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Parents hire security guards to escort children home from school
Dozens of parents are taking the precaution every day, according to the security firms.
Police insist that they are tackling crime but recognise the reassurance the guards can give to concerned parents.
Miss Farhi said she feared she would die on the doorstep of her home in April last year when she was suffocated and held at knifepoint by Daniel Mykoo as he stole her diamond ring and Rolex watch.
Police later said Mykoo, 28, and his brother Matthew, 27, acted as a "robber strangler team'' who could have preyed on 200 women living in affluent areas of London to pay for their 12,000 a month crack cocaine habit.
Miss Farhi reportedly signed up a security team after she was attacked and the trend is continuing.
The head of a security firm in Hampstead, north London, last night said his staff meet pupils when they get off the bus and walk them home.
Abi Mohamed, who runs Hocroft Trading and Security, said his firm had extended its 'Meet and Greet' service normally used by women who feel vulnerable when returning home alone at night to cover children returning from school.
He said: "As soon as they come of the bus we go and meet them and we will follow them home.
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Dozens of parents are taking the precaution every day, according to the security firms.
Police insist that they are tackling crime but recognise the reassurance the guards can give to concerned parents.
Miss Farhi said she feared she would die on the doorstep of her home in April last year when she was suffocated and held at knifepoint by Daniel Mykoo as he stole her diamond ring and Rolex watch.
Police later said Mykoo, 28, and his brother Matthew, 27, acted as a "robber strangler team'' who could have preyed on 200 women living in affluent areas of London to pay for their 12,000 a month crack cocaine habit.
Miss Farhi reportedly signed up a security team after she was attacked and the trend is continuing.
The head of a security firm in Hampstead, north London, last night said his staff meet pupils when they get off the bus and walk them home.
Abi Mohamed, who runs Hocroft Trading and Security, said his firm had extended its 'Meet and Greet' service normally used by women who feel vulnerable when returning home alone at night to cover children returning from school.
He said: "As soon as they come of the bus we go and meet them and we will follow them home.
"Women do feel much safer with us there but we are more of a deterrent than anything else.
"The police cannot be everywhere at the same time and they cannot meet everyone on the way home,vintage alhambra earrings replica."
Metropolitan Police sources say a new group of criminals targeting lone wealthy women has become active over the summer.
On August 3 they pounced on a woman when she returned to her home in Hampstead,replica van cleef arpels earrings.
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Det Con Reg Pickering,van cleef and arpels clover earrings replica, who led the investigation into the Mykoo brothers, said he was not surprised parents were hiring security guards for their children.
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He also bought kitchen cabinets and furniture for their home, airline tickets for a European honeymoon and tires for her car, the lawsuit states.
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Saraceno said that she got stuck with more than $2,000 worth of wedding and bridesmaids gowns, plus the $800 she spent on invitations and a $250 deposit paid to the photographer.
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Everybody lost some money, Saraceno said. But isnt it better than getting a divorce?
Rose said his lawsuit is based on a case decided in 1975 by the 4th District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach allowing a man to retrieve the engagement ring he had given his fiancee after she called off the wedding.
The rationale . is that such presents are not absolute but are made upon the implied condition that a marriage ensue, the court ruled.
Rose said he tried to settle the issue with Saraceno out of court. She refused to speak with him. A letter didnt work, either.
The letter,alhambra pendant necklace replica, dated in April, includes a more detailed list of gifts than the lawsuit and an offer to settle out of court for $5,000.
I am very sorry that our relationship has come to the point that it has, the letter stated. But . I have been left with no other recourse than to demand return of these monies and/or item which were given to you out of love and in contemplation of our marriage.
Rose signed the letter sincerely.
Saraceno said she called Rose after being served last week.
I said Dont you want to forget this and go on with your life? Saraceno said. Its all so stupid . I gave him a Rolex watch am I supposed to say I want that Rolex back?
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Rose contends the gifts were given in contemplation of and conditional upon the consummation of the marriage.
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In addition,vca necklace fake, she said,van cleef necklace alhambra fake, Rose took the fur coat when he moved out of her townhouse.
Everybody lost some money, Saraceno said. But isnt it better than getting a divorce?
Rose said his lawsuit is based on a case decided in 1975 by the 4th District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach allowing a man to retrieve the engagement ring he had given his fiancee after she called off the wedding.
The rationale . is that such presents are not absolute but are made upon the implied condition that a marriage ensue, the court ruled.
Rose said he tried to settle the issue with Saraceno out of court. She refused to speak with him. A letter didnt work, either.
The letter,alhambra pendant necklace replica, dated in April, includes a more detailed list of gifts than the lawsuit and an offer to settle out of court for $5,000.
I am very sorry that our relationship has come to the point that it has, the letter stated. But . I have been left with no other recourse than to demand return of these monies and/or item which were given to you out of love and in contemplation of our marriage.
Rose signed the letter sincerely.
Saraceno said she called Rose after being served last week.
I said Dont you want to forget this and go on with your life? Saraceno said. Its all so stupid . I gave him a Rolex watch am I supposed to say I want that Rolex back?
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Newark Liberty International, which runs a close second to JFK on Fox News' list of US airports with "the worst TSA checkpoints," also was slammed for lax screening and reports of employee theft. That resulted in a rare occurrence in government: Several employees were actually dismissed.
Not to be outdone, a screener at JFK last summer was likewise busted for theft, trying to abscond with a passenger's Rolex watch. Another TSA security screener at JFK was arrested three weeks later on an unrelated theft charge.
And, of course, there is the competency issue. As The Post's Philip Messing reported last fall, "security screeners at Kennedy and Newark airports have consistently failed to find weapons and bombs being smuggled by undercover operatives posing as airline passengers."
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Long delays at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at major airports nationwide have been causing passengers to miss flights. The situation will likely get worse during summer, experts predict.
JFK, according to Fox News Travel, has "by far" one of the worst TSA checkpoints.
