Former CapRadio General Manager Jun Reina\u2019s criminal case will be continued for another three months.<\/p>\n
The former executive and his lawyer, Mary Ann Bird, made brief appearances Wednesday morning via Zoom in a courtroom at the Sacramento County Main Jail. Reina, wearing a grey vest and blue shirt, appeared to be joining from inside a vehicle.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Dave Bass from the Sacramento County District Attorney\u2019s Office requested a continuance until Sept. 17 at 8:30 a.m. for further proceedings, which judge David Bonilla granted.<\/p>\n
Bird and Bass said they expected Reina to be in-person for that court appearance.<\/p>\n
Reina\u2019s third court hearing was as brief as his previous ones, only lasting a few minutes. In April<\/a> Bird requested a continuance until June, and for her and Reina to join remotely. Reina was not present for that hearing.<\/p>\n Bird also requested her client be allowed to travel for a family vacation from June 6-12. Bonilla granted the requests over prosecutors\u2019 objections that Reina could pose a flight risk.<\/p>\n Reina\u2019s first court appearance was Feb. 2<\/a>, where he appeared in-person and with his family. He has still not entered a plea to the charges against him which include felony embezzlement, grand theft and forgery.<\/p>\n Background on the case<\/p>\n Reina, identified in court documents as Fidias \u201cJun\u201d Reina Jr., was hired as CapRadio\u2019s chief financial officer in 2007. He also became the public radio station\u2019s chief operating officer in 2013, and was later promoted to general manager and executive vice president in 2020. He resigned in 2023.<\/p>\n CapRadio experienced layoffs and canceled four music programs in August<\/a>, shortly after Reina\u2019s resignation. The California State University Chancellor\u2019s office released an audit a month later outlining significant financial mismanagement at CapRadio<\/a>, which is licensed to Sacramento State.\u00a0<\/p>\n The university later commissioned a forensic examination<\/a> that found more than $760,000 in unsupported payments, more than half of which made to a single station executive identified by CapRadio reporters as Reina<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The district attorney\u2019s office announced felony charges against the former executive<\/a> on Jan. 29, 2026. The charges came after a sheriff\u2019s office investigation into Reina that ran from January 2024 to August 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n Prosecutors accused Reina of orchestrating a \u201cmulti-year scheme” to divert CapRadio funds for personal use between Dec. 6, 2016, and June 12, 2022.\u00a0 The DA\u2019s office says he misappropriated approximately $1.33 million through unauthorized credit card charges, payments to his personal credit card accounts, and electronic fund transfers from CapRadio\u2019s bank account to his own.<\/p>\n Reina\u2019s forgery charge focuses on an allegedly counterfeit document Reina is accused of producing on Sept. 15, 2022 in response to a request from CSU auditors as part of an annual validation process. This was an allegedly-forged radio tower proposal document, according to records reviewed by CapRadio reporters<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The DA\u2019s office accuses the former GM of using stolen station funds on lavish personal spending including international travel, home renovations, tuitions for his children and other expenses. CapRadio also accused Reina<\/a> of misusing station money in a December 2024 civil lawsuit filed in Yolo County.<\/p>\n Disclosure: This story was reported and written by Senior Producer Sarit Laschinsky. It was edited by Editor Sally Longenecker.<\/p>\n Following NPR\u2019s protocol for reporting on itself, no CapRadio corporate official or news executive reviewed this story before it was posted or broadcast.<\/p>\n You can read our independent ongoing coverage of financial issues at Capital Public Radio here.<\/a><\/p>\n Editor\u2019s note: CapRadio is licensed to Sacramento State, which is also an underwriter.<\/p>\n
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