Gosford Council probe of work-shy claims

GOSFORD Council has launched an investigation into the behaviour of some employees after they were accused of being bludgers by Channel 7’s Today Tonight show.

The show hired a private investigator to follow and film two road crews for three days after receiving a complaint from an anonymous ratepayer. The resident had reportedly complained to Gosford Council on several occasions but, according to Channel 7’s story, those complaints had fallen on “deaf ears”.

The two council workers were filmed at a beach. Audio commentary documented their day, which allegedly included late starts, long lunches and early marks.

Private investigator Michael Rumore told the show: “They seem to dodge work, spend long periods of time at home in the middle of the day, and spend lots of time in parks, parked under trees on nice sunny days.”

The council issued a written statement in reply to the complaints.

“Gosford City Council will investigate claims made on Channel 7’s Today Tonight program regarding the apparent behaviour of council employees on work sites,” the statement said.

“Council was provided with video footage from investigators engaged by the program, along with a brief outline of the subsequent allegations.”

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4,000 names of alleged deadbeat parents released

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – If you are supposed to be paying child support and haven’t, your name could be on a list. For the past five years, the Jefferson County Attorney’s Office has issued a long list of parents who are delinquent in child support payments.

In Sunday’s Courier Journal, a compiled list of so called “deadbeat parents” in black and white: their names, addresses, and amount of child support money they owe. The full list is over a hundred pages with nearly 4,000 names.

‘It’s really been a valuable tool,” said Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell.

O’Connell hopes the public can help them recover millions of dollars in back child support.

“Very often, people will read it and know the person, know the person doesn’t live at the address we have and will call in,” said O’Connell.

Single moms Stephanie Ransom and Latasha Murphy like the idea of a public plea.

“I have never, she will be nine in November I have never received a dime,” said Ransom.

“The people who are behind like that, they need to catch ‘em and put ‘em behind bars,” said Murphy.

“I hope it embarrass and humiliate them, cause you are deadbeat,” said Ransom.

Some parents owe well over $100,000. O’Connell said since they started putting out the list his office has collected over $2 million. But the deadbeats are not all fathers, moms make up 7% of the list.

We tried to find Lisa Abernathy who allegedly owes more than $13,000. The last known address for Abernathy isn’t right and her father, who was next door, couldn’t give us much information about her whereabouts. We did get a hold of Abernathy by phone. She said she wasn’t aware she owed that much money and that she lost her job. Abernathy said is working to pay the money back.

The County Attorney says Edward Eisenbeis, Jr. owes more than $122,000. WAVE 3 went to home address listed for Eisenbeis but no one answered.

We also tried to get in contact with Aric Dickerson. His mother told us he was behind bars. We found out Dickerson has been at Louisville Metro Corrections since August 13 accused of not paying child support.

When I asked his mother if she knew anything about him owing child support, his mother, “that’s for him to tell you all, not me.”

Dickerson was arrested after the list was drafted and before it was distributed.

To be on the list a delinquent parent has to meet certain criteria:

State Audited Cases
Obligor is not incarcerated
At least 12-month delinquency with no payment in last 6 months
No pending closure case
No SSI (disability) cases
Children reside in Louisville Metro
Call 574-0821 if you have location information for a person on the list. To view the list, click on the link below.

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Suspect Arrested in Killing of Laguna Beach Man

A 33-year-old Irvine man is being held without bail after allegedly confessing to the June 2010 slaying of his business partner in San Juan Capistrano, authorities said.

The Sheriff’s Department alleges that Ed Younghoon Shin killed 32-year-old Christopher Ryan Smith of Laguna Beach for financial gain, then “went to great lengths” to conceal evidence at the San Juan Capistrano crime scene.

The business partners had apparently agreed Smith would be paid $1 million upon leaving their company, 800 Exchange, but Shin instead killed Smith in the office they shared to avoid payment, Orange County Assistant Sheriff Mark Billings alleged at a Monday news conference in Santa Ana.

