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May 15, 2013
Trial Date Set For Kobe Bryant's Memorabilia Auction Fight With His Estranged Mother
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 memorabilia late next month for the superstar's mother, Pamela. If the mediation doesn't work, U.S. Dist ... More >>
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April 5, 2013
Dirty Ex-Sheriff Mike Carona Loses Bid For Prison Sentence Reduction
Two years into his 66-month prison sentence, ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona hoped this week that a federal judge would reduce his punishment in the aftermath of a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling involving bribery and honest service corruption cases.But today inside the Ronald Reagan Federal Cou ... More >>
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March 21, 2013
Sex Offender Law Reformers Sue Websites That Post Personal Details, Demand Cash to Remove
California Reform Sex Offender Laws (RSOL), which has been part of lawsuits against the County of Orange and Orange County cities over controversial laws that ban registered sex offenders from public parks, now has a new target. A lawsuit filed by RSOL in federal court Wednesday challenges websites ... More >>
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March 16, 2013
Human Trafficking of Filipinos to Louisiana Results in $4.5 Million Award
A federal judge in Southern California has awarded $4.48 million to 347 Filipinos because a Los Angeles company violated the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) by tricking them into slave labor as teachers in Louisiana public schools.This week, U.S. District Court Judge John A. Kronst ... More >>
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March 15, 2013
Meet The World's Most Unapologetic DUI Driver: Angel Herrera Leal of Los Angeles
On Dec. 27, 2008--three months after graduating from his second DUI offender program, Angel Herrera Leal of Los Angeles decided to party by himself.Leal, who was convicted of DUI in 2005 and 2007, watched television at home and began drinking shots of tequila supplemented with lime sucking.He kept d ... More >>
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March 14, 2013
OC Hoodlum Wins Free Prison Trip After Cops Catch Him Carrying Concealed Gun
How much prison time should a convicted felon get for carrying a loaded, concealed weapon in Orange County?The answer depends, of course, on the circumstances, the identity of the man and the mood of a sentencing judge.At about 2 a.m. on March 17, 2012, Steven Paul Gulley could have saved himself a ... More >>
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March 11, 2013
Rage Over Seeing Lesbian Lick Caused California Man To Commit Double Murder?
While having dinner and drinks at Tortilla Flats in Mission Viejo with his girlfriend and another couple late on April 5, 2005, the unimaginable happened that shocked and angered Jon David Tafoya's sense of decency.The other woman playfully licked between his girlfriend's breasts, sending 28-year-ol ... More >>
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March 6, 2013
Meet The Chronically Deported Mexican Determined To Live In The USA
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has an annual budget of nearly $12 billion, nine divisions, planes, helicopters, night-vision and audio spy equipment, fences, dogs, boats, guns, checkpoints and more than 45,600 agents, but it can't stop one dirt poor but determine Mexican, Sergio Alcal ... More >>
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March 1, 2013
This Week, Mexican Human Smuggler Gets Nine Months More In Prison Than Caucasian Guilty of Same Crime
While on routine patrol just after 4 a.m. on Oct. 19, 2011, the crew of the United States Coast Guard Cutter Petrel spotted an open-bow, panga boat operating without lights in rough waters near San Diego.The boat weaved through commercial freightliners in an attempt to avoid detection, but the Coast ... More >>
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February 14, 2013
Christopher Dorner Ditched Cops' Favorite Tool
[Moxley Confidential] The Ex-LAPD cop and suspected serial killer denied his pursuers their favorite tracking device: his cell phone
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February 13, 2013
Costa Mesa Counterfeiter Who Sold $100 Notes For $30 Learns Fate
For counterfeiting U.S. Federal Reserve notes, an Orange County con artist and convicted drug addict faced as much as 20 years in prison. Costa Mesa's James Peter Perraie, a past part-time Rancho Santiago Community College student with a history of methamphetamine and heroin abuse, originally ... More >>
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January 17, 2013
Santa Ana Hoodlum Admits Mexican Mafia Membership & Role in Heroin Distribution
A 34-year-old hoodlum nicknamed "Fat Ass" is admitting he is a member of the OC Mexican Mafia and conspired to thwart the Santa Ana Police Department while participating in the expected 2009 sale of more than 100 grams of heroin in Orange County.Kinney Stephen Uribe* signed a guilty plea in mid ... More >>
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January 7, 2013
Orange County Bank Robber Just Can't Stay Clean
In July 2008, a disheveled, shirtless Peter Corlette Keesal** partied by himself in bushes near Aliso Viejo Town Center until an Orange County Sheriff's Department deputy found him. Keesal, then 43 years old and unemployed, had $24.25 in a sock, (incredibly) $12,315 stuffed in one pants pocket ... More >>
