IOS Fraud Update!! Where does it Stop?

SEE BREAKING NEWS ARTICLE!
IOS FRAUD! BREAKING NEWS ALERT !!! IOS Becomes Cooperating Witness !


NEWS ALERT!!! IOS FRAUD UPDATE

As an update to our story
IOS FRAUD!!! 20 Year Look at COUPON FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS AND A LINK TO TERROR FUNDING


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Our research discovers a connection to the IOS allegations from the New Jersey State Attorney’s General’s Office. Their investigation spanned from 1999 to 2003, yet indictments and guilty pleas were not affected until March of 2007. Justice takes years to be achieved. This is a continuation of the ongoing coupon fraud schemes that have spread across America since the late 1980’s. The participants have numerous connections to each other and/or use the same methods to defraud millions from American businesses each year. The suspects in this matter pled guilty. All with Middle Eastern community ties, some of the money traced leaving the U.S. and finding its way to the Middle East. What is it being used for? You decide!

New Jersey State Attorney General – Press Release
March 2, 2007
The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, Department of Law & Public Safety announced that six North Bergen men and a Pennsylvania man pled guilty for their roles in the New Jersey based, multi-state coupon redemption fraud scheme which netted hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal profits. * see press release

The New Jersey Attorney General’s press release says; “During the Guilty Plea Hearing, the defendants admitted that between 1999 and July 2004 they contracted at least 54 stores and/or retail outlets in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland soliciting participants in a coupon redemption promotion which would purportedly qualify store owners to receive cash payments by redeeming manufacturers coupons.” It was further disclosed that the defendants would receive 50% of the checks the stores would redeem from the coupon clearinghouses. More than $580,000 was redeemed to the various store owners.

This New Jersey investigation apparently was coordinated with the FBI office of Wisconsin (The Link). On the surface this appears to be the first indictments in the IOS Coupon Fraud scheme. In that separate indictment officers of International Outsourcing Services and International Data Inc., both corporation owned by IOS, were indicted in a $250,000,000 coupon fraud that alleged an elaborate scheme of doctoring books, records, computer programs. The indictment named senior executives as to having knowledge and receiving financial benefit from the scheme.

The principles of the New Jersey coupon fraud guilty plea are identified as;
Shain Kayed, a.k.a. Mustafa
Rizek Kayed, a.k.a. Ricky
Mohamad Awadalla, a.k.a. Mike
Gazi Nasralla, a.k.a. Jino
Siyam Kayed a.k.a. Sammy
Belal Dalia
Ribbi Mustapha a.k.a. Ray (Philadelphia)

It is the opinion of www.CrimeTalkAmerica.com that these individuals are part of a conspiracy with store owners, clearinghouse representatives, money movers and launders. One can only assume from the limited information available as of this writing that the individual’s guilty plea to third degree theft may have been the opening doorway into the IOS investigation.

Where are the store owner participants in this story? They benefited from the scheme. Did they cooperate to avoid prosecution? Where is the recovery in this case? What are the financial penalties? Where does the recovery go?

The losers and victims in all these coupon fraud schemes are product consumers. We pay higher prices for goods at the grocery stores to cover the loss to manufacturers and the clearinghouses.

How is it possible that after almost 20 years of identifying the massive coupon fraud scheme, it continued to flourish? The schemes all have identical patterns of events; store enlistment, registration with clearinghouses, coupon availability (without the store owners ever submitting a coupon). The practice of clearinghouse payments without confirmation of store operations, verification of store gross sales, or even the owner’s sworn application submitted and forged by coupon fraudsters continues. These are common practices for the past 20 years to meet the criteria to successfully complete the fraud.

It takes numerous individuals in a scheme this size. More than those who register the stores. It requires coupons, cutters, packagers, account processors, banking or check transmittal companies. It’s deeper than just a coupon redeemer, a storefront or a coupon processor. It Takes a simple change to make these actions non available to the theifs.

It took the 1998 Senate Hearings, where Ben Jacobson presented details of three networks of coupon fraudsters. He presented documents, charts and copies of cancelled checks, shipping receipts and clearinghouse documents associated or affiliated with terror operations within the United States to bring attention to this national security problem.

