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Who cares about labels?: Kenny Lopez Guerra, his dad, Ken, and friend Nick MacIlveen show off affordable casual shirts and slacks from Burlington Coat Factory in San Francisco. Kenny's woven, plaid shirt costs $12.98. Ken's button down, striped shirt costs $19.98, and MacIlveen's slim fit polo shirt costs $24.98. Chronicle photo by John Storey less
Who cares about labels?: Kenny Lopez Guerra, his dad, Ken, and friend Nick MacIlveen show off affordable casual shirts and slacks from Burlington Coat Factory in San Francisco. Kenny's woven, plaid shirt costs . more
Those two frugal fashion mavens from the Peninsula, who in a January Chronicle story showed cost conscious women how to dress stylishly without maxing out the
This time, and have used their boundless ingenuity and knack for knockoffs cultivated from years of reading high fashion magazines and then hunting for bargains at so called low brow retail shops on men's fashion.
Fashion professionals, they are not. Just call the women conscientious consumers who yearn to share their shopping avocation with kindred spirits to whom a quality bargain is more important than the label status.
Their plan was to comb through the pages of magazines such as Forbes FYI and GQ, tear out glossy ads featuring male models with impossible to get six pack abs and strategically scruffy facial hair. Then, they would set out on a quest to find reasonable facsimiles of the designer duds at what has become a clothing Mecca for the two women .
What Lopez Guerra and Santizo needed were men willing to try on clothes for,
Amazingly, they found three volunteers, spanning three generations: Lopez Guerra's brother Ken,van cleef and arpels alhambra knock off bracelet, 44; his son, Kenny, 12; and her neighbor , 25. These guys dress nicely, but readily admit they don't give fashion much thought beyond whether that brown pair of shoes matches those gray slacks. They seemed the perfect specimens for a makeover by the frugal fashionistas.
But, first, a word about the women's methodology. The goal is not to find exact knockoffs of offerings from the top men's designers; it's to uncover bargains that can make the men pass as Mr. GQ to people with a less discriminating eye than, say, which is pretty much everyone. Using that judgment, the women succeeded.
Check out Lopez Guerra's older brother, Ken, stylin' in a blue pin striped suit that would easily blend into the scene in the Financial District.
"I, as just another person, cannot determine from here what brand of suit Ken is wearing," said MacIlveen, standing maybe 10 strides away from . "It looks great. Let's be honest. If you had two guys right next to each other, one wearing a $250 suit and the other a $1,500 suit, most guys couldn't tell (the difference). I'd feel better wearing the $250 suit, knowing I paid only one third the price.
"I know some people are brand conscious, but as long as the suits look good,
function well and don't fall apart, I wouldn't care who made it."
Ken's suit seemed to fit that criteria.
And it didn't take long for Santizo and Lopez Guerra to find it off the rack at Burlington. They came armed with a GQ ad touting a $1,640 Jil Sander suit and a $1,950 Prada suit. Its knockoff turned out to be a $259.98 suit from Italy. Turning to shoes, the women pointed to another GQ ad featuring a pair of John Lobbs for $995. At Shoe Pavilion,van cleef alhambra knock off bracelet, adjacent to Burlington, the women said they found several affordable replacement pairs but opted for a pair of Impulse shoes from Italy, regular price $79, on sale for $59.95.
"Take the shoe off, Ken," Lopez Guerra said. "This is nice, not cheap. Smell the leather."
Ken: "You want me to smell my shoes?"
Ken's shirt and tie were from Fabio Inghirami ($16 and $10, respectively), quite a markdown from the shirts the women pointed to in the glossy ads such as a $340 , a $295 Etro and $195 Dunhill. Belts were even a bigger bargain. Lopez Guerra held up an ad for a Claiborne belt ($34) and a Tommy Hilfiger belt ($40). She and Santizo found similar belts from the same makers at Burlington for $7.98 and $14.98, respectively.
"And that Claiborne we found is a nicer belt," Lopez Guerra added. "The one in the ad is more casual."
Ken liked the way he looked in the suit.
"I wouldn't spend a thousand dollars on a suit," he said. ". . . Basically, it's just the name and where you buy it that's different. Who cares if you buy it at Nordstrom or (Burlington)? I know some men say, 'I got to have a Rolex watch.' But it's just a name. And it's just a watch."
The women outfitted MacIlveen in a maize summer suit by Fabio Inghirami for $389, a nice savings from the $1,095 offering in . MacIlveen's shoes, from , cost $30, compared to the $1,000 John Lobbs.
MacIlveen, who says he spends about $1,200 a year on clothes, gave the thumbs up to his outfit, though he admitted, "I still find $389 a little on the high side for me."
MacIlveen said he believes all men in their 20s could benefit from fashion coaching.
"Guys like me don't think about it much,van cleef rose gold fake bracelet," he said. "We need practical, common sense advice. I don't have the fashion sense,van cleef replica bracelet, the innate ability. Someone like Susan has to go out and say, 'You know, that's going to look great and it'll be a great value.' Susan and I have actually gone out shopping for real a couple of times looking for outfits for either a job interview or, like, going to Vegas."
At his middle school, Kenny said the "in" store is Abercrombie Fitch, but he doesn't shop there.
"You spend a hundred dollars and can only get two or three shirts," he said.
"I'll buy my shirts at Mervyn's or sports stores and my jeans at Costco. I do care what I wear sometimes. But if I'm just going to the park or something, I don't care what I wear."
The women outfitted Kenny in a suit by Retro for $34.99 and a $10 shirt by Bruno for Boys. "We didn't get any ads for kids comparisons," Lopez Guerra said. "But that's got to be a pretty good buy for a boys suit."
Who cares about labels?: Kenny Lopez Guerra, his dad, Ken, and friend Nick MacIlveen show off affordable casual shirts and slacks from Burlington Coat Factory in San Francisco. Kenny's woven, plaid shirt costs $12.98. Ken's button down, striped shirt costs $19.98, and MacIlveen's slim fit polo shirt costs $24.98. Chronicle photo by John Storey less
Who cares about labels?: Kenny Lopez Guerra, his dad, Ken, and friend Nick MacIlveen show off affordable casual shirts and slacks from Burlington Coat Factory in San Francisco. Kenny's woven, plaid shirt costs . more
Those two frugal fashion mavens from the Peninsula, who in a January Chronicle story showed cost conscious women how to dress stylishly without maxing out the
This time, and have used their boundless ingenuity and knack for knockoffs cultivated from years of reading high fashion magazines and then hunting for bargains at so called low brow retail shops on men's fashion.
Fashion professionals, they are not. Just call the women conscientious consumers who yearn to share their shopping avocation with kindred spirits to whom a quality bargain is more important than the label status.
Their plan was to comb through the pages of magazines such as Forbes FYI and GQ, tear out glossy ads featuring male models with impossible to get six pack abs and strategically scruffy facial hair. Then, they would set out on a quest to find reasonable facsimiles of the designer duds at what has become a clothing Mecca for the two women .
What Lopez Guerra and Santizo needed were men willing to try on clothes for,
Amazingly, they found three volunteers, spanning three generations: Lopez Guerra's brother Ken,van cleef and arpels alhambra knock off bracelet, 44; his son, Kenny, 12; and her neighbor , 25. These guys dress nicely, but readily admit they don't give fashion much thought beyond whether that brown pair of shoes matches those gray slacks. They seemed the perfect specimens for a makeover by the frugal fashionistas.
But, first, a word about the women's methodology. The goal is not to find exact knockoffs of offerings from the top men's designers; it's to uncover bargains that can make the men pass as Mr. GQ to people with a less discriminating eye than, say, which is pretty much everyone. Using that judgment, the women succeeded.
