had been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Caldwell began siphoning money in 2022, spending it at casinos and on vacations.<\/p>\n<p>She allegedly hid the scheme for years by falsifying financial reports.<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell is scheduled to enter her guilty plea April 20.<\/p>\n<p>She faces up to 20 years in prison, though prosecutors are recommending restitution and supervised release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, CA (KMJ)\u00a0 The former Fresno Arts Council employee at the center of the Measure P embezzlement scandal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-261972","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\/261972","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=261972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}