Why has no one been arrested in Fresno arts embezzlement scandal? What we know

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No one has been publicly identified or arrested five days after police were notified $1.5 million of taxpayer funds went missing from the Fresno Arts Council in a case of alleged embezzlement.

“This is the elephant in the room,” Smiley G. Calderon, advertising director for the Community Alliance progressive newspaper, said during an emergency meeting Monday night. “Why hasn’t the person who is incriminated in all this stuff been named?”…

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