Check out Lopez Guerra's older brother, Ken, stylin' in a blue pin striped suit that would easily blend into the scene in the Financial District.
"I, as just another person, cannot determine from here what brand of suit Ken is wearing," said MacIlveen, standing maybe 10 strides away from . "It looks great. Let's be honest. If you had two guys right next to each other, one wearing a $250 suit and the other a $1,500 suit, most guys couldn't tell (the difference). I'd feel better wearing the $250 suit, knowing I paid only one third the price.
"I know some people are brand conscious, but as long as the suits look good,
function well and don't fall apart, I wouldn't care who made it."
Ken's suit seemed to fit that criteria.
And it didn't take long for Santizo and Lopez Guerra to find it off the rack at Burlington. They came armed with a GQ ad touting a $1,640 Jil Sander suit and a $1,950 Prada suit. Its knockoff turned out to be a $259.98 suit from Italy. Turning to shoes, the women pointed to another GQ ad featuring a pair of John Lobbs for $995. At Shoe Pavilion,van cleef alhambra knock off bracelet, adjacent to Burlington, the women said they found several affordable replacement pairs but opted for a pair of Impulse shoes from Italy, regular price $79, on sale for $59.95.
"Take the shoe off, Ken," Lopez Guerra said. "This is nice, not cheap. Smell the leather."
Ken: "You want me to smell my shoes?"
Ken's shirt and tie were from Fabio Inghirami ($16 and $10, respectively), quite a markdown from the shirts the women pointed to in the glossy ads such as a $340 , a $295 Etro and $195 Dunhill. Belts were even a bigger bargain. Lopez Guerra held up an ad for a Claiborne belt ($34) and a Tommy Hilfiger belt ($40). She and Santizo found similar belts from the same makers at Burlington for $7.98 and $14.98, respectively.
"And that Claiborne we found is a nicer belt," Lopez Guerra added. "The one in the ad is more casual."
Ken liked the way he looked in the suit.
"I wouldn't spend a thousand dollars on a suit," he said. ". . . Basically, it's just the name and where you buy it that's different. Who cares if you buy it at Nordstrom or (Burlington)? I know some men say, 'I got to have a Rolex watch.' But it's just a name. And it's just a watch."
The women outfitted MacIlveen in a maize summer suit by Fabio Inghirami for $389, a nice savings from the $1,095 offering in . MacIlveen's shoes, from , cost $30, compared to the $1,000 John Lobbs.
MacIlveen, who says he spends about $1,200 a year on clothes, gave the thumbs up to his outfit, though he admitted, "I still find $389 a little on the high side for me."
MacIlveen said he believes all men in their 20s could benefit from fashion coaching.
"Guys like me don't think about it much,van cleef rose gold fake bracelet," he said. "We need practical, common sense advice. I don't have the fashion sense,van cleef replica bracelet, the innate ability. Someone like Susan has to go out and say, 'You know, that's going to look great and it'll be a great value.' Susan and I have actually gone out shopping for real a couple of times looking for outfits for either a job interview or, like, going to Vegas."
At his middle school, Kenny said the "in" store is Abercrombie Fitch, but he doesn't shop there.
"You spend a hundred dollars and can only get two or three shirts," he said.
"I'll buy my shirts at Mervyn's or sports stores and my jeans at Costco. I do care what I wear sometimes. But if I'm just going to the park or something, I don't care what I wear."
The women outfitted Kenny in a suit by Retro for $34.99 and a $10 shirt by Bruno for Boys. "We didn't get any ads for kids comparisons," Lopez Guerra said. "But that's got to be a pretty good buy for a boys suit."
Scott Dixon leads Chip Ganassi Racing to sixth Rolex 24 at Daytona win
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. >> Scott Dixon drove a gritty and lengthy final leg Sunday to lead Chip Ganassi Racing and its car to a record breaking sixth victory in the Rolex 24 at Daytona.
The three time IndyCar champion relieved Kyle Larson, NASCAR reigning rookie of the year,replica used rolex submariner, with 3 hours, 32 minutes remaining in the twice round the clock endurance race. Dixon was tasked with conserving fuel and making no mistakes in pursuit of the Rolex watch.
He totaled more than seven hours behind the wheel of the Target/Ford EcoBoost Riley Prototype, and had teammates Larson,replica rolex submariner for women, Daytona 500 winner Jamie McMurray and Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan watching with little worry as he closed out the victory.
had such a good group of guys driving, an awesome team, said McMurray. about Scott Dixon to me. It really hard to appreciate the talent that guys have from other series until you race with them,replica ladies rolex submariner watch, and it crazy the pace that Scott is able to have in the car. It so much fun to sit up there and watch it. win gave team owners Ganassi and Felix Sabates their sixth win in 12 Rolex attempts most in the 53 year history of the race.
It was the second win for Dixon, who was part of the 2006 victory with Casey Mears and Dan Wheldon.
don know what to say, man, the New Zealander said. whole last part of that race is so horrible because you think something going to break or you going to go off in a corner or something. I just stoked for the whole team. was the first Rolex win for McMurray, Kanaan and Larson.
McMurray joined AJ Foyt and Mario Andretti as the only drivers to win the Daytona 500 and the Rolex, while Kanaan joined a limited list of drivers to win both Indy and the 24 Hours.
Ganassi beat defending race winner Action Express Racing, which was driven by Joao Barbosa,rolex oyster perpetual submariner date fake, Christian Fittipaldi and Sebastien Bourdais, by 1.33 seconds.
Wayne Taylor Racing, runner up the last two years, lost a shot to challenge Dixon when it realized under a caution with 20 minutes remaining that Jordan Taylor had exceeded his allotted time allowed in the car. He was forced to pit from second to let older brother Ricky Taylor close out the final 9 minutes of the race.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. >> Scott Dixon drove a gritty and lengthy final leg Sunday to lead Chip Ganassi Racing and its car to a record breaking sixth victory in the Rolex 24 at Daytona.
The three time IndyCar champion relieved Kyle Larson, NASCAR reigning rookie of the year,replica used rolex submariner, with 3 hours, 32 minutes remaining in the twice round the clock endurance race. Dixon was tasked with conserving fuel and making no mistakes in pursuit of the Rolex watch.
He totaled more than seven hours behind the wheel of the Target/Ford EcoBoost Riley Prototype, and had teammates Larson,replica rolex submariner for women, Daytona 500 winner Jamie McMurray and Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan watching with little worry as he closed out the victory.
had such a good group of guys driving, an awesome team, said McMurray. about Scott Dixon to me. It really hard to appreciate the talent that guys have from other series until you race with them,replica ladies rolex submariner watch, and it crazy the pace that Scott is able to have in the car. It so much fun to sit up there and watch it. win gave team owners Ganassi and Felix Sabates their sixth win in 12 Rolex attempts most in the 53 year history of the race.
It was the second win for Dixon, who was part of the 2006 victory with Casey Mears and Dan Wheldon.
don know what to say, man, the New Zealander said. whole last part of that race is so horrible because you think something going to break or you going to go off in a corner or something. I just stoked for the whole team. was the first Rolex win for McMurray, Kanaan and Larson.
McMurray joined AJ Foyt and Mario Andretti as the only drivers to win the Daytona 500 and the Rolex, while Kanaan joined a limited list of drivers to win both Indy and the 24 Hours.
Ganassi beat defending race winner Action Express Racing, which was driven by Joao Barbosa,rolex oyster perpetual submariner date fake, Christian Fittipaldi and Sebastien Bourdais, by 1.33 seconds.
Wayne Taylor Racing, runner up the last two years, lost a shot to challenge Dixon when it realized under a caution with 20 minutes remaining that Jordan Taylor had exceeded his allotted time allowed in the car. He was forced to pit from second to let older brother Ricky Taylor close out the final 9 minutes of the race.
