Former Brookdale Lodge owner gets 4-year prison term

The former owner of the Brookdale Lodge, who was convicted of wire fraud last fall, was sentenced on April 3 to 48 months in prison and ordered to pay $4.2 million in restitution.
Sanjiv Kakkar, 55, of Saratoga also was ordered to pay a $20,000 fine and to serve three years of supervised release after his prison term.
U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila ordered Kakkar to report to prison to begin serving his term by June 22.
Kakkar bought the Brookdale Inn on Highway 9 in Brookdale in 2007.
In the years following, he was plagued by legal problems, including being accused of violating health and safety codes, paying workers with checks that bounced, and committing insurance fraud.
In 2013, he pleaded no contest to a series of related charges, including felony insurance fraud and misdemeanor health and safety code violations.
His latest troubles stemmed from a $6 million loan he sought in November 2008 to refinance the inn. Prosecutors had accused him of falsifying his income statement and tax returns in trying to secure the loan.
He was also accused of not providing updated financial information in compliance with the terms of the loan. And prosecutors accused him of providing false information to an escrow company, convincing that company to advance him hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In November, a jury convicted Kakkar of one count of making a misstatement to a bank and six counts of wire fraud.