Smith was last seen alive by family in June 2010. According to investigators, after killing Smith, Shin hacked into his email account to communicate with his family.

When family members became suspicious, they hired a private investigator, then reported Smith missing to the Laguna Beach Police Department.

Shin was arrested about 11 a.m. Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport as he was about to board a flight for Canada.

It wasn’t “100 percent clear” why Shin was headed to Canada, Billings said, adding he could have been leaving the country for business reasons.

Laguna Beach police had asked Orange County sheriff’s deputies to take over the case Aug. 17 after concluding the murder happened in San Juan Capistrano, where blood evidence was reportedly found in the suspect’s office earlier this month.

Shin had the office cleaned in an attempt to get rid of the blood, Lt. John Meyer alleged. DNA tests confirmed the blood was Smith’s, Meyer added.

Investigators would not disclose the cause of death, but said there was a “fair amount of blood” in the office, Billings said.

In his emails posing as Smith, Shin reportedly made it appear as if the victim were in Africa. ”We are aware of the emails, and that was part of what we turned over to the Sheriff’s Department,” said Laguna Beach Police Lt. Jason Kravetz.

Smith’s car was found in San Jose, although investigators declined to say when. Sheriff’s investigators got access to the car this weekend.

For the past 11 days, authorities conducted surveillance of Shin, who confessed Sunday during a six-hour interview with investigators, Meyer said.

Smith’s body has not been recovered, and investigators asked anyone with information to call 714-647-7048 or 714-628-7170.

Before the men formed their business partnership, Shin was convicted of embezzlement in Riverside County and was forced to pay restitution and ordered to serve three years of probation, according to Billings.

According to this cached website page for Shin’s and Smith’s 800 Exchange business, Shin is married with three children.

Smith’s bio reads: “Having been a former professional wakeboarder, Smith now spends most of his time in the big pond, the Pacific Ocean, where he can surf the best waves that California has to offer. He also enjoys sky diving, road cycling and is a well versed amateur astronomer.”

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Private Investigator Discovers Alleged Ponzi Schemer Holding Numerous Yard Sales

A private investigator hired to check on an alleged Ponzi schemer found he was holding a number of suspiciously profitable yard sales.
Alleged Ponzi schemer Stan Kowalewski still owes investors millions after settling charges with the SEC of misappropriating $8.6 million in investor funds without admitting or denying wrongdoing earlier this year. The SEC had frozen his assets to help investors recoup their funds.
But as of this weekend, he was holding his fourth profitable estate sale, and it appears as though he’s selling as much from his house as physically possible, including all of the doors. There’s also some concern about his starting up investing again.
From the North Carolina News Record:
“I have seen where it looked like they were taking doors out of the house,” said Stellfox. “He (Kowalewski) told me they’d rented a house down in Pawleys Island. I know that he’s looking at a couple business deals down there because he’s tried to get some of the people around here to invest with him.”
Another neighbor called Stellfox’s attention to doors being removed from the house in recent weeks, Stellfox said.“He said, ‘It looks like they’re pulling every door in the house out.’ ”
This is concerning for two reasons. One, because it looks like he’s practically gutting the house before the SEC has a chance to sell it and return the profits to his allegedly de-frauded investors. And two, it’s hurting property value for his neighbors, they told the News Record.
The court-appointed receiver working on the SEC’s lawsuit against alleged Ponzi schemer Stan Kowalewski grew suspicious when Kowalewski suddenly cancelled homeowner’s insurance on his $1.7 million home in South Carolina.
So the receiver’s lawyer, David Dantzler, hired a private investigator.
Dantzler reported that the investigator couldn’t get inside Sunday, but he noticed that an exterior screen door and at least one outside light fixture had been removed — leaving a hole and exposed wiring where the base had been.
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Kowalewski’s estate sales worry neighbors, attorney

SUMMERFIELD — Neighbors and a court-appointed receiver are worried that beleaguered financial adviser Stan Kowalewski has raised money by selling off kitchen cabinets, interior doors, light fixtures and other structural elements of his $1.7 million home.

