{"id":28643,"date":"2025-10-29T14:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/28643\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:14:06","slug":"fresno-unified-school-district-allegedly-scammed-out-of-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/28643\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Unified School District allegedly scammed out of $2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">The letter stated that, of the $2.2 million, a little more than $1 million has already been withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Action News has learned the Fresno Unified School District was involved in an alleged scam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It involved the district paying more than $2 million to someone pretending to be the district&#8217;s largest construction contractor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A letter to Fresno County from Bryan Martin, an attorney representing Fresno Unified, said the district directed the county to issue two checks to an account of someone impersonating Davis Moreno Construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The letter stated that, of the $2.2 million, a little more than $1 million has already been withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">First Community Credit Union in North Dakota is holding onto the remainder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">In September 2024, the district alerted the public about $7 million that had been sent out to fraudulent accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The letter stated that, of the $2.2 million, a little more than $1 million has already been withdrawn.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[21411,21409,21410,112,114,113,14569,21408,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-28643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-21411","9":"tag-construction-company","10":"tag-credit-union","11":"tag-fresno","12":"tag-fresno-headlines","13":"tag-fresno-news","14":"tag-fresno-unified","15":"tag-scam-alert","16":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28643","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=28643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}