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Prominent San Diego businesswoman Gina Champion-Cain, who pleaded guilty in June 2020 to securities fraud, conspiracy and obstruction of justice for defrauding investors out of $400 million through a liquor-license loan funding program, learned her fate on Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Larry Alan Burns sentenced Champion-Cain to 15 years in prison the maximum sentence at the federal building on Front Street in downtown San Diego. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get the latest breaking news and local stories. During the hearing, several victims spoke to the judge, said Assistant United States Attorney Andrew Galvin outside court on Wednesday. Nearly 500 victims poured over $350 million into Champion-Cain s sham investment scheme. Ms. Champion-Cain did not use the money to finance liquor-license transactions, as she told investors. Rather, she used tens of millions of dollars to line her own pockets and to support her failing Patio
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Seattle Ferris wheel offers socially distanced four-course meal
08 February 2021 By Phoebe French
The Seattle Great Wheel has teamed up with a local restaurant to offer diners a socially distanced meal with customers served one course per rotation.
Image: The Fisherman’s Restaurant and Bar
As reported by Kiro 7, the Covid appropriate private dining experience is being served up by The Fisherman’s Restaurant and Bar, which is located next to the Ferris wheel.
Diners can book a reservation using Resy and the experience includes a four-course set menu which includes prawn cocktail, Caesar salad, grilled salmon, vegetables and pilaf rice and chocolate pot de crème for dessert.
Updated on February 4, 2021 at 10:54 am
On this episode of our
we catch up on San Diego’s return to the purple tier and get the latest details from culinary standout Chef Travis Swikard as he preps to debut his first restaurant in San Diego – a project long in the works, sidelined by the pandemic.
Swikard’s restaurant is called Callie, and it’s in downtown San Diego’s East Village, at the corner of Island Avenue and Park Boulevard. For the chef – who got his start cooking in San Diego – Callie is his first-ever solo restaurant and a true homecoming.
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The plan to temporarily place an observation wheel in Balboa Park’s Plaza de Panama has been abandoned by proponents who are pointing to city bureaucracy and a vocal opposition group as insurmountable roadblocks.
“Regretfully, four months into this journey and after many hours dedicated to community outreach and responding to the city’s endless list of project action items, we’ve decided to walk away from the Balboa Park Star,” proponents said in a statement shared with the Union-Tribune.
The brain child of David Cohn of the Cohn Restaurant Group, the so-called Balboa Park Star was intended as a pandemic-friendly activity that could promote more foot traffic in the park at a time when many of the park’s other attractions museums and restaurants have limited or ceased their operations because of state and county regulations.
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