Newark Liberty International, which runs a close second to JFK on Fox News' list of US airports with "the worst TSA checkpoints," also was slammed for lax screening and reports of employee theft. That resulted in a rare occurrence in government: Several employees were actually dismissed.
Not to be outdone, a screener at JFK last summer was likewise busted for theft, trying to abscond with a passenger's Rolex watch. Another TSA security screener at JFK was arrested three weeks later on an unrelated theft charge.
And, of course, there is the competency issue. As The Post's Philip Messing reported last fall, "security screeners at Kennedy and Newark airports have consistently failed to find weapons and bombs being smuggled by undercover operatives posing as airline passengers."
There is a ready solution to the TSA's problems: Replace the agency. In large airports with multiple security checkpoints,pink van cleef necklace replica, airlines should be required to hire their own screeners and set their own procedures, bypassing the TSA.
Competition among the airlines would help set the proper balance between safety and efficiency, based on passenger preference and demand. This same competitive process would also weed out unnecessary procedures that add little to safety while increasing delays. In some cases, security lines have taken 90 minutes or more to clear.
Long delays are not necessary to keep us safe. The problem is the TSA is a government bureaucracy that has little incentive to balance safety considerations against customer satisfaction.
The requirement that passengers remove their shoes is just one bureaucratic hurdle that slows lines but does little, if anything, to make us safer. I was recently selected for enhanced security screening while flying out of Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, presumably because I had a new passport.
Security personnel quickly took everything out of my bag and then repacked it. But they never asked me to remove my shoes,van cleef and arpels necklace clover fake.
When the TSA's human robots harass us by confiscating our toiletries and forcing us to remove our shoes, they create the illusion of "doing something" to make us secure. But much of the experience is unnecessary theater.
Privatizing security screening is a step in the right direction. A private company, which could be replaced if it's not performing to the satisfaction of the flying public, would have an incentive to properly staff security lines to minimize delays. The TSA, which has 15 percent fewer screeners than in 2011,van cleef and arpels butterfly necklace fake, has no such incentive.
But privatization alone wouldn't fully solve the problem when Washington still mandates security procedures.
We need the people who conduct the security screening, and who make the screening rules, to weigh the expected benefits of a screening procedure against the likely costs, in terms of traveler delays and dissatisfaction. Only the competitive profit and loss system does that well.
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From the moment Ben Novack Jr. was found bludgeoned, bound and gagged inside a hotel suite in a White Plains hotel a year ago, the details of his life and death have grown more peculiar with each disclosure.
His blood covered body was found on the floor of Room 453 at the Rye Town Hilton, where Novack, 53, was helping run an Amway convention. His face was bound in duct tape,van cleef necklace fake, as were his legs, taped below the knees, and his hands, bound behind his back.
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There were police reports and court testimony about Novack comic book memorabilia his collection of Batman themed material was said to be the second largest in the country and to include a full size replica of the Batmobile and his taste in pornography featuring women missing limbs.
Novack wife, Narcisa Veliz Novack,van cleef necklace pink replica, known as Narcy, was arrested in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; her brother, Cristobal Veliz, 56; and another relative, Denis Ramirez, 36, were arrested in Brooklyn. A fourth suspect, Joel Gonzalez, 25, who was believed to have been hired to kill Novack, remained at large. District Court in Fort Lauderdale and ordered held without bail. Veliz and Ramirez pleaded not guilty at their arraignments in White Plains. Bail was denied for Veliz; Ramirez did not request bail.
The four defendants were charged with interstate domestic violence, stalking and conspiracy to commit interstate domestic violence and stalking. attorney for the Southern District of New York, called Novack death savage killing as he announced the charges Thursday in White Plains. plot that led to the death of Ben Novack, he said, a family affair. Her death was ruled an accident, although she had a broken jaw and blood was found on her car and the walls of her house.
The indictment in Ben Novack slaying says Narcy Novack opened the door to two killers who beat and slashed her husband, and then gave them a pillow to hold over his face as he was being assaulted.
Ben Novack grew up inside the Fontainebleau, the Miami Beach landmark founded and built by his father and opened in 1954. The hotel has been used in such Hollywood films as and and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Novack aunt Maxine Fiel remembered her nephew enjoying the perks of luxury hotel living, which included trick or treating trips in a chauffeured limousine, but for all its opulence, she described his childhood as lonely. amassed a dizzying array of Batman memorabilia and other collectibles that was packed inside the couple home to ceiling, according to Henry Zippay Jr., one of Narcy Novack estate attorneys. were avid collectors of everything that interested them. His focus was on Batman, primarily. said the estate, which in addition to the Batman trove included several homes in Florida, boats and vintage automobiles, was worth $5 million to $6 million.
When Novack met his future wife, a native of Ecuador, she was a stripper, according to The Miami Herald. The couple had a stormy relationship that included accusations of spousal abuse. The two married in 1991. In 2002, Novack claimed his wife orchestrated a home invasion robbery that left him tied to a chair for 24 hours. She said the robbery was part of an elaborate sex game. No charges were filed. She once claimed her husband broke her nose.
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The New York Times doesn know it yet, but it has a chief Venezuelan fashion correspondent. And I it. Models strut down the runway under an enormous white tent and wave to their sugar daddies. I not anyone sugar daddy, but I wave back anyway. Through the sashaying legs I intermittently see a man who bears an uncanny resemblance to Ricardo Montalban. He has a blond on each side of him rib removed, collagen boosted silicone beauties. They wrap their pneumatic lips around fluorescent straws for hits of Bellini between jealous stares at the newer flesh up on the runway. The models come out one at a time in pink thongs, leopard print thongs,van cleef fake alhambra necklace, jeweled thongs. Each thong draws a big cheer from the crowd until a bigger cheer is drawn by the next. Thong warfare.
This is the best assignment in the world, and I suppose I have Alex Deep to thank. His family owns the Casablanca Fashion Group, a chain of high end fashion boutiques where affluent Venezuelans can get the latest from Dolce Gabbana, Armani and Versace all under one roof. They produce this show annually to publicize the spring lines.
