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DURKEE VICTIMS INCLUDE
REP. LORETTA SANCHEZ,
ASSEMBLYMAN JOSE SOLARIO.
FBI: INDICTMENT ON CAMPAIGN TREASURER KINDE DURKEE COULD BE
“TIP OF ICE BERG”
By Randy Economy
Santa Ana, Ca
Kinde Durkee, the embattled political accountant for hundreds of politicians here in California will be arraigned on at least one felony account of mail fraud this aftas ernoon inside a Santa Ana Federal Court House the Los Cerritos Community News has learned. The victims include United States Rep. Loretta Sanchez and Assemblyman Jose Solario, both Democrats out of Orange County. The 17 page indictment states that Durkee “intended” to defraud Jose Solario and the Solario of State Assembly campaign in 2010. The Los Cerritos Community News has learned that Durkee allegedly transferred money out of Solorio’s account and placed it in her own “personal account without “the victim’s knowledge.” The complaint also states that Durkee has “signature” control over 400 different campaign bank accounts and that she “routinely” transferred money out of these accounts “without the knowledge” of the candidate or elected official. The complaint alledges that Durkee transferred funds from campaign accounts to pay for her own “personal American Express charges and bank accounts.” The complaint also states that Durkee admitted to federal investigators that she had been “misappropriating her clients money for years, and that and forms she filled out with the state were false.” In the indictment, it also claims that as much as $300,000 In an interview with members of the FBI and US Department of Justice this morning, the Los Cerritos Community News was told that this case could become "the tip of the iceberg" and that many other indictments could follow. According to spokesperson Laura Eimiller, with the Los Angeles office of the FBI, Durkee was taken into custody last Friday at around 4:15 p.m. “without incident” at her Burbank office of “Durkee and Associates.” The veteran political consultant and campaign treasurer represents hundreds of well known and local elected officials throughout the region and California. It is not known at this time how many elected officials and candidates may have fallen victim to Durkee, according to Steve DuPree with the United States Justice Department. “This is a serious criminal case, which is still in the early stages,” DuPree said. The Los Cerritos Community News will be following this case, and will provide more details.
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