Hunt for third fugitive in COVID relief scam follows warnings she would flee

LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors had no faith that Tamara Dadyan could be trusted to turn herself in.

Moments after the brash Encino, California, real estate broker was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in prison for her key role in a tawdry pandemic loan scam, prosecutor Christopher Fenton asked a judge to put her in prison immediately. There was a "high, high likelihood," he said, that Dadyan would flee, just as two relatives had done after their convictions in the same case.

U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson disagreed. "I'm going to give her 30 days to self-surrender," he said.

Dadyan vanished on Jan. 28, dodging both her federal