OBIT: Preston Monroe Avery | PRESTON AVERY VS. COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA

Preston Monroe Avery
June 4, 1929 - November 24, 2012
Resident of Cupertino
Preston passed away peacefully in his home. He was a loving husband to his wife Lois for 58 years. He was also a father to Jerry and Patti Jo, a father-in-law to Debbie and David, grandfather to Bill, Mike, Jesse, Eli and Britni and a loving great grandfather. He is also survived by three brothers and two sisters.
Dad, Papa or Preston was a man that worked hard everyday of his life and yet still made the time to be a great husband, father, grandfather, great grandfa-ther and true friend to all.
Preston was born in North Carolina, served in the Navy for 4 years and after-wards attended Campbell University. Preston had many jobs throughout his life. He was a very successful business man in many various fields. Of all the business ventures he pursued; his passion for construction and farming were among his favorites. Family and friends were most important in his life. Preston relished mentoring, teaching and helping others succeed and to be their best. We will all miss his guidance, expertise, support and love.
Family and friends are invited to join the service at Oak Hill on Wed. 11/28 at 2pm.


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OBIT: Case CIVMSC03-03186 - PRESTON AVERY VS. COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA

 

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Case CIVMSC03-03186 - PRESTON AVERY VS. COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA

Viewed	Date	Action Text	Disposition	Image
	07/23/2010 8:30 AM DEPT. 19	HEARING ON MOTION TO/FOR DISMISSAL OF PLAINTIFFS COMPLAINT FILED BY COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA	VACATED
	06/24/2010	PROOF OF SERVICE BY MAIL OF REQUEST FOR DISMISSAL ON STEVEN RETTIG FILED; SERVED ON 06/22/10	Not Applicable	N/A
	06/24/2010	REQUEST FILED AND DISMISSAL ENTERED WITHOUT PREJUDICE AS TO ENTIRE ACTION	Not Applicable	N/A
	06/17/2010	PROOF OF SERVICE BY MAIL FILED RE: MOTION TO DISMISS COMPLAINT MAILED 6/10/10	Not Applicable	N/A
	06/10/2010	HEARING ON MOTION WAS SET FOR 7/23/10 AT 8:30 IN DEPT. 19
	06/10/2010	CASE HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO DEPT. 19
	06/10/2010	REQUEST OF COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE FILED	Not Applicable	N/A
	06/10/2010	MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES FILED BY COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA IN SUPPORT OF MOTION TO DISMISS PLAINTIFFS COMPLA INT	Not Applicable	N/A
	06/10/2010	MOTION TO/FOR DISMISS PLAINTIFFS COMPLAINT FILED BY COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA
	02/06/2006	MEMORANDUM OF COSTS FILED IN THE AMOUNT OF $3,534.46	Not Applicable	N/A
	12/30/2005	REMITTITUR FROM DCA - COSTS AWARDED TO APPELLANT	Not Applicable	N/A
	11/09/2005	OPINION; AFFIRMED IN PART/REVERSED AS TO DISMISSAL F REMAINING CAUSES OF ACTION & REMANDED FOR FUR R	Not Applicable
	06/01/2005	NOTICE REQUESTING PREPARATION & SENDING OF OMITTED PAGE OF RECORD ON CTX	Not Applicable
	05/12/2005	REPORTER`S TRANSCRIPT MONIES ON DEPOSIT RETURNED TO DEPOSITOR.	Not Applicable
	03/21/2005	COURT REPORTER PAID FOR TRANSCRIPT: $57.00	Not Applicable
	03/08/2005	NUMBER OF VOLUMES (ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPTS).
	03/08/2005	ORIGINAL CLERK AND REPORTERS TRANSCRIPT/S SENT TO DCA; #AO OO, DIVISION OO	Not Applicable
	12/02/2004	NOTICE DESIGNATING ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD FOR TRANS MITTAL TO COURT OF APPEAL	Not Applicable
	12/02/2004	FEE RECEIVED FOR CLERKS TX FROM PRESTON AVERY	Not Applicable
	11/01/2004	RECEIPT FOR ESTIMATED COST OF REPORTER`S TRANSCRIPT DEPOSITED	Not Applicable
	10/21/2004	DESIGNATION OF CLERK AND REPORTERS TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL BY APPELLANT	Not Applicable
	10/13/2004	NOTICE OF APPEAL FILED BY PRESTON AVERY, LOIS AVERY, TRUSTEES