Deep wears a retro tailored Armani suit, steel chains around his neck and at least two tones of red streaked through his hair,van cleef and arpels replica necklace, swept up in the style of a David Beckham mohawk. The final accessory is an admiring coterie of Venezuelan princesses. Alex Deep wants to be a music producer. He has a recording studio in Miami and spins at Boston nightclubs. A drunken Mexican introduced us to each other at the Manhattan nightspot Hiro, where Deep appeared to have fallen into a vat of Dolce Gabbana. A week later, he offered to fly me to Venezuela if I would write a piece about this show. He mentioned that his family was looking to expand their fashion business to the United States, and I imagine that they wanted publicity.
Of course, I don know anything about fashion and did not pretend to. But I had followed Hugo Chavez socialist coup of this country and even found amusement in his more colorful rhetoric. If Paris was well worth a mass, post capitalist Caracas is certainly worth a fashion show.
I picked up a few back issues of Vogue and flew down.
Soon we are driving around the city in Deep armored Jeep Grand Cherokee. The Deep Jeep is a unique automobile. It has a panic button to kill the engine and signal a satellite in the event of a kidnapping, inch thick windows to stop bullets in the event of a shooting, and a hefty driver trained to speed like a madman if necessary.
We are headed into the mountains for a birthday party. In Latin America the upper classes say that bodyguards are like testicles big, hairy and always outside when the party happens. Alas, it funny because it true. Outside the house is a black suited phalanx of armed men, big and grisly with indigenous features. The SUVs form a row of bulletproof chrome beneath a 10,000 volt wire of death suspended above the 9 foot fence surrounding the estate. Outside is the city, and outside it will stay.
Caracas is a city built into the jungle, but everyone I meet here looks perfectly European. Silken hair, porcelain skin, small nose. The young women spend a great deal of time, and surely money, achieving what is often described as an impossible body standard. One wears a lavender sweater so commensurately tight with her own body that you can see the outline of every abdominal muscle in her six pack. The young men could have walked out of the Upper East Side or a European capital.
Alex Deep hands me another bottle of Polar beer, which the birthday girl family has made several billion dollars manufacturing, and explains: is the top 2 percent of the country, what you are seeing. We have no middle class.
But they have a lower class. Squalid adobe towns flicker across the mountains on the other sides of the city. Each house does its best with a single light bulb while the teakwood pillbox shines, bright and cheery, an electrocution prone pleasure dome.
Early on, Chavez sacked the entrenched management of Petroleos de Venezuela, the state owned oil corporation, replacing it with his own supporters. It makes even more sense when you account for the persistent global energy panic; the cost of oil skyrocketed past $50 a barrel last year because of China insatiable appetite for crude and threats to oil fields in the Middle East (namely, Iraq). To a socialist leader in an oil rich country the arithmetic is easy. Why not share the wealth?
Critics, though, charge that Chavez implemented his programs to buy quick support from the masses at the cost of the large scale capital reinvestment, which experts say the state oil industry needs if it is to continue producing the low quality jungle oil that is this state lifeblood. Analysts estimate that Petroleos de Venezuela requires $6 billion of reinvestment each year to remain competitive, and under Chavez in 2004, it received less than half that amount. The fear is that Chavez is acting recklessly to bolster his own power and that oil prices may fall, triggering an economic crisis. For the time being, Chavez educational programs and subsidies have improved the quality of life for some poor Venezuelans, though the basic fabric of society remains unchanged.
In this crowd, the very mention of his name brings sour looks and rumors: Chavez has a private collection of Rolex watches and Armani suits that he wears to the same types of debauched parties that he once railed against. More: His sons have trust funds filled with the people money and spend their days as bourgeois wastrels in Florida. Still more: His lieutenants fill entire sections of Miami with million dollar mansions similarly paid for by the single light bulb adobes off in the distance. With power firmly consolidated, Chavez holds all the cards.
One man insists to me that a little over 10 percent of the country leading families are represented on this single lawn. It is at first difficult to believe, but it seems more plausible after one girl invites me to her birthday party without ever learning my name.
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Lightning flickers over the Bantustan built into the side of a less fortunate mountain. Mud slides killed 25,000 and left 100,000 homeless in towns like this across the country in 1999, but no one outside Venezuela took much notice. No one takes much notice now.
The next morning the phone rings. It is Alex Deep. The fashion show is tomorrow and there is a press conference in the hotel lobby. I feel sorry for the press and wonder what sorts of questions they could possibly ask on the day before a fashion show. I then recall that I am the press.
I enter the lobby and soon meet Veruska Ramirez, who was Miss Venezuela in 1997. Her ochre skin is Amazonian, her pointed features European, and her unmoving breasts silicone. She is lost world, Old World, and New World. Before becoming Miss Venezuela she cleaned houses for $80 a week. Venezuelans take their beauty pageants seriously,van cleef knock off necklaces, and beauty is the only element of meritocracy that remains fully operative in this country, come junta or high water. Life is good for Ramirez, and she also recently experienced the ultimate Latin American status symbol: a kidnapping.
There is an awkward silence as I realize that she expects to be interviewed. As a fashion reporter it is my professional duty to inquire about her clothes.
are you wearing? I ask.
It comes off sounding a bit pervy, but apparently this is how it done.
Mara, she says.
Right, then. tell me about your kidnapping. And away she goes.
left me in a very dangerous zone of the city, and when I got out of the car I said, my God! Because I had my high heels on! They wanted autographs! she says. they got in the car, they said, worry, cutie! We not gonna hurt you! they recognized me!
We are now playing Latin American abduction survivor. Deep, again wearing head to toe Armani, one ups Ms. Venezuela.
brother, he had a gun in his head! They were pointing at his girlfriend! They were saying, spread this little girl! You feel bad this entire life if I rape your girl!'