Neighbors in the upscale Henson Farm neighborhood say Kowalewski held several weekend “estate sales” during the past month or so, apparently in connection with moving his family recently to Pawleys Island, S.C.

The most recent sale took place Saturday. The people running it said only moveable household furnishings such as dressers were for sale.

“It’s a problem because I have seen kitchen cabinets and all kinds of stuff that you would normally associate with an existing house being taken out,” said Peter Heineman, who lives near Kowalewski and serves on the neighborhood association’s board.“It’s one of the better properties in the neighborhood, then they leave us with the burden of disposing of a house that’s been compromised.”

The house is covered by an asset freeze the Securities and Exchange Commission placed on Kowalewski as part of a multimillion dollar lawsuit against him for “investment advisory fraud.” Presumably, the house on Henson Farm Road could be sold to recoup part of the $8.6 million in investor money Kowalewski allegedly misappropriated.

Kowalewski, best known locally as a sometimes controversial high school basketball coach, did not return a telephone call Sunday.

The SEC won its civil lawsuit against Kowalewski in late June when he settled without admitting or denying wrongdoing. He also explicitly forfeited his right to dispute the charges when a federal judge metes out punishment.

The SEC wants him to repay $8.6 million, plus a fine that could range from a few hundred thousand dollars to $67 million.

A lawyer for the court-appointed receiver said Sunday he recently learned the house might have been stripped of some structural elements. He was concerned enough to hire a local private investigator, said Atlanta lawyer David Dantzler.

Dantzler said receiver S. Gregory Hays became concerned last week after learning that Kowalewski canceled his homeowner’s insurance on the

four-bedroom, five-bath house of brick and stone, built in 2005.

The private eye couldn’t get inside Sunday, but noticed that an exterior screen door and at least one outside light fixture had been removed — leaving a hole and exposed wiring where the base had been, said Dantzler, who represents Hays.

“We have made a demand on the Kowalewskis (Sunday) through their attorney that they provide us with a complete accounting,” Dantzler said, adding that he and Hays want to know what has been sold, who bought it, where it is now and how much the Kowalewskis reaped.

Kowalewski was not present at the “estate sale” Saturday morning, an event advertised with a handwritten sign in front of the expansive lakeside house with two fireplaces and an outdoor pool.

The people running the sale declined to identify themselves and asked a reporter to leave and not take pictures.

Throughout the morning, neighbors and bargain hunters dropped by to check out two garages of furniture bearing price tags.

Saturday’s sale was roughly the fourth such event in recent weeks, said Russ Stellfox, who lives directly across the street.

“I have seen where it looked like they were taking doors out of the house,” said Stellfox. “He (Kowalewski) told me they’d rented a house down in Pawleys Island. I know that he’s looking at a couple business deals down there because he’s tried to get some of the people around here to invest with him.”

Another neighbor called Stellfox’s attention to doors being removed from the house in recent weeks, Stellfox said.

“He said, ‘It looks like they’re pulling every door in the house out.’ ”
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Success Story: Charles Piper

Charles Piper believes he’s the man he is today because of the U.S. Army.

That includes being a healthy and fit 54-year-old.

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Charles Piper, 54, of Collierville has remained fit throughout his life since joining the Army at age 19. “I learned that physical fitness made me feel good,” he said.
“I owe everything I have to Uncle Sam,” said Piper, a retired federal agent.

Piper joined the Army at age 19 as a chubby, undisciplined youngster who hated school.

“When I was 19, I was not in good shape. I couldn’t run a full lap without stopping,” he said.

He came out understanding the benefits of fitness and ready to earn a degree.

“While I was in the Army for seven years, fitness was a part of my life whether I wanted it to be or not,” he said. “It teaches you to strive for improvement.”

Over the years, while earning a degree in criminology and becoming a detective and then a federal agent, Piper maintained a fitness routine that at one point got him down to 155 pounds.

“I learned that physical fitness made me feel good, both mentally and physically,” said the Collierville resident.