	10/08/2004	NOTICE OF/TO ENTRY OF JUDGMENT DENYING WRIT OF ADM MANDATE FILED ON BEHALF OF COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA	Not Applicable
	10/08/2004	JUDGMENT FILED/ENTERED-BEFORE TRIAL ON 10/08/04	Not Applicable
	09/27/2004	1/2 DAY COURT REPORTER FEE PAID BY PRESTON AVERY	Not Applicable
	09/27/2004 9:05 AM DEPT. 22	COURT TRIAL - SHORT CAUSE/ 1 DAY(S) - Minutes	DENIED
	09/17/2004	ORDER DENYING PETRS MOT TO AUGMENT THE ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD	Not Applicable
	09/17/2004 8:30 AM DEPT. 22	HEARING ON MOTION TO/FOR AUGMENT ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD FILED BY PRESTON AVERY, LOIS AVERY, LOIS AVERY - Minutes	COMPLETED
	09/15/2004	PROOF OF PERSONAL SERVICE BY BURDY WONG SERVICE OF REPLY TO OPPOSITION TO WRIT,ETC ON COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA FILED. SERVED ON 09/15/04	Not Applicable
	09/15/2004	REQUEST OF PRESTON AVERY, LOIS AVERY, LOIS AVERY FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE FILED	Not Applicable
	09/15/2004	REPLY TO RESPTS OPPOSITION TO PETNRS WRIT OF MANDATE	Not Applicable
	09/13/2004	DECL OF PERS SVC OF PTRS OPENING BRIEF, JUD NTC, MPA ON 8-11-04 SEE SVC LIST	Not Applicable
	09/13/2004	DECL OF SERVICE OF PTRS REPLY TO RESPS OPPO, DEC L OF P AVERY ON 9-13-04 BY PERS SVC/	Not Applicable
	09/13/2004	PROOF OF SERVICE BY FAX FILED RE: REPLY TO RESP OPPO, DEC OF PLTF ON 9-13-04/SEE SER VICE LIST	Not Applicable
	09/13/2004	DECLARATION OF PLTF FILED RE: IN REPLY TO RESPS OPPOSITION TO PTRS MOTION TO A UGMENT ADMIN RECORD	Not Applicable
	09/13/2004	PTRS REPLY TO RESPS OPPOSITION TO PTRS MOTION T O AUGMENT THE ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD	Not Applicable
	09/01/2004	OPPOSITION TO MOTION TO/FOR AUGMENT ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD FILED BY COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CONTRACOSTA COSTA, JOHN GIOIA	Not Applicable
	09/01/2004	OPPOSITION TO WRIT OF MANDATE FILED BY DEFTS.	Not Applicable
	09/01/2004	OBJECTION TO PETNRS REQ FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE FILED BY COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CONTRACOSTA COSTA, JOHN GIOIA	Not Applicable
	09/01/2004	REQUEST OF COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CONTRACOSTA COSTA, JOHN GIOIA FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE FILED	Not Applicable
	08/16/2004	PROOF OF SERVICE BY MAIL FILED RE: MTN TO AUGMENT ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD; P&AS IN SUPT EXECUTED ON 08/13/04 & SRVD ON (SEE LIST)	Not Applicable
	08/11/2004	DECL OF M.HYNES IN SUPP OF MTN TO AUGMENT ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD	Not Applicable
	08/11/2004	PETNRS OPENING BRIEF	Not Applicable
	08/11/2004	REQUEST OF PRESTON AVERY, LOIS AVERY, LOIS AVERY FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE FILED	Not Applicable
	08/11/2004	MOTION TO/FOR AUGMENT ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD FILED BY PRESTON AVERY, LOIS AVERY, LOIS AVERY
	08/11/2004	HEARING ON MOTION WAS SET FOR 9/17/04 AT 8:30 IN DEPT. 22
	05/25/2004	(U.J.) ANSWER TO COMPLAINT FILED 12/24/2003 OF PRESTON AVERY FILED BY COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CONTRACOSTA COSTA, JOHN GIOIA, GAYLE B UILKEMA, DONNA GERBER, MARK DESAULNIER, FEDERAL GLOVER, CARLOS BALTODANO, JOSEPH LOSADO, RICHARD LIERLY	Not Applicable
	05/12/2004 8:30 AM DEPT. 22	CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE - Minutes	COMPLETED
	05/04/2004	CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE STATEMENT FILED BY PRESTON AVERY, LOIS AVERY, LOIS AVERY	Not Applicable
	04/29/2004	CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE STATEMENT FILED BY COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA	Not Applicable

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By Rick Hurd Contra Costa Times POSTED: 09/04/2014 11:07:54 AM PDT0 COMMENTS UPDATED: 09/04/2014 11:30:27 AM PDT ALAMO -- A man who died after he was trapped in a burning vehicle over the weekend has been identied as an Alamo man.

