David Carter

Kiddie-Porn Lovers at OC Libraries

[Moxley Confidential] Three men, including a brazen public-library abuser, get punished for kiddie porn

SEC Wins Injunction Against Orange County Businessmen For 60% Investment Return Claim

A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction banning three Southern California businessmen from operating future scams to dupe investors with false claims of extraordinary returns as high as "60 percent or better."Officials at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claim Michael ... More >>

13 Questions For Orange County In 2013

13. Will local citizens be gullible enough to allow government officials to convert portions of the 405 freeway in Orange County into a privatized toll road under the laughable ruse of easing traffic congestion?12. Can criminal defense lawyers for ex-Santa Ana City Councilman Carlos Bustamante, once ... More >>

Frito-Lay Gets Huge Bill In California Sales Staff Wage Cheating Case

Frito-Lay, makers of the popular Fritos, Tostitos and Doritos chips, routinely cheated more than 2,100 sales employees out of money owed for overtime work in California, according to a class action lawsuit. Earlier this year, the Texas-based snack food company agreed to settle the case before a ... More >>

Angus Brown and Arman Sharopetrosian Ran I.D. Theft Ring from Prison, Get to Stay Longer

Federal Judge David O. Carter had a wild case in his Santa Ana courtroom this week, one involving Armenian Power gang members in prison, African-American gang members on the outside, bank insiders, uh, inside banks and one of the most sophisticated identity theft fraud schemes the veteran jurist has ... More >>

Safieh Fard, Who Copped to Family Mortgage Scam Then Withdrew Plea, is Found Guilty

A year ago, jewelry store owner Safieh Fard did something her sister and two of her sons did the year before: plead guilty in Santa Ana federal court to charges related to mortgage scams the family pulled with Newport Beach oceanfront properties for years. But heading into sentencing, the then-50-ye ... More >>

Southern California Identity Theft Hoodlum Gets Prison, Huge Restitution Bill

Until they were nabbed by federal agents, a prison-based crime group consisting of individuals with nicknames like "Horse," "Homicide" and "Showtime" operated a five-year aggravated identity theft and bank fraud scheme that stole more than $8 million in Orange, Los Angeles and Riverside counties.A f ... More >>

Ron Paul Delegates' Lawsuit Over Intimidation Linked to Mitt Romney is Tossed ... For Now

Federal judge David O. Carter in Santa Ana today dismissed the lawsuit accusing Republican officials and especially Mitt Romney supporters of thwarting Ron Paul's bid for the party's presidential nomination.However, the Clinton appointee did leave the door open for an amended complaint.

Barbie Maker Mattel and Bratz Maker MGA Find Unusual Common Ground on Insurer Suit

Now we know why MGA keeps dragging Mattel back into a Santa Ana federal court that has already awarded the Bratz doll maker $310 million for damages, attorney fees and other court costs associated with a seven-year, back-and-forth battle with the larger company known for Barbie dolls.

[UPDATED with More Delegates Join Revolt:] Is a GOP Goon Squad Intimidating Ron Paul Delegates into Voting Romney at Convention?

See update at end of this post about 40 more national convention delegates seeking to join the 123 who have filed suit and "hundreds more" possibly ready to do the same. ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 13, 12:39 P.M.: The Republican National Committee (RNC) is using violence, intimidation and ballot stuffing t ... More >>

Brea Bank Inside Job Bandit Gets Punished By Federal Judge

An Orange County bank teller plotted the January 2007 robbery of her place of employment, got arrested in part because of a boneheaded move and eventually pleaded guilty.For her crimes, Sheryl Anntoinette Alexander, an active church member in Ontario and teller at Brea's Credit Union of Southern Cal ... More >>

Dana Point Harbor Marijuana Smuggler Sentenced in Federal Court

On July 9, 2011, David Rex Wilterding and his son Justin arrived in Dana Point Harbor on a 23-foot boat from Mexico and won unwanted attention by acting suspiciously.Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the area noticed the men loitering near a boat ramp, confronted them and ... More >>

UPDATED with Capture: Federal Judge David O. Carter Orders Posse to Find Fugitive Brad Keith Lee

​UPDATE: Acting on the orders of a pissed off federal judge in Orange County, law enforcement officials this month arrested Brad Keith Lee in Washington state for probation violations; now he'll face the unhappy judge at a future date.ORIGINAL POST: 3/7/2012: David O. Carter is undoubtedly Orange ... More >>

Meet Today's Dumbest OC Criminal: Lance William Sigue

Lance William Sigue might still be working Anaheim and Santa Ana streets as a dangerous 28-year-old drug dealer, but his own abject stupidity brought him to the attention of Orange County Sheriff's Department deputies, Anaheim police and ATF agents.In May 2009, Sigue had been enjoying a brisk busine ... More >>

Huntington Beach Businessman Nailed For Exporting Thermal Imaging Cameras To China

A 52-year-old Huntington Beach businessman got sentenced this week for exporting seven thermal imaging cameras to China in violation of U.S. national security controls.Jason Jian Liang, a 1985 immigrant from China and president of Sanwave International Corp., admitted that he did not seek export lic ... More >>