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on Oct. 5 to find a man sitting in an older model Acura in the driveway, claiming to work for Comcast.
The woman had cancelled her cable service recently, she told a deputy, but several things about the man were sketchy, including the fact that he wouldn give her a service number or an office to call to verify that he represented the company. He also had such a thick Jamaican accent, the woman had trouble understanding him.
She called Comcast, and a dispatcher could not verify that the man was sent to pick up company equipment, so the resident called 911.
The cable company representative left, but had posted a flyer on the door of the home with his real name and telephone number on it, making it unlikely that he intended any mischief there.
BURGLARY: A man in the 800 block of Old Thompson Mill Road reported on Oct. 5 that thief had taken several items from his Winder house sometime since Sept. 27.
The $1,255 in stolen items included a DVD player, caribou skin rug, two screwdriver sets, three Andy Griffith DVDs, a Popular Mechanics nutdriver/screwdriver set, a Craftsman fluorescent worklight and a flood light, a folding knife and a fake knife from India, an aluminum extension ladder, a chainsaw and two class rings.
The victim also estimated damage to the residence at $100.
ATTEMPTED FRAUD: A Bethlehem woman reported on Oct. 6 that someone had attempted to use her credit card information to make an online purchase the day before. The website declined the purchase, but couldn give he any information about who had tried to use the card.
The woman canceled her card.
THEFT: A Wyntercreek Drive man called the sheriff office on Oct. 6 after he discovered his Rolex watch and Taurus 9 mm handgun missing. Only his daughters know where he keeps the watch and gun, the man said, but one of the daughters has a friend who is homeless.
The watch and gun together were worth $1,100. There was no sign of forced entry.
THEFT: A 58 year old Statham man reported on Oct. 6 that someone stole the 18 inch cattle gate from his pasture near the intersection of Jones Road and Thurmond Circle. While he did not have any specific suspects,rolex womens submariner fake, he remembered a truck that he saw nearby around the time the gate went missing.
The gate cost $200.
FRAUD: A Winder man reported on Oct. 6 that a crook had used his wife debit card number on Oct. 4 to make a fraudulent purchase at Macy in Costa Mesa, Calif. for a $200 purchase. The couple has not been to California recently, the man said.
SCAM: A 36 year old Bethlehem woman apparently fell for a common shopper scam when she received a $2980.17 check in the mail.
She then followed the instructions to keep $250 for herself and spend $100 at the Home Depot in Bethlehem
On the morning of Oct. 6, she discovered her checking account was severely overdrawn, and a bank representative told her the $2980.17 check was fraudulent.
The instructions were on letterhead from Universal Tech Inc. in Scottsdale, Ariz., but when the woman called the number she found on the Internet, she learned Universal Tech is a school. An employee there told her she had been scammed.
ENTERED AUTO: A 20 year old man called the sheriff office around 4:30 on Oct. 7 to report that his ex girlfriend was breaking into his car, which was broken down at her house.
A deputy arrived to find the 18 year old woman trying to get into the Honda Accord with a clothes hanger and a butter knife. The ex girlfriend explained that she was trying to break into the car to get a CD player that belongs to her.
The deputy talked to the boyfriend on the phone and,submariner rolex replica, though the victim didn want to press charges, told the ex girlfriend that she might have been charged with entering auto.
The father had a key to the car, so he opened the trunk and turned over the CD player to the girl.
SPEEDING: A woman who lives on Harry McCarty Road in Bethlehem called the sheriff office on Oct. 7 to complain about a man who speeds up and down her road on a regular basis. The woman gave the responding deputy the tag number of the car.
The deputy went to the home of the car registered owner,rolex submariner 5513 replica, who denied that he speeds on the street, but said the woman yells at him every time he drives by on his way to his friend house. The man said he would take a different route to his friend house in order to keep the peace.
ID FRAUD: A Laurel Lane woman called the sheriff office on Oct. 7 to report that the Georgia
Department of Revenue was trying to collect $30,replica rolex submariner for sale,186.86 in unpaid taxes accrued from July 2010 to October 2011 by a person going by a name she hasn used since the 1990s. The letter came to her current address, she said.
on Oct. 5 to find a man sitting in an older model Acura in the driveway, claiming to work for Comcast.
The woman had cancelled her cable service recently, she told a deputy, but several things about the man were sketchy, including the fact that he wouldn give her a service number or an office to call to verify that he represented the company. He also had such a thick Jamaican accent, the woman had trouble understanding him.
She called Comcast, and a dispatcher could not verify that the man was sent to pick up company equipment, so the resident called 911.
The cable company representative left, but had posted a flyer on the door of the home with his real name and telephone number on it, making it unlikely that he intended any mischief there.
BURGLARY: A man in the 800 block of Old Thompson Mill Road reported on Oct. 5 that thief had taken several items from his Winder house sometime since Sept. 27.
The $1,255 in stolen items included a DVD player, caribou skin rug, two screwdriver sets, three Andy Griffith DVDs, a Popular Mechanics nutdriver/screwdriver set, a Craftsman fluorescent worklight and a flood light, a folding knife and a fake knife from India, an aluminum extension ladder, a chainsaw and two class rings.
The victim also estimated damage to the residence at $100.
ATTEMPTED FRAUD: A Bethlehem woman reported on Oct. 6 that someone had attempted to use her credit card information to make an online purchase the day before. The website declined the purchase, but couldn give he any information about who had tried to use the card.
The woman canceled her card.
THEFT: A Wyntercreek Drive man called the sheriff office on Oct. 6 after he discovered his Rolex watch and Taurus 9 mm handgun missing. Only his daughters know where he keeps the watch and gun, the man said, but one of the daughters has a friend who is homeless.
The watch and gun together were worth $1,100. There was no sign of forced entry.
THEFT: A 58 year old Statham man reported on Oct. 6 that someone stole the 18 inch cattle gate from his pasture near the intersection of Jones Road and Thurmond Circle. While he did not have any specific suspects,rolex womens submariner fake, he remembered a truck that he saw nearby around the time the gate went missing.
The gate cost $200.
FRAUD: A Winder man reported on Oct. 6 that a crook had used his wife debit card number on Oct. 4 to make a fraudulent purchase at Macy in Costa Mesa, Calif. for a $200 purchase. The couple has not been to California recently, the man said.
SCAM: A 36 year old Bethlehem woman apparently fell for a common shopper scam when she received a $2980.17 check in the mail.
She then followed the instructions to keep $250 for herself and spend $100 at the Home Depot in Bethlehem
On the morning of Oct. 6, she discovered her checking account was severely overdrawn, and a bank representative told her the $2980.17 check was fraudulent.
The instructions were on letterhead from Universal Tech Inc. in Scottsdale, Ariz., but when the woman called the number she found on the Internet, she learned Universal Tech is a school. An employee there told her she had been scammed.
ENTERED AUTO: A 20 year old man called the sheriff office around 4:30 on Oct. 7 to report that his ex girlfriend was breaking into his car, which was broken down at her house.
A deputy arrived to find the 18 year old woman trying to get into the Honda Accord with a clothes hanger and a butter knife. The ex girlfriend explained that she was trying to break into the car to get a CD player that belongs to her.
The deputy talked to the boyfriend on the phone and,submariner rolex replica, though the victim didn want to press charges, told the ex girlfriend that she might have been charged with entering auto.
The father had a key to the car, so he opened the trunk and turned over the CD player to the girl.
SPEEDING: A woman who lives on Harry McCarty Road in Bethlehem called the sheriff office on Oct. 7 to complain about a man who speeds up and down her road on a regular basis. The woman gave the responding deputy the tag number of the car.
The deputy went to the home of the car registered owner,rolex submariner 5513 replica, who denied that he speeds on the street, but said the woman yells at him every time he drives by on his way to his friend house. The man said he would take a different route to his friend house in order to keep the peace.
