Former Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet and real estate developer John Wessman won't be tried this year on allegations they engaged in a public corruption scheme beginning more than a decade ago. The ...

The jury began deliberations Friday in the trial of real estate developer John Wessman as the decade-old Palm Springs bribery case nears an end. John Wessman faces nine felony charges of bribery and ...

Attorneys for Palm Springs developer John Wessman have argued in court that most of the bribes he is accused of paying to former Mayor Steve Pougnet occurred too long ago to be prosecuted. In ...

Businessman John Wessman was ordered to surrender his passport Thursday as the court hearings began in the Palm Springs public corruption case, which also snared former Mayor Steve Pougnet. Riverside ...

In his fifty-year career, John Wessman built an empire. The developer, a Hemet native, started working in construction when he was a child. He turned 30 in 1968, the same year he founded the Wessman ...

In 2003, John Wessman convinced a group of homeowners and boutique hotel operators to let him build more than 30 tightly packed condominiums in the middle of their historic Palm Springs neighborhood.

John Wessman founded Wessman Development in 1968, and has built some 200 properties from Desert Hot Springs to Indio. Wessman’s redevelopment of downtown Palm Springs – which started with the ...

Multi-millionaire businessman John Wessman was a silent partner in Hacienda Cantina & Beach Club, an ill-fated restaurant in which Palm Springs City Hall invested $250,000 without knowing he was ...

Bribery suspect John Wessman has asked a county judge to transfer the Palm Springs public corruption case from Riverside's courthouse to the Coachella Valley. In a court motion, Wessman’s attorneys ...

John Wessman won't be cycling through the Italian countryside this April. And May is a maybe. A hearing on whether the criminally-charged real estate developer can travel to Europe was postponed ...

John “Jack” Wessman February 5, 1929 ~ Nobember 7, 2019 Resident of Clayton Jack Barrett Wessman-inventor, entrepreneur, teacher, business man, family man and so much more-passed away November 7th, ...