Riley

STATEMENT OF FACTS

Defendant James Riley had been a licensed commercial insurance broker since

1989. In 1996, while working for a firm called Austin Cooper and Price, he obtained the

account of Pechanga Development Corporation (PDC).2 He took the account with him

when he left that firm and went to work for Dodge Warren and Peters. In 2002, he left

Dodge Warren and Peters and opened his own firm, Riley Garrison and Associates

(RGA). At that point, Riley was designated broker of record by Anthony Miranda, the

PDC board member responsible for insurance matters. Miranda and Riley had known

each other since junior high school, but Riley did not know that Miranda worked for PDC

Pechanga Resort and Casino is operated by Pechanga Development Corporation, or PDC. PDC is one of three “entities” which are the operating constituents of the Pechanga tribe (officially named the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians; see [as of July 21, 2015].) PDC operates all business operations of the tribe. A second entity is the tribal government. That entity operates in effect as a city council for the tribal reservation. A third entity is the Pechanga Gaming…