MANTECA — A Manteca detective has asked San Joaquin County to consider prosecuting Sacramento Kings assistant coach Scott Brooks, an East Union High School graduate, for forging his brother’s name on business records for a local car wash company.
According to a Manteca Police Department case report obtained by the Sun Post, Detective Mike Keener of the Manteca police sent his investigation report “for review and prosecution of Brooks for violation of 470 PC — forgery” to the deputy district attorney in Manteca.
A clerk at the Manteca district attorney’s office would not comment on the case except to say that prosecutors are reviewing the case.
The investigation was a result of complaints from Brooks’ brother, Foster Brooks, that Scott Brooks had secretly signed his name as a shareholder and director on two company documents for Dribbles Car Wash Inc, where Foster Brooks worked as a manager between 2001 and 2004.
The company owns one car wash in Manteca and owned another in Modesto until it was sold in 2004.
In the case report, Keener states that Scott Brooks admitted in a Jan. 3 telephone conversation that he had signed his brother’s name on “Consent of Directors” and “Consent of Shareholders” forms, but that Brooks said there was no crime.
“I asked Scott if he had signed the two documents … He told me he had,” the report reads. “As far as signing Foster’s name … he felt there was nothing wrong with doing so. At the time, he felt he was helping his brother by giving him 10 percent of the business.”
In a press release, Foster Brooks said that he made the forgery complaint after he learned of accusations that the company was evading taxes and laundering money.
Foster Brooks is also suing Scott Brooks for wrongful termination, claiming that his brother fired him after a doctor recommended that Foster Brooks be put on medical leave to help him recover from diabetes. The suit also claims that Scott Brooks misrepresented to his brother an offer to join the car wash business.
Scott Brooks’ lawyer Dana Suntag said Foster Brooks’ claims were a “complete fabrication” and that her client did his brother a favor by giving him partial ownership of the car wash company.
“Scott gave Foster interest in the company, and he didn’t have an obligation to do that,” Suntag said. “He did it out of generosity.”
Suntag refused to comment on Scott Brooks’ statement in the report that he had signed his brother’s name on company documents.
Manteca police spokesman Rex Osborn declined to comment, though he said that as far as sending the case to the district attorney, doing so does not necessarily mean police think it should be prosecuted.
“Sometimes, we get cases where people don’t like our answer or won’t accept our answer,” Osborn said.
In those cases, he said, police send the investigation to the district attorney to get a final determination on whether to prosecute.
The Sun Post also obtained a case report for Keener’s investigation into Foster Brooks’ claim that customers were defrauded at the Dribbles Car Wash in Manteca by not getting the wax job that was advertised.
Keener requested that this case be suspended pending further development, the report says. Sacramento Kings spokesman Troy Hanson said that Scott Brooks had let the organization know about “ongoing litigation” and that if he was charged with a crime, the Kings would go over the matter in detail
with Brooks and the police and then decide what to do.
