{"id":4511,"date":"2025-07-30T22:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=4511"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:10:17","slug":"retana-indicted-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/retana-indicted-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Retana indicted \u2014 part one"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4511\" class=\"elementor elementor-4511\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2014c8f9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2014c8f9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fef79fd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fef79fd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Two years after The Madera Tribune\u2019s coverage of alleged wrongdoing at ETAA Charter School, Nicholas Retana, the school\u2019s former executive director, is facing federal charges of embezzling money.<\/p><p>On July 17, 2025, a federal grand jury returned a sealed indictment charging Retana, 67, of Madera, with one count of embezzling money from a program that received federal funding. On Monday the indictment was unsealed and Retana was arraigned. The U.S. Department of Justice made the announcement Tuesday, July 22, 2025.<\/p><p>If Retana is convicted of embezzlement, he faces \u201ca maximum statutory penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine,\u201d according to a news release.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years after The Madera Tribune\u2019s coverage of alleged wrongdoing at ETAA Charter School, Nicholas Retana, the school\u2019s former executive director, is facing federal charges of embezzling money. On July 17, 2025, a federal grand jury returned a sealed indictment charging Retana, 67, of Madera, with one count of embezzling money from a program that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[37,43,50],"class_list":["post-4511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-finance","tag-law","tag-schools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}