These days, Piper has no fitness tests to keep him up to standards, so he knows how important it is to stay disciplined.

Five or six days a week, he either lifts weights or runs on the treadmill.

“I usually run sprints. I’ll walk a minute, then sprint a minute, until I cover two miles. I get pretty sweaty,” he said. “I can stay excited doing one-minute sprints. It’s fun. To me, exercise should be fun.”

Piper says at his age he knows the importance of maintaining muscle tone, so he lifts weights on the days he doesn’t sprint.

“It’s what you need after 40, because your muscles start to deteriorate. If you don’t do some type of resistance training, you will lose muscle,” he said.

Focusing on the positive keeps him in the game.

“I’ve learned to concentrate on what you can do, and not what you can’t,” he said.

As he starts a new career as a private investigator, Piper believes fitness is important to how he presents himself.

“Image is important as a professional running my own business. It says that if I take care of myself, I take care of my job,” he said.

“You have to work hard if you want to succeed. And if you don’t do it when you’re 45, do you think you’re going to do it when you’re 55?” he said.

Have you lost weight and kept it off, adopted better eating habits, started exercising or had success living a more healthful lifestyle? E-mail your story to sunyata00@gmail.com.

Charles Piper

Age: 54.

Hometown: Collierville.

What he did: Piper learned the importance of fitness when he joined the Army at age 19. Now he lifts weights or runs sprints on the treadmill five to six days a week.

Advice: “This is a quote (by William James) I looked at every day throughout my life, ‘Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our mental and physical resources.'”

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Thinking of Amanda

As of press time Friday, police still had not found Jersey City mom Randy “Amanda” Lehrer, 32, who has been missing since Tuesday, Aug. 16.

This past Wednesday night, concerned volunteers posted over 600 flyers throughout Jersey City Heights, hoping someone would provide information to solve the mystery of her sudden disappearance.

Lehrer, the mother of a 10-month old girl, was reported missing by her husband, Steven Acuna, on Wednesday, Aug. 17. He told police that she left following an argument, according to Detective Cesar Camacho.

Co-workers at Tommy’s Restaurant on Central Avenue had told the press that she hadn’t ever missed work except when she gave birth to her daughter. But she did not show up for work on Wednesday, Aug. 17.

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‘Call the Jersey City tip line at 201-547-JAIL with any information that could help bring Amanda home.’ – Councilman William Gaughan

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Lehrer is 5-foot-2, 145 lbs., with brown hair and brown eyes and a fair complexion. Her right shoulder bears a tattoo that reads “Laugh Now Cry Later,” police said. She was last seen publicly around 2 p.m. on Aug. 12 after leaving her waitress job at Tommy’s.

Detective Camacho said the N.J. State Police missing persons unit joined the search the day after Amanda was reported missing.

Police say Acuna, the husband, has not been cooperating, complicating the search effort. According to police, when Acuna refused to speak to police without a lawyer, a background check revealed an outstanding arrest warrant from Union City. He was arrested and posted bail, police said.

The 10-month-old child is being cared for by her father, police said.

Friends and co-workers of the missing woman rallied on the steps of the Jersey City Police Department North District on Central Avenue on Wednesday, then took to the streets to inform the community.

The detective assigned to the case is Detective Rhudell Snelling, who can be reached at (201) 547-5427.

Camacho said police have tried to communicate with Lehrer’s family to get a DNA sample for the missing woman.

Lehrer’s sister and mother from Canada have come to Jersey City to help search, a co-worker told the Reporter last week.

Community members organize

April Kuzas, a local resident and mother of an infant, organized the flyer posting and outreach rally. She said has known Amanda for years as a patron at Tommy’s Restaurant, and they became friendly when they both were pregnant at the same time.

Kuzas credited her maternal instincts as the motivation for organizing the Wednesday gathering. Camacho said April contacted police a few days ago. She told him she expected five people to show up, but more than 60 people appeared, ready to canvass the area bordered by Palisade, Summit, and Central avenues and Kennedy Boulevard.