The first information identified and reported to the FBI occurred three years before the first bombing of the World Trade center in 1993. Some of that North East group of coupon fraudsters were identified and eventually convicted of the bombing of the World Trade Center.

During that investigation, stores and activity in North Bergen County were identified as part of the coupon fraud ring. So some 20 years later, persons operating this scheme in North Bergen County, New Jersey were prosecuted and pled guilty. What took so long? How Much are the real losses?

The consumer has the right to expect that manufacturers which offer coupons for reduced pricing to entice the purchase of their products have an equal obligation to hold accountable not only the individuals fraudsters but the corporations and the businesses that are benefiting from the coupon fraud. Litigation, prosecution and seizure of assets, and/or forfeiture of profits are called for.

It’s not difficult to reduce some percentage of coupon fraud. However, if the money machine behind the coupon redemption business benefits from the inflated coupon redemption numbers, the consumer will continue to pay for these frauds, terror operatives and terror sympathizers will continue to benefit.

Is it time for a change in Processing Pattern, location registration, accountability, etc….

Tell us what you think!!!

Tragedy at Virginia Tech Highlights the issue of College Campus Security and Gun Control

Sending your kid off to college / What to consider!

In memory of the victims of the
Virginia tech April 16, 2007 shootings

The tragedy at Virginia tech highlights the issue of college campus security & safety. It takes a disaster like this to raise questions of security and guns.

today I’ve listened to many talking heads on news shows; security experts, hand gun advocates, former law enforcers, police chiefs and college administrators, they are all reaching for an answer to explain the circumstances that led to the massacre on this vast sprawling campus. With more than 26 buildings spread over miles and more than 20,000 students, securing the campus takes more than policing and electronics

planning security programs for college campuses, high rise office complexes and government facilities requires a concentrated effort of multiple disciplines; defensive space planning, security technology, policing, policies and administration, just to name a few. Protecting a large environment like Virginia tech is not an impossible task. It requires more than police. It takes planning, coordination and a management team from various disciplines meeting monthly and discussing issues, including suggestions to correct conditions of concern.

The questions that I propose to any college administration are;
*do we have priority planning for our
Security program?
*which departments are part of the
planning?
*what topics, other than cameras, bells
and whistles are reviewed?

Security is most often considered a step-child to a college institution or business. Security budgets are often shortchanged and lack the substance to deliver an effective level of security. Not to say that this is the case at Virginia tech, however on the surface it’s been highlighted that there were no security cameras recording the events of the incident, no access controls during daylight hours, and a confusing hit/miss method or procedure for notification to the students.

A 26,000 student population brings crime and security issues. This is a small city, with multiple cultures inter-acting, likes and dislikes good and evil.

The massacred multiple homicides, the largest murder scene in the history of American college institutions, require an audit examination of all college campus security plans. I’m sure that college campuses across America are evaluating their security programs.

Does this mean that the “good ol’ boy” networks of former police officers or FBI agents with little or no college campus security planning experience will be knocking on every college campus president’s door? Probably!

There is a naive expectation that because someone who was an FBI agent or police officer, he/she is experienced in security planning. Often this may not be the case. their professional experience in fighting crime, handling family disputes, responding to after the fact crime scenes does not necessarily transform into qualified security planners. Education & experience in security planning, defensive space planning human inter-action and even emergency response to such incidents requires repetitive review and continuous evaluation. An independent audit by security planners may offer suggestions not seen by the campus security officer or administrator.

Often the freedom of student life, the demands from student unions, faculty, administration and even the ACLU prevents “big brother” from watching over the student body. This often results in limiting acceptable security standards. Often community standards dictate the security plan, until a tragic incident occurs.

What do parents do now?

Sending your kids off to college this summer, one has to consider the elements of security on the campus.
· What’s the level of crime, violence, security policy and procedures, training of Ra’s and campus police as well as every college professor, faculty members and even the cleaning staff? Find this info at www. department of education/ post secondary education.gov
· How “up to date” is the security plan?
· What security electronics are in place?
· How will the planners assist the administration to meet a standard of security?
· What about the notification process?
· What is the lock-down procedure for the campus?

As the memorial services honor the 32 lives lost from this tragic event, the lack of feeling safe vs. being safe is on the minds of all those students and faculty coping with the trauma.



