Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Tales of luxury the owner of this bay area wine shop schemed customers out of millions. So where did that money go . Tonight tales of luxury cars and online dates. Tonight that berkeley wine shop owner admits to fooling customers and using their cash for his pleasure. Kpix5s Christin Ayers shows us how he did it. Reporter the storefront is still standing, but the business is bankrupt. Today john fox, former owner of premier crew fine wines in berkeley admitted to running a ponzi scheme and ripped off his customers for 40 million. Heres how the scam worked. A customer would purchase expensive european wines from fox with the promise it would arrive in six months to two years, but in many cases fox admits he falsified purchase orders and never even bought the wine. The u. S. Attorney said fox acknowledged between 2010 and 2015 he sold or attempted to sell approximately 20 million worth of phantom wine that he never actually purchased
Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Tales of luxury the owner of this bay area wine shop schemed customers out of millions. So where did that money go . Tonight tales of luxury cars and online dates. Tonight that berkeley wine shop owner admits to fooling customers and using their cash for his pleasure. Kpix5s Christin Ayers shows us how he did it. Reporter the storefront is still standing, but the business is bankrupt. Today john fox, former owner of premier crew fine wines in berkeley admitted to running a ponzi scheme and ripped off his customers for 40 million. Heres how the scam worked. A customer would purchase expensive european wines from fox with the promise it would arrive in six months to two years, but in many cases fox admits he falsified purchase orders and never even bought the wine. The u. S. Attorney said fox acknowledged between 2010 and 2015 he sold or attempted to sell approximately 20 million worth of phantom wine that he never actually purchased
30 second tz tz forecast. Flash flood watch for though the evening 12 of rain possible today scattered showers, storms. High 78tonight evening showers, storms. Low 70 saturday variable clouds. Spotty shower, storm possible. High 81sunday; mostly sunny. High 81monday; mostly sunny. High 80forecast. Flash flood watch for though the evening 12 of rain possible today scattered showers, storms. High 78tonight evening showers, storms. Saturday variable cloud spotty shower, storm possible. High 81sunday; mostly sunny. High 81monday; mostly sunny. High 80forecast. Flash flood watch for though the evening 12 of rain possible today scattered showers, storms. High 78tonight evening showers, storms. Low 70 saturday variable clouds. High 81sunday; mostly sunny. High 81monday; mostly sunny. High 80 3 3 roads are wet this morningwatch for ponding on the roadways as ll as slick spots. Plan ahead. Starting monday the i94 eb to i41 us 45 nb system ramp will close long term until spring 2017 from reconst
Secondstory apartment here behind me. The investigation into the cause is now getting underway. The flames burn hot inside the unit once the fire broke out around 11 30 p. M. Two adults and they four yearold child made it out of the apartment but this baby did not. We are confirming there was it fatality in the fire, the victim was under one yearold. Neighbors were awoken by the commotion. Once the fire was out, news about the baby spread. We felt bad about that. The building where it happened was blocked off with yellow tape today and arson investigators are not ruling anything out. Anytime we have a fatality, we want to preserve the scene. This fire did spread to next door. There is heavy smoke damage but the apartments below will be habitable once cleaned. Strong and gusty winds accompanied by heavy rain have brought down trees around the area. Take a look it look at some of the damage around the Oakland Hills today. Crews had to use chainsaws to cut up and remove a large tree that
Chris murphy, out covering the Temple Villanova game. Well have more later in the show. But first, lets get to sue serio who i heard describe the weather as boring today compared to the last few days. Yes, boring is good because weve had enough drama, havent we, after yesterday, with very strong storms that moved through, with the cold front, the day before with all of the snow and the ice. Soap, here we have nothing on ultimate doppler radar. We are watching this area of rain to our south. This is the last gasp of the cold front that came through yesterday. Chesapeake bay and the Eastern Shore of maryland only being affected by that. It that looks like it is about it as we look a little closer, nothing in southern delaware, at all. So we start off with 38 degrees. Now, thats chillier than yesterday. Not much after winds though. So it feels like 34. Sunrise time, 6 52 this morning. Days are getting longer. Thats a good thing too. We have 29 degrees in mount pocono. All of our temperatu