June 17, 2013 9:05 AM
Jim E. Winburn, Staff Writer
VICTORVILLE • The city, airport authority, and a city official responded to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s April 29 charges of alleged fraud with motions to dismiss.
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Private contractors with top security clearance, like Edward Snowden, have become very common in the federal government.
By Morgan Little
June 11, 2013, 1:57 p.m.
The American Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday that it has filed a federal lawsuit against key members of President Obama’s national security team over the National Security Agency’s telephone surveillance, the first legal challenge to the newly disclosed intelligence gathering system.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 – 10:00 a.m.
It’s been a few years since Redlands Centennial Bank was seized by federal regulators.
During that time the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) filed a lawsuit against the ousted board of directors back on January 14, 2011. At that time, the defendants said the allegations by the FDIC, that then-board members essentially operated the institution like their own piggy bank, were merit-less and would be dismissed.
He sues two men to reclaim money
By Greg Cappis, Staff Writer
Posted: 05/30/2013 05:35:52 PM PDT
REDLANDS — Millions of dollars were zapped from two accounts managed by a downtown brokerage firm — Thornes and Associates Inc. Investment Securities, 412 E. State St., according to a regulatory agency.
May 29, 2013; 06:24 PM
The federal agency that regulates investment counselors and brokerage houses has filed a complaint alleging that a Redlands businessman handed over clients’ assets to two friends, including money he was investing for an elderly woman with Alzheimer’s disease.
To read story by Jack Katzanek in The Press Enterprise, click here.
May 24, 2013; 07:49 PM
The Riverside Sheriff’s Association wants a new trial in the federal whistle-blower lawsuit won by a former official of the law enforcement union who was dismissed in 2005 after complaining about legal fees spent to defend a deputy accused of vandalism.
To read story by Richard K. De Atley in The Press Enterprise, click here.
By Karen Gullo
May 15, 2013 9:01 PM PT
Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) must pay customers $203 million for manipulating debit-card transactions to boost overdraft fees, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled, reinstating a 2010 damage award.
Scott Teutscher, 55 from Temecula a former Riverside Sheriff’s Association official was awarded $814,750 on his claim that he was unlawfully dismissed for whistle blowing in 2005.
May 14, 2013; 06:39 PM
A former Riverside Sheriff’s Association official who won a whistle-blower lawsuit against the law enforcement union is seeking more than $1.99 million in back wages, attorney fees and other costs — and wants to be reinstated.
To read story by Richard K. De Atley in The Press Enterprise, click here.
By Dale Kasler
dkasler@sacbee.com
Published: Wednesday, May. 8, 2013 – 1:40 pm
Last Modified: Wednesday, May. 8, 2013 – 3:56 pm
Former CalPERS Chief Executive Fred Buenrostro pleaded innocent today to conspiracy charges in connection with the pension fund’s bribery scandal.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
May 6, 2013
Gov. Jerry Brown today called “mystifying” the continuing legal pressure on his administration to reduce California’s prison population, as he reiterated his pledge to appeal the case as far as the U.S. Supreme Court.
Filed under: Courts, In the News, Jerry Brown, Law Enforcement, Legal, State of California, U.S. District Court
May 03, 2013; 07:40 PM
A former Riverside Sheriff’s Association official dismissed in 2005 after complaining about legal fees spent to defend a deputy accused of vandalism has won his federal whistleblower lawsuit.
To read story by Richard K. De Atley in The Press Enterprise, click here.
By Denny Walsh and Torey Van Oot
dwalsh@sacbee.com
Published: Saturday, May. 4, 2013 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Saturday, May. 4, 2013 – 12:41 am
A plan for inmate population reduction in California’s prisons that was submitted Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown and his corrections department to three federal judges may be dead on arrival.
Filed under: Courts, In the News, Jerry Brown, Law Enforcement, Legal, State of California, U.S. District Court
By Denny Walsh
dwalsh@sacbee.com
Published: Thursday, May. 2, 2013 – 10:53 pm | Page 1A
Last Modified: Friday, May. 3, 2013 – 7:53 am
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Brown administration told a federal court Thursday night that to further reduce inmate prison population the Legislature would have to agree to dramatically restructure the laws governing California’s corrections system.
