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How Fred Anderson and William Tauscher saved Apple Computer via Millions in nefarious RMA's - then my relatives were murdered?

How Fred Anderson and William Tauscher saved Apple Computer via Millions in nefarious RMA's - Only their programmer knows for sure. 

During 1995 I endured a man with a gun in my store at 1569  Third Ave Walnut Creek.  Purely by accident I started The Clone Zone by purchasing a roomful of computers from Osborne books.  I was onsite during move/change to larger offices in the Emeryville Area.  

I was only interested in one of the printers sitting on the floor. I asked how much the manger said come back tomorrow.  The room was filled XT, 286's, Monitor and more printers. He said "Make me an offer!", i reviewed check ledger - said $170, he looked at me we've got out of here, so can take everything.  

I had garage sale and promptly made several thousand.  Within a few months leased off street location and was in business. Within three years I was enduring a fraud ring, then encountered a customer demanding a refund.  

You can be sure he was packing a gun.  I called the Walnut Creek Police Department over the gun incident just like the 1988 shooting in my cabinet shop where three assailants broke into my shop on Bliss Ave just months after Safeway Manager Cynthia Kempf was brutally murdered.  

When she was murdered I had contracts with Safeway valued in the millions.  

During 9/11 offices of Don Moats were torched at 1776 Ygnacio Valley Road just down the street from Lawrence Investments.  

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Connecting Kinder Morgan, ENRON, Southern Pacific, CBRE, Virginia Beach, Vinson Elkins, PG&E, Paradise and AEG

During Bennett v. Southern Pacific a witness was murder. 
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Case CIVMSC02-00313 - HICKS VS SBC SERVICES



Case CIVMSC02-00313 - HICKS VS SBC SERVICES 

Complaint Number:1
Complaint Type:COMPLAINT
Filing Date:02/07/2002
Complaint Status:DISMISS W/O PREJ. 05/14/2002
Party NumberParty TypeParty NameAttorneyParty Status
PLAINTIFF HICKS CONSULTING GROUP, INC KLEIN, TRACIE A DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE 05/14/2002 
DEFENDANT SBC SERVICES, INC Unrepresented DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE 05/14/2002 
DEFENDANT PACIFIC TELESIS GROUP Unrepresented DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE 05/14/2002

Case CIVMSC02-00313 - HICKS VS SBC SERVICES 

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06/27/2002 8:30 AM DEPT. 15 CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE VACATED   
05/16/2002 9:00 AM DEPT. 15 HEARING ON OSC RE: FAILURE TO FILE REQUEST FOR ENTRY OF DEFAULT BY PLAINTIFF Minutes DISCHARGED   
05/14/2002 NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT AND DISMISSAL FILE BY HICKS CONSULTING GROUP, INC.  Not Applicable   
05/14/2002 ENTIRE ACTION DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE Not Applicable   
05/14/2002 REQUEST FILED & DISMISSAL ENTERED WITH PREJUDICE AS TO ENTIRE ACTION Not Applicable   
05/08/2002 RESPONSE TO ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FILED BY HICKS CONSULTING GROUP, INC  Not Applicable   
05/06/2002 9:00 AM DEPT. 15 HEARING ON OSC RE: FAILURE TO FILE PROOF OF SERVICE BY PLAINTIFF Minutes DISCHARGED   
04/29/2002 RESPONSE TO ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FILED BY HICKS CONSULTING GROUP, INC  Not Applicable   
04/26/2002 HEARING ON OSC WAS SET FOR 5/16/02 AT 9:00 IN DEPT. 15    
04/25/2002 7:00 AM DEPT. 15 CHECK FOR REQUEST FOR ENTRY OF DEFAULT VACATED   
04/17/2002 PROOF OF SERVICE BY MAIL W/NOTICE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT OF COMPLAINT FILED 02/07/2002 OF HICKS CONSULTING GROUP, INC AS TO DEFT(S) PACIFIC TELESIS GROUP, SIGNED ON 03/11/02 FILED  Not Applicable   
04/17/2002 PROOF OF SERVICE BY MAIL W/NOTICE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT OF COMPLAINT FILED 02/07/2002 OF HICKS CONSULTING GROUP, INC AS TO DEFT(S) SBC SERVICES, INC, SIGNED ON 03/11/02 FILED  Not Applicable   
04/15/2002 HEARING ON OSC WAS SET FOR 5/06/02 AT 9:00 IN DEPT. 15    
04/15/2002 7:00 AM DEPT. 15 CHECK FOR PROOF OF SERVICE VACATED   
04/03/2002 WE CANNOT FILE/ISSUE YOUR PRF OF SERVICE ON SUMMONS FOR THE FOLLOWING REASON:  Not Applicable   
03/11/2002 CLERK`S TICKLER TO CHECK FOR REQUEST FOR ENTRY OF DEFAULT WAS SET FOR 4/25/02 AT 7:00 IN DEPT. 15    
02/07/2002 COLOR OF FILE IS GOLD  Not Applicable   
02/07/2002 CASE ENTRY COMPLETE Not Applicable   
02/07/2002 CLERK`S TICKLER TO CHECK FOR PROOF OF SERVICE WAS SET FOR 4/15/02 AT 7:00 IN DEPT. 15    
02/07/2002 CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE WAS SET FOR 6/27/02 AT 8:30 IN DEPT. 15    
02/07/2002 CASE HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO DEPT. 15    
02/07/2002 COMPLAINT FILED. SUMMONS IS ISSUED  Not Applicable   