ID FRAUD: A Laurel Lane woman called the sheriff office on Oct. 7 to report that the Georgia
Department of Revenue was trying to collect $30,replica rolex submariner for sale,186.86 in unpaid taxes accrued from July 2010 to October 2011 by a person going by a name she hasn used since the 1990s. The letter came to her current address, she said.
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Guide To Baltimore 2017 St. Patrick Day EventsBaltimore is home to a rich Irish culture, stretching back to the early days when the city was young and Irish immigrants flooded in.
BALTIMORE (WJZ) He was seen by many as a GOP presidential contender but now the former governor of Virginia continues his fall from grace as he and his wife stand trial on allegations that they used the power of his office for their own personal financial gain.
Derek Valcourt has more on the political scandal rocking our neighbor state.
Jury selection is underway and now the governor is headed to court to defend his reputation and his very freedom against charges that could land him in jail for decades.
Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen will be tried together before a jury on a 14 count indictment that they illegally accepted over $165,000 worth of gifts and loans while in office a first of its kind case for the people of Virginia.
have a governor and a former first lady with the potential of actually going to jail,ladies rolex submariner replica, said political analyst Bob Holsworth.
Federal prosecutors allege the McDonnells took $165,000 in loans and gifts from Johnny Williams, the then CEO of Caomppany Star Scientific and, in return, helped him promote his health supplement products. Among the items Mrs. McDonnell received: a luxury shopping spree and Oscar de la Renta dresses. The governor got a Rolex watch, golf clubs and use of Williams Ferrari and more.
unclear if there was a quid pro quo. It unclear if this was even a nexus relationship. It unclear if Mr. Williams this is why his testimony will be so important expected access, said VCU Public Policy Department head Deidre Condit.
The McDonnells deny wrongdoing and defense attorneys will argue that the state star witness, Johnny Williams, has been granted immunity for his testimony.
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Family members, friends and former staffers are all expected to be called to testify in the case that could ultimately pit the McDonnells against each other in the blame game and even land them with separate verdicts.
The couple had asked to be tried separately; the request was denied. The governor is expected to testify in his own defense. Monday, federal prosecutors released a list of 61 witnesses they could call to testify at trial.
Best Places To Picnic In BaltimoreThe weather is warming up and its time to wander into the beautiful outdoors and just enjoy being alive. If you want to do some outdoor activity with friends and family, and you don have a lot of money to spend,rolex submariner female fake, why not pack up some food and a few Frisbees and have yourself a picnic at some friendly location? While Baltimore may bring to mind urban sprawls of concrete and chrome, Baltimore County is actually crammed with beautiful rural scenery, forests and waterfronts that welcome visitors to feast their eyes and stomachs.
Guide To Baltimore 2017 St. Patrick Day EventsBaltimore is home to a rich Irish culture, stretching back to the early days when the city was young and Irish immigrants flooded in.
BALTIMORE (WJZ) He was seen by many as a GOP presidential contender but now the former governor of Virginia continues his fall from grace as he and his wife stand trial on allegations that they used the power of his office for their own personal financial gain.
Derek Valcourt has more on the political scandal rocking our neighbor state.
Jury selection is underway and now the governor is headed to court to defend his reputation and his very freedom against charges that could land him in jail for decades.
Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen will be tried together before a jury on a 14 count indictment that they illegally accepted over $165,000 worth of gifts and loans while in office a first of its kind case for the people of Virginia.
have a governor and a former first lady with the potential of actually going to jail,ladies rolex submariner replica, said political analyst Bob Holsworth.
Federal prosecutors allege the McDonnells took $165,000 in loans and gifts from Johnny Williams, the then CEO of Caomppany Star Scientific and, in return, helped him promote his health supplement products. Among the items Mrs. McDonnell received: a luxury shopping spree and Oscar de la Renta dresses. The governor got a Rolex watch, golf clubs and use of Williams Ferrari and more.
unclear if there was a quid pro quo. It unclear if this was even a nexus relationship. It unclear if Mr. Williams this is why his testimony will be so important expected access, said VCU Public Policy Department head Deidre Condit.
The McDonnells deny wrongdoing and defense attorneys will argue that the state star witness, Johnny Williams, has been granted immunity for his testimony.
the McDonnell defense believe that they are going to be able to impeach his testimony by arguing that he said it all,rolex submariner date fake, that he gave up the governor in order to get immunity for himself,replica rolex submariner vintage, Holsworth said.
Family members, friends and former staffers are all expected to be called to testify in the case that could ultimately pit the McDonnells against each other in the blame game and even land them with separate verdicts.
The couple had asked to be tried separately; the request was denied. The governor is expected to testify in his own defense. Monday, federal prosecutors released a list of 61 witnesses they could call to testify at trial.
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motion filed by the government today seeks to forfeit the defendant interest in the two properties in the event that they are sold,replica cartier chain ring, it said. is a standard filing in cases in which a defendant has a significant money judgment and equity in property that could be used to satisfy the money judgment.
A message seeking comment from Jackson attorney,replica love necklaces for women, Reid Weingarten, was not returned.
But legal observers who read through Friday motion said that, for all practical purposes, the Jacksons homes are now in jeopardy.
government statement is soft pedaling a bitter reality,replica love ring necklace, said Joe Lopez, a defense attorney in Chicago who practices in both state and federal court. filing is a big deal the Jacksons.
The Washington home, a Victorian style townhouse, is valued at more than $2 million. The Chicago home is on the southeast side of the city hugging Lake Michigan
If a judge approves the forfeiture motion, the government could act quickly to force the sale of the homes, said Lopez, who has no connection to the Jackson cases.
government will be in the driver seat about when the houses are sold, he said. they are not going to let the Jacksons live in the homes for 20 years.
Earlier this year, Jackson, the son of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr., pleaded guilty to charges he spent $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items, from a gold plated Rolex watch to mounted elk heads.
Jackson plea agreement requires he pay the $750,000 back and indicates he will be subject to a host of other financial penalties. But prosecutors said in their Friday motion that they have recovered only half of 24 items Jackson bought with the campaign funds that he agreed to hand over the 12 items worth about $21,000 combined. That leaves the government far short of the $750,000 Jackson agreed to pay, triggering the latest forfeiture motion, the filing says.
At Wednesday sentencing, prosecutors will seek a four year prison term for Jackson, 48, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud and false statements. Jackson wife, a 49 year old former Chicago alderman, pleaded guilty to filing false joint tax returns; prosecutors want a year and a half prison term for her.
The Jacksons have two school aged children, and one issue the sentencing judge will have to decide is whether to stagger their sentences so both mother and father aren imprisoned at the same time.
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandi,replica cartier love pendant necklace, in a move legal observers said could result in them losing one or both homes. Attorney Office in Washington issued a statement insisting it was not seeking take over or seize the Jacksons two homes in the nation capital and the other in Chicago.
motion filed by the government today seeks to forfeit the defendant interest in the two properties in the event that they are sold,replica cartier chain ring, it said. is a standard filing in cases in which a defendant has a significant money judgment and equity in property that could be used to satisfy the money judgment.
A message seeking comment from Jackson attorney,replica love necklaces for women, Reid Weingarten, was not returned.
But legal observers who read through Friday motion said that, for all practical purposes, the Jacksons homes are now in jeopardy.
government statement is soft pedaling a bitter reality,replica love ring necklace, said Joe Lopez, a defense attorney in Chicago who practices in both state and federal court. filing is a big deal the Jacksons.