Ms. Venezuela defends her honor: I told them from the beginning, prefer that you kill me than touch me.'
She then joins Mr. Venezuela and several other models on the press panel with Carlos Dorado, a tan businessman in a navy blue suit with gold pinstripes.
I am initially inclined to sit in the back row nursing my Polar beer hangover until it is all over. But I am a fashion reporter, and in less than 24 hours will be the highest ranking such reporter in this entire nation. I must ask questions about fashion; it is what I do. Soon Deep elbows me in the side. on, man. Ask a question.
The New York Times doesn know it yet, but it has a chief Venezuelan fashion correspondent. And I it. Models strut down the runway under an enormous white tent and wave to their sugar daddies. I not anyone sugar daddy, but I wave back anyway. Through the sashaying legs I intermittently see a man who bears an uncanny resemblance to Ricardo Montalban. He has a blond on each side of him rib removed, collagen boosted silicone beauties. They wrap their pneumatic lips around fluorescent straws for hits of Bellini between jealous stares at the newer flesh up on the runway. The models come out one at a time in pink thongs, leopard print thongs,van cleef fake alhambra necklace, jeweled thongs. Each thong draws a big cheer from the crowd until a bigger cheer is drawn by the next. Thong warfare.
This is the best assignment in the world, and I suppose I have Alex Deep to thank. His family owns the Casablanca Fashion Group, a chain of high end fashion boutiques where affluent Venezuelans can get the latest from Dolce Gabbana, Armani and Versace all under one roof. They produce this show annually to publicize the spring lines.
Deep wears a retro tailored Armani suit, steel chains around his neck and at least two tones of red streaked through his hair,van cleef and arpels replica necklace, swept up in the style of a David Beckham mohawk. The final accessory is an admiring coterie of Venezuelan princesses. Alex Deep wants to be a music producer. He has a recording studio in Miami and spins at Boston nightclubs. A drunken Mexican introduced us to each other at the Manhattan nightspot Hiro, where Deep appeared to have fallen into a vat of Dolce Gabbana. A week later, he offered to fly me to Venezuela if I would write a piece about this show. He mentioned that his family was looking to expand their fashion business to the United States, and I imagine that they wanted publicity.
Of course, I don know anything about fashion and did not pretend to. But I had followed Hugo Chavez socialist coup of this country and even found amusement in his more colorful rhetoric. If Paris was well worth a mass, post capitalist Caracas is certainly worth a fashion show.
I picked up a few back issues of Vogue and flew down.
Soon we are driving around the city in Deep armored Jeep Grand Cherokee. The Deep Jeep is a unique automobile. It has a panic button to kill the engine and signal a satellite in the event of a kidnapping, inch thick windows to stop bullets in the event of a shooting, and a hefty driver trained to speed like a madman if necessary.
We are headed into the mountains for a birthday party. In Latin America the upper classes say that bodyguards are like testicles big, hairy and always outside when the party happens. Alas, it funny because it true. Outside the house is a black suited phalanx of armed men, big and grisly with indigenous features. The SUVs form a row of bulletproof chrome beneath a 10,000 volt wire of death suspended above the 9 foot fence surrounding the estate. Outside is the city, and outside it will stay.
Caracas is a city built into the jungle, but everyone I meet here looks perfectly European. Silken hair, porcelain skin, small nose. The young women spend a great deal of time, and surely money, achieving what is often described as an impossible body standard. One wears a lavender sweater so commensurately tight with her own body that you can see the outline of every abdominal muscle in her six pack. The young men could have walked out of the Upper East Side or a European capital.
Alex Deep hands me another bottle of Polar beer, which the birthday girl family has made several billion dollars manufacturing, and explains: is the top 2 percent of the country, what you are seeing. We have no middle class.
But they have a lower class. Squalid adobe towns flicker across the mountains on the other sides of the city. Each house does its best with a single light bulb while the teakwood pillbox shines, bright and cheery, an electrocution prone pleasure dome.
Early on, Chavez sacked the entrenched management of Petroleos de Venezuela, the state owned oil corporation, replacing it with his own supporters. It makes even more sense when you account for the persistent global energy panic; the cost of oil skyrocketed past $50 a barrel last year because of China insatiable appetite for crude and threats to oil fields in the Middle East (namely, Iraq). To a socialist leader in an oil rich country the arithmetic is easy. Why not share the wealth?
Critics, though, charge that Chavez implemented his programs to buy quick support from the masses at the cost of the large scale capital reinvestment, which experts say the state oil industry needs if it is to continue producing the low quality jungle oil that is this state lifeblood. Analysts estimate that Petroleos de Venezuela requires $6 billion of reinvestment each year to remain competitive, and under Chavez in 2004, it received less than half that amount. The fear is that Chavez is acting recklessly to bolster his own power and that oil prices may fall, triggering an economic crisis. For the time being, Chavez educational programs and subsidies have improved the quality of life for some poor Venezuelans, though the basic fabric of society remains unchanged.
In this crowd, the very mention of his name brings sour looks and rumors: Chavez has a private collection of Rolex watches and Armani suits that he wears to the same types of debauched parties that he once railed against. More: His sons have trust funds filled with the people money and spend their days as bourgeois wastrels in Florida. Still more: His lieutenants fill entire sections of Miami with million dollar mansions similarly paid for by the single light bulb adobes off in the distance. With power firmly consolidated, Chavez holds all the cards.
One man insists to me that a little over 10 percent of the country leading families are represented on this single lawn. It is at first difficult to believe, but it seems more plausible after one girl invites me to her birthday party without ever learning my name.
are flying to Margarita on Sunday! she says,van cleef and arpel knock off necklace. hundred of us!
Lightning flickers over the Bantustan built into the side of a less fortunate mountain. Mud slides killed 25,000 and left 100,000 homeless in towns like this across the country in 1999, but no one outside Venezuela took much notice. No one takes much notice now.