Guns and mental health
The ’32 clearance’ report

Now the questions of guns and mental health issues arise. It takes an incident like this for the politicians to question accessibility of guns against the right to bear arms, a constitutional guarantee.

Everyday in America the innocent are shot, murdered by gun violence. It’s not the gun that kills but rather the human who pulls the trigger. It takes evil on a safe college campus to get the discussion going about gun control. It’s not gun control but rather the policy and procedures as to the mental health of gun owners. This was not a gun bought on the streets or in a back alley. It was bought at a licensed gun dealer, ammunition bought over the internet and a lack of verification of the mental health of the purchaser.

Politicians have jumped on the bandwagon to protect us by limiting gun purchases by the mentally ill. How do we define the mentally ill? Is it an actor who screams profanity at his child? Who is to decide who gets a gun and who doesn’t? Should all gun purchasers be forced to wait a full thirty days, before they are issued a gun or gun permit? Just a criminal background check has proven that this information is not adequate to protect the community from such evil. A 30 day waiting period allows for an adequate background evaluation. This would include court records on pending litigation or other action. It should confirm the mental health status of the applicant.
Don’t blame the gun, blame the lack of effective background profiling of purchasers before the gun is issued.

for the students and faculty who lost their lives at Virginia tech, it’s too late, but maybe in the honor and memory of the 32 who fell victim to the anger and rage from this mentally unstable student, a passage of a 30 day waiting period, “32 clearance”, requiring the purchaser to provide a detailed affidavit as to personal mental health should be part of the application. The purchaser pays for the background confirmation, offers the community a level of protection from another violent action by an unstable mentally deranged individual.

The “32 clearance” report will protect communities from the unstable amongst us. This would be a true honor to those who lost their lives at Virginia tech.

Currently it’s reported by media reports that more than 83% of Americans believe that the mentally ill should not have access to purchase guns. Let’s take that % and turn it into a positive step to protect the community.



Tell us what you think!


Parents can check out the security program at the university or college that their children will attend. You are entitled to view the crime reports; the u.s justice department collects data on campus crimes. Security organizations, like the American society of industrial security can offer parents a security profile of college campuses.

This is about policy and procedures to evaluate student’s safety and stability, review of reported domestic incidents on/off campus by students should be considered.


· What does the high school record suggest? Family related problems etc.
· Should college campuses conduct student profiles, to insure that they have not offered a student that’s a stalker, criminal or even a sympathizer of terroristic behavior, a seat on the campus?

Will this be the wake-up call to the ivy tower set?

· Will college life and the professor’s who seek open academic freedom change to address reality?

· What about academic freedom? How will Virginia tech’s massacre affect scholastic freedom?


Along came 9/11 and the concept of security planning changed from corporate to governmental objectives. Many programs today are planned and sanctioned by homeland security. Colleges seek homeland certification to get additional funding from the government.

Now is the Virginia tech murders, a rush to judgment of the campus security program, campus police and administration began immediately by the press. This will be the hot topic for some time. Their will be a shift in concentration for campus security planning.

Planning, training, educating, financing and implementation are the only answer.

Would that stop a nut, a maniac from causing violence, murder or terrorism? Probably not! However the response from planning and training will greatly reduce exposure to all.

Financing and prioritizing security issues may deter the potential stalker or violent person to move to another location, or even give up on the idea. Training of personnel, students and school workers may aid in identifying a potential problem. Once identified it could be addressed to reduce the possibility of violence or even murder.

It’ obvious that someone on campus knew something, saw something and didn’t recognize the potential problem. If they did, they may not have known who to report the facts to, or may not have wanted to get involved. Get involved!!!

IOS FRAUD!!! 20 Year Look at COUPON FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS and a Link to TERRORIST FUNDING

IOS FRAUD!!! ANY CONNECTION TO FUNDING TERROR CELLS?

A Look at the Problem Over 20 Years
ARE THEY ALL CONNECTED?

Coupon redemption fraud has been a favorite financing target by terror cells and their sympathizers operating within the United States. Since 1986, terror operatives working within the U.S. have used Coupon Redemption as a method of financing operations here and abroad. This is well documented in various indictments and investigations over the years.

