Kaushal NiroulaAttorney David Replogle and three other San Francisco defendants face charges linked to the fraudulent sale of a Palm Springs home whose elderly owner disappeared December 4, police say. Bail is set at $5 million.Prior to the Palm Springs charges filed earlier this month, Replogle's purported accomplices had separately been charged in a three year string of unrelated frauds and other crimes, with alleged victims often plucked from the Castro District bar scene. Suspects include no
Courtesy Tyson WrenschDaniel GarciaKaushal Niroula, 27, and Daniel Garcia, 26, both suspects in an alleged scheme to loot the assets of a missing Palm Springs man, have been charged with murder, according to new filings in Riverside County court. Both men face charges of murder while committing a felony, and murder for financial gain, which carry a penalty of death, or life imprisonment without possibility of parole.As first reported in SF Weekly, Niroula and Garcia were earlier charged with fra
David Replogle, a San Francisco attorney famed for winning a $7 million sex abuse settlement from prominent local stockbroker Thomas White, has been charged with murder in connection with an unrelated Palm Springs fraud case, according to new charges filed in Riverside County court. Replogle has been charged with murder while committing a robbery, and murder carried out for financial gain, as well as fraud, embezzlement, and damage to property of over $1 million. If convicted of murder under the