Category: Crime

Crime: violation of government’s laws

Firenze Sage: Weight loss costs a bunch!

 

Ponzi scheme for weight clinic
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) – A former base commander for the California Army National Guard was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in federal prison for a $3 million Ponzi scheme.
Timothy Melvin Murphy, 70, of Orange, also was ordered to pay $2,953,758 in restitution to his two dozen victims, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Murphy pleaded guilty in April 2012 to mail fraud. He “guaranteed” his suckers annual returns of 12 percent through his Orange-based business, Capital Investors.
He didn’t invest his victims’ money at all, but used it to make Ponzi payments and spent it on his collection of classic cars, his mortgage, and at a weight-loss clinic, prosecutors said. more information
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Firenze Sage:  Let see, 78 years old and ordered to repay 3 million. Great call judge.           Four More Years by Firenze Sage

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Firenze Sage: Workers’ paradise [China’s dead pigs]

Dead pigs in China
Welcome to China:

The heady optimism of four years ago has now given way to more sober views, thanks to the accretion of facts. Facts like 16,000 dead pigs floating down Shanghai’s Whampoa river in March. Or the worst air pollution on record in Beijing in January, with levels of tiny particulate matter reaching levels 25 times higher than the standard in the U. S. Or 80% of the East China Sea lost to fishing because of the pollution, according to Elizabeth Economy of the Council on Foreign Relations. Or 1.2 million premature deaths due to air pollution, according to the Global Burden of Disease Study.

Another nugget: “A recent social media campaign led by locals and international activists shed light on the growing phenomena of ‘cancer villages’—areas where water pollution is so bad that it has led to a sharp rise in diseases like stomach cancer,” wrote Thomas Thompson last month in Foreign Affairs. “The China Geological Survey now estimates that 90% of China’s cities depend on polluted groundwater supplies. Water that has been purified at treatment plants is often recontaminated en route to homes.”

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Firenze Sage:  The worker’s paradise.     Four More Years by Firenze Sage

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Firenze Sage: Fire the IRS liars [Lois Lerner et al]

 

Fire IRS liars
Statistically speaking, the firing of a federal employee is a rare event. A Cato Institute study showed that in one year, just 1 in 5,000 non-defense, civilian federal employees was fired for cause. A widely cited analysisby USA Today found that in FY 2011, the federal government fired just 11,668 out of 2.1 million employees (excluding military and postal workers). That’s a “separation for cause” rate of 0.55 percent, roughly a fifth the rate in the private sector.
But fully 60 percent of federal employees fired were in their first two years on the job.
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Firenze Sage:  There must be a Parkinson’s law involved where the least efficient are the most protected.   jaj48@aol.com    Four More Years

 

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Firenze Sage: not far fetched [hiding from drones]

Where to hide from drones
President Obama changed U.S. drone missile attack policyThursday. He ruled that the U.S. will no longer use drone missiles to kill terrorists if innocent bystanders can get hurt. From now on al-Qaeda leaders will conduct all their operations in front of a studio audience.  More information. 
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Firenze Sage:  Or [hide from drones] in a hospital or orphanage or church.  jaj48@aol.com 

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Firenze Sage: Asp to Boston saga [MI5, job offer Adebolajo]

UK Intelligence

MI5 asked Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo if he wanted to work for them about six months before the killing, a childhood friend has said.

Abu Nusaybah told BBC Newsnight his friend – one of two men arrested after Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder in south-east London on Wednesday – had rejected the approach from the security service.

The BBC could not obtain any confirmation from Whitehall sources.  More information

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Firenze Sage:  Well so much for British efficiency but then remember Philby.   jaj48@aol.com

Four More Obama Years

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Topless jehad feminists in Tunesia

Topless jehad feminist in  Tunesia
Latest on the topless jehad  feminist in Tunesia:
The feminist in Tunesia  who started “topless jehad” has been arrested. She will be charged with “provocative acts”.
A local resident shouted : “She is dishonoring us. We will protect our town, but a dirty girl like her shouldn’t come among us.”
topless in Tunesia
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Firenze Sage:  Ok sisters step forward and defend …

 women

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Firenze Sage: the law is an ass, an idiot [parking tickets, torched cars]

More torched cars in Sweden get parking tickets

In Sweden  police don’t do anything to prevent cars from being torched by “youths”   Here’s  a hint, the “youths” aren’t named Erik or Gustav.  The parking regulations are strictly enforced.

So we have this absurd situation:

Early Wednesday, while documenting the destruction after a night of rioting in the Stockholm suburb of Alby, a reporter from Fria Tider observed a parking enforcement officer writing a ticket for a burnt-out Ford.

When questioned, the officer explained that the ticket was issued because the vehicle lacked a tag showing its time of arrival.

The fact that the vehicle had been effectively destroyed – its windshield smashed and the interior heavily damaged by fire – was irrelevant according to the meter maid, who asked Fria Tider’s photographer to destroy the photos he had taken.   more information

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Firenze Sage:  Is Eric Holder the AG  for Sweeden — or does he get his ideas from them?      Four More Obama Years

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Firenze Sage: Poor Pussy [Riot punk group]

 

Pussy Riot Punk group

MOSCOW–A Russian court has denied parole to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group.

In its ruling Thursday, the court accepted a claim by prosecutors that Maria Alekhina had systematically disobeyed prison authorities and failed to repent for her crime, Russian media reported.

Alekhina went on a hunger strike Wednesday after being barred from the court hearing in Perm province, and she ordered her defense not to participate.

Band members Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Yekaterina Samutsevich gained worldwide notoriety last year when a Moscow court jailed them for two years for conducting a punk protest in Moscow’s main cathedral.   More Information

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Firenze Sage:  REPENT say the commies because they [Pussy Riot punk group]  are closet evangelicals?    Four More Obama Years

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Firenze Sage: Mr. Checkpoint [drunk driving & social media]

Social media tells people ahead of time

As Memorial Day weekend gets underway, law enforcement is out in full force to crack down on drunk driving.

But SDSU grad Sennett Devermont, better known as “MrCheckpoint,” is also working overtime, publicizing through social media the locations and times of DUI checkpoints throughout San Diego and the rest of Southern California, including Orange, Riverside and Los Angeles counties.

Devermont uses Twitter, Facebook, his own website and text messages to get the word out to his tens of thousands of followers.

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Firenze Sage:  Now we need a service to report drivers checking Mr Checkpoint on their cell phones.

 jaj48@aol.com   Four More Obama Years

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Firenze Sage: 1st Amendment, anyone? [murder of British soldier]

soldier  Lee Rigby hacked to death

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A 22-year-old man has been charged on suspicion of making malicious comments on Facebook.  The remarks related to  the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby.

Benjamin Flatters, from Lincoln, was arrested last night after complaints were made to Lincolnshire Police about comments made on Facebook, which were allegedly of a racist or anti-religious nature.

Flatters  was charged with an offence of malicious communications this afternoon in relation to the comments, a Lincolnshire Police spokesman said.

A second man was visited by officers and warned about his activity on social media, the spokesman added.  More information.

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Firenze Sage:  Most of the world does not honor free speech. Let us not lose ours.  jaj48@aol.com  

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