Prosecutors in New York just sent a Chinese born American citizen to federal prison for 37 months for importing and selling millions of dollars worth of counterfeit Trojan brand condoms. 4.3 million counterfeit condoms were recovered in the 6 year investigation which lead to the conviction. Prosecutors indicated that condoms were tested and found to be defective and leak, burst or otherwise not be spermicidally lubricated as the authentic version should be. Court documents indicate that condoms were imported from China and packaged under several different names in the Trojan line. The products were then sold as authentic to both wholesale and …

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Peter Paul Felix was just sentenced to four years in state prison for bringing drugs into the very jails that he was charged with protecting.  He must have done it for the money, right?  As a deputy with two years on, Felix was probably going to make close to $100,000, in the full year he left the Sheriff’s Department.  With a salary like that, the idea of supplementing one’s income by a few thousand dollars does not seem to warrant the risk losing your job or going to prison.  Why then would Deputy Felix …

I have been off for a while. This is because I have not seen many newsworthy articles to write about. Today I could not help myself. I read that a man in Israel was jailed for the crime of rape by deception. When I saw the headline, I had to read on. The facts indicate that a married Palestinian man has been jailed for 18 months for having sex with an Israeli woman because he lied to her to induce her into bed. He told her that he too was Israeli and that he was not married and, of course, looking …

On a more serious note, two who were previously sentenced to death by courts in Japan were hanged last week.  The executions spurred serious animosity by citizens rights groups including Amnesty International.  Here I go again:  Was it the death or the method of death that spurred the debate? One man was convicted of setting fire to a jewelry store which ended up killing six people.  The other fellow strangle a woman and stabbed a man to death to end up on death row. Japan is one of the few remaining industrialized countries which still employs the death penalty.  I must …

According to the LAPD, there will be a DUI/Driver’s License Checkpoint set up this Friday, July 24, 2010 from 8:00 pm until 3 am.  It will be operated by LAPD’s West Traffic Division and it will take place on Venice Boulevard and Walgrove Avenue in Los Angeles. Remember my words:  Don’t give the pricks a reason to pull you over.  If you happen to drive through a sobriety checkpoint, don’t give the cops cause to investigate you further.  If you are out in West LA this weekend, and you plan to drive, don’t drink.  If you are drinking, don’t drive.  …

94 people were charged Friday with defrauding the Medicare System of over $250 million. Arrests went down in Miami, New York, Detroit, Houston and Baton Rouge in what is being described as the largest Medicare scam in history. Suspects in several different states were alleged to have billed Medicare for supplies that were never received and treatment that never happened. Allegations include paying patients to visit doctors or otherwise allow the use of patients’ Medicare numbers for billing purposes. In one case nearly 4,000 claims to Medicare were allegedly submitted over a six year period on behalf of one woman in Brooklyn, …

In recent the case of McDonald v. Chicago, the United States Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 saying that the Second Amendment does in fact protect our right to keep and bear arms.  The Court was overturning the City of Chicago’s laws restricting one’s right to own certain guns and banning the possession of all handguns. This decision went much further than the two year old case of District of Columbia v. Heller, which never came out and used the words of the Second Amendment.  You can view the new opinion on the Supreme Court website. For opinions or explanations about the …

Proposition 19, California’s initiative to legalize the possession, growth and use of marijuana by people over 21 is losing ground according to the latest Field Poll.  The latest poll shows that more potential voters are likely to oppose it than support it. The poll goes on to show that the division appears to be on ethnic lines.  While more white voters support the legalization, black, hispanic and asian voters tend to be against it. Let’s wake up our pot smoking friends and get on the move.  Maybe we should offer brownies to people if they show us their “I voted” stickers.  For the …

Hemet, California Police announced the arrests of two men on Saturday in connection with the recent urban terrorism against the City of Hemet and the Hemet, California Police Department.  A joint task for of city, county and federal law enforcement arrested Nicholas Smit of Hemet, and Steven Hansen of Homeland, California.  Smit was arrested for attempted murder of a police officer and other charges.  Hansen is said to be a convicted arsonist who was arrested for a parole violation. These arrests followed six months of urban terrorism against the City of Hemet and Hemet Police which included multiple acts of arson …

Michael Eugene Richardson, of Chula Vista, California was arrested Thursday for allegedly having sex with his minor niece.  His arrest comes just two days after his wife and mother-in-law were killed in what law enforcement calls a traffic related homicide. California Highway Patrol officers who investigated the traffic accident describe the vehicle’s plunging sixty feet down an embankment as suspicious because there were no skid marks found on the road above.  The cause of the accident remains to be seen.  The cause of death appears to be from the crash impact.  Richardson is said to own his own automobile repair …