The next morning the phone rings. It is Alex Deep. The fashion show is tomorrow and there is a press conference in the hotel lobby. I feel sorry for the press and wonder what sorts of questions they could possibly ask on the day before a fashion show. I then recall that I am the press.
I enter the lobby and soon meet Veruska Ramirez, who was Miss Venezuela in 1997. Her ochre skin is Amazonian, her pointed features European, and her unmoving breasts silicone. She is lost world, Old World, and New World. Before becoming Miss Venezuela she cleaned houses for $80 a week. Venezuelans take their beauty pageants seriously,van cleef knock off necklaces, and beauty is the only element of meritocracy that remains fully operative in this country, come junta or high water. Life is good for Ramirez, and she also recently experienced the ultimate Latin American status symbol: a kidnapping.
There is an awkward silence as I realize that she expects to be interviewed. As a fashion reporter it is my professional duty to inquire about her clothes.
are you wearing? I ask.
It comes off sounding a bit pervy, but apparently this is how it done.
Mara, she says.
Right, then. tell me about your kidnapping. And away she goes.
left me in a very dangerous zone of the city, and when I got out of the car I said, my God! Because I had my high heels on! They wanted autographs! she says. they got in the car, they said, worry, cutie! We not gonna hurt you! they recognized me!
We are now playing Latin American abduction survivor. Deep, again wearing head to toe Armani, one ups Ms. Venezuela.
brother, he had a gun in his head! They were pointing at his girlfriend! They were saying, spread this little girl! You feel bad this entire life if I rape your girl!'
Ms. Venezuela defends her honor: I told them from the beginning, prefer that you kill me than touch me.'
She then joins Mr. Venezuela and several other models on the press panel with Carlos Dorado, a tan businessman in a navy blue suit with gold pinstripes.
I am initially inclined to sit in the back row nursing my Polar beer hangover until it is all over. But I am a fashion reporter, and in less than 24 hours will be the highest ranking such reporter in this entire nation. I must ask questions about fashion; it is what I do. Soon Deep elbows me in the side. on, man. Ask a question.
and wife plead guilty to federal charges of misusing campaign funds
In this March 9, 2012, file photo, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. , an Illinois Democrat, and his wife, Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson, ask each other for their support and votes as they arrive at a polling station for early voting in Chicago. On Friday, Feb. 15, Jackson, who resigned last year after nearly 17 years in office,van cleef replica necklaces, was charged with spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses. His wife, Sandi, who resigned from the City Council in January 2013, was charged with filing false income tax forms.
M. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife agreed Friday, Feb. 15, to plead guilty to federal charges growing out of what prosecutors said was a scheme to use $750,000 in campaign funds for lavish personal expenses, including a $43,000 gold watch and furs.
Federal prosecutors filed one charge of conspiracy against the former Chicago congressman and charged his ex alderman wife, Sandra, with one count of filing false joint federal income tax returns for the years 2006 through 2011 that knowingly understated the income the couple received. Both agreed to plead guilty in deals with federal prosecutors.
Both face maximum penalties of several years in prison; he also faces hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and forfeitures. But the government did not immediately release the text of its plea agreements. Such agreements almost invariably call for prosecutors to recommend sentences below the maximum.
The son of a famed civil rights leader, Jackson, a Democrat, entered Congress in 1995 and resigned last November. Sandi, as she's known, was a Chicago alderman but resigned last month amid the federal investigation.
Jackson spent campaign money of $43,350 on a gold plated, men's Rolex watch and $9,587.64 on children's furniture,van cleef necklace replica alhambra, according to court papers filed in the case. His wife spent $5,150 on fur capes and parkas, the document said.
"I offer no excuses for my conduct, and I fully accept my responsibility for the improper decisions and mistakes I have made," the ex congressman said in a written statement released by his lawyers. "I want to offer my sincerest apologies . for my errors in judgment and while my journey is not yet complete, it is my hope that I am remembered for things that I did right."
Several messages left with Jackson's father, the voluble civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, were not returned Friday. The elder Jackson has often declined to comment about his son's health and legal woes in recent months.
The government said, "Defendant Jesse L. Jackson Jr., willingly and knowingly, used approximately $750,000 from the campaign's accounts for personal expenses" that benefited him and his co conspirator, who was not named in the one count criminal information filed in the case. The filing of a criminal information means a defendant has waived the right to have a grand jury consider the case; it is used by federal prosecutors when they have reached a deal for a guilty plea.
The prosecutors' court filing said that upon conviction, Jackson must forfeit $750,000, plus tens of thousands of dollars' worth of memorabilia items and furs. presidents, a Michael Jackson and Eddie Van Halen guitar, a Michael Jackson fedora, Martin Luther King Jr. memorabilia, Malcolm X memorabilia, Jimi Hendrix memorabilia and Bruce Lee memorabilia all from a company called Antiquities of Nevada.
The conspiracy charge carries a maximum statutory penalty of up to five years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and other penalties. District Judge Robert L. Wilkins is assigned to the case.
Tom Kirsch, an attorney for Jackson's wife, said she has signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors and would plead guilty to one tax count.
Kirsch said his client and her husband have supported each other. He said the episode has been stressful for Sandi Jackson, but she "expected to be held responsible . and wants to put (it) behind her and her family."
The charge against Sandi Jackson carries a maximum of a three year prison sentence. House of Representatives in an attempt to conceal his and his wife's conversion of campaign funds for their personal benefit.
A black and red cashmere cape cost $1,500, a mink reversible parka cost $1,200, and a black fox reversible cost $1,500, prosecutors wrote.
According the government's court papers:
Jackson and his wife carried out the scheme by using credit cards issued to Jackson's re election campaigns to pay personal credit card bills for $582,772.58 in purchases by Jackson. Jackson provided his wife and a longtime campaign treasurer $112,150.39,van cleef arpels replica necklace, solely for having the two carry out transactions that personally benefited Jackson.