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Blum Capital Partners and TPG Newbridge and TPG Growth the Arrested Investors






Portfolio


Blum Capital Partners has invested $10 million or more in 88 companies since it began investing out of its strategic funds in 1998.  

Technology

Avid Technology
The Bisys Group
Ceridian Corp.
Electronics for Imaging
Fair, Isaac & Company
JDA Software
National Data Corp.
NCR Corp.
Novell, Inc.
Paxar Corp.
Pegasus Solutions
Rovi Corporation
Skillsoft PLC
Suntron Corp.
Synopsys, Inc.
Websense
Xtralis Group
Zebra Technologies

Media & Telecom

Current Media
Echostar Corp.
Getty Images
SBA Communications
Western Wireless Corp.

Real Estate

CBRE Group
Fairmont Hotels

Business Services

Aimia Inc.
American Reprographics, Inc.
Axispointe, Inc.
Convergys Corp.
Navigant Consulting, Inc.
PRGX Global
URS Corporation

Retail

Michaels Stores, Inc.
Myer, Ltd.
Payless ShoeSource
Ross Stores, Inc.
Thomson
Tiffany & Co.
Williams Sonoma

Consumer

Nu Skin Enterprises
NutriSystem, Inc.
Playtex Products, Inc.
Timberland Corp.

Healthcare

CareFusion
Dianon Systems, Inc.
eResearch Technology Inc.
First Health Group Corp.
Glenrose Instruments
Haemonetics Corp.
Health Management Associates
Impath Inc.
Kinetic Concepts, Inc.
Laboratory Corp. of America
LCA-Vision
Lincare Holdings, Inc.
Magellan Health Services, Inc.
Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc.
Renal Care Group
Scott Technologies, Inc.
Select Medical Corp.
Symmetry Medical

Educational Services

Career Education
ITT Educational Services
Lincoln Educational Services

Manufacturing

Tokheim Corporation
USG Corp.

Financial Services

Athlon Holdings
BankThai
CIMB Group Holding
CoreLogic
First American Financial
John H. Harland Company
Janus Capital Group
Korea First Bank
MoneyGram International
Montpelier Re Holdings
Nova Corp.
Asia-Pacific Alternative Asset Manager (name undisclosed)
SEI Investment Company
TCF Financial Corp.
UCBH Holdings
Veracity Payment Solutions, Inc.
Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc.
Washington Mutual

Transportation/Distribution

Midwest Airlines
UAP Holdings

Other

Copart, Inc.
SMC Holdings Corp.
*Companies in bold are current portfolio investments
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David Wyatt Dorman and The Deadly Longs Drugs Takeover

How Longs Drugs was taken over

The information learned coupled with the personal experience of being tackled head-on my the outsourcers of America.
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OBIT:ANDREA HUSEBY

