{"id":429135,"date":"2026-08-10T21:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429135\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:32:08","slug":"woman-gets-33-months-in-prison-for-stealing-1-5m-in-fresno-measure-p-arts-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429135\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman gets 33 months in prison for stealing $1.5M in Fresno Measure P arts funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Suliana Caldwell was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison on Monday for <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/former-fresno-arts-council-manager-admits-to-18m-embezzlement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stealing about $1.5 million in Measure P funds<\/a> through the Fresno Arts Council.<\/p>\n<p>The money was intended to support arts and culture in the community. <\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/lauren-nikkel-named-next-executive-director-of-the-fresno-arts-council\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lauren Nikkel named next executive director of the Fresno Arts Council<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The theft took opportunities away from the arts community, impacted city employees who acted in good faith, and damaged public trust.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence was described as an important step toward accountability, with an emphasis that public dollars belong to the people and that work must continue to protect them and restore the public\u2019s trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Suliana Caldwell was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison on Monday for stealing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-429135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429135","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=429135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}