Friday August 19 2022
- Wrote about $1 M hot checks
- Organized weeklong football event 2019
- Paid for uniforms, transport, meals
- Promised college scouts would see the students
- A prior theft conviction raised to second degree felony
Max 20 Year Prison sentence
Richard Cardenas created a fraudulent football agency story writing over $1 M in hot checks
The check-writing that sent him to prison centered on youth sports. Witnesses established that Cardenas organized a weeklong football event early in 2019 and, starting the previous November, paid for uniforms, transportation and meals for participants.
Cardenas told attendees from across the state that they would be seen by scouts who could recruit them to play on college teams, according to testimony. Lovett on Tuesday could not explain his motive, saying he never cooperated with investigators.
During his trial, multiple vendors testified that three checks Cardenas wrote for uniforms with screen-printing and embroidery, totaling more than $40,000, bounced in the weeks leading up to the event, officials said.
Evidence also established that on Jan. 22, 2019, Cardenas also rented numerous charter buses to transport guests to the event and wrote a check for $34,000 that he knew he did not have the money to cover.
Very confused on how he got this job position of handling/ dealing checks, when he was already convicted of stealing money from a elderly person in 2007. Does SA do background checks anymore? What's going on?
Posted by: Denique Escobedo | August 23, 2022 at 06:02 PM