Stallo

I. INTRODUCTION

In 2018, plaintiff and appellant Emilee Stallo enrolled as a student at one of Mount

San Jacinto Community College District’s (MSJCC) campuses. Plaintiff began receiving

direct payments from the federal government in the mail, and she eventually discovered

that someone had submitted a FAFSA1 application with falsified personal information to

obtain federal grant money on her behalf. Plaintiff denied any involvement in submitting

the falsified FAFSA and returned the money, but she insisted that MSJCC investigate the

matter and provide her with a definitive confirmation that her name and reputation had

been “cleared.”

When MSJCC failed to complete this investigation to plaintiff’s satisfaction,

plaintiff filed a civil suit generally alleging that employees at MSJCC were engaged in a

scheme to misappropriate state and federal funds. In addition to MSJCC, plaintiff named

defendants and respondents Fontay Mozga and Fantaya Willingham as participants in the

scheme. Plaintiff obtained a jury verdict in her favor on a cause of action for fraud

against Mozga and a cause of action for negligence against all defendants, with the jury

awarding a total of…