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2013 Stories by R. SCOTT MOXLEY

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  Aspiring Hip-Hop Rapper Sentenced for Role In Massive Identity-Theft Ring

  published May 24, 2013

  Aspiring Southern California hip-hop rapper Keley Bluez--crooner of the MySpace online wonder "(I Don't) Beg for Pussy"--has been sentenced to prison for his role in a multiyear, sophisticated, identi... More >>

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  18th Street Gangster Who Used SUV As Lethal Weapon Wants Shorter Prison Sentence

  published May 24, 2013

  It's understandable that Ruben Roa keeps fighting his violent criminal convictions. Roa, a 28-year-old member of Orange County's notorious 18th Street gang, is in the early stages of prison sentences... More >>

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  Laguna Beach Homeless Shelter Residency Rule To Get Greater Federal Court Scrutiny

  published May 23, 2013

  A federal judge in Orange County ruled this month that a homeless man in Laguna Beach who complained about alleged police harassment and city-sponsored discrimination has lost all of his claims except... More >>

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  Texas Senator Ted Cruz To Party With Orange County Republicans in June

  published May 22, 2013

  Orange County Republican Party boss Scott Baugh is apparently taking diversity in politics seriously after all. Baugh--often under fire from liberal critics for running a political party of cranky, r... More >>

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  Orange County Mail Thief Learns Fate in Federal Court

  published May 22, 2013

  Orange County mail thief Salvador Alex Escamilla has led a tough life. Escamilla grew up in a poor, dysfunctional family with an abusive, convicted felon father. He accidentally consumed his dad's he... More >>

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  Code Pink Protesters Disrupt Donald Rumsfeld Event at Richard Nixon Presidential Library: Video

  published May 21, 2013

  Former Republican Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has his fans and his enemies--and then there are the energetic members of Code Pink, the self-described "women-initiated grassroots peace-and-soc... More >>

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  Secret Service Agent Once Assigned to Reagan's California Detail Is Punished for Bank Fraud

  published May 21, 2013

  A federal judge in Orange County this week punished a Vietnam War refugee--who eventually became an accomplished U.S. Secret Service (USSS) special agent assigned to protect former First Lady Nancy Re... More >>

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  Donald Rumsfeld to Hawk New Rules Book Tonight at Nixon Presidential Library

  published May 20, 2013

  Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is scheduled to appear tonight at the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda in an effort to hawk his latest contribution to the literary worl... More >>

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  Little Saigon Drug Dealer Caught With 57 Pounds of Cocaine Wins Prison Trip

  published May 20, 2013

  A Little Saigon drug dealer caught selling approximately 57 pounds of cocaine in May 2011 has won a 31-month trip to federal prison. U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selna punished Tung Le this mon... More >>

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  Did Lawrence Anthony Witsoe Receive the Dumbest Bribery Conviction in California History?

  published May 16, 2013

  Veteran Orange County criminal defense lawyer Lawrence Anthony Witsoe closed his eyes and remained motionless late Tuesday afternoon as a court... More >>

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  Dana Rohrabacher's Sporadic Bong Hit Libertarianism Doesn't Extend To Marriage Equality

  published May 15, 2013

  Dana Rohrabacher--Orange County's senior, career politician--is engaging in a Twitter dialogue about marriage equality with Brian O'Leary Bennett, a conservative Republican, public relations expert an... More >>

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  Trial Date Set For Kobe Bryant's Memorabilia Auction Fight With His Estranged Mother

  published May 15, 2013

  A federal judge in New Jersey has ordered "an in-person settlement conference" for May 17 in the dispute between Kobe Bryant and an auction house planning to sell the Los Angeles Lakers' teenage memor... More >>

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  Federal Prosecutors Win DEA Bribery Case Involving Orange County Defense Lawyer

  published May 14, 2013

  Veteran Orange County criminal defense lawyer Lawrence Anthony Witsoe closed his eyes and remained motionless late this afternoon as a court clerk read a series of guilty verdicts against him in what ... More >>