The California Highway Patrol said 60-year-old Michael Sevenau died after the silver 2000 Jaguar he was driving went off the road, hit a tree and caught fire. The wreck happened just after 12:30 a.m. Sunday.

An investigation showed the Jaguar was traveling east on Stone Valley Road and wound up in the west side of the road before colliding first with some mailboxes, CHP Officer John Fransen said.

The Jaguar then spun around, broke through a wooden fence and down a dirt embankment before hitting the tree. Police are still investigating whether drugs or alcohol played a role in the wreck.
Investigators have not yet determined if Sevenau suffered a medical issue while he was behind the wheel. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Contact Rick Hurd at 925-945-4789 and follow him at Twitter.com/3rderh

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WALNUT CREEK — Two promising students — one a freshman at San Diego State and the other who studied engineering at Stanford University — died Tuesday in what police said looked like a murder-suicide in a home just north of Ygnacio Valley Road.

Clare Orton, a 19-year-old majoring in environmental engineering in San Diego, was found dead in her parents’ Walnut Creek home off Homestead Avenue. Also there was the body of Scott Bertics, a 21-year-old Lafayette resident who had attended Stanford.

Police called to the neighborhood around 6:50 a.m. said they found the two dead from gunshot wounds inside a home on Holton Court.

The two knew each other and had dated, police said.

She had graduated from Las Lomas High School in 2014 and he from Acalanes in Lafayette in 2012. Both were interested in engineering and both were long distance runners on the track teams at their high schools.

Orton’s family lived in the home for more than 10 years, said neighbor Linda Darnsteadt.

The “very pleasant” college student was visiting her home for the summer break from San Diego State, where she had completed her first year, Darnsteadt said.

“I’m just so sad. That’s so tragic,” she said.

Darnsteadt and her husband Gary said that they did not hear gunshots.

“We knew something tragic had happened, but we didn’t know what,” Linda Darnsteadt said. Police cars filled the cul-de-sac until noonOrton was an honors student at San Diego State, according to a school merit page. Her Facebook page includes a reference to membership in the Society of Women Engineers at San Diego State and to the Eco-Action Club at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek.

For a photo of a rainbow posted on her Facebook page, she wrote, “When the sunrise is underwhelming, turn around, you may see a double rainbow.”

Bertics was on leave of absence from Stanford and last attended the school in the fall of 2014, a school spokesman said.

Stanford’s website lists Bertics as a member of a team that in 2013 worked on project called “Controlling Robot Dynamics with Spiking Neurons.” He is also credited in a 2014 paper by some of the same team members for developing the driver interface in a project titled: “Controlling Articulated Robots in Task-Space with Spiking Silicon Neurons.”

A 2011 Github entry shows his pleasure at winning an animation code award. “I wrote this program during the summer quarter in 2011 and it won the Stanford CS106A graphics contest!”

Bertics also had a YouTube channel called “sbertics” on which he put videos of his projects, but the newest videos were of glider flights over Oahu in Hawaii. His electronic device videos were three years old.

Walnut Creek police would like to hear from anyone who might have information about what happened. They can be reached at 925-943-5844.

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USDOJ: Russian-American Organized Crime Enterprise Operating International Sportsbook That Laundered More Than $100 Million

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U.S. Attorney's Office

Southern District of New York

(212) 637-2600

April 30, 2014

Two Defendants Sentenced for Participating in Racketeering Conspiracy with Russian-American Organized Crime Enterprise Operating International Sportsbook That Laundered More Than $100 Million

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANATOLY GOLUBCHIK was sentenced yesterday in Manhattan federal court to five years in prison, and VADIM TRINCHER was also sentenced today to five years in prison for participating in a racketeering conspiracy in connection with their roles as members of a Russian-American organized crime enterprise. GOLUBCHIK and TRINCHER were also each ordered to forfeit more than $20 million in cash, investments, and real property. They were charged in April 2013 along with 32 other alleged members and associates of two Russian-American organized crime enterprises in an indictment that included racketeering, money laundering, extortion, and various gambling offenses. GOLUBCHIK and TRINCHER were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said: “The sentences meted out to Anatoly Golubchik and Vadim Trincher are just and appropriate penalties for the roles the defendants played in this far-reaching, Russian-American organized crime ring. I’d like to thank the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the New York City Police Department, and the Internal Revenue Service for their tireless efforts in working to ensure that the members of this underground enterprise were held to account for their crimes.”