BAHHUR

In 1988 in South Florida, a $186 million dollar coupon fraud investigation was revealed. During an undercover sting operation by industry and law enforcement that was captured on video tape, the ring leader, Adnan Bahhur, pounded his chest to the undercover operatives and claimed that his uncle is George Habash, the leader of the PLFP (Palestine Liberation Front), the military arm of the PLO. Habash was a close associate of Saddam Hussein, the Dictator of Iraq.

When Bahhur was arrested, he recanted his claim to a relationship with Habash and his association with the PLFP. Where did the $186 million go? At the time of his arrest, many of his associates and co-conspirators, grocery store owners from across America, most Middle-Eastern men, came to Hollywood, Florida to reap additional financial gains from the coupon fraud scheme. The U.S. Postal Inspector and Broward County Sheriff’s Office conducted a raid that was captured on video.

This was the first indication of a national network of coupon fraudsters with alleged ties to terrorist operations. Years later, in 2003, Bahhur continued his criminal enterprise in other cities in the Midwest. He was convicted of various crimes in Tennessee and spent some time in the Federal lockup. He’s back out on American streets living and doing business in South Florida, today.


AYOUB / WORLD TRADE CENTER

From 1989 through 1996 in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, another coupon fraudster, the “King of Coupons”, Radwan Ayoub, generated more than $100 million from his coupon fraud enterprise. His network stretched across America, from the Northeast, into the South, the Midwest and Texas. His claim to fame is that his coupon fraud operations used a specific storefront in Brooklyn, New York, “Hamada Video”, the main operations building for the 1993 bombers of the World Trade Center. This location was used by Ayoub to ship all of his fraudulent coupons after the packages were received from cutting houses throughout the Northeast.

The “Hamada Video” storefront was the main meeting place for the planners of the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. That bombing killed six people and injured more than one thousand. Sheik Rachman and his co-conspirators in the bombing, including red head, Mahmud Abouhalima, chief planner of the bombing, often met at this location. Mahmud Abouhalima was the manager of Hamada Video. The storefront and basement was used to gather supplies for preparation of the bombing, according to the owner of the building. Abouhalima lived on the third floor of the building. The Sheik, Abouhalima and others in the bombing conspiracy were supported by coupon fraud. They are currently serving 200 plus years in U.S. Federal Penitentiary.
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ZEIN ISA

In St. Louis, Zein Isa was running the Abu-Nidal terror cell from his home and business, a grocery storefront. Isa and his associates, a network of Middle-Eastern grocery store owners, ran a mill of coupon fraud activities, stolen goods, adulteration of baby foods and trafficking in stolen treasury notes.

He became famous, while trying to remain under the radar of the U.S. government, when he murdered his daughter, Palestina, while his wife (not the girl’s mother), held her down. She was stabbed numerous times. Her murder screams were captured on a Federal bug, but the response was too late to save her life. At the time, a task force of Federal law enforcement agents, the U.S. Postal Inspector’s Office and the Secret Service, in addition to state police and local law enforcement were investigating Isa and his terror network. They failed to act on the network. With the murder of Isa’s daughter and his subsequent arrest, the task force disbanded. Isa’s network of coupon fraud redemption associates stretched across America into Mexico. His organization was closely associated with Saddam Hussein, the Iraq dictator. Isa died while serving a life sentence in the Federal Penitentiary.


The three coupon fraud networks described above used the coupon clearinghouses to defraud hundreds of American Corporations out of hundreds of millions of dollars over a period of more than ten years.

The activities of those who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, murdered a daughter to protect secrets and paid millions for funding operations are all suspected of supporting terror cells within the United States and the Middle East.


IOS – INTERNATIONAL OUTSOURCING SERVICES

Now in 2007 comes International Outsourcing Services, Inc. (IOS), which has become one of the largest coupon clearinghouse operations in the United States.

IOS clears coupons for many businesses run by Middle-Eastern owners or operators. Many are not associated with terror operations but allow their businesses or names to be used by those who are terror-connected. Many of them had never submitted coupons to a coupon clearinghouse for redemption. An investigation of more than 300 stores associated with the IOS coupon fraud scheme found storefronts that did not sell grocery goods and stores which did not even exist.

Abdel Rahim Jebara, the leader of the IOS coupon fraud scheme, has residences in South Florida, new York and Ramallah, in the Palestinian territory of Israel. He sent a portion of his coupon fraud profits to Ramallah to support family members and his associates, who were recorded on tape proclaiming a “jihad in Ohio”.