April 30, 2013 9:37 PM
Jim E. Winburn, Staff Writer
VICTORVILLE • A City Councilwoman and former bond broker for the municipal airport authority blame what they called “handshake deals” for the questionable financial practices that ultimately led to this week’s fraud allegations against Victorville by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
April 29, 2013 8:40 PM
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Jim E. Winburn, Staff Writer
VICTORVILLE • The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday filed a fraud complaint against the city of Victorville, a securities underwriting firm and others involved in a 2008 municipal bond offering.
Monday, April 29, 2013 – 12:30 p.m.
A shoe has finally dropped in the ongoing financial escapades of Victorville, California.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), announced in a press release Monday, that it has filed a civil fraud lawsuit against the city of Victorville and investment banking firm Kinsell, Newcomb and DeDios (KND).
The State Worker
Chronicling civil-service life for California state workers
By Jon Ortiz
April 19, 2013
After fighting and twice losing in court, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association is poised to pay off a $5 million federal defamation judgment.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
April 16, 2013
SHENZHEN, China – Gov. Jerry Brown said Tuesday his administration will prepare to release as many as 10,000 state prisoners if the state is unable to get out from under a court order demanding it reduce California’s prison population.
In a sharp rebuke of Gov. Jerry Brown, a federal judge Friday rejected his administration’s bid to end federal court control of mental health care in California’s prisons, finding that treatment has not attained a constitutional level and “systemic failures persist,” which are leading to inmate suicides and other problems.
By Denny Walsh and Sam Stanton
dwalsh@sacbee.com
Published: Saturday, Apr. 6, 2013 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
In a sharp rebuke of Gov. Jerry Brown, a federal judge Friday rejected his administration’s bid to end federal court control of mental health care in California’s prisons, finding that treatment has not attained a constitutional level and “systemic failures persist,” which are leading to inmate suicides and other problems.
Filed under: Courts, In the News, Jerry Brown, Law Enforcement, State of California, U.S. District Court
By Dale Kasler
dkasler@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2013 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2013 – 8:20 am
It was the biggest scandal in CalPERS’ history, with allegations of top officials trading pension fund investments for junkets, jobs and other favors.
What made it a criminal case, prosecutors say, was a handful of phony letters.
February 18, 2013; 04:17 PM
SACRAMENTO — San Diego County’s Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians this month became the first California tribe to get a casino agreement through the federal courts.
To read story by Jim Miller In The Press Enterprise, click here.
Filed under: Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, Budget, Business, Courts, Finance, In the News, Indian Tribal Governments, Morongo Band of Mission Indians, Pala Band of Mission Indians, Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, U.S. District Court
By E. Scott Reckard
February 13, 2013, 1:27 p.m.
A government lawsuit accusing No. 1 home lender Wells Fargo & Co. of defrauding a federal mortgage-insurance program is shaping up as a knock-down battle between the San Francisco bank and the U.S. Justice Department.
U.S. judges give California six more months to cut inmate population
By Sam Stanton and Denny Walsh
sstanton@sacbee.com
Published: Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 – 7:33 am
Three weeks after Gov. Jerry Brown declared the state’s prison overcrowding crisis over, a court of three federal judges said Tuesday that state officials can have six more months to reduce the inmate population to the previously ordered level.
Tyrone Freeman, who represented about 190,000 homecare workers as an SEIU leader, was found guilty on 14 counts after a 10-day trial in Los Angeles.
By Paul Pringle and Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times
January 28, 2013, 10:33 p.m.
A onetime rising star in national labor circles who headed California’s biggest union local was convicted Monday on federal charges that he stole tens of thousands of dollars from his low-income members.
By Sam Stanton, David Siders and Denny Walsh
sstanton@sacbee.com
Published: Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 – 8:03 am
Gov. Jerry Brown’s declaration Tuesday that California has solved its prison overcrowding problem is part of a bold move to wrest control of the nation’s largest corrections system back from the federal courts and their appointed overseers.
But experts say there is a slim chance of that.
Dan Walters
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 – 7:58 am
Jerry Brown knows firsthand that crime is a political minefield.
Wes Woods II, Staff Writer
Posted: 01/07/2013 10:23:43 AM PST
Updated: 01/07/2013 06:40:13 PM PST
LOS ANGELES – A former medical marijuana dispensary owner on Monday was sentenced to 10 years in prison for operating three facilities in the Inland Empire.