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December 31, 2012
Bad Decembers For Orange County Drug Addict/Identity Thief
For Orange County's Savannah Rose Wofford, December apparently is not a good month.In Dec. 2010, she was arrested following a federal grand jury indictment for illegally possessing approximately 40 social security cards, credit card numbers and bank account numbers that did not belong to her while a ... More >>
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December 28, 2012
Federal Grand Jury in Orange County Indicts Three For Stealing $185,000 In Stamps
A federal grand jury in Southern California has indicted three individuals who allegedly conducted a brazen, two-year conspiracy that stole more than $185,000 in postage stamps from U.S. Post Offices in Orange County and Los Angeles.According to the Dec. 19 indictment, Neil Lee Turner (AKA Tylar Rog ... More >>
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December 10, 2012
Stanley Kuo Jua Yang Gets 30 Months for Hawking Knock-Offs of Exercise Machines
An Irvine man was sentenced this morning to 30 months in federal prison for hawking counterfeit goods, including knock-offs of Bowflex, Ab Circle Pro and Malibu Pilates exercise machines.United States District Court Judge R. Gary Klausner in Los Angeles immediately remanded Stanley Kuo Jua Yang, 3 ... More >>
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November 29, 2012
Questionable Press Release Wins OC Pharmaceuticals Company A Class Action Lawsuit
A struggling Tustin-based pharmaceuticals company got more bad news this week when a federal judge in Orange County granted class action status to a pending securities fraud lawsuit. In an 18-page ruling issued this week, U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter agreed that the plaintiffs, who ... More >>
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October 9, 2012
Adam Stone, Autistic Ex-Student, Sues Over Being Dragged Out of Irvine High School
An autistic student who was dragged from an Irvine High School classroom earlier this year for talking loudly is suing the school district in federal court.Adam Stone, 18, claims in the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana that after being dragged out by a campus guard and two other men in ... More >>
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September 26, 2012
Forming Kaos Gangsters Win Lengthy Prison Trips in Mexican Mafia Conspiracies
A federal judge in Orange County has sentenced two members of Forming Kaos (FK), the Costa Mesa-based criminal street gang, to lengthy prison trips for participating in conspiracies that benefited the notorious Mexican Mafia.Douglas Joseph Jackovich and Kirk Ray Butterfas, both 30 years old, won't s ... More >>
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September 19, 2012
Kyle Isamu Hamatake Erroneously Thought He Devised A Perfect Internet Escort Scam
For more than a year beginning in late 2009, Kyle Isamu Hamatake must have thought he'd devised the perfect Internet scam in Southern California.The Orange County man published online employment advertisements seeking drivers for sex industry escorts, tricked the individuals into making cash deposit ... More >>
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September 19, 2012
Chinese Con Artist Who Sold Access to Two Ex-U.S. Presidents Learns Fate
Using great props to fake credibility, a shameless Orange County mother-son con artist team convinced investors to hand them as much as $2 million in a scam involving speaking engagements for U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush as well as former Vice President Al Gore.After their 2011 fe ... More >>
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September 19, 2012
Long Beach Play '8' is Public Theater's Coming Out Party
A new theater entity opens Friday in Long Beach and rarely has a producing organization exploded from the box with a more emotionally charged subject or with such a familiar cast. The entity is the Public Theatre of Long Beach. The play is 8, which dramatizes the courtroom battle that resulted in ... More >>
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August 28, 2012
Yorba Linda Business Owner Punished For Cheating Cisco Systems
A federal judge in Santa Ana has sentenced a Yorba Linda businessman to a term of probation for three years and ordered him to pay a $4,000 fine for conspiracy to commit mail fraud.Following his arrest in February, Richard Alan Glavis--the owner of Superior Computer Gear (SCG)--acknowledged his guil ... More >>
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August 13, 2012
Orange Coast Community College Student From Jordan Busted For Alleged Stockpile of Child Pornography
A California grand jury has indicted a 26-year-old Jordanian student at Orange Coast Community College in Costa Mesa for suspected possession of 2,029 images of child pornography on his computer.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) arrested Ohanes Hamparsoum Haladjian after an undercover operat ... More >>
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August 9, 2012
Chad Peter Smanjak Cops to Scam with Sports Drink Named After Notre Dame's Famous Rudy
A former Long Beach resident who fled to South Africa as a fugitive pleaded guilty to orchestrating a scam involving a sports drink named after Notre Dame's most famous football benchwarmer.Chad Peter Smanjak, 38, copped in U.S. District Court to one count of conspiring to commit securities fraud ... More >>
