West Los Angeles VA Hospital  Los Angeles, CA —The  West Los Angeles VA Campus  is huge.    It includes the hospital, cemetery, housing, historic church, offices, a regulation baseball diamond, basketball facility and a golf course.    There are lots of places to park cars for events. Richard Scott,  58 owner of  Westside Services LLC , was arrested at his Santa Monica Home.    He’s charged in a federal complaint with fraud against the U.S. by bilking taxpayers more than $11 million.    Scott has enjoyed a contract with the VA for at least 15 years in connection with car parking at the sprawling VA facility. Hospital parking is managed by the VA Police and is not involved in this fraud.  In an affidavit, federal agents alleged Scott made bribery payments to a yet to be named VA Official until that co-conspirator retired in 2014.    That unnamed official has been cooperating with investigators, obv...

Let me begin by saying my views on this subject are my own and doing what I suggest could result in prosecution. The risk however is very low… Being an avid photographer for most of my life, the amazing drone technology has become an exciting addiction.   Ive been flying them for over four years now getting images I could only dream about before.   Placing great musical soundtracks on my videos has been pure joy.   I fly really safe having never once damaged property or caused injury. I follow sound advice like staying away from other aircraft, flying well below 400 feet (flying higher does not aid in capturing great images).  I fly sober and watchful and accordingly I have never needed crash repairs. I won’t ever ask permission to flyover or photograph private property.  That’s constitutionally protected activity that fixed wing and helicopters have enjoyed for years and there is plenty of settled appellate law that guides me.   As for th...

Washington, DC --For the most part our Congress has been ruled by Democrats for the last 100 years.   Our Immigration laws that the executive Branch's elected officials and their appointed bureaucrats are sworn to enforce have not changed. The votes to change our immigration laws are just insufficient even with a Liberal majority. So the open borders loving politicians can't get the law changed so they do the next best thing.   That's to obstruct, de-fund and denounce our border law enforcement efforts and employees.   When the political Left (including Liberals like the father and son Bush team) owns the Whitehouse, educated, self-reliant and law abiding Europeans are turned away in favor of economic refugees that bring, ignorance, poverty, total dependence, crime and drugs from Mexico and regions South.  Trump has merely said he'd enforce existing laws. Keeping his immigration promises has caused Liberal heads to explode.  I'm appalled that ...

Phoenix, AZ-- A sad story I worked on two decades ago.  My investigation was funded by the Disney owned TV show called,  The Crusaders, Two tender aged twin boys with sadistic monsters for parents were victims of epic abuse and torture. One child vanishes after a severe beating and the other is cruelly beaten until a court takes him away for his own safety in Boise, ID where the parents relocated. The mother was finally arrested and convicted for felony child abuse against the surviving brother of that lad became my client.  The man who prosecuted Charleen showed me the heartbreaking photos of the surviving twins injuries as tears flowed down his cheeks. Today Walter hose is deceased and Charleen Hose is institutionalized for dementia. The boys's remains have never been located. Reporter Donna Rossi from KPHO i n Phoenix revisited this nightmare with Montana private investigator Michael Toth .

N Phoenix, AZ —Most of my blog visitors know I’m a longtime criminal defense investigator and have worked on many high profile cases helping the wrongfully accused.   The defense and prosecution is supposed to have parity and equal treatment in the courts but it’s all just pretend.   There is a huge laundry list of issues that work against the accused before their trial even begins.   One thing that troubles me is seeing the same prosecutors in large jurisdictions working every day before the same judges.   They literally sometimes even sleep together. When a criminal defense attorney comes to their court he or she is an outsider and often treated that way.   The police have enormous powers to gather evidence such as the Grand Jury subpoena.  They can arrest those who obstruct investigations, tamper with witnesses and can most importantly obtain search warrants. Defense investigators should just like cops be able to surreptitiously recor...

Cologne, Germany —An irreversible political decision was made under the guise of humanitarianism to bring in one million refugees from Islamic nations into Germany.  The political Left did this like they always do to bring in people they believe will keep a majority of poor so the Socialist political agenda is realized and maintained.  These predominately Islamic refugee immigrants cannot speak German or even English that’s widely spoken in Europe.   They have no job skills other than their cultural military killing related knowledge.   They hate the Western world, its culture, Christian religion and women’s rights.   With rare exceptions, these people can only survive from what they are given or forcibly take from the Europeans. These Muslims are claiming that the suggestive clothing worn by German women is an excuse brutal rape and robbery.   The Islamists claim they can’t control their sexual impulsivity when women are not covered in Burkas....

Flagstaff, AZ —Overnight on the campus grounds there was an altercation between several male students.    The details of the altercation remain very elusive. We know four young men were shot, and one lad is being held right now by police for investigation. Right now, the dead lad and his pals are being spoken about through tears and a way too early eulogy.    Can’t we simply wait for a fact or two before the Left Wing folks using this to promote their anti-gun political agendas?    Just who was or were the bad guy/s here?     What we know is right now is there was a winner of the altercation, 18 year-old Steven Jones and four losers.   Colin Brough was killed.    Additionally the other three that were wounded by gunfire included, Nicholas Prato, Kyle Zientek and Nicholas Piring .   They are receiving medical treatment at the Flagstaff Medical Center . When police arrive to mop up these kinds of things they are ve...

Town of Paradise Valley, AZ —Some of this small but wealthy community’s politicians bought into the baseless idea that multi-rotor camera drones were a threat to safety and privacy.   Ignorance and the novelty of the drones themselves motivated politicians here to make an effort to ban drones. They thought that their residents would somehow appreciate their efforts. Things backfired when local relators complained that the use of drones showcased the homes and community like never before.   Banning or over-regulating them could damage property values and of course property tax collections. The Town Council considered the ban but cooler heads in that body tabled the idea at least until they had more valid guidance and information.   How they revisit this issue remains to be seen. As for the somewhat popular Drone Invasion, there were no less than 700 reports of near misses with conventional aircraf t investigated by the FAA . Not a s...

Andrea "Andy" DelVesco, UCLA coed Murder Victim Dimitry Gorim  represented  Alberto Medina     Steven Cron  represented  Eric Marques   Los Angeles, CA —This was the initial appearance bail hearing for the two men arrested for killing Andrea “Andy” DelVesco . It began with an announcement by the judge that there would be no photography, video or sketching in court.    Additionally that much of the evidence offered by the DA was privately discussed in judicial chambers and would be sealed. Both defendants had top gun, privately retained defense lawyers.   Dimitry Gorim represented Alberto Medina and Steven Cron represented Eric Marques .    Hiring these lawyers involves paying a very large retainer up front.   Only a partial story was revealed by the prosecutor and many more questions remained unanswered.   These are simply allegations rather than proof.   Words never uttered in this proce...

I'm  Los Angeles, CA —Students will be sleeping easier tonight after police announced the arrests of two 22-year old Hispanic men for killing Andrea "Andy" DelVesco.   Alberto Madina and Eric Marquez are in custody at the Van Nuys Jail.   This is sure to be a “special circumstance” case meaning prosecutors can ask for the death Penalty.   Yet to be offered by police is the motive however the drug selling connection is sure to be playing a part in this investigation. the DelVesco girl and her two alleged killers showed promise as students of making great contributions to our world.  However now we have three young lives destroyed because of our insane Drug War.  How many more killings must we tolerate until we end this madness? We need to redirect our efforts to treat thoes addicted.