By Matt Kawahara
mkawahara@sacbee.com
A woman who allegedly posed as a doctor and established a fraudulent nonprofit organization in Sacramento has been charged with fraud by the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office, according to a Sacramento Police Department news release.
Police detectives believe Victoria Roldan-Cajina, left, 68, defrauded people of services and money when she ran the nonprofit Sacramento Bilingual and Training Agency, which claimed to provide educational, medical and counseling services to underprivileged residents of Sacramento, according to the release.
Police began investigating Roldan-Cajina in 2009 when a victim reported that she was issuing fraudulent checks, according to the release.
Detectives believe Roldan-Cajina posed under her real name as a doctor with a degree in psychiatry from the University of Cambridge, and partnered with a fictitious Dr. Helmuth Hollstiener to establish the nonprofit agency, according to the release.
The agency held a fake fundraiser claiming that the money would support Barack Obama's presidential campaign, had staff and board members that were never paid and entered into contracts for IT assistance that were never paid, the release states.
The bogus non-profit also attempted to obtain federal grant money, police said.
Roldan-Cajina leased a building in the 2000 block of Alhambra Boulevard and had it remodeled and painted for about $61,000 without paying the contractor or painter, police said. The agency also wrote more than $50,000 in checks with less than $4,000 in deposits, police said.
A detective in the Sacramento Police Department's financial crimes section investigated Roldan-Cajina and arrested her in Colorado in 2010, police said.
After additional investigation, detectives presented the case to the Sacramento District Attorney's Office.
The District Attorney's Office has filed charges against Roldan-Cajina, said District Attorney spokeswoman Shelly Orio.
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