A former Woodland Hills man pleaded guilty Monday to felony bank fraud for writing $1.6 million in bad checks. In return, the government dropped a charge that he carried more than $2.5 million in stolen traveler's checks.
Raoul Berthaumieu, 46, also known as Lee Sanders, was indicted by a federal grand jury in November, 1989, on charges of intentionally writing $1.6 million in worthless checks on a Los Angeles bank account and depositing them in a new account at Centerre Bank in St. Louis. Berthaumieu withdrew $655,000 from the bank before it realized the deposits were no good, the indictment said.