IOS, with operations in El Paso, Texas; Bloomfield, Illinois; Memphis, Tennessee and Mexico is similar to the former clearinghouse locations of Seven Oaks and CRI during the late 1980’s and the early 1990’s. The Seven Oaks clearinghouse contributed funding to the Radwan Ayoub network, with more than $100 million going to financing operations for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Some of the names and locations cited in the IOS indictments and the February 2003 indictments which led to the IOS criminal investigation were found to be involved in coupon fraud operations throughout the 1990’s. This was well-documented and evidence was provided to Federal law enforcement agencies in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, but no action was taken.

In the IOS indictments some of the participants have the same names, faces, addresses and networks as those implicated in the early 1990’s. CRIMETALKAMERICA.COM finds that some of the same grocery storefronts, with the same addresses, were listed as suspect stores in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, submitting an excessive volume of coupons for redemption during those periods.

Named in the 2003 Abdel Rahim Jebra indictment which led to the 2007 IOS indictment is Robert McDonald, an employee of International Data, Inc. (IDI). In 1989 McDonald was listed as a person of interest in the Northeast coupon fraud investigation. He had a relationship with the Seven Oaks clearinghouse of El Paso, Texas. An internal investigation by Seven Oaks and the Neilsen Clearinghouse (NCH) found that McDonald had a relationship with two of the employees of Seven Oaks who were receiving financial reward for their inside information from the “King of Coupons”, Radwan Ayoub, the supplier of financing to the perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
…What role did McDonald play?

In the wake of this investigation, two Seven Oaks employees were terminated and another resigned. In addition, policies and procedures were adjusted to impose better governance over controls that were bypassed by the Seven Oaks employees implicated in the scheme.

The coupon fraud continued on for some 17 years, involving some new players and some old ones…a similar fraud by networks and individuals with ties to Middle East terror operations.

It is obvious that the leaders of IOS benefited from the fraud schemes. Officers and shareholders of IOS financially benefited as a result of the increased coupon redemption billings, an estimated $250 million (filed in an affidavit for forfeiture and seizure by the U.S. government).

These profits are at the expense of our American security. IOS management padded their pockets along with the coupon fraud network and terror operations.

…Will the U.S. Government, through the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the IRS Criminal Division and the FBI recover the profits from this international coupon fraud and/or from the individual executives and fraudsters involved? We’ll stay on top of this!

…What about the 300+ stores that were part of this fraud scheme? Who will explore these store operations and their financial benefits from the coupon fraud? Will we bring them to justice?

…Will the U.S. Government recover any of the proceeds from the storefront operations?

It was reported that some $40 million in additional fraudulent coupon submissions were stopped from processing. After IOS, subsidiary International Data, Inc. (IDI) discovered that the FBI was investigating. It is reported that employees destroyed documents, altered account information and changed financial statements. It’s also alleged that many employees were instructed to do so by IDI/IOS management.

In 1998, Ben Jacobson, founder of global security and investigative services firm The Peregrine Group, testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee during its hearings on “Terrorism and Technology”. Mr. Jacobson detailed the coupon industry’s vulnerability to terror cell operations and identified terror cells that were using consumer coupons to finance their operations inside the U.S. and abroad.

The Senate hearings were in recognition of the fifth anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The U.S. Senate wanted to know what the U.S. Government knew prior to the bombing. Approximately three years before the bombing, Mr. Jacobson had reported the network to a series of Federal agencies, prosecutors and law enforcement agencies, all of whom turned a blind eye to that information (see Mr. Jacobson’s testimony via the link on this Web site).

The IOS investigation began in 2001 and moved full speed ahead. By 2002, during the Federal investigation, it was revealed that Abdel Rahim Jebara had been active in coupon fraud schemes since 1998.

It took more than 18 years for the government to act; nine years after Mr. Jacobson’s testimony before the U.S. senate.

Terror operations within the United States have flourished, the post-Iraq War insurgency and the September 11, 2001 attacks which killed 3,000 people all were associated with the terror coupon fraud networks.

