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Former Arcadia man accused of lying, losing millions of investors' money. James Arthur McDonald, Jr. former CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Hercules Investments LLC and Index Strategy Advisors Inc. was charged with one count of securities fraud. Prosecutors claim McDonald lost clients of his Los Angeles-based firm Hercules millions of dollars in late 2020. He had been renting a home in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36351
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 22, 2022
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p. A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 22, 2022
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Fraud
McDonald, James Arthur
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Arcadia resident, Ruixue "Serena" Shi, gets 20-year sentence for Coachella Valley fraud involving $22.8 million in funds for a condominium and hotel complex called Hyde Resorts and Residences Coachella Valley. Shi was president and owner of Global House Buyer (GHB), a China-based real estate development company, and also was CEO of the Beverly Hills-based company Hyde Morgan Development, LLC. Chinese investors in the Hyde project were falsely promised visas through the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36374
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 24, 2022
Pages
p. 8, 14
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 24, 2022
Pages
p. 8, 14
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Fraud
Global House Buyer
Hyde Morgan Development, LLC
Shi, Ruixue "Serena"
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Newport Beach real estate developer Don Koll and Leon Black of New York-based Apollo Real Estate Advisors have made an unsolicited offer to invest approximately $180 million in Arcadia-based Santa Anita Cos.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 10, 1996
Pages
p. B3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 10, 1996
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Santa Anita Companies
Item ID
7974AN
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Ruixue "Serena" Shi, 36, of Arcadia, was arrested for allegedly swindling more than $20 million that was solicited for funding a condominium and hotel complex called Hyde Resorts and Residences in Coachella Valley. Shi was president and owner of Global House Buyer (GHB), a China-based real estate development company, and also was CEO of the Beverly Hills-based company Hyde Morgan Development, LLC.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35763
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 25, 2020
Pages
p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 25, 2020
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Fraud
Shi, Ruixue "Serena"
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A Los Angeles-based investment firm will infuse the Santa Anita Cos. with $138.3 million to transform the race track and shopping mall business into a broad-based sports, leisure and entertainment company.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 20, 1996
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 20, 1996
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Santa Anita Company
Item ID
7213AN
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The Arcadia City Planning Commission voted unanimously to allow McDonald's restaurants to open an "Express" restaurant at 1311-B South Baldwin Ave. This will be the second "Express" restaurant in the state; "Express" refers to the limited hours of operation (daily 8 AM to 9 PM), menu, and lack of drive-through services.

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Sierra Madre News
Date
January 12, 1995
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p. 15
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Sierra Madre News
Date
January 12, 1995
Pages
p. 15
Subjects
Restaurants, Bars, etc - McDonald's
Item ID
4358AN
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Bradbury man Steve Chen, CEO of U.S. Fine Investment Arts, Inc. Gem Coin, and other companies, allegedly conspired to commit fraud with his Arcadia-based marketing company, to plead guilty. He promised potential investors gemstones from their mines along with valuable digital currency. See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 4, February 27, 2020.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 21, 2020
Pages
p. A4, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 21, 2020
Pages
p. A4, A4
Subjects
Chen, Steve
Crime and Criminals
Cryptocurrency
Fine Investment Arts, Inc.
