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BRIBES * USA - Man admits to making truck drivers pay them
Lodi resident ordered to pay $46K in restitution; he could get year in jail
Lodi,CA,USA -The Lodi News-Sentinel, by Layla Bohm -March 21, 2008: -- A Lodi man must repay truckers a total of $46,000 and could spend up to a year in jail after pleading guilty in a case prosecutors said was San Joaquin County's first commercial bribery prosecution... James Melvin Canclini, 42, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one felony count each of tax evasion and grand theft, as well as a misdemeanor charge of harassing some of the witnesses who would later testify against him... Canclini, who had spent his entire adult life working for T&T Trucking, pleaded guilty on the second day of his preliminary hearing, Deputy District Attorney Steve Taylor said Thursday... Until he was fired, Canclini was working as a dispatcher at the trucking firm. For at least three years, he took money from truck drivers, in exchange for preferable delivery runs... If a truck driver did not cooperate, Canclini would either not give the trucker any jobs or would send him on the runs he did not want... For the owner and president of T&T Trucking, Terry Tarditi , who had spent about six hours on the witness stand this week, it was a relief. He was upset that his trusted truck drivers had ever been victimized, and said he now has checks and balances so it will never happen again... "There's always dishonest people who are going to take advantage of you," Tarditi said...
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