Local News in Brief : Embezzlement Case Pleas

Former Glendale Bar Assn. President Eugene M. Giometti, accused of stealing more than $250,000 from a dozen clients, has pleaded no contest to eleven counts of embezzlement and one count of forgery.

Giometti, 41, entered the plea Tuesday before Pasadena Superior Court Judge Jack B. Tso.

Under a plea bargain with prosecutors, 16 other counts of grand theft and forgery were dismissed, Deputy Dist. Atty. Walter Lewis said. Giometti, who now lives in Stockton, faces up to four years in state prison at sentencing, scheduled for June 24.

Giometti, who served as bar association president in 1980-81 and was named Glendale Chamber of Commerce Man of the Year in 1983, was charged with embezzling the money from his clients over a two-year period beginning in 1983.