Not long after Paw Protectors president Sharon Logan ended her fourth and fifth felony jail sentences in 2018 for stealing from her employers, she rented a room in a friend’s, “Ms. G’s,”* Rancho Cucamonga house.

She said she’d be paying the rent with freelance sex work and part-time bookkeeping.

Ms. G, a boudoir photographer, thought she was helping out a pal in a tight spot. She knew nothing of the five-time financial felon’s extensive criminal past and jail time. She told Logan she had no problem with whatever Logan did with consenting adults outside the house. (Sex work is still illegal in most jurisdictions, but barely.)

 Perhaps predictably, it didn’t end well for Ms. G.

It ended the way many of 5Time’s relationships seem to end: Logan turned against her former friend savagely, and publicly spread lies and intimate personal secrets about her on social media.

Ms. G says it still doesn’t make sense to her. “I seriously considered her like a sister,” she told us.

The rescue-advocacy nonprofit owner disclosed none of her jail time, extensive financial crime history, or restraining orders to Ms. G, who met her in 2013 at a dinner G hosted.

Logan (who claims on LinkedIn to have a BA in Accounting, though we doubt it) reportedly said she had a few bookkeeping clients, including an unnamed lawyer “by the beach” that she later would claim died in 2019. (The only deceased attorneys we’ve connected to Logan in any way are Gary Wykidal, of Newport Beach, and Brady Adam Price, of Mission Viejo. Both died in 2015.)

But it was not enough to support herself, hence the sex work.

Those claims contradict Logan’s resume to her now-former law firm employer saying she was a corporate financial controller for a telecom company, Meridian Systems Supply, during that time. Ms. G said Logan never mentioned Meridian, or its owner (we’ve reached out to him for comment, but got no response), and definitely did not keep an office-hours work schedule. She kept the odd hours that would be expected of someone in sex work.

They also call into question Logan’s statement to Judge Kevin J. Haskins on August 3, 2017 that she had a full-time job making $22/hour, which she would lose if not allowed to serve her jail sentence on weekends-only. Of course, Logan could have had the job then, and lost it some time after that 2017 hearing. But she did not mention it on her resume.

Click to access logan-2021-resume-redacted.pdf

(Where did that paycheck and letter that she showed the judge come from? We’ll explore that issue in a future post.)

Was Logan perhaps lying to Ms. G about being a sex worker? It seems unlikely to us. We can’t imagine a good motive. (Maybe she thought bookkeeping sounded less cool?) Furthermore, Logan was convicted in 2014 of unlicensed escorting in Newport Beach. In the arrest report, written on May 2, 2013, the arresting officer says Logan told him she was having sex with men for money about three times per week.

Could Ms. G. be lying to us? Anything is possible. But Ms. G has no criminal history we could find (we looked). In contrast, Logan has a lengthy history of financial dishonesty crimes. We’ve also found, and previously documented, ample evidence Logan has lied to several others about her work and finances. Furthermore, we sought Ms. G out rather than the other way around. (At first, she thought we were Logan and told us to go stalk someone else.)

And, posts on her social media corroborate some of the events she described to us, and were posted contemporaneously with the alleged events.

Finally, we figure if G were going to lie to make Logan look bad, she could do better than an escorting allegation. Compared to Logan’s three-decade history of stealing money, multiple evictions and restraining orders, and at least three stints in lockup, exchanging money for sex is a big yawn.

So, we find Ms. G credible.

Anyway: Logan claimed to G that she owned a million-dollar condo by the beach, a lie others have said she’s told them. Logan has owned no real estate for at least two decades.

Click to access bankruptcy-petition-8-27-2022.pdf

She said there was a tenant in her beach condo, so she just needed a short-term place to stay. Although G did not have any available rooms, Logan convinced her to let her share the master bedroom for $600 a month.

But when Logan moved in, her possessions did not appear to have been stored in an upscale beach house. Logan brought over about 45 black, plastic trash bags that reeked of what Ms. G presumed was cat urine, the landlord recalled.

Soon afterward, she and other tenants began finding roaches in the home. Logan’s clothes seemed the likely culprit.

Nevertheless, for many months, the women enjoyed a cozy friendship. Ms. G had just gotten divorced, was feeling vulnerable, and was grateful for female companionship.

They watched horror movies on Netflix together. Ms. G liked to cook, so she made vegan meals for the animal rights activist. Logan had a knack for whipping up cocktails.

