We’ve found more evidence that five-time financial felon Sharon Logan’s resume claims are false. (Not that we were really in doubt.) It also leads us to suspect she may have tricked a past employer into letting her handle money by not disclosing her criminal history.
It appears that in 2010, the convicted then-3-time felon, thief, and embezzler worked as a bookkeeper (uh-oh) for a recently closed Newport Beach shoe retailer, Sole Comfort .(See photos below, and the business’ online profile from AllPeople.com. We’ve previously shared and discussed several legal documents, including Logan’s bankruptcy petition, that contradict her resume.)
Yet, there is no mention of Sole Comfort in the resume Logan reportedly provided the Newport Beach law firm who hired her as an office manager in late 2021. (Logan is no longer at the law firm.) Rather, Logan claims she worked from January 2009 to January 2015 as the Director of Finance and Administration at the law office of now-deceased attorney Gary Craig Wykidal.
Why would a person seeking a job handling money leave a bookkeeper job off their resume?
It’s not clear how long Logan kept books for Sole Comfort, or why her employment there ended. But, she received unemployment benefits in 2012, according to her own bank statements in her opposition to an eviction, and a 2013 judgment against her for overpaid benefits by the state’s Employment Development Department. It’s one of the debts Logan is trying to dump in her bankruptcy.
We’re curious as to how Logan got hired to handle money for the shoe store. Back in 2010, Logan was a three-time financial felon. Her convictions were in Riverside County: 2000 felony Grand Theft and misdemeanor embezzlement from her employer, Hanover Commercial Services, and in 2003, two felony counts of taking money by False Pretenses from Todd Breker. Logan did prison time for both. She was ordered to pay restitution to both victims, and as far as we can tell, never paid a dime. (See Logan’s criminal court files in our August 20, 2022, post, and our September 4, 2022 post about Logan’s total unpaid restitution bill of more than $500,000, counting interest.)
Hanover obtained a nearly $250,000 civil judgment in 2001 against Logan for fraud and breach of fiduciary duty. Logan is trying to discharge that in her bankruptcy, but labels it a “collections judgment,” not a fraud judgment. That’s important, because fraud judgments are nondischargeable.
In 2010, Logan hadn’t yet been charged with any thefts in Orange County. (That would happen in 2016 and 2017.) Before being hard on the shoe store for hiring Logan, keep in mind that there’s no statewide criminal search available to most employers. Sole Comfort would have had to know Logan spent time in Riverside County, then created an account with the county superior court, and done a name search. Most small employers don’t even know how to do that.
We’ve reached out to the owner of Sole Comfort for confirmation and details. We’ll share what she provides if she gives us permission.
Activist Sharon Logan, of Paw Protectors, Inc., is a six-time financial felon. Don't be her next victim. 
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