LilMikeSF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/CalTrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CalTrain</span></a> deputy director Joseph Vincent Navarro found <a href="https://c.im/tags/guilty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guilty</span></a> of misappropriation of $40k in public funds for conspiring with contractor during pandemic era and converting <a href="https://c.im/tags/Burlingame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Burlingame</span></a> train station office into secret personal residential getaway with private gym. </p><p>Navarro, who now lives in Pennsylvania and previously told the <a href="https://c.im/tags/MercuryNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MercuryNews</span></a> that his criminal charge was “overstated” and that he did nothing wrong. His co-conspirator <a href="https://c.im/tags/contractor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractor</span></a> had built himself similar living quarters inside the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Millbrae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millbrae</span></a> Cal <a href="https://c.im/tags/trainstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trainstation</span></a> and plead <a href="https://c.im/tags/guilty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guilty</span></a>, turning States <a href="https://c.im/tags/evidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evidence</span></a> against Navarro.</p><p>Navarro , whose attorneys claimed it was not a <a href="https://c.im/tags/secret" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>secret</span></a> , that he had given the key to his secretary, allowed his girlfriend to stay there, and the conversion was done with knowledge of his supervisor, still faces sentencing under judge's discretion which could range from actual <a href="https://c.im/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> time, to more likely <a href="https://c.im/tags/probation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>probation</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/30/caltrain-secret-apartment-station-trial-jury/?share=c2oarcethlscruenanuo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mercurynews.com/2025/04/30/cal</span><span class="invisible">train-secret-apartment-station-trial-jury/?share=c2oarcethlscruenanuo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GiftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftLink</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SharedStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SharedStory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PaywallLift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaywallLift</span></a></p>