Craigslist High School Prostitution Freak Gets Stiff Prison Sentence

A Southern California man arrested last October for using the "Casual Encounters" section of Craigslist to brazenly lure high school girls into prostitution changed his plea to guilty this week in U.S. District Court.Leo James Zabala Jr. of Whittier acknowledges that in 2011 he used a Yahoo email ac ... More >>

Barbie v. Bratz, Part XVI: Mattel Wants Off the Hook for MGA's $310 Million Payday

​We told you earlier in the week that a federal judge in Santa Ana rejected MGA Entertainment's claim for a $1 billion judgment against Mattel, which the same jurist had previously ordered to pay the smaller toy company $310 million for stealing trade secrets involving Bratz dolls. Now, the maker ... More >>

$310 Million from Mattel Enough for Bratz Doll Maker MGA That Wants $1 Billion: Judge

​Winning $310 million of Mattel's money was not enough for Bratz maker MGA Entertainment, which extended the long legal battle in Santa Ana's federal courthouse by seeking $1 billion in total damages from the Barbie manufacturer.But Judge David O. Carter dismissed MGA's antitrust complaint last we ... More >>

Pyramid Scheme

Men boasting CIA and FBI ties met in Newport Beach to convince a mysterious billionaire to buy into a secret economy, and nothing was what it seemed

[UPDATED with $315 Mil Bond for Mattel:] Bratz Maker MGA's Total Take From Barbie Sugar Daddy Mattel? $310 Million

​UPDATE, AUG. 17, 5:21 P.M.: In federal court in Santa Ana today, Judge David O. Carter ordered Mattel to post a $315 million bond while the El Segundo-based toy manufacturing giant fights a $310 million award to MGA Entertainment.It's the latest twist in the trade secrets legal battle the makers ... More >>

[UPDATED with More Nuttiness:] Birthers Queen Orly Taitz Pisses Off Yet Another Federal Judge

​UPDATED, JULY 26, 4:15 P.M.: Another day, another federal judge Queen of the Birthers Orly Taitz has managed to piss off.The latest is District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth, who wrote of the Laguna Niguel dentist/lawyer/real-estate saleswoman--in a ruling dated Monday--"Plaintiff is either toyi ... More >>

[UPDATED with Award Proposal:] Bratz Maker MGA Wants $339 Million From Barbie Sugar Daddy Mattel

​UPDATE, MAY 25, 9:30 A.M.: Analysts agree that in the seven years since Barbie-maker Mattel first went after Bratz manufacturer MGA Entertainment in court, the smaller company's fortune dwindled while Mattel remained a toy industry giant. MGA is hoping to retrieve $339 million of that fortune in ... More >>

[UPDATED with Mattel Getting Bitch-Slapped:] Chick Fight! Chick Fight! Barbie vs. Bratz

​UPDATE, APRIL 21, 12:31 P.M.: The sluttier, younger chick wins!A federal court jury in Santa Ana not only rejected claims that MGA Entertainment's popular line of Bratz dolls violates the copyright of Mattel's Barbie, but the panel awarded MGA $88.4 million for trade secrets misappropriated by M ... More >>

[UPDATED] Souhair Khatib, Who Had Her Hijab Removed in OC Jail, Wins Appeal, Can Sue County

​UPDATE, MARCH 16, 9:59 A.M.: Here is a link to the actual Ninth Circuit appeals court decision:Khatib v. County of OrangeUPDATE, MARCH 15, 4:24 P.M.: A Muslim woman who claims her constitutional rights were violated when Orange County sheriff's deputies forced her to remove her headscarf while ... More >>

Tan Nguyen Gets Prison for Anti-Loretta Sanchez Vote Scheme

Tan Nguyen wins free housing​Tan Nguyen--the bizarre Little Saigon political figure who couldn't decide if he was a Republican or a Democrat--at least had one question resolved today: his future housing situation.Federal Judge David O. Carter has sentenced Nguyen to spend 366 days in prison follow ... More >>

Chick Fight! Chick Fight! Barbie vs. Bratz

​Considering the preponderance of plastic, empty-headed bleach blondes one finds around these parts, at least a few have likely found their way into the federal courthouse in Santa Ana. But the two fitting the same description going before a judge at the Reagan today have achieved icon status with ... More >>

James Halstead, Once Accused of Slipping Date-Rape Drug to an Olympian, Gets 10 Years

James Halstead, off to do a dime.​Sure, James Halstead was sentenced last night to 10 years in federal prison for his role in a Ponzi scheme that took in more than $61 million before it crashed and caused around 140 investors to suffer more than $20 million in losses.But, a ... More >>

Supposedly Broke Orly Taitz Appeals Santa Ana Case

John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​When she's not posting copies of the President's late mother's social security card and asking newly elected Republican senator Scott Brown to sign on her lawsuit against Barack Obama, Laguna Niguel's Orly Taitz has lately taken to peppering her blog with statements like ... More >>

Orly Taitz's Santa Ana Lawsuit Really, Officially, Finally Dead

Illustration by Trevor Keen​The lawsuit that Orly Taitz filed on the date of Barack Obama's inauguration has finally been lain to rest forever--we think.