Aaron Sandusky, one of only a handful of defendants to fight U.S. prosecutors, was convicted in October on federal charges of distributing marijuana.
PolitiCal
On politics in the Golden State
January 7, 2013 | 10:02 pm
Gov. Jerry Brown contends California no longer needs to reduce overcrowding in the state’s prisons.
Wes Woods II and Sandra Emerson, Staff Writers
Posted: 01/05/2013 06:10:08 AM PST
Updated: 01/05/2013 10:03:27 PM PST
LOS ANGELES – Former G3 Holistic Inc. medical marijuana dispensary president Aaron Sandusky is expected to be sentenced to federal prison on Monday for up to 10 years.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
By Torey Van Oot
November 28, 2012
U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller today ordered Kinde Durkee to serve eight years in prison for what has been called California’s biggest case of campaign treasurer fraud.
Filed under: Campaigns, Courts, Elections, In the News, Legal, Politics, State of California, U.S. District Court
By Torey Van Oot
tvanoot@sacbee.com
Published: Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 4A
Last Modified: Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012 – 7:54 am
A new court filing suggests that bad business practices and an inability to confront underperforming employees and nonpaying clients sparked the most extensive campaign treasurer fraud in the history of California.
Filed under: Campaigns, Courts, Education, Elections, In the News, Legal, Politics, State Senate, U.S. District Court
The political aide will be sentenced Wednesday for stealing more than $7 million from clients. Representatives for some victims say the penalty isn’t enough.
By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times
November 26, 2012, 7:14 p.m.
SACRAMENTO — Federal prosecutors recommended Monday that former campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee — who pleaded guilty earlier this year to mail fraud involving the theft of more than $7 million from her clients — be sentenced to about eight years in prison.
Filed under: Campaigns, Courts, Democrats, Elections, In the News, Legal, Politics, State of California, U.S. District Court
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/05/2012 04:18:54 PM PDT
Catch up: Water district continues deliberation on Cadiz Project | Cadiz Project advances with approval of environmental report | San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors approve desert groundwater pipeline plan
A federal lawsuit aiming to block a controversial pipeline project in the Mojave Desert has been dismissed, according to one of the defendants.
Los Angeles-based Cadiz Inc., which has teamed with the Santa Margarita Water District in Rancho Santa Margarita on the 43-mile pipeline project, said Friday in a news release that a U.S. District Court Court judge dismissed the case.
By Sandra Emerson, Staff Writer
Created: 09/09/2012 02:11:52 PM PDT
RIVERSIDE — A Rancho Cucamonga man was sentenced Monday to 12 months and one day in prison for aiding Upland’s former mayor in soliciting a bribe from a city business.
Sandra Emerson, Staff Writer
Created: 09/09/2012 02:11:52 PM PDT
Anthony Orlando Sanchez, a co-defendant convicted in the federal bribery case against the former mayor of Upland, is scheduled to be sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Riverside.
By Sandra Emerson
Created: 08/27/2012 12:26:25 PM PDT
Upland contractor John Hennes was sentenced today to 12 months — six months in jail and six months of home confinement — for his role in a federal bribery case involving former Upland mayor John Pomierski and a local business.
Week ahead
Staff Reports
Created: 08/26/2012 12:14:45 PM PDT
Upland contractor John Hennes is scheduled to be sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Riverside.
By Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times
August 12, 2012, 5:42 p.m.
SACRAMENTO — California’s progress in relieving its teeming prisons has slowed so much that it probably won’t comply with a court-ordered population reduction, and judges have raised the prospect of letting some inmates out early.
Filed under: Budget, Courts, Finance, In the News, Law Enforcement, Legal, State of California, U.S. District Court
Sandra Emerson, Staff Writer
Created: 08/06/2012 08:57:54 AM PDT
RIVERSIDE – Former Upland Mayor John Pomierski was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a federal bribery charge.
Pomierski was sentenced during a hearing at U.S. District Court in Riverside for accepting a $5,000 payment from the property owner of Chronic Cantina restaurant in Upland in exchange for helping him obtain a conditional use permit.
Pomierski
Monday, August 6, 2012 – 02:25 p.m.
It’s a two year federal prison sentence for Former Upland Mayor John “J.P.” Pomierski.
The sentence related to Pomierski’s plea to accepting a $5,000 bribe was handed down by U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips in Riverside on Monday afternoon.