In a false filing with the House, the owner of an unidentified Alabama based company issued a $25,000 check to pay down a balance on one of Jackson's personal credit cards. Jackson's financial disclosure statement with the House omitted the payment made on Jackson's behalf.
In a false campaign filing with the Federal Election Commission, an unidentified treasurer for Jackson's campaigns reported that the campaign spent $1,553.09 at a Chicago museum for "room rental fundraiser." In fact, said the court papers, Jackson spent those funds to buy porcelain collector's items.
Jackson denied any wrongdoing in the Blagojevich matter. But the suspicions, along with revelations that he had had an extramarital affair, derailed any aspirations for higher political office. It wasn't clear from the court papers whether the woman with whom he had the affair was among the half dozen people identified in the documents by letters of the alphabet rather than by their names.
Since last June, Jackson has been hospitalized twice at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for treatment of bipolar disorder and other issues,van cleef fake necklaces, and he stayed out of the public eye for months, even during the November elections.
In this March 9, 2012, file photo, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. , an Illinois Democrat, and his wife, Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson, ask each other for their support and votes as they arrive at a polling station for early voting in Chicago. On Friday, Feb. 15, Jackson, who resigned last year after nearly 17 years in office,van cleef replica necklaces, was charged with spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses. His wife, Sandi, who resigned from the City Council in January 2013, was charged with filing false income tax forms.
M. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife agreed Friday, Feb. 15, to plead guilty to federal charges growing out of what prosecutors said was a scheme to use $750,000 in campaign funds for lavish personal expenses, including a $43,000 gold watch and furs.
Federal prosecutors filed one charge of conspiracy against the former Chicago congressman and charged his ex alderman wife, Sandra, with one count of filing false joint federal income tax returns for the years 2006 through 2011 that knowingly understated the income the couple received. Both agreed to plead guilty in deals with federal prosecutors.
Both face maximum penalties of several years in prison; he also faces hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and forfeitures. But the government did not immediately release the text of its plea agreements. Such agreements almost invariably call for prosecutors to recommend sentences below the maximum.
The son of a famed civil rights leader, Jackson, a Democrat, entered Congress in 1995 and resigned last November. Sandi, as she's known, was a Chicago alderman but resigned last month amid the federal investigation.
Jackson spent campaign money of $43,350 on a gold plated, men's Rolex watch and $9,587.64 on children's furniture,van cleef necklace replica alhambra, according to court papers filed in the case. His wife spent $5,150 on fur capes and parkas, the document said.
"I offer no excuses for my conduct, and I fully accept my responsibility for the improper decisions and mistakes I have made," the ex congressman said in a written statement released by his lawyers. "I want to offer my sincerest apologies . for my errors in judgment and while my journey is not yet complete, it is my hope that I am remembered for things that I did right."
Several messages left with Jackson's father, the voluble civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, were not returned Friday. The elder Jackson has often declined to comment about his son's health and legal woes in recent months.
The government said, "Defendant Jesse L. Jackson Jr., willingly and knowingly, used approximately $750,000 from the campaign's accounts for personal expenses" that benefited him and his co conspirator, who was not named in the one count criminal information filed in the case. The filing of a criminal information means a defendant has waived the right to have a grand jury consider the case; it is used by federal prosecutors when they have reached a deal for a guilty plea.
The prosecutors' court filing said that upon conviction, Jackson must forfeit $750,000, plus tens of thousands of dollars' worth of memorabilia items and furs. presidents, a Michael Jackson and Eddie Van Halen guitar, a Michael Jackson fedora, Martin Luther King Jr. memorabilia, Malcolm X memorabilia, Jimi Hendrix memorabilia and Bruce Lee memorabilia all from a company called Antiquities of Nevada.
The conspiracy charge carries a maximum statutory penalty of up to five years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and other penalties. District Judge Robert L. Wilkins is assigned to the case.
Tom Kirsch, an attorney for Jackson's wife, said she has signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors and would plead guilty to one tax count.
Kirsch said his client and her husband have supported each other. He said the episode has been stressful for Sandi Jackson, but she "expected to be held responsible . and wants to put (it) behind her and her family."
The charge against Sandi Jackson carries a maximum of a three year prison sentence. House of Representatives in an attempt to conceal his and his wife's conversion of campaign funds for their personal benefit.
A black and red cashmere cape cost $1,500, a mink reversible parka cost $1,200, and a black fox reversible cost $1,500, prosecutors wrote.
According the government's court papers:
Jackson and his wife carried out the scheme by using credit cards issued to Jackson's re election campaigns to pay personal credit card bills for $582,772.58 in purchases by Jackson. Jackson provided his wife and a longtime campaign treasurer $112,150.39,van cleef arpels replica necklace, solely for having the two carry out transactions that personally benefited Jackson.
In a false filing with the House, the owner of an unidentified Alabama based company issued a $25,000 check to pay down a balance on one of Jackson's personal credit cards. Jackson's financial disclosure statement with the House omitted the payment made on Jackson's behalf.
In a false campaign filing with the Federal Election Commission, an unidentified treasurer for Jackson's campaigns reported that the campaign spent $1,553.09 at a Chicago museum for "room rental fundraiser." In fact, said the court papers, Jackson spent those funds to buy porcelain collector's items.
Jackson denied any wrongdoing in the Blagojevich matter. But the suspicions, along with revelations that he had had an extramarital affair, derailed any aspirations for higher political office. It wasn't clear from the court papers whether the woman with whom he had the affair was among the half dozen people identified in the documents by letters of the alphabet rather than by their names.
Since last June, Jackson has been hospitalized twice at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for treatment of bipolar disorder and other issues,van cleef fake necklaces, and he stayed out of the public eye for months, even during the November elections.
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Flirty women are meeting men at upscale bars, scamming invitations back to the men's homes, then making off with Rolex watches, iPhones, cameras, handguns and credit cards.
South Florida police reports from the past five months show that of 13 men who were robbed by the women they took home, eight believe they were drugged.
