The general manager of Fresno’s Dog House Grill has agreed to a plea deal after defrauding lenders and financial institutions out of $30 million.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Matthew Billingsley, 39, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud.

Driving the news: Court documents state that from June 2018 to February 2023, Billingsley made false representations about having a brokerage account with millions of dollars in assets to serve as collateral for loans. • He gave fabricated brokerage account statements to obtain over $30 million in loans from individual lenders and financial institutions. • Those statements were false because the account did not exist. • Billingsley also misrepresented to individual lenders and financial institutions the intended use of the loa

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