{"id":424636,"date":"2026-08-05T17:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424636\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:14:31","slug":"an-incorrigible-menace-feds-paint-a-damning-picture-of-a-san-francisco-fraudster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424636\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An incorrigible menace\u2019: Feds paint a damning picture of a San Francisco fraudster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published Aug. 4, 2026at6:00am<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">\u201cLucky Luke\u201d Brugnara, a San Francisco real estate developer turned art thief and tax evader, appeared in court Friday following his arrest in late July in a Daly City hotel after threatening to \u201cshoot people on sight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Brugnara, who was carrying a gun at the time of his arrest, has been on the radar of the U.S. Marshals Service since February, when he failed to appear at a bail hearing in a fraud case related to COVID relief funds and a judge issued a bench warrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">But little of his extensive criminal history came up Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">\u201cI am being harshly confined, and I can\u2019t endure it,\u201d he said in court, characterizing the charges against him as a \u201csmall, white-collar, insignificant matter, for a couple hundred thousand dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Aug. 4, 2026at6:00am \u201cLucky Luke\u201d Brugnara, a San Francisco real estate developer turned art thief and tax&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7337,36209,388,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-424636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-federal-court","tag-moguls","tag-real-estate","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424636","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=424636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}