The Washington home, a Victorian style townhouse, is valued at more than $2 million. The Chicago home is on the southeast side of the city hugging Lake Michigan
If a judge approves the forfeiture motion, the government could act quickly to force the sale of the homes, said Lopez, who has no connection to the Jackson cases.
government will be in the driver seat about when the houses are sold, he said. they are not going to let the Jacksons live in the homes for 20 years.
Earlier this year, Jackson, the son of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr., pleaded guilty to charges he spent $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items, from a gold plated Rolex watch to mounted elk heads.
Jackson plea agreement requires he pay the $750,000 back and indicates he will be subject to a host of other financial penalties. But prosecutors said in their Friday motion that they have recovered only half of 24 items Jackson bought with the campaign funds that he agreed to hand over the 12 items worth about $21,000 combined. That leaves the government far short of the $750,000 Jackson agreed to pay, triggering the latest forfeiture motion, the filing says.
At Wednesday sentencing, prosecutors will seek a four year prison term for Jackson, 48, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud and false statements. Jackson wife, a 49 year old former Chicago alderman, pleaded guilty to filing false joint tax returns; prosecutors want a year and a half prison term for her.
The Jacksons have two school aged children, and one issue the sentencing judge will have to decide is whether to stagger their sentences so both mother and father aren imprisoned at the same time.
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Famous stars attacked,replica cartier love pendant
Being constantly in the public eye makes celebrities an attractive target for burglars and muggers.
Here are some of the rich and famous people who have fallen victim to crime in recent years:
:: Fashion designerNicole Farhiwas allegedly mugged at knifepoint outside her home in Highgate, north London, in April last year by two men who stole a diamond ring and a Rolex watch that had belonged to her father.
She told an ongoing trial at Wood Green Crown Court that she fainted during the alleged robbery.
:: In May 2008 the late reality TV starJade Goodyfell victim to a 56,000 burglary at her home in Waltham Abbey, Essex. The thieves made off with designer watches, rings, a Tiffany necklace and earrings.
Jade Goody was celebrity victim of crime
:: Thieves stole jewellery worth over 1 million from the Buckinghamshire mansion of rock starOzzy Osbournein November 2004.
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:: The Buckinghamshire home of former Blind Date presenterCilla Blackwas targeted by violent burglars in August 2003,replica cartier love necklace rose gold.
The thieves held a knife to the throat of the star 22 year old son Jack, escaping with 1 million of jewellery.
:: In January 2003 former Chelsea footballerJuan Sebastian Veronand his family were forced from their beds by a machete wielding burglar and stripped of their jewellery.
Police said the terrified victims believed the raider was high on drugs and prepared to stab them all in the 200,000 break in at their home in south west London.
Ozzy Osbourne was also the target of crime because of his wealth
::Alexandra Heseltine, the daughter of former Tory deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine, was robbed of an 8,000 gold Rolex as she sat in traffic in Kensington, west London, in late 1994.
:: Former Bond girlBritt Eklandhad her 10,000 Rolex grabbed outside a supermarket in Chelsea, west London, in September 1998.
:: ActorEdward Woodward, who played vigilante enforcer The Equalizer on TV,cartier replica pendant, fell victim to burglars who raided his home in Shepperton, Surrey, and stole 60,000 worth of antiques.
Mr Woodward returned from a holiday at Christmas 2004 to find that precious possessions, including his wife jewellery, bronze statues and his collection of antique walking sticks, had been looted from his home.
Being constantly in the public eye makes celebrities an attractive target for burglars and muggers.
Here are some of the rich and famous people who have fallen victim to crime in recent years:
:: Fashion designerNicole Farhiwas allegedly mugged at knifepoint outside her home in Highgate, north London, in April last year by two men who stole a diamond ring and a Rolex watch that had belonged to her father.
She told an ongoing trial at Wood Green Crown Court that she fainted during the alleged robbery.
:: In May 2008 the late reality TV starJade Goodyfell victim to a 56,000 burglary at her home in Waltham Abbey, Essex. The thieves made off with designer watches, rings, a Tiffany necklace and earrings.
Jade Goody was celebrity victim of crime
:: Thieves stole jewellery worth over 1 million from the Buckinghamshire mansion of rock starOzzy Osbournein November 2004.
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:: The Buckinghamshire home of former Blind Date presenterCilla Blackwas targeted by violent burglars in August 2003,replica cartier love necklace rose gold.
The thieves held a knife to the throat of the star 22 year old son Jack, escaping with 1 million of jewellery.
:: In January 2003 former Chelsea footballerJuan Sebastian Veronand his family were forced from their beds by a machete wielding burglar and stripped of their jewellery.
Police said the terrified victims believed the raider was high on drugs and prepared to stab them all in the 200,000 break in at their home in south west London.
Ozzy Osbourne was also the target of crime because of his wealth
::Alexandra Heseltine, the daughter of former Tory deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine, was robbed of an 8,000 gold Rolex as she sat in traffic in Kensington, west London, in late 1994.
:: Former Bond girlBritt Eklandhad her 10,000 Rolex grabbed outside a supermarket in Chelsea, west London, in September 1998.
:: ActorEdward Woodward, who played vigilante enforcer The Equalizer on TV,cartier replica pendant, fell victim to burglars who raided his home in Shepperton, Surrey, and stole 60,000 worth of antiques.
Mr Woodward returned from a holiday at Christmas 2004 to find that precious possessions, including his wife jewellery, bronze statues and his collection of antique walking sticks, had been looted from his home.
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Burglar jailed after stealing 450,000 of jewels from F1 heiress Petra EcclestoneWilliam Flynn claimed to be a potential buyer for Petra Ecclestone's Belgravia home before walking out with earrings worth 400,000 and a 50,000 Rolex watch Share00:00, 3 JAN 2014Updated00:10,replica necklace cartier, 3 JAN 2014Distressed: Petra Ecclestone (Photo: Getty) Share
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A burglar was jailed yesterday after posing as a tycoon to steal of jewellery from Formula One heiress Petra Ecclestone.
William Flynn, 36, claimed to be interested in buying her home in Belgravia, Central London, and booked a viewing under the name Oleg Duchemko.
He arrived in a chauffeur driven car and pretended to be from Kazakhstan.
Flynn took the earrings and Rolex watch, which have not been recovered, after saying he was making a phone call.
Petra, 25, the daughter of racing chief Bernie, was not at the viewing but was left "distressed", Basildon crown court, in Essex, heard.
Flynn,replica chain love cartier, from Barnet,replica love ring necklace, North London, admitted a spate of 35 burglaries and got eight years' jail. He was previously jailed for similar offences.
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PregnancyLesbian couple gave birth within weeks of each other using DIY pregnancy kits bought onlineAlison Castree and Catherine Barlow used the same online sperm donor so their babies could call themselves brother and sister
InquestsNew mum died suddenly due to undetected illness aged just 36 after going to bed complaining of feeling unwellRachel Barnes, 36, had given birth to her second child just eight weeks before being struck down by pancreatitis
Burglar jailed after stealing 450,000 of jewels from F1 heiress Petra EcclestoneWilliam Flynn claimed to be a potential buyer for Petra Ecclestone's Belgravia home before walking out with earrings worth 400,000 and a 50,000 Rolex watch Share00:00, 3 JAN 2014Updated00:10,replica necklace cartier, 3 JAN 2014Distressed: Petra Ecclestone (Photo: Getty) Share
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A burglar was jailed yesterday after posing as a tycoon to steal of jewellery from Formula One heiress Petra Ecclestone.
William Flynn, 36, claimed to be interested in buying her home in Belgravia, Central London, and booked a viewing under the name Oleg Duchemko.
He arrived in a chauffeur driven car and pretended to be from Kazakhstan.
Flynn took the earrings and Rolex watch, which have not been recovered, after saying he was making a phone call.
Petra, 25, the daughter of racing chief Bernie, was not at the viewing but was left "distressed", Basildon crown court, in Essex, heard.
