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HDWD President Sarann Graham, “It Was A Fraud!!”

May 8, 2011
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"IT IS A FRAUD!"

Yucca Valley, Ca.-In a parting shot during Director’s comments, Hi-Desert Water District President Sarann Graham, held up a document to the video camera and exclaimed, “This document (her Form 700, FPPC Declaration of Gifts Received) is a fraud and was posted on a local blog!”  What Graham failed to state was the fraudulent document came directly from the offices of the Hi-Desert Water District-Public Information Request! I could file this under “Cheap Shots” in her effort to discredit my posting of this document and maligning Cactus Thorns, not by name, but by...

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Social Security the Mother of all Ponzi Schemes

December 28, 2010
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A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned. The Ponzi scheme usually entices new investors by offering returns other investments cannot guarantee, in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent. The perpetuation of the returns that a Ponzi scheme advertises and pays requires an ever-increasing flow of money from investors to keep the scheme going. The system is destined to...

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Beware the “Hitman”

December 21, 2010
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The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department has been investigating several complaints from citizens who report being threatened in an email, widely known as the “Hitman Scam.” The FBI first reported the Hitman Scam on their web site back in December 2006. It made the rounds for a few years and died down. However, it seems to have made a comeback and you should be aware of this scam as it can be very unsettling. In the email, the sender claims to have been hired by “someone you know very...

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Date: December 3, 2010 Lake Arrowhead Man Pleads Guilty to Numerous Felonies

December 13, 2010
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Date: December 3, 2010 Lake Arrowhead Man Pleads Guilty to Numerous Felonies

San Bernardino, CA – Back on December 1, 2010, Kirk MacArthur Judy, who also uses the name Kirk MacArthur, pleaded guilty in San Bernardino County Superior Court to one felony count each of grand Theft, Theft from an Elder Adult, Selling False Securities, and Filing a False Tax return. Judy, 44, has been in custody at the San Bernardino County Jail since his arrest at his lakefront home in June 2010, by San Bernardino County Real Estate Fraud Investigators. Investigators from the Franchise Tax Board and Attorneys from the...

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Corbin’s 700 Club hasn’t a damned thing to do with Jesus

November 28, 2010
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Corbin’s 700 Club hasn’t a damned thing to do with Jesus

Twentynine Palms, Ca– You know you can take the fat cat out of the dirty politics but you can not take the dirty politics out of the fat cat. Already the truth is being shot down the tubes in the quick time march back to the old boys politics of the past. By the way failing to factually report your economic interests is a violation of FPPC Rules and can be considered fraud. According to the Form 700s provided by Jerry Jay Corbin he owns no property in town. Well...

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Is it real he says?

November 19, 2010
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 Hal Lewis: My Resignation From The American Physical Society Hal Lewis: My Resignation From The American Physical Society Friday, 08 October 2010 17:19 Hal Lewis From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society 6 October 2010 Dear Curt: When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago). Indeed, the choice...

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Open letter to Sherry Hall

February 7, 2010
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Open letter to Sherry Hall

Sherry you used my name in vain at the City Council meeting when I was not there to defend myself. You told the public you are threatened by me. Let me share something with you. You are the offense and I am the defense. You attack my recreation and I defend it. You mention my name at the council meeting and I write this blog. The old saying don’t dish it out if you cant take it applies here. You have every legal right to be the coordinator of...

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You just can’t trust your dealer anymore

January 27, 2010
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You just can’t trust your dealer anymore

This little story has a twist. You know a guy needs to go to rehab when he sells drugs he makes change with bogus $20 dollar bills. There just isn’t any honor among Tweekers anymore. On January 5, 2010, the San Jacinto Police Department began an investigation into the fraudulent use of fictitious United States currency possession and dissemination. Officers received a complaint from a victim who purchased merchandise from the suspect after responding to an on-line classified/auction site. Officers recovered various denominations of fictitious United States Currency passed...

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Victims Scammed out of Life Savings

December 19, 2009
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Victims Scammed out of Life Savings

For the past several months, investigators from the San Jacinto Police Department and Riverside County Sheriff’s Department have been investigating complaints of theft by false pretense. The investigation began when subjects alleged David Jerome Edwards Sr. fraudulently deceived them by acting as a financial advisor/investor. The investigation involves Edwards Sr. and numerous unrelated subjects who claim Edwards Sr. convinced them to go into business with him and during their business arrangement Edwards Sr. took out large personal loans in the subjects’ names. Edwards Sr. told the subjects he was...

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Greed gets the better of Thermal Woman

December 19, 2009
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Greed gets the better of Thermal Woman

A 24-year-old Thermal woman was defrauded of several thousand dollars on Tuesday by two Hispanic males in a theft-by-design scheme. On Tuesday, December 15, 2009, at about 4:15 PM, the woman was confronted and befriended by two males outside of a retail business located in the 79800 block of Highway 111, in La Quinta. The suspects appeared not to know each other. Suspect #1 said his family had medical problems and bills that he was unable to pay. He told the woman he had three gold bars worth thousands...

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