00:00The defendant, Amy Knox, is responsible for building the county of public funds.
00:06The defendant has been charged with three felony counts of misappropriating public funds
00:13and three felony counts of embezzlement with the white-collar fraud allegation for grade-taking.
00:21There were two grants that the county of San Diego awarded to Harm Reduction San Diego.
00:30That defendant was the chief operating officer for.
00:34And these two grants were in the amounts of $5.8 million,
00:40of which the county had already paid $3.68 million.
00:47We cannot, beyond a reasonable doubt at this time,
00:51know fully how much of those millions were compromised by theft.
00:57But we do know through an extensive investigation by my Public Integrity Unit
01:04that at a minimum $132,000 can be directly traced to criminal misappropriation and theft by this defendant.
01:16This theft of county funds was so blatant that the defendant used the Harm Reduction NGO account
01:26to directly pay for the two plastic cosmetic surgeries.
01:31Other stolen money was used to pay for SDG&E bills on her two homes,
01:38and luxury trips to Hawaii and personal credit card bills, even dog training.
01:45Our team's extensive investigation search warrants uncovered this theft piece by piece.
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