Flynn,replica chain love cartier, from Barnet,replica love ring necklace, North London, admitted a spate of 35 burglaries and got eight years' jail. He was previously jailed for similar offences.
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NspccNaked faeces covered boy, 3, found wandering UK street pleading "Can I come with you? I need help"The boy's mother has been jailed for six months in what has been described by a judge as "a harrowing incident" after the tot told a passer by that his mum "always goes to sleep"
AfghanistanRecap: North Korea warns US to end 'military hysteria' or face the consequencesA Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) containing 11 tonnes of explosives targeted an ISIS base
Pokemon GoPokmon Go Easter Event: Double XP, more candy and better egg hatch rates for one week onlyThe event will last for a week and allow players to hatch rarer Pokmon from standard 2km eggs
FitnessCouncils will be banned from charging Parkrun competitors under new government rules being consideredThe free events, run by volunteers,cartier replica necklace love, see thousands of runners complete 5km courses in parks across the country
PregnancyLesbian couple gave birth within weeks of each other using DIY pregnancy kits bought onlineAlison Castree and Catherine Barlow used the same online sperm donor so their babies could call themselves brother and sister
InquestsNew mum died suddenly due to undetected illness aged just 36 after going to bed complaining of feeling unwellRachel Barnes, 36, had given birth to her second child just eight weeks before being struck down by pancreatitis
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For the next few weeks they will be able to leave with works by artists such as Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and Salvador Dali in the Knightsbridge department store's distinctive green and gold carrier bags.
Monet's La Mer Vue des Falaises went on display in Harrods shop window yesterday and with a price tag of 1,cartier love bangle diamond.1 million became the most expensive item ever offered for sale at the store.
The previous Harrods record was held by a pair of ruby encrusted slippers which cost 1 million.
However the Monet's record will not last long because later this week Picasso's Femme Tenant un Chat dans ses Bras will go on show priced at 2 million. The exhibition closes on Oct 18.
The 700 works of art, worth a total of 25 million, also include items for shoppers on tighter budgets, such as a Rembrandt lithograph for 4,000 and work by contemporary artists for as little as 400.
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Shoppers seeking serious retail therapy at Harrods will no longer have to content themselves with must have accessories such as a Rolex watch,cartier 4 diamond love bracelet, a Gucci handbag or some Manolo Blahnik stilettos.
For the next few weeks they will be able to leave with works by artists such as Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and Salvador Dali in the Knightsbridge department store's distinctive green and gold carrier bags.
Monet's La Mer Vue des Falaises went on display in Harrods shop window yesterday and with a price tag of 1,cartier love bangle diamond.1 million became the most expensive item ever offered for sale at the store.
The previous Harrods record was held by a pair of ruby encrusted slippers which cost 1 million.
However the Monet's record will not last long because later this week Picasso's Femme Tenant un Chat dans ses Bras will go on show priced at 2 million. The exhibition closes on Oct 18.
The 700 works of art, worth a total of 25 million, also include items for shoppers on tighter budgets, such as a Rembrandt lithograph for 4,000 and work by contemporary artists for as little as 400.
The unprecedented exhibition is a joint project by Harrods and the London art dealers the Halcyon Gallery,cartier love bracelet replica, aimed at making art more accessible. Another artist with work on sale is the television presenter Rolf Harris, whose painting Flower Seller at Elephant and Castle sold for 95,love braclet,000 within hours of the exhibition opening yesterday.
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Bribed Jurors Get 5 Years In Prison
2 Took Money For Acquittals In 1996 Cocaine Trial
January 15, 2004By Ann W.
Jurors Gloria Alba, 31, and Maria del Carmen Penalver, 30, tearfully received five year prison sentences in what is believed to be the largest federal jury tampering scandal in modern history. Attorney Marcos Daniel JimM inez. "They struck at the very heart of our system of justice." He added that prosecutors looked but could not find another federal case with more than one corrupt juror.
Alba pleaded guilty last year to obstruction of justice, admitting she took $300,000 of a promised $1 million bribe. Penalver, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice, pocketed about $20,000.
Three others were caught in the scandal: Alba's husband Isael, 41, who was sentenced Wednesday to four years and nine months in prison; their admitted bag man, Raul Sarraff, 48, who received five years; and Penalver's former boyfriend, Gerald Rodriguez, 29, who drew a six month sentence for lying to the FBI about her bribe.
"These are good people who did a very bad thing," said the Albas' lawyer,cartier love bracelet replica, Ruben Oliva. "They had an enormous blind spot when presented with what was an immense carrot."
The money was easy to spend. Alba,bracelet love, who was 23 when she served as a juror, was able to quit her job and stay at home with her two children. She and her husband took expensive vacations and fixed up their house.
Now that house has been sold and the money forfeited to the government.
Penalver, who was 21, spent her bribe money on trendy designer accessories, including an expensive Fendi handbag, expensive watches for herself and her boyfriend, and an $8,500 Kia automobile, paid for with cash. District Judge Paul C. Huck ordered all defendants except Gloria Alba immediately taken into custody. Alba was given a reprieve until Feb. 18 so that she could help her children settle in with relatives, who will care for them while their parents are in prison.
As federal marshals prepared to handcuff her husband, Alba wiped tears from her eyes, putting his tie, watch and belt into her purse.
Earlier, she told the judge in a quavering voice how she explained her crime to her daughter. The child responded: "Mom, that's wrong. You should have gone to the police." She added, "If an 8 year old knows that, I can't ask you for anything."
Penalver pleaded for mercy, saying she felt pressured and intimidated by a jury foreman in the pocket of the violent men they'd been sworn to judge. It was easier to take their tainted drug money than to say no.
"I really wasn't interested in the monetary part," she said. Attorney Michael Davis noted, Penalver wasn't too afraid to call corrupt jury foreman Miguel Moya and reach out for her money the morning after they pushed other jurors to acquit two of Miami's biggest cocaine cowboys,cartier bangle with diamonds, Sal Magluta and Willy Falcon.
The prison sentences culminated a four year investigation launched after the acquittals devastated federal prosecutors in Miami. Justice Department's most high profile loss in a drug case. Prosecutors and agents, convinced something went awry, focused their energy and resources on getting to the bottom of it.
They conducted an exhaustive analysis of jurors' spending habits, tax returns and bank records, IRS special agent Dennis Donnell said. When confronted last year, Alba and Penalver admitted they sold their verdicts.
Besides Alba and Penalver, jury foreman Moya was prosecuted for taking bribe money and wearing down other jurors during deliberations. He was convicted in 1999 and is serving a 17 year sentence.
Moya was easy to catch. After delivering the not guilty verdicts,diamond love bracelet, his lifestyle improved dramatically. He spent $210,727 for a home in the Keys, $31,000 for a boat, took a trip to Hawaii and bought two sports cars and a Rolex watch.
But investigators didn't stop with the foreman, who offered Penalver her bribe during a break midway through the trial.
Alba's bribe money came from Sarraff, a family friend. He worked with a partner who was a childhood friend of Magluta's. The friend, who had his own problems with the law, told investigators he had passed about $900,000 from Magluta to Sarraff.
When confronted, Sarraff agreed to turn informant and went undercover last March. He wore a recording device, capturing the Albas agreeing to accept another $50,000 bribe for their silence during an upcoming trial. They spent nearly $14,000 before their arrest just days later.
"I think it's time to turn the page on the Sal Magluta saga. Let's close the book and move on," said Thomas Raffanello, who heads the Drug Enforcement Administration's Miami office.
It is a tale that inspired the opening credits of the 1980s TV hit Miami Vice.
High school friends Falcon and Magluta used their avocation, racing sleek speedboats, to build a $2 billion cocaine transporting franchise, one of the world's largest. Falcon and Magluta, both 48, are serving sentences of 20 and 205 years, respectively, for corrupting their trial.
