Typically fraudsters run in the same social circles as the victims. So says the Washington Post.
It’s almost unimaginable that they would rip you off. It’s called ‘affinity fraud.’”
One lawyer with tax expertise learned that lesson when he retired to Florida and invested $250,000 with a man who was part of his “well-heeled crowd,†the story says.
The lawyer, gave his money to Beau Diamond, who promised returns of 5 percent a month because of a secret, proprietary method for trading currency futures. ——————————————– Rule #5 : Never give money to a guy named Beau —
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3 felonies should be enough says FirenzeSage48@gmail.com The 3 strike law triggers a 25 year to life sentence in California.
3 career felonies should be enough.
The “three strikes and you’re out” law passed in the aftermath of the awful 1993 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas was advertised as a way to keep violent predators in prison.
But the initiative passed by California voters was laden with unintended consequences – and cannot be changed in any significant way without another statewide vote. More than half of the third “strikes” that have triggered a 25-to-life sentence involve neither serious nor violent felonies. Even shoplifting can be escalated to a third-strike felony – bringing life imprisonment – for those with prior convictions of petty theft. Worst criminal law in the country,” said Michael Romano, a Stanford law professor.
What is not publicized is that the 3d strike follows 2 other felonies. So whine if you want about the 3d strike but don’t forget that there are at least two other felonies. 3 career felonies should be enough.
Appeals Court thinks 27 years enough time and lets Sana Rosa man go free. Let’s see how good their prediction abilities are …. FirenzeSage48@gmail.com
27 years time enough for Santa Rosa man? A Santa Rosa man who stabbed a man to death 27 years ago and was denied parole twice by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been ordered freed by a state appeals court.
The appeals court, upholding a Sonoma County judge’s decision reinstating Wright’s parole, said his crime and record were now “remote in time.”
Firenze Sage says: Mark your calendar and see if the prediction comes true. The judicial soothsayers have spoken.
American will not return to stand trial with her fiance and friend. All three face charges of espionage and illegal entry of Iran. Bench warrant likely says FirenzeSage48@gmail.com
Bench warrant for Sarah Shoud?
Sarah Shourd, the American released in September after spending more than a year imprisoned in Iran, said Wednesday that she is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and will not return to the Middle East for her trial on charges that she and two other UC Berkeley graduates committed espionage.
Good call but Iranian non appearance warrants tend to somewhat severe.
Welfare recepients use welfare debit cards at ATM machines in casinos. Fraud? Welfare chief does not investigate as too expensive.
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?
Man escapes police handcuffed to a chair. Raise the score for becoming a policeman? Yes!
Follow that chair, police! Authorities are looking for a robbery suspect who escaped from a Buffalo police station by slipping out a back door while handcuffed to a chair.
Maybe we ought to raise the passing score to be a policeman.
No more fire places and instead toast marshmellows over a heater, Santa goes down the windmill but at least no coal in your sticking.
Santa, down the windmill!
The 12th annual “State of the Air” report found that despite a drop in the total number of days that Californians breathe smog and diesel fumes, the state remains awash in some of the dirtiest air in the nation.
In 2008, the regional air district passed a sweeping ordinance that bans burning of garbage, requires federally certified stoves or fireplace inserts in new homes and remodels, and prohibits wood burning in fireplaces and stoves when air quality hits harmful levels.
Officials estimate wood smoke accounted for about 30 percent of wintertime particle pollution in the nine-county region.
Now unless you are too stupid to get up in the morning you know where this is going. Roast your marshmallows over the solar panel. Hang your Christmas stockings by the solar heater. But thank goodness no more coal in your stocking.
Force Obama’s hand as to what he really thinks of senior citizens. Put back the $575 BILLION and send it to Obama for signing. If he does not sing that signals his true views of older citizens. And then seniors will know who to vote against in 2012.
Obama cut $575 BILLION from Medicare
Obama cut $575 BILLION for seniors using Medicare over the next 10 years. That $575 BILLION goes to other programs including a vast expansion of aid to the poor through Medicaid.
It’s time to ask congress to PUT BACK the $575 BILLION to Medicare.
If Obama refuses to sign a law returning $575 BILLION to Medicare so that system is funded “as we’ve known it” then senior citizens know what the President really thinks of older folks. And seniors will know who to vote against in 2012.
Next, offer seniors who use Medicare a choice: do you want to opt in to the Ryan plan or continue to keep Medicare?
The senior citizens I talk to want IN to the Ryan plan. Why?
The “choice” is a no brainer: what senior citizen wants a cost-cutting board of 15 unknown persons making all medical decisions (that congress cannot overturn) versus choice to pick their own private health plan? Huh?
The Ryan plan offers a choice of private health plans and a premium paid to the plan they choose. The amount paid is the equivalent of what Medicare is projected to spend under the Obama health care: $15,000 a year on average, more for the oldest and less for the youngest, all inflation adjusted.
The Ryan proposal includes a $7,800 annual medical savings account to help low income seniors out with out-of-pocket costs.
Since the President has deigned to show his birth certificate let’s force him to show his hand how he views senior citizens. Will Obama tell the 101 year old woman who wants a pace maker to take a pain pill (via the cost cutting decisions of his 15 appointees) or will Obama give her the choice to purchase a health plan that fits her individual needs?
California not keen on passing tax on sugrary drinks.
Sour reception to tax sugary drinks in Califonia A proposed $1.7 billion tax on sweetened beverages got a sour reception Monday at a key Assembly committee hearing.
It would have taxed sodas, energy drinks, sweet teas and other sugary beverages, directing the money toward youth education and obesity-prevention programs. The failure prompted such remarks as, “Sugar is dangerous to society, and is a huge part of childhood obesity.Taxing soda would have been akin to taxing cigarettes.”
And boats and cars and cable tv and cell phones and every itty bitty thing that walks or crawls across the government view.
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————————————————————————— Other news about sugary drinks from across the county …. New York to ban low-income families from using food stamps to buy sugary drinks
New York announced plans to ban the use of food stamps to buy sugary drinks as it steps up its anti-obesity campaign. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Governor David Paterson have asked the U.S. government to ban the purchase of fizzy drinks and sweetened fruit drinks with the federal vouchers used by 42million low-income families.They called sugar-sweetened beverages the largest single contributor to the obesity epidemic.
What next from the government sugar police? Tax sugar donuts? Declare apple juice a ‘no no’ for toddlers? Limit sugary coffee drinks to adults over 18?
