PEOPLE v. FREDERICK

No. B163699.

48 Cal.Rptr.3d 585 (2006)

142 Cal.App.4th 400

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Joan FREDERICK et al., Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Six.

August 29, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janyce Keiko Imata Blair, El Segundo, for Defendant and Appellant, Joan Frederick.

John Steinberg for Defendant and Appellant, Mercedes Navarrete.

Christine Vento, San Jose, for Defendant and Appellant, Felix Navarrete.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Linda C. Johnson, Lawrence M. Daniels, Supervising Deputy Attorneys General, Ana R. Duarte, Karen Bissonnette, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


GILBERT, P.J.

Here the crime, an endless chain, proves to be an oxymoron. (Pen.Code, § 327.)1 The conviction of defendants ends the chain, but not the losses to countless victims.

Among other things, we conclude the elaborate chain scheme devised by defendants to bilk money from various hapless victims also involve securities fraud. We also conclude that the crime of filing...

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