A former Working Wardrobes associate has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $48,000 from the nonprofit career development organization and been sentenced to a year in jail, according to court records obtained Thursday.
Alapati Mulivanu, 57, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a felony count of grand theft by embezzlement. He was ordered to report to jail by Dec. 10 and will be placed on two years of formal probation.
Mulivanu was charged in February 2020 less than a week after a blaze destroyed the organization’s Irvine headquarters. According to the criminal complaint he was accused of stealing $48,167.57.