Pleasanton woman recounts ordeal with businessman now accused of running ‘Ponzi scheme’

Pleasanton woman recounts ordeal with businessman now accused of running ‘Ponzi scheme’

PLEASANTON — Sheryl Lawless spent months in 2023 chasing Kenneth Mattson around. The Sonoma-based businessman, she says, owed her $25,000 for selling her father’s prized possession — a 1971 Datsun 240z — through his Pleasanton car consignment shop. Fed up, she filed complaints against Mattson with the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office and the California Department of Motor Vehicles. Only then did she get her money, but the ordeal still g…