Prelim hearing set for woman charged in fraud schemes

Sharon N. Dailey, accused of a halfdozen fraud schemes, ordered to return to Department 15 on Dec. 22

A 51-year-old Suisun City woman is facing a Jan. 3 preliminary hearing in Solano County Superior Court on multiple fraud charges connected to an attempt to obtain an $8 million loan to buy a Fairfield winery, two additional attempts to obtain multimillion-dollar loans, and attempts to buy a jet plane and to lease a Rolls Royce.

Sharon N. Dailey was arrested Nov. 4 on suspicion of 17 felonies involving six different fraud schemes, and on Nov. 5 she was arraigned in Solano County Superior Court in Fairfield.

According to a press statement from the Solano County District Attorney’s Office, Dailey was charged with eight counts of identity theft; four counts of making false financial statements to obtain a loan; two counts of mortgage foreclosure consultant fraud; one count of grand theft; one count of passing a false check in the amount of $500,000; and one count of mortgage fraud.

Dailey also was charged with the enhancement of “committing a pattern of related felony conduct,” District Attorney Krishna Abrams noted in the prepared statement.

Specifically, she added, the charges are related to the following schemes: Besides the $8 million loan to buy a Fairfield winery, a scheme involving her attempt to receive a $3 million personal loan under another person’s name; a scheme involving her attempt to receive a $5 million business loan for a false business; a scheme involving the fraudulent lease of a Rolls Royce Ghost Series II vehicle with a lease value of $144,000; a scheme where she submitted bogus documents in an attempt to buy a Bombardier Challenger 850 aircraft; and a foreclosure rescue scheme in which she received $120,000 from the victims, submitted false documents in civil court, and the victims lost their home to foreclosure.

Dailey is scheduled to return to Department 15 at 8:30 a.m. Dec. 22 for a readiness conference in Judge Robert Bowers’ courtroom in the Justice Center in Fairfield.

Also on Dec. 22, Dailey will be arraigned on new felony charges of defrauding the U.S. Small Business Administration for submitting fraudulent documents and receiving $187,000 in loans for COVID-19 relief for small businesses struggling to survive amid the pandemic.

Her preliminary hearing, a sort-of minitrial that includes the presentation of documents, witness testimony and other evidence, is set for 9 a.m. Jan. 3.

Dailey, who is represented by the Public Defender, remains in Solano County Jail custody on $250,000 bail.

Abrams said the defendant was previously convicted in 2008 in the U.S. District Court in Sacramento for fraudulently obtaining financial assistance relating to Hurricane Katrina, a Category 5 storm that devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in August 2005.

The case is being investigated by District Attorney Investigator Mason Mineni and is being prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Jeff Daley.

Mineni requests that anyone with information about these cases, call him at (707) 784-6876.