Mortgage Scheme is "Most Sophisticated and Arrogant Fraud" Judge David O. Carter Has Seen

​Jared Tornow, 34, of San Clemente, was sentenced this morning to nearly six years in federal prison for what U.S. District Judge David O. Carter called one of the most sophisticated and arrogant frauds he has ever seen.According to court documen ... More >>

US Attorneys: No, Dr. Taitz, You Can't Resurrect Your Dead Case in D.C.

Trevor Keen / OC WeeklyThe illustration from our blog/blog recap.​The U.S. attorneys representing Barack Obama et. al. in Orly Taitz's Pamela v. Barnett lawsuit just filed a motion opposing Taitz's attempt to move the lawsuit from Santa Ana to Washington D.C.The main grounds for the opposition? Th ... More >>

[Year In Review] OC Weekly's News Blog, Navel Gazing, Gazes Back at 2009

Santa Ana Judge Spikes Orly Taitz Lawsuit, Again

John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​Late Friday afternoon, Judge David O. Carter passed down his judgment on Orly Taitz's Barnett v. Obama lawsuit: denied. Again! Taitz had filed a motion for reconsideration of Carter's earlier dismissal. The motion--and a follow-up filing--accused Carter of hiring a clerk ... More >>

Orly Taitz Motion Says Local Judge Wants to Lynch Her

John Gilhooley, OC Weekly​Maybe we will get another date with Orly Taitz in Santa Ana's Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse after all. Less than two weeks after Judge David O. Carter dismissed the Laguna Niguel's Barnett v. Obama lawsuit seeking to throw the President out of office, Tait ... More >>

Why Not Draw and Quarter Obama and Judge Carter?

WikicommonsThe execution of Guy Fawkes' (Guy Fawkes), by Claes (Nicolaes) Jansz Visscher,​The reactions to yesterday's dismissal of Orly Taitz's Barnett v. Obama lawsuit continue to pour in. Taitz has been publishing letters from her followers non-stop on her blog. This charmer just got put up, ad ... More >>

The Greatest Hits of the Taitz Dismissal

​Judge David O. Carter today threw out Dr. Orly Taitz's Barnett v. Obama lawsuit against President Obama. This was the lawsuit filed with dozens of plaintiffs, in Santa Ana Federal court, with a judge that seemed to listen patiently to the legal theories of Taitz and co-counsel Gary Kreep.Read the ... More >>

Taitz Minions Launch Attack on Santa Ana Judge's Clerk

​Besides asking for donations to help pay off the $20,000 fine imposed upon her by a Georgia judge last week, Laguna Niguel's Orly Taitz has been lately filling her blog with comments from contributors making hay about a law clerk working in the office of David Carter, the judge who's  been h ... More >>

The Idiots' Guide To Not Being Schooled By Orly Taitz Like Joy Behar Was

Oh, television. Last night, comedian and budding political pundit Joy Behar had Orange County's own Orly Taitz on her new HLN show. Whereas past cable news appearances for Taitz have seen our "eligibility" activist in panic mode from the mere few seconds of air time she was given and the decibel lev ... More >>

Tales Of Suicide And Tyranny From Orly Taitz In Santa Ana

​Whew, that was a long one. Laguna Niguel dentist/lawyer Orly Taitz, along with her co-counsel/nemesis Gary Kreep, spent a couple hours this morning in the Santa Ana Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse arguing why Judge David O. Carter shouldn't throw their case against Barack Obama out ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Anti-Obama 'Eligibility' Movement Members Breaking Ties With Laguna Niguel Birther Orly Taitz

Orly Taitz's Day In Court

John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​Today, Dr. Orly Taitz Esq., the Laguna Niguel dentist, lawyer and real estate agent who is attempting to sue Barack Obama out of office, appeared before Judge David O. Carter in Santa Ana's Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse. The occasion: a hearing in her lawsuit, Barnett ... More >>

Big Week For Birthers and Their Crusade to Unseat Obama the Usurper!

The Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Georgia, reports today that Orly Taitz, the Orange County attorney who reigns as queen bee to the Obama "birther" movement, is representing a "conscientious objector" who refuses to deploy to Iraq*, not because he's a pacifist or because George Bush authorized the in ... More >>

Magnum Enforcer

In an ongoing federal civil trial, it’s clear that one of Carona’s more violent deputies enjoys gunplay

OC Tied to Alleged Seattle IRS Scam

The Associated Press in Seattle reported this morning that IRS agents recently busted a massive tax-shelter scheme with potential ties to Santa Ana and Fountain Valley. According to federal court documents unsealed yesterday, Robert Arant created a "warehouse bank" that allowed "people who wanted t ... More >>

Theyre My friends and Im a Swinger!

OC businessman allegedly sold fake computers during the day, call girls at night

The Year in Pretending to Break Stories

The OC Registers New Motto: You didnt read it here first

Hammer Time

Ex-Huntington Beach mayor gets prison time for condo scam first unveiled by Weekly

Monster's Ball

Feds, Aryan Brotherhood come to paint the OC courthouse white

Ask Not For Whom Mike Capizzi Works

DA's aggressive defense of Wall Street firm