SAN JOSE – A South Bay journey agent has been convicted after she collected $200,000 from clients and did not guide their journeys, prosecutors stated.
In keeping with the Santa Clara District Lawyer’s Workplace, Wendy Wong pleaded no contest final week to expenses of failing to return cash for journey providers not supplied and illegally withdrawing from consumer belief accounts.
Prosecutors stated Wong, a former Milpitas resident, operated a enterprise known as Home of Aloha Hawaii. The enterprise closed in August of 2019 after what was described as a “lengthy line” of victims got here ahead to report that their trip plans had been ruined and cash was lacking.
“The defendant abused her place of belief and disrupted the lives of many households in our group,” Deputy District Lawyer Tamalca Harris stated. “We’re grateful to the victims who got here ahead.”
The District Lawyer’s workplace stated Wong will have the ability to keep away from jail time and be sentenced to 2 years’ probation if she pays $155,000 in restitution requested by clients forward of sentencing.
If Wong doesn’t pay restitution forward of her sentencing on November 4, she is going to obtain a sentence of two years, consisting of 1 yr in county jail and one yr of obligatory supervision.
In keeping with prosecutors, whereas sellers of journey in California are required to register with the state Lawyer Common’s Workplace, Wong was not registered. Customers can examine to see if a vendor is registered by visiting https://oag.ca.gov/journey.