{"id":59385,"date":"2025-08-08T23:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=59385"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:16:52","slug":"film-production-accountant-indicted-for-1-9-million-embezzlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=59385","title":{"rendered":"Film Production Accountant Indicted for $1.9 Million Embezzlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" title=\"\" data-start=\"73\" data-end=\"297\" data-speechifyplaybackhighlighter-highlight=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>LOS ANGELES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" title=\"\" data-start=\"73\" data-end=\"297\" data-speechifyplaybackhighlighter-highlight=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-229 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FBI-300x165.png\" alt=\"&quot;Goon Squad&quot; Shooter Sentenced to 20 Years for Firing at Police\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FBI-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FBI.png 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Federal prosecutors have charged Joshua Mandel, 46, of Woodland Hills, with six counts of wire fraud, accusing him of embezzling more than $1.9 million from independent film productions between 2019 and 2023, officials announced Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"299\" data-end=\"744\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Mandel, owner of First J Productions Inc. and a freelance production accountant, allegedly diverted funds from film budgets by issuing unauthorized checks, making wire transfers, and loading money onto a CASH\u00e9t Card account he named \u201cFun Fun Fun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"299\" data-end=\"744\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Mandel is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"299\" data-end=\"744\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Authorities say he spent the stolen money on luxury items, Las Vegas hotels and clubs, and payments to multiple women, including pornographic actresses and a woman he met on a \u201csugar daddy\u201d site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"746\" data-end=\"926\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Prosecutors allege Mandel also shuffled money between productions to conceal the thefts. 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