Plus legal fees to the Pine Cone
County Superior Court in August 2018, ajury determined that the attorney general’s claims against Matthew G. Gregory, and his son, Matthew J. Gregory, were true, and that they had used misleading and deceptive fundraising practices in running unlawful charity raffles in California. Jurors also found that the elder Gregory’s wife, Danella, and daughter, Gina, had unjustly enriched themselves in the scheme.
The family used a Carmel post office box to raise money through its charities to establish a therapeutic horse riding program for veterans in Carmel Valley. But Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who called the family “con artists” in a 2018 news release, said the charities were fake, and the jury found they failed to use the money to help veterans. Instead, prosecutors said, family members spent the donations on dining, traveling, paying off credit card debt, and shopping, including at Victoria’s Secret.