Archive for April 2013

Suspect 2 Still At Large; Suspect 1 Reported Dead; Extraordinary Drama Plays Out In Greater Boston; 1 Police Officer Killed, Another Wounded

Suspect 2 Still At Large; Suspect 1 Reported Dead; Extraordinary Drama Plays Out In Greater Boston; 1 Police Officer Killed, Another Wounded

UPDATED 1:15 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Suspect 1 in the Boston Marathon bombings is reported dead after an overnight battle with police; Suspect 2 is reportedly still on the loose. There are concerns he may be armed with explosives. The FBI this morning identified Suspect 2 as Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19. (See newly released photo at left.) […]

BULLETIN: FBI Releases Photos, Video Of 2 Men Deemed Suspects In Boston Marathon Bombing; Asks Public’s Help In Identifying Them; Men Considered Armed And Extremely Dangerous

BULLETIN: FBI Releases Photos, Video Of 2 Men Deemed Suspects In Boston Marathon Bombing; Asks Public's Help In Identifying Them; Men Considered Armed And Extremely Dangerous

EDITOR’S NOTE: These photos and the video link were released by the FBI late this afternoon. Suspect 1 is in the black cap; Suspect 2 is in the white cap. FBI contact information is at the bottom of this post  . . . Link to FBI YouTube video: The suspects are considered armed and extremely dangerous, […]

Paul Kevin Curtis Of Corinth, Miss., Under Arrest In Ricin Letters Probe, FBI Says

Paul Kevin Curtis Of Corinth, Miss., Under Arrest In Ricin Letters Probe, FBI Says

UPDATED 1:43 P.M. EDT U.S.A. (APRIL 25) The charges against Paul Kevin Curtis have been dropped and he has been released from custody. See this April 25 story by the AP via Yahoo News. Here, below, our earlier story . . . The FBI has arrested Paul Kevin Curtis in the ricin letters probe, the […]

Purported Alabama ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Convicted Of Trying To Pay Off Mortgage With Bogus Note For $10 Million

Purported Alabama 'Sovereign Citizen' Convicted Of Trying To Pay Off Mortgage With Bogus Note For $10 Million

A 64-year-old Alabama man who tried to pay off his mortgage by mailing a bogus “bonded promissory note” for $10 million to a mortgage-servicing company has been convicted of fraud, the office of U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance of the Northern District of Alabama said. Donald Joe Barber of Pinson faces up to 25 years […]

BULLETIN: Arrest Made In Shooting Deaths Of Texas Prosecutor And Wife — And Assistant District Attorney

BULLETIN: Arrest Made In Shooting Deaths Of Texas Prosecutor And Wife -- And Assistant District Attorney

BULLETIN: Kim Williams, the wife of a former local Justice of the Peace, is listed as an inmate at the Kaufman County Jail in Texas on charges of capital murder in the shooting deaths of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, his wife Cynthia McLelland — and Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse. Hasse, 57, was shot […]

BULLETIN: FBI Says Letter Addressed To President Obama ‘Preliminarily Tested Positive For Ricin’

BULLETIN: FBI Says Letter Addressed To President Obama 'Preliminarily Tested Positive For Ricin'

BULLETIN: (UPDATED 2:06 P.M. EDT) The FBI and the U.S. Secret Service are investigating a letter sent to President Obama that “preliminarily tested positive for ricin,” the FBI says. Ricin is a deadly poison. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., also reportedly was sent a letter that preliminarily tested positive for ricin. The President has been briefed […]

Idaho Says Profitable Sunrise Pitchmen May Have Exposure ‘For Soliciting Other Investors’

Idaho Says Profitable Sunrise Pitchmen May Have Exposure 'For Soliciting Other Investors'

UPDATED 9:44 A.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Add Idaho to the list of U.S. states and provinces in Canada that have issued Investor Alerts or cease-and-desist orders against the Profitable Sunrise HYIP “program.” And because Profitable Sunrise also was in the business of recruiting pitchmen to sell unregistered securities in addition to offering preposterous returns, Idaho’s Department […]

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Explosions At Boston Marathon

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Explosions At Boston Marathon

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: There are multiple reports of explosions at the Boston Marathon, with accompanying reports of injuries. U.S. television networks have interrupted regularly scheduled programming to bring breaking news. The situation is fluid. The cause is not yet known . . . The Boston Marathon is held each year on Patriot’s Day […]

BULLETIN: NOT JUST EUROPE: Court Filings In Profitable Sunrise Fraud Case Say Some Of The Money Went To Entities In Australia And Panama

BULLETIN: NOT JUST EUROPE: Court Filings In Profitable Sunrise Fraud Case Say Some Of The Money Went To Entities In Australia And Panama

UPDATED 9:11 P.M. EDT (APRIL 17, U.S.A.) Some Profitable Sunrise investors wired money to entities in Australia and Panama, according to new filings in the SEC’s pyramid-scheme and fraud case. The new filings, dated today, identify those entities as Technocash Limited of Sydney and Trackford Business Corp. of Panama City. Earlier filings named four other […]

BULLETIN: ‘Bags Of Cash And A Rolex’: KPMG Auditor Charged In Alleged Insider-Trading Scheme Involving Herbalife, Others; SEC Says Tips Went To Auditor’s Golfing Buddy In The Jewelry Business

BULLETIN: 'Bags Of Cash And A Rolex': KPMG Auditor Charged In Alleged Insider-Trading Scheme Involving Herbalife, Others; SEC Says Tips Went To Auditor's Golfing Buddy In The Jewelry Business

BULLETIN: (UPDATED 4:44 P.M. EDT U.S.A.) The SEC has gone to federal court in the Central District of California, accusing a former KPMG “lead partner” and auditor of KPMG’s Herbalife account of insider trading by providing nonpublic information on Herbalife and other companies to a golfing buddy. Scott London, 50, of Agoura Hills, Calif., was fired […]

Joe Borg Of Alabama Securities Commission Tells WSFA That Profitable Sunrise Worked Because People ‘Kind Of Glossed Over The Mathematics’

Joe Borg Of Alabama Securities Commission Tells WSFA That Profitable Sunrise Worked Because People 'Kind Of Glossed Over The Mathematics'

EDITOR’S NOTE: Alabama was one of the first U.S. states to take action against the Profitable Sunrise HYIP “program,” issuing both an Investor Alert and a cease-and-desist order last month. The C&D lists two alleged “agents” of Profitable Sunrise, demonstrating that a “program” can create problems for pitchmen, perhaps even as the “program” operators make […]