Blog Posts in August, 2011
Posted on Aug 31, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein
A pastor at a Los Angeles church recently plead no contest to charges alleging that he had unlawful sex with a minor. The 14-year-old victim was a member of the pastor's congregation and he ...
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Posted on Aug 29, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein
Tina Marquez was already serving a two year prison sentence for disability insurance fraud when she was sentenced to an additional 16 months for embezzling over $42,000 from a Glendale youth football ...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein
Recently, the California Supreme Court agreed to hear a First Amendment overbreadth challenge to a statute making it a crime to threaten retaliation against a victim or witness. Eddie Lowery and his ...
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Posted on Aug 15, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein, Esq.
A ttorney Leslie McAfee has been charged with stealing more than $300,000 in guns, jewelry and art from his friend's estate after he died of cancer in March 2010. He was arrested when a ...
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Posted on Aug 13, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein, Esq.
A UCLA basketball player has been charged with Grand Theft after police were able to track down a stolen MacBook Pro in his possession, using the laptop's tracking device. The point guard has been ...
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Posted on Aug 11, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein, Esq.
An Aliso Viejo dance instructor, was arrested after he secretly videotaped five teenage girls in his bathroom during a pool party at his home and sexually assaulted a 16- year-old girl on another ...
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Posted on Aug 9, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein, Esq.
Dr. Glen Justice, an Orange County cancer doctor, ran a fraudulent scam from 2004 to 2009 that caused health insurance providers to suffer losses between $400,000 and $1 million. Justice defrauded ...
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Posted on Aug 8, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein
An Orange County woman, Catherine Becker, allegedly drugged her husband's dinner, tied him to their bed, and when he awoke, she sliced off his penis with a knife and dropped it down an active ...
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Posted on Aug 5, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein
A North Hollywood man, Petros Odachyan, pleaded guilty in June 2010 in Los Angeles Federal court to conspiracy to commit Health Care Fraud. He was the manager of RL Medical Supply and fraudulently ...
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Posted on Aug 3, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein
Kathy Stamps, a United States Forest Service accountant at the Angeles National Forest offices in Arcadia, had access to funds contributed by private entities for road construction and other projects ...
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Posted on Aug 1, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein
Gary Dourdan, former star of "CSI" was arrested in Los Angeles for alleged drug possession after he crashed into two parked cars. Authorities were investigating the scene of the accident ...
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