According to the indictment, other documents filed in Manhattan federal court, and statements made at various proceedings in this case, including today’s sentencing:

The Taiwanchik-Trincher Organization (the “Organization”) was a criminal enterprise with strong ties to Russia and Ukraine. The enterprise operated a high-stakes, illegal sports gambling business out of New York City that catered primarily to Russian oligarchs living in Ukraine and Russia. GOLUBCHIK and TRINCHER were U.S.-based participants in the enterprise. GOLUBCHIK and TRINCHER booked sports bets that reached into the millions of dollars and laundered the proceeds of the Organization’s international sportsbook. Between 2006 and April 2012, the enterprise laundered approximately $100 million in proceeds from their gambling operation in Russia and Ukraine through shell companies and bank accounts in Cyprus; and of this $100 million, approximately $50 million was subsequently sent from Cyprus into the United States. Once the money had been transferred to the United States, it was either laundered through additional shell companies or invested in legitimate investments, such as hedge funds and real estate.

The Taiwanchik-Trincher Organization operated under the protection of Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, who is known as a “Vor,” a term translated as “Thief-in-Law,” that refers to a member of a select group of high-level criminals from the former Soviet Union. Tokhtakhounov used his status as a Vor to resolve disputes with clients of the high-stakes illegal gambling operation with implicit and sometimes explicit threats of violence and economic harm. Between December 2011 and February 2013, Tokhtakhounov was paid at least approximately $12 million for his services by the Taiwanchik-Trincher Organization. Tokhtakhounov is also under indictment in the Southern District of New York for his alleged involvement in bribing officials at the 2002 Winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Tokhtakhounov is a fugitive and is still being sought.

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Twenty-eight defendants in this case have pled guilty and two have entered into deferred prosecution agreements. The defendants who have pled to date have agreed to forfeit, in total, more than $68 million. The following defendants have pled guilty, and have been sentenced or await sentencing:

• Bryan Zuriff pled guilty to gambling charges on July 26, 2013, and was sentenced on November 25, 2013.
• William Barbalat pled guilty to gambling charges on August 14, 2013, and was sentenced on December 16, 2013.
• Kirill Rapoport pled guilty to gambling charges on August 16, 2013, and was sentenced on December 19, 2014.
• Edwin Ting and Justin Smith pled guilty to gambling charges on September 4, 2013, and were sentenced on January 21, 2014, and January 6, 2014, respectively.
• Dmitry Druzhinsky and David Aaron pled guilty to gambling charges on October 4, 2013, and were sentenced on April 18, 2014, and February 14, 2014, respectively.
• Alexander Zaverukha pled guilty to gambling charges on October 10, 2013, and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 1, 2014.
• Nicholas Hirsch pled guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud on October 16, 2013, and was sentenced on February 25, 2014.
• Anatoly Shteyngrob pled guilty to conspiring to commit money laundering on October 17, 2013, and is scheduled to be sentenced on June 10, 2014.
• Yugeshwar Rajkumar pled guilty to gambling charges on October 18, 2013, and was sentenced on March 25, 2014.
• Stan Greenberg pled guilty to conspiring to commit racketeering on October 22, 2013, and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 2, 2014.
• Arthur Azen pled guilty to conspiring to commit money laundering and conspiring to collect extensions of credit by extortionate means on November 5, 2013, and was sentenced on April 9, 2014.
• Hillel Nahmad pled guilty to gambling charges on November 12, 2013, and was sentenced on April 30, 2014.
• Vadim Trincher pled guilty to conspiring to commit racketeering on November 14, 2013, and was sentenced on April 30, 2014.
• Eugene Trincher pled guilty to gambling charges on November 14, 2013, and is scheduled to be sentenced on June 9, 2014.
• Anatoly Golubchik pled guilty to conspiring to commit racketeering on November 15, 2013, and was sentenced on April 29, 2014.
• Illya Trincher pled guilty to gambling charges on November 15, 2013, and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 8, 2014.
• Ronald Uy pled guilty to structuring financial transactions on November 25, 2013, and was sentenced on March 27, 2014.
• Moshe Oratz pled guilty to gambling charges on December 3, 2013, and was sentenced on April 9, 2014.
• Michael Sall pled guilty to interstate travel in aid of an unlawful activity (illegal gambling) and Jonathan Hirsch pled guilty to gambling charges on December 4, 2013. Sall was sentenced on April 18, 2014, and Hirsch is scheduled to be sentenced on May 9, 2014.
• Noah Siegel pled guilty to gambling charges on December 5, 2013, and was sentenced on April 10, 2014.
• Molly Bloom pled guilty to gambling charges on December 12, 2013, and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 2, 2014.
• Alexander Katchaloff pled guilty to gambling charges on January 16, 2014, and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 20, 2014.
• Donald McCalmont, John Jarekci, a/k/a “John Hanson,” and Abraham Mosseri pled guilty to making a fraudulent tax statement, to failing to file a tax return, and causing a financial institution to participate in a lottery related matter, respectively, on January 24, 2014, and are scheduled to be sentenced on May 29, 2014, May 28, 2014, and May 21, 2014, respectively.
• William Edler and Peter Feldman entered into deferred prosecution agreements on April 11, 2014.