Earlier this month, detectives publicly warned men: "Watch out for Crystal." Evidently, they also should watch out for Unkisha, Christina, Michelle, Lisa, Liza and Heaven.
"They are busy," Broward sheriff's Detective Ronald Cusumano said. "Once in awhile we get cases like this, but recently there's definitely been a spike in them."
WATCH VIDEO: Bar flirts on the prowl, drugging and robbing men
The number of cases has grown month by month, with one reported each in December and January, two in February, three in March and six in April. So far,replica van cleef alhambra necklace price, the women have stolen more than $300,000 in cash and property, police reports show.
There's more at stake than just valuables and luxury watches. Concerns about potential lethal overdoses trump property loss, the victims and police say.
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More than one woman is committing the crimes, Cusumano said, and some cases appear to be related.
Working alone or in pairs, the women have been meeting their victims, ranging in age from 33 to 58, at Vibe Ultra Lounge, YOLO, Blue Martini, Dicey Riley's and Elbo Room, all in Fort Lauderdale.
Kesto, 34, was waiting for the valet at Blue Martini at the Galleria Mall when two women slim, 25ish, a blonde in red pants, a brunette in jeans chatted him up. when the trio arrived at his Pompano Beach condo.
READ POLICE REPORT: 'Heaven' drugs, robs man
There they sipped vodka and cranberry juice on the balcony. The women encouraged Kesto to drink. The last he remembers, they were sitting on his bed together.
When Kesto awoke the next morning, his head ached, his heart raced, breathing was difficult.
The women were gone, the glasses they drank from had vanished with them, an iPad was missing, and so was a $27,000 Cartier diamond and gold watch.
"They were very evil," Kesto said. "Stealing from people is one thing, but drugging people you could die from it."
Cusumano, the detective, said that administering a narcotic with no knowledge of how much the person has had to drink or what medications they take could be lethal.
"We've got victims who are getting knocked unconscious," Cusumano said. "It's a potentially dangerous situation."
Broward sheriff's detectives released a composite sketch earlier this month and warned about "Crystal," who had ripped off a 45 year old Pompano Beach man after meeting him March 2 at an upscale Fort Lauderdale restaurant.
At his place, Crystal served him a vodka cocktail. When he awoke the next afternoon he was missing $6,000 cash and four watches valued at nearly $100,000. Crystal's contact information had even been deleted from his cellphone.
READ POLICE REPORT: 'Michelle' and 'Christine' robbery
The Broward Sheriff's Office currently is investigating three other cases, Fort Lauderdale police eight and Hollywood one.
Police say they hope more victims will come forward.
An "unidentified victim or witness could have information to assist in the investigations," said Detective DeAnna Greenlaw, of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.
One 58 year old Fort Lauderdale man reported that when he left Vibe Ultra Lounge with "Unkisha," a minivan followed. When he parked at his Hendricks Isle apartment, "Christina" joined. Together the trio showered. Christina exited first. Unkisha performed a sex act. They drank wine. The women left. Soon after, he realized that gone with the young women with the neck tattoo and diamond pierced lower lip was his $45,alhambra van cleef necklace replica,000 gold Rolex watch.
The expensive watches seem to be the tip off, Cusumano said.
"Pretty much, men are singled out that appear to be wearing expensive jewelry, especially higher end watches," he said. "[The men] may pull up in an expensive car; they may be approached by one or two females."
Flirty women are meeting men at upscale bars, scamming invitations back to the men's homes, then making off with Rolex watches, iPhones, cameras, handguns and credit cards.
South Florida police reports from the past five months show that of 13 men who were robbed by the women they took home, eight believe they were drugged.
Earlier this month, detectives publicly warned men: "Watch out for Crystal." Evidently, they also should watch out for Unkisha, Christina, Michelle, Lisa, Liza and Heaven.
"They are busy," Broward sheriff's Detective Ronald Cusumano said. "Once in awhile we get cases like this, but recently there's definitely been a spike in them."
WATCH VIDEO: Bar flirts on the prowl, drugging and robbing men
The number of cases has grown month by month, with one reported each in December and January, two in February, three in March and six in April. So far,replica van cleef alhambra necklace price, the women have stolen more than $300,000 in cash and property, police reports show.
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More than one woman is committing the crimes, Cusumano said, and some cases appear to be related.
Working alone or in pairs, the women have been meeting their victims, ranging in age from 33 to 58, at Vibe Ultra Lounge, YOLO, Blue Martini, Dicey Riley's and Elbo Room, all in Fort Lauderdale.
Kesto, 34, was waiting for the valet at Blue Martini at the Galleria Mall when two women slim, 25ish, a blonde in red pants, a brunette in jeans chatted him up. when the trio arrived at his Pompano Beach condo.
READ POLICE REPORT: 'Heaven' drugs, robs man
There they sipped vodka and cranberry juice on the balcony. The women encouraged Kesto to drink. The last he remembers, they were sitting on his bed together.
When Kesto awoke the next morning, his head ached, his heart raced, breathing was difficult.
The women were gone, the glasses they drank from had vanished with them, an iPad was missing, and so was a $27,000 Cartier diamond and gold watch.
"They were very evil," Kesto said. "Stealing from people is one thing, but drugging people you could die from it."
Cusumano, the detective, said that administering a narcotic with no knowledge of how much the person has had to drink or what medications they take could be lethal.
"We've got victims who are getting knocked unconscious," Cusumano said. "It's a potentially dangerous situation."
Broward sheriff's detectives released a composite sketch earlier this month and warned about "Crystal," who had ripped off a 45 year old Pompano Beach man after meeting him March 2 at an upscale Fort Lauderdale restaurant.
At his place, Crystal served him a vodka cocktail. When he awoke the next afternoon he was missing $6,000 cash and four watches valued at nearly $100,000. Crystal's contact information had even been deleted from his cellphone.
READ POLICE REPORT: 'Michelle' and 'Christine' robbery
The Broward Sheriff's Office currently is investigating three other cases, Fort Lauderdale police eight and Hollywood one.