Most of those at the gathering knew Lehrer from Tommy’s Restaurant.

Know her from restaurant

Ward D Councilman William Gaughan said he has known Lehrer as a “great person” and waitress at the restaurant he frequented with his son. He urged people to inform the community and to call the Jersey City tip line at 201-547-JAIL if they have any information.

A group of 15 church members from Hope Center Tabernacle of Jersey City came out to help post flyers. According to church member Veronica Teklai, the pastors of the church know Lehrer from the restaurant, which is across the street from the church. Teklai said the group felt a need to help.

Rebecca Hernandez said she has known Lehrer for a few years and was saddened by the news of her disappearance. She said she plans to tell detectives what she knows about the relationship between Amanda and her husband.

Outside help

Ramy Eiv, a District 1 Democratic Committee member in Jersey City and former attorney for Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s administration, said Kuzas approached the committee, worried about rising crime rates in the city. She said she wanted their help to get the word out about the search for Lehrer.

Eiv said the committee has been working on creating more of a community presence to combat crime. He said he considered the rally on Wednesday a kickoff that will hopefully bring more community involvement in the fight against crime.

A private investigator, Charles Hannon, has offered a $3,000 reward for information leading to the return of Lehrer.

Read more: Hudson Reporter – Thinking of Amanda Community leaders and residents organize for missing mom
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Doctors, cops and lawyers implicated in RAF probe

Ndlovu, 41, who works on a vegetable farm in Baynesfield, KwaZulu-Natal, is among dozens of cases that have been uncovered by an external probe ordered by the fund.

Private investigator Francois van der Westhuizen, who was commissioned to investigate the syndicate in 2009, has found that it comprises a network of doctors, lawyers, police officers and even a DA politician.

It was also found:

■They allegedly defrauded the RAF of about R7-million;
■Many of the claims were in the region of R25000;
■At least six officers of the notorious Mountain Rise police station in Pietermaritzburg were involved;
■Three law firms were central in processing the fraudulent claims; and
■Doctors would sign off clinical notes even though claimants never visited them.
The police’s commercial crimes branch in Durban forwarded questions from the Sunday Times to its communications officials in Pretoria.

“We can confirm that there is an investigation around fraud at the RAF,” the police said in a statement.

Van der Westhuizen, a former murder and robbery policeman, said the RAF needed to act immediately. “These people need to be arrested,” he said.

One of the implicated doctors, a consulting physician, referred questions to his medical indemnity insurers, GPLA.

The company’s managing director, David Campbell, said their client had notified them “some time ago” that unknown people were committing fraud in his name.

“It appears that, at the very least, his signature and handwriting have been forged and his name used (or) abused by these individuals,” said Campbell.

In a follow-up e-mail from the company’s legal division, GPLA said that the doctor had reported the matter to the police and the Health Professions Council of SA.

But the council’s spokesman, Lize Nel, said there was no record of a complaint from the doctor.

One of the attorneys, a DA councillor, had even processed a bogus claim using her mother-in-law’s details.

In her affidavit, compiled by Van der Westhuizen, the mother-in-law denied having been involved in the accident or visiting a doctor for a claim.

“I deny the fact that I instituted the claim and did not have any part in this fraudulent act,” she stated.

In another case, two police officers claimed for injuries in a minor fender-bender that left the official police vehicle with a 15cm-long scratch on the bumper.

Another claim contained betting shop employee Delani Sithole’s personal details.

The compensation claim submitted to the RAF was for an accident that occurred five years ago involving a taxi on the N3 near Cato Ridge, KwaZulu-Natal.

About 12 people were allegedly injured when the vehicle apparently rolled.

But Sithole, 28, told the Sunday Times: “I was never even in that accident.”

Neither was his brother, Mduduzi, and several others whose identities were used to lodge fraudulent claims.

According to RAF spokesman Connie Nel, 300 people were convicted of fraud during the 2011 financial year, perpetrated by individuals, groups and organised criminal syndicates.