Filed under: Cities, Courts, In the News, Legal, Politics, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. District Court, U.S. Government, Upland
By Paul Pringle and Richard Winton Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 31, 2012, 6:27 p.m.
Not long ago, Tyrone Freeman was a rising young star in the national labor movement, already the head of California’s biggest union local and a force in Democratic politics from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C.
Freeman’s quick climb up the ranks of the powerful Service Employees International Union burnished his reputation as an effective advocate for the disadvantaged, a man who helped improve the lot of about 190,000 workers paid about $9 an hour to provide in-home care for the infirm.
Filed under: Courts, In the News, Legal, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. District Court, U.S. Government, Unions
Sunday, June 23, 2012 – 11:00 a.m.
News from across the transom this Sunday morning.
Arnett to challenge Shorett again
Joe Arnett is going to take another shot at unseating San Bernardino City Councilman Fred Shorett.
Filed under: Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Campaigns, Cities, Courts, Democrats, Elections, Finance, Health Care, Immigration, In the News, Jerry Brown, Legal, Politics, Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino, State Assembly, State of California, State Senate, U.S. District Court, U.S. Government, U.S. Supreme Court, Upland
Thursday, May 31, 2012 – 10:00 p.m.
Here’s some news of interesting flowing across transom Thursday evening.
Brown to cut $8 billion from state budget
California Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday indicated he will seek to cut $8 billion from the bloated state budget. It appears Brown will force the issue if legislators don’t agree.
Sandra Emerson, Staff Writer
Created: 05/03/2012 08:54:13 AM PDT
Anthony Orlando Sanchez pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Riverside, admitting to conspiracy to commit bribery.
Sanchez, 36, was charged with acting as a conduit between an Upland business and former Mayor John Pomierski. Pomierski pleaded guilty last week in the bribery case.
Sandra Emerson, Staff Writer
Created: 04/28/2012 07:19:08 PM PDT
UPLAND – Former Upland Mayor John Pomierski’s admission to accepting a $5,000 bribe from an Upland business does not worry city officials from a legal standpoint.
Pomierski pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Riverside to accepting a bribe from the owners of Chronic Cantina restaurant as part of a plea agreement.
Filed under: Cities, Courts, In the News, Legal, Local Government, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, U.S. District Court, Upland
Pomierski
Thursday, April 26, 2012 – 11:45 a.m.
Former Upland Mayor John “J.P.” Pomierski entered into a plea agreement before Federal Judge Virginia Philips in U.S. District Court in Riverside on Thursday morning.
The plea agreement stems from charges related to influence peddling.
RICHARD K. De ATLEY, STAFF WRITER
rdeatley@pe.com
Published: 25 April 2012 05:56 PM
President Obama has nominated Jesus Bernal, who heads the Inland-area public defender’s office in Riverside, as a judge for the vacant federal court bench in Riverside, Sen. Barbara Boxer’s office announced Wednesday.
By Marc Lifsher
April 23, 2012, 1:10 p.m.
SACRAMENTO — Federal securities regulators sued a former chief executive and a former director of the country’s largest public pension fund, accusing them of scheming to defraud an investment firm of more than $20 million in fees.
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed the lawsuit Monday against the former CEO, Federico Buenrostro Jr., and the former CalPERS board member, Alfred J.R. Villalobos, alleging that they fabricated documents provided to Apollo Global Management in New York.
Pomierski
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 – 10:55 a.m.
Is there a plea deal in the long-running Upland corruption case against former Upland Mayor John “J.P.” Pomierski?
Pomierski
Sandra Emerson, Staff Writer
Created: 04/04/2012 04:19:12 PM PDT
A federal court judge in Riverside is considering a request to postpone former Upland Mayor John Pomierski’s trial for the third time.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
March 30, 2012
Democratic campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee pleaded guilty this morning to defrauding her clients of at least $7 million, bringing to a close a case that one official has called the “most extensive campaign treasurer fraud in the history of California.”
Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is shown arriving at federal court in Washington on April 7, 2009. (Gerald Herbert / AP Photo / March 19, 2012)
Op-Ed
Ted Stevens and the department of injustice
An inquiry tells the story of government lawyers who failed to live up to their professional responsibilities and thus failed to give the former Alaska senator a fair trial.