It is known that Zein Isa met with a shadowy subject identified as Mohamad Atta in Mexico, after traveling throughout South America during the 1990’s. Isa met with other terror operatives in South America and Mexico, and some within the United States. The intelligence community could not identify whether this Mohamad Atta was the same person who orchestrated the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks, and it was automatically dismissed as “no relationship”. It is easy to dismiss outright without merit or confirmation.

The indifference shown during the 1980’s and 1990’s by Federal and local law enforcement to coupon fraud and its connection to terrorism has changed since September 11, 2001. In 2007, coupon fraud and its association to terror operations is now recognized as a major crime. Combating terror funding from within the United States, the FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspector’s Office concentrated on this coupon fraud.

Mr. Jacobson’s 1998 testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee led its chairman, Senator Orrin Hatch, to refer the information presented by Mr. Jacobson to the FBI for further action (see the March 18, 1998 letter from Senator John Kyl).

The IOS investigation began in 2001, but IOS had been in operation since 1998, the same year Mr. Jacobson testified before the U.S. Senate.

Congratulations to Senators Kyl and Hatch for their follow-through and to the FBI for its diligent investigative efforts to break open the ongoing terror threat associated with coupon fraud.

WHAT DO YOU THINK? LET US KNOW!!

Mike Nifong, Prosecutors Gone Wild!

NIFONG
PROECUTORS GONE WILD!!


Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina –
Three Duke University students were finally out from under the nightmare of false prosecution by the Durham, North Carolina District Attorney, Mike Nifong. After more than a year under the gun as accused rapists, these three Duke Lacrosse team members and students are finally free.

What was NIFONG thinking?
Our justice system is based on the innocent be proven guilty “BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT”. Nifong appeared to do the case backwards. He found the students publicly guilty, using the media, elevating his public image as a crusader against crime and hate in the Raleigh Durham community.
On the surface, Nifong became trapped by his own words, months before the investigation was complete. He covered errors, ignored changes in statements by the alleged victim and hid the results of the DNA test, which exonerated the accused. NO MATCH! He also knew early on that the results of the rape test kit did not match the students. What was his motivation? www.CrimeTalkAmerica.com examined some of these questions as have others.

After careful review by the State of North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper dropped the charges when a special investigation found “significant inconsistencies between the evidence and the various accounts given by the accusing witness” He further found that the three students “are innocent” and that his own investigation “led us to the conclusion that no attack occurred.”

So after one year of being on the hot seat, these young men, had the cloud lifted? However, they will always be remembered as the “Duke Three”. While time will pass, the year has not only interrupted their education and life but that of their families and friends. All had true good spirits considering the year’s horrific experience. Perhaps they will now get on with life, and we at CrimeTalkAmerica hope that they NEVER sit back and accept our justice system as being fair and balanced.

This incident is not the first, but highlights, how the power of the Justice System can not only disrupt lives, but convict the innocent. We find at times convicted rapists; murderers and other criminals serving sentences are released after they’ve had a further examination of the facts, review of the evidence and independent DNA testing. How many have walked out of prison after professionals like the “INNOCENSE PROJECT” led by Attorney’s Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, discovered factual data, DNA tests and other evidence. The answer is many across America.

What Nifong did is inexcusable. His “overreaching” in this case, questions the process and protections. Had the three students not have the family support, the financial ability to find private counsel to work and fight the D.A., and the ability to remain positive. Perhaps the less fortunate, they would be sentenced and sitting in a prison, careers and lives and families left in shambles.

What about Nifong? He’s still the District Attorney, with NO CREDABILITY. He must go! Any of his lieutenants, associates that were aiding in the cover-up also need to go!

CrimeTalkAmerica finds the need to have a citizen groups monitor and watch for overzealous prosecutors. Holding back exculpatory evidence is a common practice of prosecutors. Often, only after discovery of misbehavior, cover-ups and true facts, does the cooperation from the prosecutor occur. Defense Attorney’s often know the prosecutors that fudge the information, hide the truth and only want to put a check mark in the conviction box. They often look the other way.

What do you think? Let us know!!!

MilwaukeeWorld: TERROR LINK TO COUPON FRAUD?

MilwaukeeWorld: TERROR LINK TO COUPON FRAUD?

Just to let you know that many of the arrests in the IOS matter, not the executives, but rather the coupon fraudsters were originally identified in 1993 and reported to the U.S. Senate in "Terror & Technology" hearings in 1998.