Police say they hope more victims will come forward.
An "unidentified victim or witness could have information to assist in the investigations," said Detective DeAnna Greenlaw, of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.
One 58 year old Fort Lauderdale man reported that when he left Vibe Ultra Lounge with "Unkisha," a minivan followed. When he parked at his Hendricks Isle apartment, "Christina" joined. Together the trio showered. Christina exited first. Unkisha performed a sex act. They drank wine. The women left. Soon after, he realized that gone with the young women with the neck tattoo and diamond pierced lower lip was his $45,alhambra van cleef necklace replica,000 gold Rolex watch.
The expensive watches seem to be the tip off, Cusumano said.
"Pretty much, men are singled out that appear to be wearing expensive jewelry, especially higher end watches," he said. "[The men] may pull up in an expensive car; they may be approached by one or two females."
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A day after banning reporters from the courtroom where three men are being tried in the slaying of actor Haing Ngor, a judge Tuesday rescinded his ruling and made transcripts of the court proceedings available to the media.
In an unusual arrangement, separate juries have been impaneled for each of the defendants Tak Sun Tan, 21, Jason Chan, 20, and Indra Lim, 20. The men are charged with robbing and murdering Ngor, 55, in his apartment's carport two years ago.
Testimony will be presented to the juries simultaneously except during opening statements and closing arguments, when only the jury for each defendant will be present. Smith said he banned reporters during two sets of opening statements because he thought the prosecutor might refer to material that at least one jury should not hear.
Since the opening statements from the prosecution were virtually the same for all three defendants, Smith said he did not object to making the transcripts available Tuesday. Nonetheless,van cleef and arpels clover necklace, the judge said he stands by his ruling and reserves the court's right to exercise its discretion.
In his opening statement, Deputy Dist. Atty. Craig Hum accused Tan, Lim and Chan of killing the Oscar winning actor and human rights activist Feb. 25, 1996, during a robbery outside Ngor's Beaudry Avenue apartment near Chinatown.
According to the prosecution, the defendants, members of a local gang called the Oriental Lazy Boys, were high on cocaine and looking for money with which to buy more drugs the night of the slaying.
They allegedly approached Ngor in his car as he returned from visiting a friend in Long Beach. They took his $6,000 Rolex watch, but when they demanded a 24 karat gold chain and locket, Ngor refused, Hum said. The locket contained a picture of Ngor's wife, who died during the Cambodian war.
Chan then allegedly shot Ngor twice, once in the right leg and once in the chest.
Defense lawyers said in their opening statements that the prosecution's case is weak, lacking any eyewitnesses or physical evidence.
"This is a murder without any eyewitness, not one," Ivan Klein, Chan's attorney, said in his opening statement.
Hum warned all three juries that some key witnesses would recant their statements to the police because they fear retaliation from the gang.
As the prosecutor predicted, Vireak Sarik, 26, testified that he did not recall what he had told police about the night of the slaying. On a taped statement to police that was later played for the juries, Sarik said he and a friend saw the three defendants on the night of the killing and gave them a ride from the crime scene.
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A day after banning reporters from the courtroom where three men are being tried in the slaying of actor Haing Ngor, a judge Tuesday rescinded his ruling and made transcripts of the court proceedings available to the media.
In an unusual arrangement, separate juries have been impaneled for each of the defendants Tak Sun Tan, 21, Jason Chan, 20, and Indra Lim, 20. The men are charged with robbing and murdering Ngor, 55, in his apartment's carport two years ago.
Testimony will be presented to the juries simultaneously except during opening statements and closing arguments, when only the jury for each defendant will be present. Smith said he banned reporters during two sets of opening statements because he thought the prosecutor might refer to material that at least one jury should not hear.
Since the opening statements from the prosecution were virtually the same for all three defendants, Smith said he did not object to making the transcripts available Tuesday. Nonetheless,van cleef and arpels clover necklace, the judge said he stands by his ruling and reserves the court's right to exercise its discretion.
In his opening statement, Deputy Dist. Atty. Craig Hum accused Tan, Lim and Chan of killing the Oscar winning actor and human rights activist Feb. 25, 1996, during a robbery outside Ngor's Beaudry Avenue apartment near Chinatown.
According to the prosecution, the defendants, members of a local gang called the Oriental Lazy Boys, were high on cocaine and looking for money with which to buy more drugs the night of the slaying.
They allegedly approached Ngor in his car as he returned from visiting a friend in Long Beach. They took his $6,000 Rolex watch, but when they demanded a 24 karat gold chain and locket, Ngor refused, Hum said. The locket contained a picture of Ngor's wife, who died during the Cambodian war.
Chan then allegedly shot Ngor twice, once in the right leg and once in the chest.
Defense lawyers said in their opening statements that the prosecution's case is weak, lacking any eyewitnesses or physical evidence.
"This is a murder without any eyewitness, not one," Ivan Klein, Chan's attorney, said in his opening statement.
Hum warned all three juries that some key witnesses would recant their statements to the police because they fear retaliation from the gang.
As the prosecutor predicted, Vireak Sarik, 26, testified that he did not recall what he had told police about the night of the slaying. On a taped statement to police that was later played for the juries, Sarik said he and a friend saw the three defendants on the night of the killing and gave them a ride from the crime scene.
Meanwhile,replica van cleef arpels clover necklace, shortly after Smith removed his ban on reporters in the courtroom,replica van cleef and arpels alhambra necklace, a Santa Monica judge lifted his gag order in the trial of a man accused of stalking director Steven Spielberg.
Late Friday,replica van cleef and arpel clover necklace, Superior Court Judge Steven C. Suzukawa had taken the extraordinary step of ordering journalists not to report on an exchange that occurred in open court but outside the jury's presence.
The gag order covered a discussion about the continued use of a security belt on defendant Jonathan Norman while he is in the courtroom, according to people present for the discussion. The judge feared that that information about the belt would prejudice the jury.
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