Ex-Housing Official Sentenced to Year in Jail
Daniel Montoya Jr., a former high-ranking housing official convicted of embezzling funds from two nonprofit Pico Union housing organizations, was sentenced Tuesday to spend a year in County Jail, serve five years’ probation, and pay more than $100,000 in fines and restitution.
The jail time for Montoya, 33, was stayed while he is paying back the money he admitted embezzling from the Pico Union Neighborhood Council and the Pico Union Housing Council.
In pleading guilty to grand theft Sept. 9 in Los Angeles Municipal Court, Montoya admitted funneling almost $400,000 in federal funds into his personal investments over a three-year period, Deputy Dist. Atty. Frederick Stewart said. He repaid all the money, except $117,500, which was the basis of the grand theft charge, Stewart said.
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