Andrea's Obituary

ANDREA HUSEBY The family of Andrea Huseby sadly announces her passing on February 8, 2002 at the age of 32, from injuries resulting from a car accident. She and her husband Chris were on their way to the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic Games. Andrea was a resident of Danville, where she had lived for six years with her husband. Andrea was born in Hayward, grew up in Niles, and was a life-long Bay Area native. In 1995 she joined Irwin Home Equity in San Ramon where she went on to develop and head the telecommunications department for many years. Last August she left to pursue the study of classic Mediterranean art, archaeology, and history at the University of California, Berkeley. She was a junior and expected to graduate next year. She loved the ocean, collecting antiques, and adventuring around the world. Her gentle manner and warm smile and laughter will be greatly missed by her devoted husband J. Christopher Huseby, her loving parents Geraldine and Paul Wright of Brentwood, her sisters and their spouses, Jamie and Peter DeLucchi of Castro Valley, and Stephanie and Scott Carstairs of Brentwood, her brothers and their spouses, Robert and Diane Wright of Brentwood, and Jon and Sue Wright of Modesto, her youngest brother Peter Wright of San Ramon, her Grandfather Mike Long of Salt Lake City, her nieces and nephews Kyle, Chase, Taylor, Scott, Morgan, Logan, Ciara, and Shelby, and Aunts and Uncles. A memorial celebration of Andrea's wonderful life will be held at The Church on the Hill, 20801 San Ramon Valley Blvd., San Ramon, Ca, 94583. on Saturday, February 16 at 11:00 am with a Luncheon reception immediately following the service. Internment will be private and the family respectfully requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Andrea Huseby Scholarship Fund, Attention: Debbie Whiteman, The Irwin Home Equity Foundation, 12677 Alcosta Blvd., Suite 500, San Ramon, CA, 94583. The Andrea Huseby Scholarship is chartered to help working adults return to school to complete their academic studies.
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Wells Fargo Suicide

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Boyfriend Of Slain Woman Jumps Off Bay Bridge As Police Watch

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The boyfriend of a missing woman whose body was found along a remote coastal highway killed himself Tuesday, shortly after the body was identified, by jumping off the Bay Bridge, police said. He was under police surveillance at the time.

The boyfriend, Darion Sable, had told police that Jerusha Briley, 20, disappeared Saturday morning while going to buy groceries for her 23-month-old son, Gabriel.

Sable jumped off an approach to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Tuesday afternoon, San Francisco police spokesman Dewayne Tully said. He fell about 100 feet, landing on pavement in a fenced-in area.

Fifteen minutes earlier and five blocks away, Sable had been released on his own recognizance after being jailed overnight on a drug charge, police confirmed.

Police had followed Sable after his release to see where he was going to go and to see if he would lead them to any new information in Briley's death, Sgt. James Deignan of the San Francisco Police Department.

Police said they originally thought Sable was going to try to hitchhike, but contacted the California Highway Patrol when he continued to walk onto the bridge. They said Sable probably did not know he was being followed and that they had no time to stop him from jumping.

Homicide Inspector Tony Casillas wouldn't say whether police had told Sable he was a suspect in his girlfriend's death before letting him go.

"The investigation is still in its primary stages," he said. "Everyone is innocent until proven guilty."

Sgt. Doug Pittman of the Marin County Sheriff's Office said Sable was a suspect in Briley's death, but had not been singled out as the primary suspect. He said the sheriff's office is not yet focusing on one person as a suspect.

Police also haven't determined what killed Briley, whose body was found Monday along Highway 1 about five miles north of Muir Beach in Marin County. Footprints and tiremarks found in the gravel were being studied.

Family members were told Tuesday that the body had been identified as Briley's. Her childhood friend and Gabriel's godmother, Devon Rath, told The Associated Press that the family was too distraught to comment.

Sable had called police Saturday to report Briley missing, saying she wasn't the type to leave the house, let alone her toddler, for more than a few hours without letting people know where she was.

Friends said Briley had been weaning Gabriel off breast-feeding and was making calls to invite people to his birthday party two weeks from now. The sheriff's office would not comment on the relationship between Sable and Briley's son.

Sable told missing persons investigators that Briley had been seeing a counselor for "possible depression," but that he had no more information on the subject.

But Rath told a different story to the San Francisco Examiner - that Briley was getting counseling to improve her relationship with her boyfriend and thereby provide her son with a healthy family.