“The RAF is unable to disclose any details regarding ongoing investigations,” she said

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TRUTH HAS “FINALLY” PREVAILED

To all the citizens of Henry County that cast a vote for Robin Earnest in the November 2, 2010 election. You have my unwavering gratitude. It has been a long road due to someone that filed a FALSE complaint with the Georgia Board of Private Detective and Security Agencies in Macon Georgia just before the election last year. I had an Investigator visit my home 6 days prior to the election.

I was a qualified Republican candidate for the District II Commissioner seat now held by Fred Auletta.

I now hold the ultimate proof that this was a false complaint to take the voters in an opposite direction. I finally, after many phone calls to the licensing Board regarding my innocence have the proof that I did nothing wrong while running for this seat during my campaign for District II Commissioner.

Secretary of State Brian Kemp was utmost helpful in my obtaining the necessary letter that showed beyond a shadow of a doubt that I had done NOTHING wrong. My character is in tact as usual. I wanted to share this so you will all know that it has been a very long journey for me to be cleared of this false and an anonymous complaint.

I have a letter dated May 3, 2011 from the Secretary of States office that states: “The Georgia Board of Private Detective and Security Agencies has completed its inquiry in a complaint filed against you. Based on the information provided to the Board, the case has been closed for lack of evidence of ANY violation of applicable law or Board rules”.

So there you have it! There is a person out there and this person whom ever they are you cost me votes and gainful employment during this time to gain the hours that are required by law to enable me to obtain a license in my career field of choice! This person is still out there. Does that make me a bit angry? Of course it does. But I remember an old saying…..every dog has its day.

I will continue on as the person of character that I am. To this person who ever you are I have this to say to you: You should remember that what goes around usually comes right back around baby!

As I have stated all along I did nothing wrong and would not. My character is intact as usual and that is more than I can say for many already in political positions within our County.

I am currently a dues paying Associate Member (GAPPI)”The Georgia Association of Professional Private Investigators” I am listed on their web site. I can work currently as a Private Investigator under a Private Detective and or Agency and or an attorney under their Georgia State license at this time.

To all of the citizens of Henry County: We are in an economic crisis. I will not vote for the T-SPLOST that is coming up for vote in 2012. I suggest for you and our future generations that you do not vote it in either.

This up coming election year is your chance to turn things around. It is way PAST time to vote out the old and bring in the people who only want the best for Henry County!

All My very best to you and your families,

Robin Earnest

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Farrah’s Alma Mater Refiles Warhol Suit Against O’Neal

The University of Texas has refiled its suit against Ryan O’Neal over a $30 million Andy Warhol painting, taking the case to a Los Angeles court.

Farrah Fawcett, who died in 2009, left the painting of herself to her alma mater. But the school never got the painting, and hired a private investigator who determined Fawcett’s longtime companion O’Neal has it. The painting appeared to be visible in an episode of “Ryan & Tatum: The O’Neals.”

In the original lawsuit, filed in federal court, the school stressed that it is concerned with preserving history and not interested in monetary gain. When the federal court ruled it did not have jurisdiction, the school took the case to LA Superior Court.

“Mr. O’Neal has wrongfully converted the missing Warhol portrait that belongs to UT Austin,” the school claimed in court papers. “Mr. O’Neal was not included in Ms. Fawcett’s will, nor in the Fawcett Living Trust, and Ms. Fawcett’s express wishes as stated in the Farrah Fawcett Living Trust have been thwarted by such conversion.”

O’Neal, meanwhile, maintains that the portrait in his bedroom is one of two Warhol did of Fawcett, and that it is rightfully his.

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“Ryan O’Neal’s friendship with Andy Warhol began 10 years prior to his meeting Farrah Fawcett,” said Robinson in a statement. “When Ryan introduced Andy to Farrah, Mr Warhol chose to complete two portraits of her, one for Ms Fawcett and one for Mr O’Neal. Mr O’Neal looks forward to being completely vindicated in the courts.”

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