A federal judge has rebuffed federal prosecutors’ attempts to dismiss a fraud count against former Anaheim Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive Todd Ament , who cooperated as a witness in the FBI’s investigation of former Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu in the failed Angel Stadium sales deal .

Initially, Ament was attempting to withdraw his July 2022 guilty plea to defrauding a cannabis company. He also pleaded guilty to loan fraud and tax cheating.

A hearing on that motion was scheduled, but then prosecutors filed a motion last month saying they were moving to dismiss the count with the blessing of defense attorneys “in the interests of justice.”

Prosecutors argued that the cannabis company fraud count “may be dismissed without defendant first withdrawing his guilty plea.”

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