Gem Coin
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Colony Investors, a Los Angeles based real estate investment fund, will invest $138.3 million in the Santa Anita Companies.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 22, 1996
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 22, 1996
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Colony Investors
Santa Anita Companies
Item ID
25933AN
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Food company executives Feng Wu Lam, who owns South El Monte based Golden Food, Inc. and her husband Wei Wen Wu, the company's manager, face insurance fraud, wage theft charges. They are accused of underreporting their payroll to workers' compensation insurance carriers by about $4.5 million between 2015 and 2019. They are both Arcadia residents.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Insurance fraud
Lam, Feng Wu
Wage theft
Workers' compensation insurance
Wu, Wei Wen
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The Arcadia City Council voted 4-0 in favor of the state-required plan submitted by Fountain Valley-based Rodeffer Investments that would create a landfill in an 85-acre gravel pit on the border between Arcadia and El Monte.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 8, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 8, 1990
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Rodeffer Landfill
Item ID
1904AN
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CEO Ikenna Mmeje begins managing USC Arcadia Hospital. Ikenna "Ike" Mmeje will lead expansion of access to specialized healthcare and research to the San Gabriel Valley while overseeing all management and operations of the hospital. The hospital was formerly Methodist Hospital of Southern California and is now run by Keck Medicine. Mmeje replaces former president and CEO Dan Ausman, who has retired. Mmeje served as CEO of both Memorial Care Long Beach Medical Center and Miller Children's and Women's Hospital in Long Beach. He previously held CEO and COO roles with Tenet Healthcare.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 14, 2023
Pages
p. A3, A9
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 14, 2023
Pages
p. A3, A9
Subjects
Ausman, Dan
Methodist Hospital of Southern California
Mmeje, Ikenna
USC Arcadia Hospital
USC Arcadia Hospital-employees
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Arcadia based Safety Syringes Inc. specializes in safety syringes for the dental industry. They are profiled.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 18, 1995
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p. B3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 18, 1995
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Business & Industry - Safety Syringes Inc.
Item ID
5356AN
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A profile of Roger and Lilah Strangeland, major donors to the new cardiac catheterization laboratory at Methodist Hospital. The lab will be named in honor of the Strangelands. Mr. Strangeland is former Chairman and CEO of The Vons Companies, Inc.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 4, 1999
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p. 12
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 4, 1999
Pages
p. 12
Subjects
Methodist Hospital
Strangeland, Lilah
Strangeland, Roger E.
Item ID
27349AN
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The City Council voted to allow Rodeffer Investments Inc. to fill a tapped-out quarry, 85 acres by 165 feet deep, with 10 million cubic yards of dirt, gravel and concrete. The plan still must get the approval of the state and local water quality boards, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the CA Integrated Waste Board and the County Health Dept.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3406
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Los Angeles Times
Date
March 17, 1994
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p. J-3
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Los Angeles Times
Date
March 17, 1994
Pages
p. J-3
Subjects
Rodeffer Landfill
Item ID
3295AN
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An extensive survey by a Los Angeles based real estate consulting firm rated the cost of doing business in a number of California cities, including Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper12044
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 25, 1998
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p. B1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 25, 1998
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Business & Industry
Item ID
12245AN
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Distance learning a work in progress (online classes). Parents and students adjust and make the most of their home-based classrooms during this COVID-19 pandemic.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35810
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 25, 2020
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p. A1, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 25, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Child, Angela
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Education
Pandemics
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Rubbermaid Inc. announced that it has acquired Arcadia-based Decor Concepts, Inc., better known as Omni. Omni, which designs and manufactures commercial playground equipment, produces about $30 million in annual revenues.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 6, 1995
Pages
p. B3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 6, 1995
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Business & Industry - Omni
Item ID
4785AN
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The Santa Anita Cos., Monday reaffirmed its commitment to the previously announced strategic alliance with Colony Capital and its affiliates, saying that a rival bid by Newport Beach based Koll Arcadia Investors was "incomplete."

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
, 1996
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p.
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Pasadena Star News
Date
, 1996
Pages
p.
Subjects
Santa Anita Companies
Item ID
7970AN
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Arcadia-based Software Technologies Corp. is introducing a new computer software product that allows hospitals and other health-care networks to access medical and patient information via the Internet.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 5, 1996
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p. B 3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 5, 1996
Pages
p. B 3
Subjects
Business & Industry - Software Technologies Corp.
Item ID
5525AN
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Monrovia man Yi Chen gets 4 years in prison for fraud in a student visa scheme to get Chinese immigrants into the U.S. unlawfully. From June 2015-February 2021, Chen was the CEO and owner of two so-called educational consulting companies in Alhambra and Arcadia that charged foreign students thousands of dollars for "guaranteed" admission to a college that would lead to the issuance of an F-1 student visa. See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 2, October 6, 2022.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36335
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 5, 2022
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 5, 2022
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Chen, Yi "Brian"
Crime and Criminals
Fraud
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