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July 27, 2012
Meridian Sports Club in Fullerton To Pay Disabled Men $18,750 A Month in ADA Lawsuit Settlement
Two disabled Orange County men who sued the Meridian Sports Club and the City of Fullerton for repeatedly violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and California laws designed to mandate equal access to businesses have won a substantial settlement.This week, U.S. District Court Judge Andr ... More >>
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July 27, 2012
Filipino Sham Marriage, Illegal Alien Scam Operators Reluctantly Saying Bye, Bye to USA
Filipinos Wilfredo Tiongco Ngo and Maria Teresa Lamayo Ngo operated a massive scheme that kept illegal immigrants secretly working in the United States at the pair's elderly health care assistance business in Orange County.By repeatedly changing their company's name, encouraging sham marriages and m ... More >>
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July 10, 2012
Another Forming Kaos Gangster Pleads Guilty to Mexican Mafia-Related Operations in Orange County
Another Mexican Mafia-related hoodlum is facing a lengthy prison sentence after admitting his role in the Costa Mesa criminal street gang Forming Kaos.Arrested in a massive, 2011 law enforcement sweep designed to wreck the gang's operations, Kirk Ray Butterfas had originally pleaded not guilty to a ... More >>
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June 22, 2012
Los Angeles Angels Get Legal Bill For Wheelchair Access Violations at Stadium
Our Matt Coker told you in April that the Los Angeles Angels and the city of Anaheim settled a federal class action lawsuit that requires them to make their stadium more wheelchair accessible. This week, U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter ordered the defendants to pay the plaintiff lawyers--V ... More >>
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June 19, 2012
Mark Dell Donne, Ex-CEO, Must Repay $500k to Defunct Government Contractor's 401(k) Plan
The former CEO of an Aliso Viejo electrical contractor has agreed to restore $570,983 in 401(k) payments he'd stiffed 105 company retirement plan participants out of, the U.S. Labor Department announced.San Clemente's Mark Dell Donne, who served as a fiduciary of the plan, already returned $98,748 t ... More >>
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June 8, 2012
ATF Busted Yorba Linda Meth Dealer Gets Punished in Federal Court
Not far from the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda in June 2010, federal agents used a confidential informant to trick an Orange County drug dealer into supplying them 111 grams of 99 percent pure methamphetamine for $4,000.This week, Robin Lynn Freiwald learned her punishment fol ... More >>
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May 16, 2012
Newport Beach Sports Bookie Sentenced in Federal Court
Sports bookie Jeffrey Wayne Bzroska, a onetime manager at PIMCO, got great news this month when a federal judge in Santa Ana sentenced him to probation for two years in proceedings that were partly conducted in secret.Bzroska had managed an illegal sports betting operation in Newport Beach for at le ... More >>
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April 13, 2012
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 >>
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April 11, 2012
Ex-California Army National Guard Commander in OC Admits He's a Scumbag Crook
A 70-year-old retired colonel in the California Army National Guard pleaded guilty today in federal court to running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded at least 28 victims approximately $2.7 million, according to a U.S. Department of Justice announcement.Timothy Melvin Murphy, a resident of Orange and at ... More >>
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March 21, 2012
Costa Mesa's "Sal the 1040 Gal" Gets Nailed For Skimming Tax Refunds From Clients
You have to give Sally Louise Crystal big points for audacity.While on criminal probation for stealing more than $6,800 from a roommate, Crystal (AKA Sally Hernandez or, her professional nickname, "Sal the 1040 Gal") operated a brazen income tax preparation scam in Costa Mesa that ripped off her ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
PETA Loses Whale of a Slave Suit But Still Crows
A federal judge Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that argued five orcas should be freed from SeaWorld under the anti-slavery 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.Judge Jeffrey Miller of the U.S. District Court in San Diego reasoned in ... More >>
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January 20, 2011
Supreme Court Smacks Down Local Armenian Genocide Deniers
This week, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of Griswold v. Driscoll, a Massachusetts-based case in which a group of plaintiffs sued the State Board of Education because it didn't include references to Armenian-genocide deniers in school curricula covering the Armenian ge ... More >>
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December 7, 2010
YouPorn Shared More Than Sex Videos Claims Lawsuit Filed by Newport Beach Pair
Two Newport Beach men have filed a lawsuit accusing operators of the YouPorn adult video sharing website of "sniffing," which is not an exotic new sex act (well, at least not in this particular context) but the improper monitoring of other sites users have visited.
