Audrey Leonard, a Menlo Park woman arrested twice in the past nine months on separate charges of grand theft and embezzlement, is scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 23.
Ms. Leonard was arrested in September on a $100,000 warrant in Menlo Park on suspicion of two counts of attempting to commit grand theft, according to Menlo Park Police Detective Jeff Keegan.
Ms. Leonard is already facing up to 10 years in prison on charges of grand theft and embezzlement following an alleged fundraising scam that prosecutors say defrauded her family and friends of roughly $250,000. Those charges led to her arrest in late December. An Oct. 9 pretrial conference has been set.
Police said they believe Ms. Leonard, 51, has defrauded more than 70 people of more than $1.4 million since 1999, but the statue of limitations for fraud crimes is three years, preventing prosecution of much of Ms. Leonard’s alleged actions.