The two high living cocaine smugglers used millions of laundered drug dollars to undermine the criminal justice system by bribing witnesses and jurors, even from jail. In the end, about 40 people, including a fourth of the duo's 1996 jury, were sent to federal prison. They also were suspected but never convicted of the murders of several witnesses.
2 Took Money For Acquittals In 1996 Cocaine Trial
January 15, 2004By Ann W.
Jurors Gloria Alba, 31, and Maria del Carmen Penalver, 30, tearfully received five year prison sentences in what is believed to be the largest federal jury tampering scandal in modern history. Attorney Marcos Daniel JimM inez. "They struck at the very heart of our system of justice." He added that prosecutors looked but could not find another federal case with more than one corrupt juror.
Alba pleaded guilty last year to obstruction of justice, admitting she took $300,000 of a promised $1 million bribe. Penalver, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice, pocketed about $20,000.
Three others were caught in the scandal: Alba's husband Isael, 41, who was sentenced Wednesday to four years and nine months in prison; their admitted bag man, Raul Sarraff, 48, who received five years; and Penalver's former boyfriend, Gerald Rodriguez, 29, who drew a six month sentence for lying to the FBI about her bribe.
"These are good people who did a very bad thing," said the Albas' lawyer,cartier love bracelet replica, Ruben Oliva. "They had an enormous blind spot when presented with what was an immense carrot."
The money was easy to spend. Alba,bracelet love, who was 23 when she served as a juror, was able to quit her job and stay at home with her two children. She and her husband took expensive vacations and fixed up their house.
Now that house has been sold and the money forfeited to the government.
Penalver, who was 21, spent her bribe money on trendy designer accessories, including an expensive Fendi handbag, expensive watches for herself and her boyfriend, and an $8,500 Kia automobile, paid for with cash. District Judge Paul C. Huck ordered all defendants except Gloria Alba immediately taken into custody. Alba was given a reprieve until Feb. 18 so that she could help her children settle in with relatives, who will care for them while their parents are in prison.
As federal marshals prepared to handcuff her husband, Alba wiped tears from her eyes, putting his tie, watch and belt into her purse.
Earlier, she told the judge in a quavering voice how she explained her crime to her daughter. The child responded: "Mom, that's wrong. You should have gone to the police." She added, "If an 8 year old knows that, I can't ask you for anything."
Penalver pleaded for mercy, saying she felt pressured and intimidated by a jury foreman in the pocket of the violent men they'd been sworn to judge. It was easier to take their tainted drug money than to say no.
"I really wasn't interested in the monetary part," she said. Attorney Michael Davis noted, Penalver wasn't too afraid to call corrupt jury foreman Miguel Moya and reach out for her money the morning after they pushed other jurors to acquit two of Miami's biggest cocaine cowboys,cartier bangle with diamonds, Sal Magluta and Willy Falcon.
The prison sentences culminated a four year investigation launched after the acquittals devastated federal prosecutors in Miami. Justice Department's most high profile loss in a drug case. Prosecutors and agents, convinced something went awry, focused their energy and resources on getting to the bottom of it.
They conducted an exhaustive analysis of jurors' spending habits, tax returns and bank records, IRS special agent Dennis Donnell said. When confronted last year, Alba and Penalver admitted they sold their verdicts.
Besides Alba and Penalver, jury foreman Moya was prosecuted for taking bribe money and wearing down other jurors during deliberations. He was convicted in 1999 and is serving a 17 year sentence.
Moya was easy to catch. After delivering the not guilty verdicts,diamond love bracelet, his lifestyle improved dramatically. He spent $210,727 for a home in the Keys, $31,000 for a boat, took a trip to Hawaii and bought two sports cars and a Rolex watch.
But investigators didn't stop with the foreman, who offered Penalver her bribe during a break midway through the trial.
Alba's bribe money came from Sarraff, a family friend. He worked with a partner who was a childhood friend of Magluta's. The friend, who had his own problems with the law, told investigators he had passed about $900,000 from Magluta to Sarraff.
When confronted, Sarraff agreed to turn informant and went undercover last March. He wore a recording device, capturing the Albas agreeing to accept another $50,000 bribe for their silence during an upcoming trial. They spent nearly $14,000 before their arrest just days later.
"I think it's time to turn the page on the Sal Magluta saga. Let's close the book and move on," said Thomas Raffanello, who heads the Drug Enforcement Administration's Miami office.
It is a tale that inspired the opening credits of the 1980s TV hit Miami Vice.
High school friends Falcon and Magluta used their avocation, racing sleek speedboats, to build a $2 billion cocaine transporting franchise, one of the world's largest. Falcon and Magluta, both 48, are serving sentences of 20 and 205 years, respectively, for corrupting their trial.
The two high living cocaine smugglers used millions of laundered drug dollars to undermine the criminal justice system by bribing witnesses and jurors, even from jail. In the end, about 40 people, including a fourth of the duo's 1996 jury, were sent to federal prison. They also were suspected but never convicted of the murders of several witnesses.
The Great Beauty Review
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL: Does anybody sell calendars indicating how long it's okay to rest on one's laurels? Paolo Sorrentino's sprawling, consistently gorgeous The Great Beauty accompanies the inner and outer musings of one Jep Gambardella, who came to Rome at age 26 and has just celebrated his 65th birthday with a party no more rowdy or excessive than the revelry in Times Square on New Year's Eve or a small gathering for 500 of Jay 'the great' Gatsby's closest friends. Jep is played by Sorrentino's cherished key actor Toni Servillo, star of four of the director's six features to date.
Is there a generational approach to superficiality?
Jep published one novel,cartier bracelet bangle, The Human Apparatus, 40 years ago. The fact that he never managed to write another book is seen as an intriguing aspect of his persona rather than a sure fire sign that the guy is lazy or a loser. He writes the thing, wins a prize and then gets novelist's block for four decades! What a waste!" But the European stance is closer to "Jep hasn't found the right subject" which is about as convincing as Liberace not marrying ( la Steven Soderbergh's splendid biopic Behind the Candelabra) because he hasn't found the right girl.
Jep does wield his pen. He writes for a magazine whose formidable editor Dadina happens to be a dwarf. In an early passage, Dadina assigns Jep to interview a female performance artist named Talia Concept. Ms. Concept can't bring herself to define even the broadest aspects of her work, let alone the what makes you tick nitty gritty Jep would like to coax out of her. The sequence is a clever riff on how art is in the eye of the beholder and/or a sucker is born every minute.
Talia Concept just may have trouble articulating what her work means to her because her current piece consists of running down a slab of highway in the nude and then ramming her head into an ancient wall as hard as she can. The fact that her pubic hair is dyed red and has a Soviet style hammer and sickle shaved into it would seem to have required some forethought. (The hair on our heads may fashion itself into interesting configurations when subjected to the elements or while we sleep but landscaped pubic hair needs conscious help.)
Every great European capital boasts a spot or two that, depicted on film, screams 'Hey, look where we are!' In Paris, it's the apartment with a stunning view of the Eiffel Tower ('Hmmm, that must be Paris!') or situated so you could almost reach out and touch the Arc de Triomphe. Jep's apartment has a substantial terrace overlooking the Coliseum. While one could never become indifferent to such a view, one could also internalise the notion that nothing one writes or creates is likely to last a fraction as long as that splendid ruin, so why even try?
Jep has a cordial relationship with his own ennui, a condition brought on by a steady diet of superficial encounters by day and especially by night. And yet we feel his intelligence shining through. Jep spends some quality time with a professional stripper but it's a saintly nun's visit to Rome on a self abnegating pilgrimage that revs up his dormant creativity.