Mr. Bharara praised the investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the New York City Police Department, and the Internal Revenue Service.

The case is being prosecuted by the Office’s Violent and Organized Crime Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Harris M. Fischman, Joshua A. Naftalis, Peter J. Skinner, and Kristy J. Greenberg of the Violent and Organized Crime Unit are in charge of the prosecution. Assistant

U.S. Attorney Alexander Wilson of the Office’s Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Unit is responsible for the forfeiture aspects of the case.

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UC Berkeley’s chief legal counsel, Christopher Patti, was killed in a hit-and-run accident Sunday. (Alain McLaughlin/Impact Fund) 

Westbound Highway 116 at Summer Crossing, west of Guerneville.

SONOMA COUNTY — A member of UC Berkeley’s legal team died Sunday after being hit by a car in a hit-and-run crash near Guerneville, authorities said.

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The Sonoma County Coroner’s Office confirmed Monday that 59-year-old Christopher Patti, the campus’ chief legal counsel, died Sunday morning. He was stopped on his bike on the right shoulder of westbound Highway 116 around 8:45 a.m. when a BMW slid onto the shoulder and hit him, according to a statement by the California Highway Patrol.

“I speak for the Berkeley community in saying how grief-stricken we are at Chris Patti’s untimely death,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ said in a statement. “He was an extraordinary colleague. He loved the university, and he had a deep core of integrity that motivated everything he did. He was smart, he was compassionate. He was everything you wanted the counsel of the campus to be. We offer our sympathy to his family and his friends for this tragic loss.”

Patti joined the university in 2010. Before that, he worked for two decades in the general counsel’s office at UC’s Office of the President.

“Chris was a wonderful colleague and friend who cared about people and doing the right thing. He was an extraordinary lawyer to whom we all turned for advice and counsel. His loss is unfathomable,” Charles F. Robinson, general counsel and vice president of legal affairs with UC, said in a statement.

The CHP on Monday identified 28-year-old Jonathan Ritter, of Rio Nido/Monte Rio, as a person of interest. The driver of the vehicle that hit Patti continued west on Highway 116, then turned around and went back past the scene in the eastbound direction, the agency said.

Police want to find out if Ritter was driving the car.

Officer Jon Sloat told the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat that Patti was about 20 feet to the right of the highway, and that evidence at the scene indicates the vehicle drove fast and perhaps recklessly.

“He was well off the road,” Sloat told the Press-Democrat. “He should have been safe.”

Patti earned his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and his law degree from the University of Virginia. Before joining UC, he worked as a litigation associate in San Francisco. He is survived by a wife and two sons.

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Hillary Clinton’s case isn’t interesting enough to the public to justify releasing the FBI’s files on her, the bureau said this week in rejecting an open-records request by a lawyer seeking to have the former secretary of state punished for perjury.

Ty Clevenger has been trying to get Mrs. Clinton and her personal attorneys disbarred for their handling of her official emails during her time as secretary of state. He’s met with resistance among lawyers, and now his request for information from the FBI’s files has been shot down.

“You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public’s interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject,” FBI records management section chief David M. Hardy told Mr. Clevenger in a letter Monday.

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“It is incumbent upon the requester to provide documentation regarding the public’s interest in the operations and activities of the government before records can be processed pursuant to the FOIA,” Mr. Hardy wrote.

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