Monterey Bay Forum

Watch out for self check out theft

Modesto-based Save Mart Supermarkets is warning customers at several of its Bay Area stores that their personal banking information may have been compromised.

The company issued a news release Wednesday saying that upon routine maintenance, store employees found credit/debit card readers that had been tampered with in the self-checkout lanes of 19 Lucky stores and one Save Mart store.

The company said the tampered card readers were replaced and that enhanced security was added to all of its 234 stores.
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Well, just why wasn’t security “enhanced” in the first place?

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20+ voted from same house owned by Senator Lena Taylor who oposes voter ID laws

According to a Media Trackers open records request with the City of Milwaukee Election Commission, the property at 1018 N 35th St. in Milwaukee currently has 36 active voter registrations and at least 23 individuals voted using the address.

Senator Lena Taylor wants to recall Gov. Scott Walker for what she believes is his misuse of power, but in this case she appears to have been an accessory to illegal voting activities.

Furthermore, Senator Lena Taylor was an outspoken critic of the Photo ID bill, but if that bill had been in place it could have prevented voter fraud. A conservative political research group has accused state Senate Democrat Lena Taylor of being an “accessory” to voter fraud.

But Taylor says it’s nothing more than an act of kindness by her mother. Twenty-three people voted last April using the address of a group home and homeless shelter on the senator’s property — and it’s run by Taylor’s mother, whose name is also Lena.

Media Trackers said one of the people who voted was a 44-year-old convicted felon who was on a work release sentence, and was not allowed to vote by law. And a few months later, Taylor proposed a bill to let felons who are out of prison vote before their parole obligations are finished. The group said Taylor is guilty of gross negligence by not stopping the felon from voting. But Taylor tells the Journal Sentinel that her mother provides needy people with a place to stay. And she simply encourages them to vote, which Taylor called “admirable.”

The senator said her mother didn’t do anything more than remind them it was Election Day, and confirm information for registrations at the polls.

Media Trackers said the group home violated zoning laws, holding way more than eight people as allowed by city code. The senator says the home is not that restrictive, and many people move in-and-out frequently.

The home was listed by the state as a non-profit group until last March. But the Journal Sentinel says people still stay there, even though it’s not a legal entity.d stopped some of the potential voter fraud that took place from her property.
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It’s nice to see just plain, old fashioned fraud. These folks are at least alive.

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Taxpayers pay for CA public employee to attend

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people gamble using state issued welfare cards

A Seattle investigation showed that in the span of one year, people using state-issued welfare debit cards withdrew about $2 million from ATMs at Washington casinos.

Furthermore, it determined that DSHS issued replacement cards, with no questions asked, to people who claimed to have lost theirs.

Each month last year, the department handed out an average of 27,000 replacement cards. Some 20,000 people had cards replaced three times or more, and nearly 100 had their cards replaced at least 20 times. It also documented cards being sold on the street and on the website Craigslist.

The welfare chief said that the department replaced the cards so quickly because it wanted to provide good service and convenience to the state’s poorest residents. He also suggested that just because the money was withdrawn in casinos doesn’t mean it was spent there, and it might cost more to investigate apparent fraud than the state could recoup.It’s not his money.He doesn’t care; but do we?

When do we say enough?

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Follow the money: unions, public employees, lawyers

Activist judge Abrahamson of Wisconsin wants conservative Prosser unseated and her former intern JoAnne Kloppenburg seated next to her on the Supreme Court. And it looks like voter fraud occurred in this race in which the Democrats spent $3 million to help Kloppenberg. So what’s to be done about this messy conflict of interest situation? Will Abrahamson recluse herself? (more…)

Did a Vietnamese-American Texas attorney commit fraud when she signed up 1,000 Vietnamese fishermen in return for 60% contingency fees? Smells like fraud.

Roughly half of the 40,000 fishermen in the Gulf are Vietnamese refugees. Recently, one Vietnamese-American female attorney from a Texas law firm signed up over 1,000 of the refugees in exchange for 60% contingency fees. What explanation of the intricacies of the American legal system was individually given by that attorney to those 1,000 persons? What do you think that Vietnamese female attorney said? Probably something like, get a little now rather than wait a long time like in the Valdez spill? (more…)