By Michael Carey
March 19, 2012
As his trial on corruption charges approached in the fall of 2008, Ted Stevens railed to me in an email: “What did I do, Michael? What did I do?” The wounded rage smoldering in that rhetorical question to a reporter reflected his belief that he had done nothing wrong. He continued to insist on his innocence after a Washington, D.C., jury found him guilty of lying on financial disclosure forms.
Stevens’ conviction was dismissed in 2009 after the Justice Department’s admission that government lawyers failed to turn over evidence the Stevens defense should have received. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan, who presided over Stevens’ trial, soon authorized an investigation of the prosecutors’ conduct, a move as rare as the trial of a U.S. senator.
Agency investigates relationship between broker, Inland Energy VP
March 18, 2012 10:17 AM
Brooke Edwards Staggs
Editor’s Note:
This is part one in a two-part series looking at the SEC’s investigation into the city of Victorville. See Monday’s Daily Press for part two, looking at whether bond funds were used to make campaign contributions.
VICTORVILLE • As part of its two-year probe into Victorville, the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether there were hidden financial ties between the man who led the charge on the city’s largest energy venture and the man who’s brokered more than $400 million in taxpayer-supported debt on behalf of the city.
California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris announces her state’s portion of a landmark mortgage foreclosure settlement in February. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
By Jim Puzzanghera
March 12, 2012, 12:19 p.m.
Reporting from Washington— State and federal officials on Monday formally filed the $25-billion settlement with the nation’s biggest mortgage servicers.
The lengthy documents outlining the terms of the landmark settlement were filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, formally ending investigations by the Justice Department, Housing and Urban Development Department and attorneys general in 49 states into botched foreclosure paperwork and mortgage servicing problems.
Filed under: Business, Courts, In the News, Kamala Harris, Legal, Real Estate, State of California, U.S. District Court
George Will
By George F. Will,
Published: February 10, 2012
All elected officials, and those who help finance elections in the expectation that certain promises will be kept — and everyone who cares about the rule of law — should hope the Supreme Court agrees to hear Don Siegelman’s appeal of his conviction. Until the court clarifies what constitutes quid pro quo political corruption, Americans engage in politics at their peril because prosecutors have dangerous discretion to criminalize politics.
Filed under: Campaigns, Courts, Elections, In the News, Legal, Politics, U.S. District Court, U.S. Supreme Court
BY DUANE W. GANG
STAFF WRITER
dgang@pe.com
Published: 15 February 2012 05:59 PM
A federal judge this week ruled against the Service Employees International Union in a lawsuit that claimed the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department retaliated against the union’s chief labor negotiator for her involvement in the organization.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 – 06:00 p.m.
So much for that plea deal way back when!
Anthony Orlando Sanchez, 36, plead not guilty to extortion and bribery charges this afternoon in U.S. District Court in Riverside.
Sandra Emerson, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Created: 12/30/2011 12:17:57 PM PST
UPLAND – The city experienced a number of controversies in 2011 and will continue to deal with some of the legal ramifications in 2012.
Former Mayor John Pomierski’s federal trial is set for April, which may occur during the city election when the mayor’s seat and a council seat is up for re-election.
Adams
Sandra Emerson, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Created: 12/27/2011 10:24:01 AM PST
UPLAND – Former Police Chief Steve Adams is no longer being accused of extortion by operators of a closed restaurant.
Adams was dismissed from Chronic Cantina’s civil case against the city earlier this month.
By David Glovin and Joshua Gallu
December 16, 2011 9:58 AM PT
Daniel Mudd, the former chief executive officer of Fannie Mae, and Richard Syron, ex-CEO of Freddie Mac, were sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for understating by hundreds of billions of dollars the subprime loans held by the firms.
Despite their shocking misconduct, federal prosecutors in the Ted Stevens trial may not be charged with criminal contempt.
By Jim Morhard
Saturday, December 3, 2011
After federal district court Judge Emmet Sullivan dismissed the conviction of former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens on charges of failing to properly report gifts, he ordered an investigation of the prosecutors. Quoting from the report (which is sealed until January), the judge recently explained that the investigators found ample evidence that the prosecution of Stevens (who was killed in a plane crash last year) was “permeated by the systematic concealment of significant exculpatory evidence which would have independently corroborated his defense and his testimony, and seriously damaged the testimony and credibility of the government’s key witness.”
