Plumber convicted of overcharging elderly Santa Monica woman $92,000

A plumber extracted $92,000 from an elderly Santa Monica homeowner after she hired him to complete $5,000 worth of repairs and installations, city officials announced Wednesday. On Jan. 27, a superior court judge sentenced Jet Speed Plumbing Inc., doing business as Ritz Plumbing, to three years of probation for unlawfully overcharging an 82 ...