"If she wanted to get away from it all, she would have called someone," her 15-year-old sister, Naomi Briley, told the Examiner. "If she had problems, she would have called someone to take the baby."
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OBIT: Concord CA Kevin Flanagan, The First Dead Banker

OBIT: Kevin Flanagan, The First Dead Banker

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Death of American Programmers - clearing a path for hijacking passwords

A Reader Mourns An American Programmer Who Lost His Job -And Took His Life
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On May 13, The Contra Costa Times reported on an event that should trouble us all-the suicide of Kevin Flanagan, 41. ("Job losses sap morale of workers," by Ellen Lee - elee@cctimes.com) Kevin was not a drug addict, a convict, or a ne'er-do-well; he was a trained computer programmer with years of experience whose job was sent overseas. The Contra Costa Times story reports that "led by the information-technology industry, 3.3 million service jobs and $136 billion in wages will move from the United States to such countries as India and Russia over the next decade or so."

At the same time, the federal government is cooperating with hugely-profitable computer companies to relax H-1b visa restrictions, so thousands more programmers from India, Pakistan, and other impoverished countries can pour into the U.S.-to compete with American programmers like Kevin. In 2002, Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman characterized H-1B visas as a "government subsidy program."

A month ago, Kevin Flanagan found out that he'd be losing his job at the Bank of America's Concord Technology Center. That same day, he took his life-in the parking lot of his former employer.

It wasn't that Flanagan was surprised to lose his job-he'd seen it coming for months, as his father told the paper. Flanagan had watched as veteran co-workers were forced to train newcomers from India-then fired and replaced by the immigrants. One former employee told the CC Times that employees at Concord feel like they're "on death row. Every day you think, 'Is this the day I'm gone?' he said."

Typically, the Contra Costa Times story did not draw the connection between the loss of high-tech jobs and immigration. But one of the story's sources did; Peter Bennett, a refugee from the technology consulting industry, who founded a group called NoMoreH1B.com. On its site, Bennett estimates that "approximately 800,000 highly-skilled U.S. workers are now unemployed as a direct result of Congress' H-1B visa legislation."

The story also gave the impression that the Bank of America was shifting jobs overseas and hiring immigrants to preserve its competitiveness. But the numbers tell a different story-that of a prosperous bank which has let greed trump any sense of patriotism or social responsibility.

The Bank of America (Chairman and CEO Kenneth D. Lewis) is a public company. According to its most recent report to Securities and Exchange Commission (10-Q), the company's first quarter revenues this year were $8.85 billion-up $0.3 billion from the same quarter last year. Data processing expenses consumed only 2.94 percent of revenue-hardly a drain on profits.

But that hasn't stopped Bank of America from using immigrants to undercut American workers. The U.S. Dept. of Labor H-1B website shows that in just two years, the company has imported about 200 technical professionals, mostly managers. Many received low pay for the work they perform-for instance, one "Securities Operations Analyst" who is paid only $38,100 annually.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, since most of the bank's newly imported employees are likely to be contractors who report to the imported managers.

How do I know this? I've read it in press releases from "outsourcing" firms, mostly based in India, with names like as Syntel, Cognizant, Tata (TCS), Exult, HCL Infosys, Wipro, and Satyam-all list Bank of America as a client. Between them, they employ thousands of Non Immigrant Visa (NIV) holders who don't appear in the above Federal tabulations.

In fact, many new Bank of America contractors fail to appear on California or Federal tax rolls at all, since they are paid by foreign firms with foreign currency via the L-1 program. (But they and their families use government services, so U.S. citizen taxpayers pay those bills.)
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#deadwitness One Dead PIMCO Banker is one too many

A Dead Banker was a PIMCO Banker

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SEC Nipping at Problem

A federal investigation of Pacific Investment Management Co. is the latest crack in the armor of the $2-trillion Newport Beach fund giant, where a trustee recently questioned the $200-million salary, "bullying" behavior and "mediocre" recent performance of co-founder Bill Gross.
Word of the Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry follows a series of setbacks for Pimco, including the abrupt departure of Gross' heir apparent, Mohamed El-Erian, reports of clashes between the two and an outflow of more than $65 billion in investors' money from Gross' signature Total Return Fund.
dd Pimco said it is cooperating with the SEC, which is examining whether Pimco improperly inflated the price of bond holdings in an exchange traded fund. That could have increased the publicly reported value of the fund, which Gross personally managed.

