Local News in Brief : Operator of Homes for Elderly Gets Jail Term
A Los Angeles woman was sentenced to 60 days in jail Tuesday and banned from operating residential facilities for the elderly.
Marina Di Pietro, 49, who operated board-and-care facilities in the San Fernando Valley, was also ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and placed on three years’ probation.
Municipal Court Commissioner David Stephens sentenced her after she pleaded no contest to two counts of operating an unlicensed board-and-care facility.
Di Pietro’s operations were in single-family homes, said City Atty. James Hahn, whose office prosecuted the case. Each time inspectors found one of Di Pietro’s operations and issued a cease and desist order, she would “just pack up and move to another house,” Hahn said.
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