She recalls that Logan spent money freely. She bragged about getting the cash from the men she serviced. Logan loved to eat out and to shop, often bringing home new clothes and pricey handbags. She bought nice gifts for Ms. G, such as evening shoes and a cocktail dress.

This was despite Logan’s six figures of unpaid debt and criminal restitution (See details here: https://wordpress.com/post/fivetimefinancialfelon.com/114), of which Ms. G was unaware. (In fact, Logan’s August 27 bankruptcy petition shows Logan still owes federal income taxes for 2019, 2020, and 2021.)

Things fell apart about four days before Thanksgiving, 2019 — shortly after Ms. G spoke to Logan about $200 missing from her purse in the room she shared with Logan. Logan moved out abruptly, although her given reason was something other than the accusation.

What happened next is what we’ll term a “Logan Lashout.” That’s when the convicted fraudster, possibly perceiving some threat to her ego, soaks a relationship with gasoline and sets it on fire. Ms. G is still hurt and bewildered by it.

It’s a pattern we’ve seen repeat itself at least twice more, just from observing the aspiring celebrity activist’s social media (she has 150, 000 followers, thanks mainly to a 2014 shelter reform lawsuit against Orange County Animal Care). Others in the animal rescue world have told us about similar experiences with Logan.

Logan first identifies and seeks out the target’s friends, family, and sometimes business associates as well. She then publicizes every intimate, personal detail she learned about her target, plus inventing some extra, often posting to social media and/or sending text messages to multiple people.

The connection between Ms. G’s theft accusation and the lashout seems obvious to us. However, Logan blamed her departure on Ms. G’s refusal to exclude a male friend from the house whom Logan disliked, and Ms. G said she always believed that was the true reason.

Soon after Logan moved out, during the 2019 holiday season, G began getting reports from friends and family that Logan was contacting them, and that they’d seen horrible statements about G by Logan on social media and in viral text messages.

For example, Logan claimed — without evidence — that Ms. G was lying about her chronic connective tissue disorder, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Logan also took a photo of an overnight male guest’s car in G’s driveway, and sent it to a platonic male friend hoping to incite his jealousy. (It worked, and G said it took months to repair her friendships.)

Most painful of all to Ms. G, Logan contacted some of G’s adult children and solicited dirt on her, further damaging a relationship already strained because of the recent divorce.

Logan’s Instagram post attacking Ms. G, which was forwarded to her. Logan’s writing style is distinctive; even without her name on it, we’re confident it’s her. (Because turnabout is fair play, here’s the court docket for Logan’s lengthy child custody battle, some of which happened during her two prison stretches: https://fivetimefinancialfelon.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/rid172586-divorce-register-of-actions.pdf)

So: This thing we’ve been doing to 5Time for the past three months, where we dig into her history and spread it around? She’s been doing that to people for years, just not nearly as accurately or grammatically. Unlike us, however, she doesn’t seem to feel bound by journalistic and legal standards as to attribution and truth.

Now, if Logan’s only misdeeds had been exchanging sex for money with willing adult participants, backstabbing her friends, and being a pain in the rear in the animal rescue world (which we’re told contains many such pains), we wouldn’t bother reporting them.

But that’s just the topper to decades of bad behavior by a very publicity-seeking person — who solicits charitable donations — that includes multiple theft crimes against employers and individuals (see https://fivetimefinancialfelon.com/2022/08/20/hello-world/ ), hundreds of thousands in unpaid victim restitution, a long string of unpaid financial judgments, false accusations of abuse (as demonstrated by restraining orders against Logan, see https://fivetimefinancialfelon.com/2022/10/03/sharon-logans-history-of-restraining-orders/ ), arrogantly lavish spending while dodging creditors, and a habit of tricking employers into hiring her to handle their money by lying about her background (See https://fivetimefinancialfelon.com/2022/09/22/orange-county-law-firm-logan-out-of-here/ and

Grifty Logan “dumb as a rock,” says former employer she stole from.

It’s just a few more shovelsful on the growing mountain of evidence that Logan, who runs a nonprofit and seeks public influence and donations, is untrustworthy and predatory.

PS: Ms. G says anyone who’s been through the same situation is welcome to contact her. Email trujillotinamarie@gmail.com, and we’ll forward.

*(We typically give Logan victims pseudonyms to keep them out of searches, unless they’re dead. But their identities are findable in the records.)