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
A stray bullet. The shooting happened around this time last night in the area of Whitney Young circle and hudson avenue. The bullet hit the girls in the hand. Her injuries are nonlife threatening. She was taken to the hospital to be treated. They are what looking for three men in their 20s. No arrests have been made here a body discovered yesterday morning inside the westfield mall near San Franciscos unions where. The medical examiner has determined the death is a homicide. He was a 28yearold San Francisco resident. Information. Reporter that is right. This is the jessie street entrance to bloomingdales. That is in San Francisco center. It is inside the building where the body was discovered your there are plenty of questions and not a lot of and others. They do not know how he got into this building for regular folks are not supposed to be. Also how he got in there . Why he was in there . Reporter it was business as usual at the Shopping Center despite the fact that a man was found m