It took this long, 9 years, for the government to act on the information. While we are at war against terrorism, the terror cells are building within the United States, and our law enforcement groups have been asleep at their desks...

Glad to see some activity and prosecutions.

Ben Jacobson
www.crimetalkamerica.com

Weak Sentence for Salvatore “Fat Sal” Scala MOB BOSS

WEAK FEDERAL SENTENCE FOR ORGANIZED CRIME BOSS

http://www.crimetalkamerica.com/ finds that Federal Court Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Eastern District of New York, sentenced Salvatore “Fat Sal” Scala a fixture in the Gambino crime family, to a 6 year sentence in prison for the crime of extortion of a strip club in New York City. It was also discovered that Scala “kicked up” tens of thousands of dollars to John Gotti's brothers, Gene and Peter Gotti.

Scala faced more than 17 years behind bars for extortion and tax evasion under the Federal Sentencing guidelines. This is reported by the New York Post (April 7, 2007). They also claim that the judge gave Scala a break, citing his life threatening battle with cancer. Judge Kaplan excused his sentencing by saying; “It would be wrong to impose a sentence that would necessarily result in you dying in prison”.

Has our Judiciary gone soft on career criminals, on Organized Crime members, the same people that law enforcement agencies spend years and thousands of dollars and man hours trying to remove from society in an effort to protect our children, businesses and families. It’s unknown how many crimes Scala participated in as a Gotti associate. However, drug distribution, truck hijackings, violent assaults, shakedowns, and even murder are the list of crimes attributed to the Gotti crime family.

What was Judge Kaplan thinking, having such compassion for a Career Criminal, ignoring the Sentencing guidelines mandated by law? Scala seldom showed compassion for his targets. Shakedown’s usually come with threats, intimidation and violence. What mercy would Scala give his targets?

While it’s never been proven that Scala was involved in the murder of Paul Castellano, the former Godfather of the Gambino crime family, before Gotti had him gun down to take over control, its been suggested by Organized Crime watchers and also in the NY Post article written by Katie Cornell, that he was suspected of being part of the hit team.

It’s estimated that Scala “squeezed” out $600,000 from the strip-club in Manhattan. While it’s a strip-club, with the connotation that they are controlled by Organized Crime, his extortion conviction indicates that O.C. members may also prey on other O.C. business, or competition. Not to say that the V.I.P. club is connected or controlled, his success in the shakedown showed that he had the power and strength to pull off the shakedown.

· But, what about Judge Kaplan?
· Why the compassion?
· Is there a sentence appeal coming from the U.S. Attorney’s office?
· Who’s going to complain?

Rudy Giuliani, the former U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of New York, the former Mayor of New York and now running for Presidential nomination, would be fighting aggressively with the Federal Judiciary to give Scala the full sentence. It was Giuliani that put away the MOB bosses, many for life sentences, or the controlling mob heads to lengthy sentences, as very old men, leading the Organized Crime families.

Scala goes off to the Fed Pen and the case is closed with a Conviction in the check box for the U.S. Attorney’s office.

This signal’s to any wise guy, the wannabes, even the new up coming gangsters that the punishment is worth the crime. What a gift to the bad guys.

Tell us what you think!!!

ANNA NICOLE OVERDOSE DEATH

www.CRIMETALKAMERICA.com
RAISES THE QUESTIONS

Anna Nicole’s death at the Hard Rock Casino Hotel, in Hollywood, Florida left me to wonder about the possible criminal exposure to those that contributed to her prescriptive drug overdose... Being a celebrity, especially one of the most famous, sexiest Playboy Centerfolds, she had captured the world’s attention with her antics, act and reality T.V. show.

Her death just a short time after her son’s overdose death questions the overall behavior of her close confidants and associates. I wonder!

* Who was watching out for her?
* What were they thinking?
* Was she just a meal ticket and the being part of the limelight?
* Who is MOE, the bodyguard?
* What’s his background? Does anyone know?
* Who is the Nurse, it’s been reported that it is Moe’s wife?
* What are her credentials?
* Did the Seminole Police examine the prescriptive containers for fingerprints or other forensic evidence?

www.crimetalkamerica.com finds that Moe was a local South Beach Miami Nightclub Bouncer. He has protected other celebrities in South Beach and been the bodyguard of Jason Norris, Missy Elliott and Cuban Link.

