California High-Speed Rail Authority leaders acknowledge they have "a lot of damage to undo" with valley farmers and property owners along the route of the proposed train system.
As political battles loom in Sacramento over issuing $2.7 billion in bonds to begin building the system later this year in the valley, authority chairman Dan Richard said a new business plan and new leadership are focused on "what it's going to take to make those things right" and rebuild the agency's credibility.
A federal judge Monday sentenced a former sales agent with the now defunct real estate firm of Crisp, Cole & Associates to 27 months in prison for his role in a massive mortgage fraud case.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill sentenced Robinson Dinh Nguyen, 31, of Fresno, to 27 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay $433,000 in restitution for conspiring to commit mail, wire and bank fraud.
