{"id":6200,"date":"2025-05-31T14:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T14:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/paul-hastings-secures-dismissal-of-embezzlement-case-against-silicon-valley-executive\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T14:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T14:01:13","slug":"paul-hastings-secures-dismissal-of-embezzlement-case-against-silicon-valley-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/paul-hastings-secures-dismissal-of-embezzlement-case-against-silicon-valley-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Hastings Secures Dismissal of Embezzlement Case Against Silicon Valley Executive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>A San Francisco federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a high-profile embezzlement case against Aubrey Jackson Shelton II, who was accused of misappropriating more than $2.7 million in funds from a Silicon Valley tech startup now owned by Yelp, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.416869\/gov.uscourts.cand.416869.207.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mistrial<\/a> was declared in March. Shelton was represented by a team from Paul Hastings. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley, who presides in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, released a one-page <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.416869\/gov.uscourts.cand.416869.219.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">order<\/a> dismissing the 12-count indictment against Shelton after the plaintiff, the United States, opted not to re-try the case, citing the &#8220;financial harm a second trial would cause the victim.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A San Francisco federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a high-profile embezzlement case against Aubrey Jackson Shelton II, who was accused of misappropriating more than $2.7 million in funds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[294,575,6151,3971,2521,1128,2772,208,209],"class_list":["post-6200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-case","tag-dismissal","tag-embezzlement","tag-executive","tag-hastings","tag-paul","tag-secures","tag-silicon","tag-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}