SANTA ANA, Calif.—The former president and CEO of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce has agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud and pay back taxes for three years for unreported income, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Todd Ament signed the plea agreement June 1. He is scheduled to be arraigned June 21, but no date has been scheduled for him to enter the guilty plea, prosecutors said.
Ament is accused of scheming with another unnamed political consultant to launder money through the chamber to help him acquire a home in the San Bernardino Mountains, prosecutors said.
Ament allegedly solicited a $225,000 payment from an unnamed person and cannabis company to the chamber to create a cannabis task force that would lobby Anaheim officials, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday….