Month: January 2013
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BULLETIN: Gary Calhoun, Operator Of MPB Today ‘Grocery’ Program, Arrested On Racketeering Charge
Gary Allen Calhoun was arrested and booked in Escambia County, Fla., on a racketeering charge last month, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. Details of the case were not immediately clear early this morning. Calhoun, 56, of Pensacola, appears to have been released on bond. A note in the booking information references the Florida…
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PP Blog Experiences Unusual Traffic Pattern
UPDATED 10:03 A.M. ET (JAN. 5, U.S.A.) The PP Blog has experienced an unusual traffic pattern on a couple of occasions today. Like previous strange patterns, “readers” displaying a range of international IPs sought to pull the same story virtually simultaneously. Today’s unusual pattern involved repeated calls to the Blog’s database to load a story…
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STAR TRIBUNE: Ponzi Pitchman Bo Beckman Sentenced To 30 Years; Judge Scolds Trevor Cook’s Key Rainmaker For Wordplay
UPDATED 7:52 A.M. ET (U.S.A.) The Star Tribune of Minneapolis/St. Paul is reporting that Jason Bo-Alan Beckman has been sentenced to 30 years in the $194 million Trevor Cook Ponzi scheme and that the sentencing judge scolded Beckman for using the English language as a weapon against investors he harmed. Beckman was Cook’s key rainmaker…