Is there a generational approach to superficiality? Sofia Coppola's fact inspired The Bling Ring portrays a group of contemporary young people whose bottomless appetite for designer garb and accessories takes vapidity to new heights. Their idea of 'art' is a brand name handbag that some arbiter of taste has decreed to be the must have accessory that will reign in that slot until another must have accessory takes its place, possibly in the next few nanoseconds. Jep knows that a well turned phrase or an ancient stone is more valuable than a Chanel handbag or a Rolex watch, but he also knows you won't find any well turned phrases to steal if you burglarise Paris Hilton's house.
Jep to Woman: "What job do you do?"
Woman: "I'm rich."
Jep: "Great job."
In Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, a droll if overlong vampire tale, vampire Adam (Tom Hiddleston) who lives in Detroit,love bracelet with diamonds, takes his vampire wife Eve (Tilda), who lives in Tangier, on a tour by night (of course) of some sights in the Motor City. One of them is what's left of the Michigan Theater,cartier love bracelet bangle, a once resplendent movie palace that seated 4,000 movie goers in the reflected gleam of chandeliers and dream weaving ornamentation. "Now it's a car park" says Adam. Tourism aside, it's not that much of a stretch to picture a pragmatic American official saying "The Coliseum is old and it's falling apart.
It'd make a great parking lot and that's something Rome could really use."
Bemused Jep has an upstairs neighbour who is exquisitely groomed and never responds to Jep's overtures in the building's elevator or when both men come out to their balconies to admire the view. When Jep learns who his enigmatic neighbour is or at least what he does, sort of we wonder why we didn't guess sooner. So, when he walks home along near vacant streets shortly after sunrise after yet another night of, well, nightlife, he notices things. The camera does the official 'noticing' and we, too, are taken with the movements of a bird or the colour of the sky. We feel as if our powers of observation are heightened. And this happens even though we haven't really been up all night assaulted by bad thumping music or gyrating women whose entire wardrobes might fit into a small Christmas stocking.
As in Fellini's La Dolce Vita, which this film honours without copying or borrowing, spend enough time in the company of other people whose minds and hearts may as well boast a motel style vacancy sign, it's hard to remember that maybe going out every night isn't all that normal.
While most of us wouldn't mind finding out for ourselves whether a life of wealth and luxury inevitably leads to lassitude and/or silly behaviour, most of us suspect that staying up late dancing and drinking particularly at age 65 might interfere with one's productivity. The existential decision is whether to value whatever falls under the heading of 'productivity' or to go with the flow,cartier 4 diamond love bracelet, just living for this moment and the moment after that.
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL: Does anybody sell calendars indicating how long it's okay to rest on one's laurels? Paolo Sorrentino's sprawling, consistently gorgeous The Great Beauty accompanies the inner and outer musings of one Jep Gambardella, who came to Rome at age 26 and has just celebrated his 65th birthday with a party no more rowdy or excessive than the revelry in Times Square on New Year's Eve or a small gathering for 500 of Jay 'the great' Gatsby's closest friends. Jep is played by Sorrentino's cherished key actor Toni Servillo, star of four of the director's six features to date.
Is there a generational approach to superficiality?
Jep published one novel,cartier bracelet bangle, The Human Apparatus, 40 years ago. The fact that he never managed to write another book is seen as an intriguing aspect of his persona rather than a sure fire sign that the guy is lazy or a loser. He writes the thing, wins a prize and then gets novelist's block for four decades! What a waste!" But the European stance is closer to "Jep hasn't found the right subject" which is about as convincing as Liberace not marrying ( la Steven Soderbergh's splendid biopic Behind the Candelabra) because he hasn't found the right girl.
Jep does wield his pen. He writes for a magazine whose formidable editor Dadina happens to be a dwarf. In an early passage, Dadina assigns Jep to interview a female performance artist named Talia Concept. Ms. Concept can't bring herself to define even the broadest aspects of her work, let alone the what makes you tick nitty gritty Jep would like to coax out of her. The sequence is a clever riff on how art is in the eye of the beholder and/or a sucker is born every minute.
Talia Concept just may have trouble articulating what her work means to her because her current piece consists of running down a slab of highway in the nude and then ramming her head into an ancient wall as hard as she can. The fact that her pubic hair is dyed red and has a Soviet style hammer and sickle shaved into it would seem to have required some forethought. (The hair on our heads may fashion itself into interesting configurations when subjected to the elements or while we sleep but landscaped pubic hair needs conscious help.)
Every great European capital boasts a spot or two that, depicted on film, screams 'Hey, look where we are!' In Paris, it's the apartment with a stunning view of the Eiffel Tower ('Hmmm, that must be Paris!') or situated so you could almost reach out and touch the Arc de Triomphe. Jep's apartment has a substantial terrace overlooking the Coliseum. While one could never become indifferent to such a view, one could also internalise the notion that nothing one writes or creates is likely to last a fraction as long as that splendid ruin, so why even try?
Jep has a cordial relationship with his own ennui, a condition brought on by a steady diet of superficial encounters by day and especially by night. And yet we feel his intelligence shining through. Jep spends some quality time with a professional stripper but it's a saintly nun's visit to Rome on a self abnegating pilgrimage that revs up his dormant creativity.
Is there a generational approach to superficiality? Sofia Coppola's fact inspired The Bling Ring portrays a group of contemporary young people whose bottomless appetite for designer garb and accessories takes vapidity to new heights. Their idea of 'art' is a brand name handbag that some arbiter of taste has decreed to be the must have accessory that will reign in that slot until another must have accessory takes its place, possibly in the next few nanoseconds. Jep knows that a well turned phrase or an ancient stone is more valuable than a Chanel handbag or a Rolex watch, but he also knows you won't find any well turned phrases to steal if you burglarise Paris Hilton's house.
Jep to Woman: "What job do you do?"
Woman: "I'm rich."
Jep: "Great job."
In Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, a droll if overlong vampire tale, vampire Adam (Tom Hiddleston) who lives in Detroit,love bracelet with diamonds, takes his vampire wife Eve (Tilda), who lives in Tangier, on a tour by night (of course) of some sights in the Motor City. One of them is what's left of the Michigan Theater,cartier love bracelet bangle, a once resplendent movie palace that seated 4,000 movie goers in the reflected gleam of chandeliers and dream weaving ornamentation. "Now it's a car park" says Adam. Tourism aside, it's not that much of a stretch to picture a pragmatic American official saying "The Coliseum is old and it's falling apart.
It'd make a great parking lot and that's something Rome could really use."
Bemused Jep has an upstairs neighbour who is exquisitely groomed and never responds to Jep's overtures in the building's elevator or when both men come out to their balconies to admire the view. When Jep learns who his enigmatic neighbour is or at least what he does, sort of we wonder why we didn't guess sooner. So, when he walks home along near vacant streets shortly after sunrise after yet another night of, well, nightlife, he notices things. The camera does the official 'noticing' and we, too, are taken with the movements of a bird or the colour of the sky. We feel as if our powers of observation are heightened. And this happens even though we haven't really been up all night assaulted by bad thumping music or gyrating women whose entire wardrobes might fit into a small Christmas stocking.
As in Fellini's La Dolce Vita, which this film honours without copying or borrowing, spend enough time in the company of other people whose minds and hearts may as well boast a motel style vacancy sign, it's hard to remember that maybe going out every night isn't all that normal.
While most of us wouldn't mind finding out for ourselves whether a life of wealth and luxury inevitably leads to lassitude and/or silly behaviour, most of us suspect that staying up late dancing and drinking particularly at age 65 might interfere with one's productivity. The existential decision is whether to value whatever falls under the heading of 'productivity' or to go with the flow,cartier 4 diamond love bracelet, just living for this moment and the moment after that.
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