Ex-California Army National Guard Commander in OC Admits He's a Scumbag Crook
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Timothy Melvin Murphy, a resident of Orange and at one point the commanding officer of the Guard's base in Los Alamitos, admitted to federal prosecutor Robert J. Keenan that he made false promises to dupe individuals into investing in his Capital Investors, Inc. of Orange County.
Murphy is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter on June 15. He faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years and a fine of more than $5 million. He also will likely have to pay restitution to his victims.
The crook's illegal scheming apparently was second nature. In May 2002, authorities reprimanded him in a public forum for misusing investors money. The rebuke obviously wasn't enough to scare him straight.
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