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First Gateway Escrow employee unauthorized trust disbursements and shortage — Regulatory record

San Diego, California · SOCEF-0084

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Court / region
San Diego
Case number
SOCEF-0084
Filed
August 1, 2018
Source system
California DFPI
Procedural posture
Regulatory order
Strongest reviewed source
Public source record
Allegation / finding status
Unknown / needs review
Disposition
Regulatory order
Last posture checked
2026-05-30
Reviewed
2026-05-30

Why this is included

Teaches an escrow file-review pattern from a public regulatory or court record.

Summary

The cited regulatory order describes final consent order to discontinue violations. The extracted workflow issue is Official consent order states former escrow officer Stephanie C. Kalulu made unauthorized disbursements from First Gateway's trust account totaling $41,717.24 during 2015-2016 and that the trust account was also short by another $17,404.66 due to Kalulu's mistakes. First Gateway discovered the...

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Disbursement Authorization

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What the reviewed record suggests the file later needed to show:

Trust-account control evidence, authorization trail, reconciliation/shortage evidence, reporting timing, and custody decision.

What this record does not show

This reviewed record does not show a court finding that any company or person did anything wrong. The strongest reviewed source is a public source record; agency action is not a criminal conviction and may not resolve underlying disputed facts.

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