PolitiCal
On politics in the Golden State
December 6, 2011 | 2:59 pm
Kinde Durkee Three months after the arrest of campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee on suspicion of mishandling political funds from a state lawmaker’s account, federal prosecutors said Tuesday they need more time to complete their investigation to determine whether other politicians lost money.
Sandra Emerson, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Created: 12/06/2011 12:05:33 PM PST
UPLAND – An Upland contractor who was named in an 11-count indictment along with former Mayor John Pomierski has pleaded guilty to two of the four counts against him.
A defendant in the Colonies corruption case wins the unsealing of comments from a different grand jury
BY IMRAN GHORI
STAFF WRITER
ighori@pe.com
Published: 29 November 2011 09:29 AM
A San Bernardino County judge on Tuesday ordered the grand jury testimony of a former county official unsealed as part of a government corruption case.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
November 25, 2011
Rebuffed by the California Supreme Court, a former Republican congressman and four others filed suit this week in federal court to overturn the state’s newly drawn congressional maps.
Joe Nelson, The (San Bernardino County) Sun
Created: 11/18/2011 02:43:50 PM PST
A federal judge on Friday denied a request by Rancho Cucamonga developer Jeff Burum’s attorney to essentially void an FBI search of Burum’s home and office by ordering the return of all materials seized during the search.
Kaiser calls claim ‘deeply puzzling’
November 15, 2011 5:11 PM
Tomoya Shimura
Staff Writer
ONTARIO • Prime Healthcare Services, which owns Desert Valley Hospital, filed an antitrust lawsuit Tuesday alleging that a labor union and Kaiser Permanente have conspired to drive Prime hospitals out of Southern California.
Joe Nelson and Mike Cruz, Staff Writers
Created: 11/10/2011 04:48:37 PM PST
RIVERSIDE – A federal judge seemed poised to rule that federal agents did not violate the civil rights of Rancho Cucamonga developer Jeff Burum when they served search warrants at his home and office in September.
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 11/09/2011 05:33:36 PM PST
An attorney for Rancho Cucamonga developer Jeff Burum said federal officials on Wednesday returned all materials seized from Burum’s home and office during an FBI raid on Sept. 15.
By Peter Hecht
phecht@sacbee.com
Published: Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 – 6:39 am
They are the public face of a litigious battle to redefine federal authority on medical marijuana.
With emotion and printed placards – “Marijuana is medicine, Let states regulate!” – about 200 people protested at the U.S. courthouse in Sacramento Wednesday against a federal crackdown on California dispensaries and property owners leasing to medical cannabis businesses.
Filed under: Courts, Health Care, In the News, Law Enforcement, Legal, U.S. District Court, U.S. Government
The Harborside Health Clinic in Oakland is a $20-million-a-year dispensary. (Robert Galbraith / Reuters)
By John Hoeffel, Los Angeles Times
November 7, 2011, 7:45 p.m.
Medical marijuana advocates have filed lawsuits in California’s four federal judicial districts aimed at quickly winning court orders to halt the U.S. attorneys from closing dispensaries.
Mike Cruz, Staff Writer
Created: 11/01/2011 06:25:06 PM PDT
In a rare move, federal prosecutors have agreed to return materials to a Rancho Cucamonga developer that were seized in September as part of an investigation into alleged corruption surrounding the $102 million lawsuit settlement between Colonies Partners LP and San Bernardino County.
BY IMRAN GHORI
STAFF WRITER
ighori@pe.com
Published: 01 November 2011 09:35 PM
The U.S. Attorney’s office will return materials seized in mid-September from Rancho Cucamonga developer Jeff Burum during an FBI search at his home and business, according to an order approved by a federal judge Monday.
Capital Notes — From KQED’s John Myers
October 31, 2011, 4:30 pm • Posted by John Myers
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A legal analysis by the state’s campaign finance watchdog agency says that donations never deposited into candidate accounts by accused treasurer Kinde Durkee can be solicited a second time.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
October 27, 2011
A Republican-backed coalition that failed to persuade the California Supreme Court to kill the state’s newly drawn Senate maps is now asking the federal government to reject the lines as a dilution of Latino voting power.
Filed under: Campaigns, Courts, Elections, In the News, Legal, Politics, Republicans, State of California, U.S. District Court