The Medical Examiners autopsy reports a dramatic overdose by multiple drugs found in her system. These were all prescribed drugs, pharmaceutical drugs, requiring a prescription from a Licensed, DEA Approved physician. Her death was on an American Indian Reservation, where the Seminole Indian Tribe owns and runs the Hard Rock Casino Hotel. Therefore, how much experience do the Seminole Police have in homicide investigations? This does not question the capabilities of Chief Tiger, the head of the Seminole Police, but the need to further investigate into her death requires review by the Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs. They monitor, regulate and supervise American Indian Reservations. How many homicides have occurred on this reservation? Not many, I am sure. By bringing in the FBI, the Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, could utilize the investigative skills, forensic examination and the skills of trained investigators. Chief Tiger has access to the Broward County Sheriff’s Homicide Division, a well experienced murder squad.

The Medical Examiner’s report suggests that this was an accidental overdose. What a wash job that is.
· Where did the drugs come from?
· Who administered them to Nicole?
· Why were the prescriptions issued by the same doctor from California?
· Why were the prescription’s issued in others names?
· Who picked them up or were they delivered?
· Who paid for them, and who signed for the pharmaceutical drugs?
Who has the criminal liability, the doctor, the hangers-on, or the pharmacy issuing the prescriptions? Was the Medical Examiner remiss in declaring this an Accidental Overdose?

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CRIME VICTIMS WEEK

April 22-28, 2007 is the National Crime Victims Week. First began in 1981.

A calender of events throughout the nation is posted on the web. Go to www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc for further information. All of us are potential Crime Victims, share with Crime Talk America your experiences and the assistance you received from Crime Victim Service Agencies.

If you are a victim, learn about your rights, recovery of lost wages, hospital expenses and at times even material losses. Each state has a Crime Victims Compensation Board. Ask your States Attorney Office for Assistance or seek assistance from your local police department. They should provide you with details and the proper forms to claim for recovery.

Let us know your results in obtaining information from these government agencies.

FBI AGENT KILLED IN BANK ROBBERY - THIRD PERSON CAPTURED

It was reported today by Richard Jennings, one of our Crime Talk America respondents that the Third person was captured. Good work to all the agents and law enforcement personnel involved.

Information released by the FBI suggests that S/A Bush was killed by friendly fire, that is from another agents weapon. Tragically these things happen, not often and when they do it is devastating to the agent involved, the families and all of the law enforcement community. This doesn't suggest that the slime bank robbers should not be charged with MURDER, along with the Bank Robbery. During the commission of a FELONY, any person killed during the crime,
leaves cause for the participants, the slime that prey on us all, to be charged and convicted of the murder of the FBI Agent.

To insure that the offenders are prosecuted for the MURDER of S/A Bush, let's stay on top of this one to see that the U.S. Attorney's Office follows through in the name of S/A Bush and all the law enforcement that are out their everyday protecting our communities.

FBI AGENT KILLED IN NEW JERSEY

April 5, 2007 - Our deepest sympathy goes out to the family,friends and FBI Agents in the killing of FBI Special Agent Barry Lee Bush, killed today in Readington, New Jersey by a team of Bank Robbers. S/A Bush and other agents interrupted a bank robbery at the PNC Bank on Route 22, in Readington, New Jersey. The Agents were investigating a string of bank robberies that led them to encounter these three suspects, attempting to apprehend then forced to engage in a shootout along Route 22.

Two were captured and a third escaped. An all out search by law enforcement agencies, including K-9 Dogs, Helicopters and numerous responding law enforcement agencies, including local police saturated the area. As of this writing, the third suspect has not been reported captured.

This murderous slime is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. He didn't think twice about shooting to death a Federal Agent, he's now a rabid animal on the loose. Since its inception, S/A Bush is the 49th FBI Agent killed in the line of duty.

Our hats off to him and his colleagues who put thier lives on the line every day protecting Americans and visitors that come to this counry legal or illegal.

Crime Talk America, offers a special SALUTE to Agent Bush and his colleagues. God bless him and God Bless America.

MilwaukeeWorld: TERROR LINK TO COUPON FRAUD?

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