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Saturday, December 21, 2024

Where there's smoke, there's... the chief

From the Sacramento Bee: A Yolo County criminal grand jury indicted a former fire chief at the University of California, Davis who is accused of misappropriating public funds before he resigned from his campus job two months ago. Nathan Jon Trauernicht, 45, pleaded not guilty to the felony charge during his arraignment hearing Monday, the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday in a news release. Prosecutors also announced they filed a felony charge of misappropriating public money against 34-year-old Meagan Emily McFadden, who worked for Trauernicht as an executive assistant for more than four years before she left her job at UC Davis several months ago.

...UC Davis officials on Friday said Trauernicht began working for the UC Davis Fire Department in April 2008 and resigned Oct. 1 after nearly 13 years as fire chief. McFadden worked as an executive assistant at the fire department from November 18, 2019, through Jan. 30...

Full story at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article297057184.html.

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