Prosecutors allege more than $8 million given to Barkett to develop the solar farm on behalf of the City of Industry was instead spent on “personal items.” In September, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office charged the developer, William Barkett of La Jolla, with embezzlement, grand theft, money laundering and misappropriation of public funds. A developer accused of misappropriating up to $20 million from a failed solar project in eastern Los Angeles County allegedly pilfered more than $5 million of the taxpayer money to avoid foreclosure on a La Jolla mansion, pay off old debts to his longtime attorney and finance his daughter’s multimillion-dollar wedding in the French Riviera that featured a $360,000 performance by Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli, according to new court filings.
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