BREAKING NEWS – Los Angeles, California – California authorities unraveled a decade-long scam involving a pair of phony building engineers who used stolen software to craft bogus blueprints. Wilfrido Rodriguez and Ruben Gutierrez, allegedly posing as licensed professionals and using stolen software, drew up engineering and architectural plans for homes, apartments, commercial properties and strip malls in at least 56 Southern California cities beginning in 2003, according to police. “There has never been a case involving alleged engineering fraud of this magnitude,” Detective Rod Barton, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Fraud and Cyber Crimes Bureau. “The only building experience we have so far ascertained regarding these men, was during the holiday season of 2002, they worked as temporary employees for the Lego Corporation.”
