This coming Monday, October 19th, 2009, at 8:30 am, is the preliminary hearing for the accused embezzlers Rene Montes, Hector Porrata, George Martinez, and Cara Cruz-Thompson at the Orange County Superior Court at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana. Last Thursday mid-afternoon, October 8th, I left the Orange County jail after submitting a Media... Read More
Preliminary Hearing for Accused AIG/Matrix Embezzlers this Monday, October 19th
This coming Monday, October 19th, 2009, at 8:30 am, is the preliminary hearing for the accused embezzlers Rene Montes, Hector Porrata, George Martinez, and Cara Cruz-Thompson. Last Thursday, October 8th, and last Friday, October 9th, I attempted to interview all four of the accused. I started out by driving to the Orange County Jail and... Read More
by Pauline Grant In March 2004, during the first months after Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in the state of California, during the time he was aggressively and seemingly exclusively at work to reform the California Workers’ Compensation system, www.adjustercom.com published an article (Native Americans Offer Alternative Insurance To California Workers’ Compensation, by John Franklin, March... Read More
Joey Buttafuoco’s Jail Sentence Postponed For Two Months
SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (AP) _ Joey Buttafuoco was granted two more months of freedom Wednesday by a judge who postponed the start of his one-year jail term for illegally possessing ammunition. Buttafuoco was supposed to surrender in Superior Court on Wednesday to begin serving the time but Judge Ronald S. Coen allowed him to remain... Read More
Joey Buttafuoco Gets Year in L.A. County Jail on Ammo Charge
SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (AP) _ Joey Buttafuoco, who gained national notoriety in the 1990s when his teenage girlfriend shot his wife in the face in New York, was sentenced to a year in county jail Tuesday after pleading no contest to a charge of being a felon illegally possessing ammunition. Buttafuoco, 50, was ordered to... Read More
Joey Buttafuoco Jailed for Auto Claims Fraud but not with any ‘Long Island Lolita’
by John Franklin The infamous Joey Buttafuoco pleaded guilty to auto insurance fraud on Monday in Los Angeles, California, and began a one-year jail sentence imposed by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Horowitz. Horowitz also ordered Buttafuoco to pay $4,624.00 in restitution to 21st Century Insurance Company and to surrender his state license to... Read More
Fitness Freak’s Fraudulent Claim Just Didn’t Workout
A Triathlete’s legal challenge that started back in June is on its last leg now that she’s pled guilty to one count of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. And for her chiropractor, it looks like he’s going to be breaking a pretty good sweat as well before it’s is all through. Charlotte Chapman accepted a previously... Read More
Above The Law, But Not Liability. City Of Oakland.
The City of Oakland seems to have started off 2003 on the wrong foot. First, visions of glory and bragging rights to being the home of the current Superbowl champs were crushed by Tampa Bay. Then just this month the public learned that another team in the city, the Oakland Riders, posted a record liability... Read More