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  DEA Bribery Trial Evidence Befuddles Orange County Jurors

  published May 13, 2013

  Federal prosecutor Rob Keenan possesses unquestionable evidence that a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) task force agent in Riverside repeatedly lied to Orange County prosecutors in hopes of tric... More >>

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  Kobe Bryant Lawyer: Mother-Son Dispute Over Memorabilia Auction Is Not A Marketing Ploy

  published May 13, 2013

  An inquisitive federal judge in Orange County today left a temporary restraining order intact for at least two more days in the dispute over whether an auction house working for the mother of Kobe Bry... More >>

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  Kobe Bryant Wins Courthouse Assist From Sister in Memorabilia Dispute With His Mother

  published May 13, 2013

  Los Angeles Lakers' superstar Kobe Bryant is receiving an assistant this morning in his legal battle to permanently block his mother and an auction house from selling more than $1.5 million worth of h... More >>

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  OC-Based Record, Film Producer Christopher B. Stokes Files Defamation Lawsuits

  published May 09, 2013

  Entertainment world polymath Christopher B. Stokes filed two civil lawsuits this month in Orange County Superior Court alleging that two entities, a Youtube channel and an online radio show, violated ... More >>

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  Orange County Child Molester: Shouldn't I Get Credit For Assaulting 11YO-Girl Quicklyr

  published May 09, 2013

  In August 2009, a Stanton laundromat janitor lured an 11-year-old girl into a closet with the promise of free perfume, locked the door and sexually molested her. At his 2011 trial in Orange County Su... More >>

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  White Supremacist Jail Inmate: Black Orange County Sheriff's Deputy Gave Me An STD!

  published May 08, 2013

  There was a point last year when it looked as if Barack Obama's post-racial world had a chance even here in Orange County, the onetime heart of the John Birch Society. White supremacist, hoodlum Chri... More >>

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  Vietnamese Immigrant Wishes He'd Become a U.S. Citizen Before Cocaine Bust

  published May 07, 2013

  Born two years before the end of the Vietnam War in Saigon, Dinh Canh Tran lived under dictatorial communist rule until about 1989 when his family relocated to the Philippines in route to live permane... More >>

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  Surprise: Orange County Businessman & Prosecutors Differ On Whether Income Taxes Are Mandatory

  published May 06, 2013

  Poor Brian Fox. Fox, who once lived in a $2.3 million house in the city of Orange, must have forgotten that we can't outrun death or the IRS. From 2005 to 2007, the businessman earned approximately ... More >>

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  Were DEA Task Force Agent's Lies to California Prosecutors Part of Bribery Deal or Brilliant Undercover Policingr

  published May 05, 2013

  According to the FBI, Aaron Scott Vigil--an accomplished Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) task-force officer in Southern California--and his wife lived luxuriously while spending a whopping $1,60... More >>

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  Newport Beach Police Chief Accused of Slimy, Retaliatory Conduct in New Lawsuit

  published May 03, 2013

  In February 2009, Newport Beach Police Department Sgt. John Hougan acted honorably by testifying truthfully in a civil lawsuit about how his bosses had discriminated against a fellow officer they err... More >>

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  Will Assemblyman Allan Mansoor Challenge Michelle Steel for OC Supervisor's Seatr

  published May 02, 2013

  Will ex-Costa Mesa mayor and current California State Assemblyman Allan Mansoor challenge Michelle Steel--a fellow but less-experienced Republican officeholder--for a soon-to-be open seat on the Orang... More >>

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  South Coast Plaza-Area Cocaine Dealer Wins Long Prison Trip

  published May 02, 2013

  A federal law-enforcement investigation into a Canada-based narcotics-and-money-laundering network operating in Southern California has resulted in the loss of freedom for a 33-year-old man who partic... More >>