The ETF, as such funds are known, was set up to mirror the investment style of Gross' Total Return Fund, which serves giant institutional investors. The Total Return Fund, which has $221 billion in assets, is the world's largest bond mutual fund and a staple of 401(k) and other retirement plans across the nation. The $3.6-billion Total Return Fund ETF reported investment gains of 8.7% from March through August 2012, its first six months of existence. That compared with a gain of 5.2% for the Total Return Fund it emulated, which at the time was growing rapidly and exceeded $270 billion in assets.
The Newport Beach company, which Gross co-founded in 1971, denied any wrongdoing.

"We take our regulatory obligations and responsibilities to our clients very seriously," the firm said in a statement. "We believe our pricing procedures are entirely appropriate and in keeping with industry best practices."
Pimco declined to comment further on the SEC investigation. A spokesman for the SEC in Washington declined to comment.
A person close to the investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is confidential, told The Times that investigators from several SEC offices around the country have been working on the case.
The investigation was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, which quoted unidentified sources as saying the SEC has been looking at the case for at least a year. Investigators have recently interviewed Pimco executives, and spent more than a day questioning the 70-year-old Gross.



The disclosure of the investigation follows other turmoil at Pimco. In a March interview with The Times, a longtime independent trustee on the board that oversees Pimco, William J. Popejoy, publicly criticized Gross — specifically his high pay, amid the fund's declining performance.
That followed high-profile clashes between Gross and El-Erian, including allegations that Gross had monitored El-Erian's phone calls.
A midsummer Pimco regulatory filing said Popejoy had resigned from the board. Popejoy's attorney said that was inaccurate but declined to elaborate on Popejoy's version of events.
Independent bond fund trustees such as Popejoy don't work for money management firms like Pimco; their job is to oversee the funds, monitoring performance on behalf of investors and negotiating the fees paid to the fund managers.


They generally work far from public scrutiny, and a bond fund trustee criticizing an asset manager, as Popejoy did, is "extremely rare," said Eric Jacobson, director of fixed-income research at fund tracker Morningstar Inc. "I cannot remember seeing anything like this in the last 10 to 15 years."
Popejoy has since declined to speak publicly about Gross and the proceedings of the board of trustees, citing the advice of attorneys. In a recent interview, he did say he had differences with the board chairman, Brent R. Harris, a Pimco managing director who is one of two insiders on the seven-man board.
One disagreement centered on the lack of diversity on the board, which is made up entirely of white men, Popejoy said.
He said that when the independent trustee Vern O. Curtis, 80, decided to step down, Harris wanted the replacement to be Peter B. McCarthy, a former banker and U.S. Treasury official. McCarthy already sits on the board that oversees Pimco's small collection of stock mutual funds.
Popejoy said he instead lobbied to add a female or minority member to the board.

Harris did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The Pimco Funds have yet to replace Popejoy or Curtis.
The SEC probe focused on whether Gross' ETF fund misled investors through such actions as buying bonds at a discount, then putting a higher value on them when reporting fund results, the Journal reported. Doing so would increase the reported net asset value of the funds.
The SEC has conducted a series of investigations of such pricing issues at mutual funds, and in some cases has brought civil charges. In 2012, UBS Global Asset Management paid $300,000 to settle accusations that it improperly priced securities in three mutual funds.
Such cases, however, can be complicated to sort out. Investigations often find no violations, said Michael Herbst, a Morningstar director of manager research.
Exchange-traded funds often do better, at least at first, than the large funds they emulate. The smaller ETFs are "nimble" and can negotiate discounts and turn quick profits on deals too small for the large funds to pursue, he said.
A powerful bond ETF like the one headed by Gross, for example, might often be able to find small, thinly traded holdings of certain corporate bonds or exotic mortgage securities that could be purchased at a sharp discount.
If an independent valuation firm, such as Interactive Data or Thompson Reuters, was unable to find a recent sale of identical securities, as often occurs, it would then estimate the value for the holdings based on recent sales of similar bonds, Herbst said. That could yield a higher value.
If the mutual fund accurately reported the purchase price, along with the independent valuation, the SEC would probably find no violation, Herbst said. Any violations of securities laws would stem from the mutual fund lying about the purchase price or the independently estimated value.
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