Prosecutors: San Gabriel Valley man agrees to plead guilty in alleged $147 million fraud scheme involving gemstone mining

Leonard Stacy Johnson, 53, of Huntington Beach, who worked at Chen’s direction in promoting USFIA and Gem Coins, pleaded guilty in July 2019 to one count of tax evasion and one count of making a false statement on an immigration document, the news release said. Johnson is scheduled to be sentenced on June 22.