Archive for April, 2008
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Bill Clears Hurdle At State Capitol (Hartford Courant)
The state House of Representatives on Monday overwhelmingly approved a tough new mandate that requires the state to drastically cut the greenhouse gas emissions associated with global warming.
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A sad saga: horse racing in Las Vegas (Las Vegas Sun)
Tue, Apr 29, 2008 (2 a.m.) Las Vegas Park might have become one of the premier Kentucky Derby prep races. Maybe Big Brown or Z Fortune would have raced here in a Las Vegas Handicap or Silver State Stakes in recent months.
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Parish will be sentenced June 26 (The Post and Courier)
Ending months of anticipation, the sentencing for failed economist Al Parish has been set: 10 a.m. on June 26, 14 months after he was first charged. Prosecutors are expected to recommend at least three decades in prison for Parish, his attorney said Tuesday.
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Mohave County developer suing former partners (Mohave Valley Daily News)
KINGMAN - A Bullhead City developer and his brother are suing a family of former partners of a California subdivision project for slander and libel.
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Guest Commentary (Tucson Weekly)
Don’t believe the development cheerleaders and apologists: Growth can be limited and even stopped
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Parish pleads to state charge (The Post and Courier)
Fallen economist Al Parish pleaded guilty to fraud again Monday morning, this time confessing to a charge by the state of South Carolina. Wearing a dark blue striped suit, the former Charleston Southern University business school professor said he understood the charge and admitted to orchestrating an investment scheme that burned up to $130 million on lavish goods and Ponzi-like payments to …
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‘Financial Serial Killer’ Gets 9 Years (KCRA 3 Sacramento)
A Turlock man who called himself a “financial serial killer” got nine years in federal prison for investment fraud.
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Breaking News (Monterey County Weekly)
Cedar Funding investors filed a scathing lawsuit Thursday, April 24, accusing the Monterey-based hard money broker of running a Ponzi scheme and demanding a receiver to take over the troubled mortgage fund.
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Martin called scapegoat (CNews)
Brenda Martin should never have stayed in Mexico after her boss’s empire of fraud started crumbling, says a local man who’s penned a book about the infamous $60-million TriWest Internet Ponzi scheme.
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