Former Santa Clara Councilman Dominic Caserta has been launched on $30,000 bail after he was charged in January with forgery and falsifying monetary statements on a mortgage software, prosecutors stated.
Caserta posted bail after self-surrendering in San Benito County final Tuesday, in keeping with Santa Clara County Supervising Deputy District Legal professional Steven Dal Porto. The warrant for his arrest was issued Feb. 16 and signed by Superior Courtroom Choose Paul Bernal.
He’s set to be arraigned on Could 13 on the Palo Alto courthouse. Caserta and his lawyer, San Jose-based prison protection lawyer Sam Polverino, couldn’t be reached for remark.
In response to courtroom paperwork, the previous councilman cast six Foothill-De Anza Group Faculty paystubs from July 31 to Oct. 31, 2021 in an effort to acquire a mortgage for $690,000 from Finance of America Mortgage.
Caserta additionally submitted a false employment verification kind for 2021 to the lender the place he stated the school paid him $81,141.89 as a part-time teacher and cast the signature of a district worker, authorities stated.
He has not labored at Foothill Faculty since 2019 and is now a political science lecturer at San Francisco State College.
When investigators contacted him in November, they stated Caserta “denied chatting with anybody from Finance of America and reiterated that he had not crammed out any Verification of Employment types,” in keeping with courtroom paperwork.
Caserta was elected to the council in 2002 and re-elected once more in 2006 and 2014. Throughout his 2018 bid for county supervisor, a marketing campaign staffer accused him of constructing undesirable sexual advances.
Quickly after, a leaked personnel file from the Santa Clara Unified College District confirmed that college students had made allegations of sexual harassment in opposition to the highschool civics trainer relationship again to 2002.
In August 2018, the district lawyer’s workplace declined to file costs in opposition to Caserta for the alleged sexual misconduct, citing inadequate proof.