Former Capital Public Radio general manager Jun Reina is scheduled to appear Wednesday in Sacramento Superior Court, where he faces charges of embezzlement, fraud and grand theft from his time leading the nonprofit NPR-affiliate licensed to Sacramento State.<\/p>\n
After Reina\u2019s January arrest, the Sacramento County District Attorney\u2019s Office issued a statement that said he \u201corchestrated a multi-year scheme\u201d in which he \u201cmisappropriated approximately $1.33 million through unauthorized credit card charges, payments to personal credit card accounts, and 144 ACH transfers from Capital Public Radio\u2019s bank account to his own account.\u201d<\/p>\n
Through a public records request, The Sacramento Bee obtained transaction information from Reina\u2019s credit card spending.<\/p>\n
The expenses in the credit card transaction data include travel to luxury resorts, high-priced consumer goods and improvements to Reina\u2019s home in West Sacramento. The data starts in 2015 and concludes in 2022. It does not include any support documentation, such as receipts.<\/p>\n
Reina, who made $253,080 a year as GM, left the station in 2023 just before CapRadio embarked on deep layoffs and programming cuts. He was arrested in January<\/a> and released after posting bail.<\/p>\n