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November 23, 2010
Federal Judge Grants Partial Victory for Liberal OC in its Pissing Match Against Orange Juice! But Calls Boths Sides "Childish"
In perhaps the greatest waste of a courtroom in this county since the Rocco trial, a federal judge has sided with the Liberal OC in its lawsuit against the Orange Juice! blog. But U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter was hardly sympathetic to the Liberal OC."This case tells the story of an o ... More >>
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October 22, 2010
Chronic Tacos Sues Chronic Tacos For Trademark Infringement
Chronic Tacos Enterprises [ugly, noisy website alert], the group behind the Chronic Tacos brand, have filed suit in United States District Court against the Huntington Beach franchisee of the brand, saying that they continue to use the Chronic Tacos trademark despite not having a valid franchise ... More >>
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October 12, 2010
UPDATED: OC-Born Judge Throws Out 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Anti-DADT activist and fired soldier Dan ChoiUpdate, Oct. 12, 1:02 p.m.: Riverside federal judge Virginia Phillips has double-downed on her initial ruling against Don't Ask, Don't Tell, issuing a worldwide injunction barring enforcement of the rule. The government has sixty days to appeal, but ... More >>
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August 12, 2010
UPDATED: Prop 8 Judge: Same-Sex Weddings Can Resume ... on Wednesday
Law.UCI.eduChemerinskyUPDATE: The dean of the UCI Law School does not see grounds for an appeal of the stay against gay weddings in California (see below) . . . U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker in San Francisco today lifted the stay on same-sex marriages in California--beginning ... More >>
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April 2, 2010
One More "Airplane!" Scene Now Dated
No-nonsense, double-sunglassed chief pilot Rex Kramer (Robert Stack) shoves, punches and tosses donation solicitors--including a Hare Krishna (David Leisure)--blocking his path at a busy airport in the 1980 comedy Airplane!Like much of the flick's now-dated humor (Airplane! was the best motion pi ... More >>
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February 1, 2010
[UPDATED:] Trabuco Canyon's Lila Rizk Guilty in Massive Real Estate Fraud
UPDATE: At her sentencing in a Los Angeles federal court today, Trabuco Canyon's Lila Rizk received a three-year prison term for her role in a massive mortgage fraud scheme that caused tens of millions of dollars in losses to federally insured banks.A federal jury on Aug. ... More >>
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October 7, 2009
Locals Among Dozens Caught Up in International Criminal Phishing Scheme
No, not that kind of fish fry. Congratulations, Orange County! Some of your residents were among today's arrestees in the largest cyber crime case of its kind. "Operation Phish Phry," the first joint cyber investigation between Egyptian law enforcement authorities and United States of ... More >>
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October 2, 2009
Agran Crony and Gore Campaigner Agrees to Guilty Pleas in Federal Wire Fraud Case
Irvine attorney Sandeep Baweja, the 39-year-old money man for that town's "progressive" political boss Larry Agran and a former official with Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, agreed in court papers to plead guilty to two felony charges related to a scheme where he ripped off nearly all of the $ ... More >>
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April 26, 2009
To The Very End, Mike Carona is a Shameless Hypocrite
It's not a crime if the sheriff does itPlease, please, please don't punish me for my criminal activity!--The position ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona is taking with U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Guilford, who will decide on April 27 what punishment is fitting for the former top cop's repeate ... More >>
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July 17, 2008
Porn and Taxes
Getting stiffed by a porn star took on a whole new meaning Monday when Huntington Beach's Janine Lindemulder was arraigned in federal court for allegedly failing to pay about $80,000 in income taxes, The Smoking Gun reports today. The racktacular 39-year-old entered a not guilty plea and was releas ... More >>
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November 8, 2007
Taken to School
Judge dismisses a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by professors alleging class-hour fraud against Chapman University
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July 27, 2007
Friday's Headlines & Surprises: Excessive Force?
Shoot 15 times, ask softball questions later: The parents of Ashley MacDonald, the 18-year-old Huntington Beach girl killed by two police officers, filed an excessive force lawsuit yesterday in U.S. District Court, according to Christine Hanley at the Times. According to their suit, Kenneth MacDona ... More >>
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