LilMikeSF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/CalTrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" 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" 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" 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" 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" target="_blank">#<span>Millbrae</span></a> Cal <a href="https://c.im/tags/trainstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trainstation</span></a> and plead <a href="https://c.im/tags/guilty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>guilty</span></a>, turning States <a href="https://c.im/tags/evidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" 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" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> time, to more likely <a href="https://c.im/tags/probation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" 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" 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" target="_blank">#<span>GiftLink</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SharedStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SharedStory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PaywallLift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaywallLift</span></a></p>