Former Pechanga official, ex-insurance broker guilty of bribery

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TEMECULA: Former Pechanga official, ex-insurance broker guilty of bribery

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James William Riley, a former insurance broker for Pechanga Resort & Casino, was convicted of commercial bribery.

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BY SARAH BURGE 

April 29, 2013; 01:25 PM 

"A former insurance broker and a onetime official of the Pechanga Resort & Casino near Temecula were each convicted Monday, April 29, of commercial bribery, authorities said.

This was the second trial for James William Riley, 49, of Murrieta, and Ryan Jay Robinson, 42, of Temecula, the casino’s former chief financial officer. The men had been accused of bilking Pechanga of $4 million in an insurance overcharging scam from 2006 to 2007 and were indicted by a grand jury in 2010. They were originally charged with grand theft and commercial bribery, with Riley additionally accused of money laundering. But after jurors in the first trial deadlocked last July, a judge dismissed the grand theft and money laundering counts."

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  Pechanga.net
  

  Small fries compared to the massive corruption really going on at the criminal enterprise aka Pechanga; Council, Development Corp, Enrollment, Imposter Indians...FBI and IRS need to sweep and coral the whole thieving bunch and shut down the casino and other 'enterprises.'