The brother and sister will be sentenced later this year on grand theft charges related to state unemployment benefits and federal COVID-19 relief funds
Felony guilty pleas, a state suspension of the company they ran and a pledge by the San Diego County Democratic Party chair to ban the firm from future business might normally spell the end for any political consultant. But that simple maxim may not apply to Jesus and Andrea Cardenas, the brother-and-sister co-defendants who admitted in Superior Court last week that they stole more than $176,000 from state and federal taxpayers.
It remains unclear if the dispensary owners knew about or participated in the scheme, or how the Cardenases secured the names and payroll information needed to complete the federal loan application. Grassroots Resources has been one of the biggest fundraisers for the county Democratic Party for years, a status that gave Jesus Cardenas major influence on party endorsements.
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