USDOJ: Russian-American Organized Crime Enterprise Operating International Sportsbook That Laundered More Than $100 Million
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Pete Bennett is former programmer for PG&E, Bank of America, Wells Fargo Bank and AT&T
He is unpaid for a series of projects linked to 9/11, PG&E San Bruno and 20,000 pages of PG&E documents consisting of detailed maps, sub station, gas transmission, fiber optic entry points but most important enough detail to kill millions.The #campfire was a warm up. Stock up water, food and be prepared for the energy disruption event of your lifecycle.
U.S. Attorney's Office
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.
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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Obit: UC Berkeley chief legal counsel dead in hit-and-run near Guerneville
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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.
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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FBI says lack of public interest in Hillary Clinton emails justifies withholding documents
From: regentsoffice@ucop.edu and
When I sent this I was just pissed off. Next time it will have the death of UCOP Attorney Charles Patti
Subject: G4S connections
Subject: G4S connections
From: outlook_6cd656d49f755d86@outlook.com
To: president@ucop.edu
Date Received: Friday, June 17, 2016 5:20 PM
They are made of mercenaries, well equipped, access to government intelligence systems, they're able to travel around the globe.
Subject: Thank you for your email
From: regentsoffice@ucop.edu
To: Pete Bennett (pete@petebennett.net)
Date Received: Thursday, December 3, 2015 12:09 AM
On behalf of The Regents of the University of California, thank you for your email. Your correspondence will be included, as appropriate, in the next summary of communications to the Regents.
Correspondence sent to the Board of Regents may be answered by staff in the Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff to the Regents, in the Office of the President, or at the appropriate campus. The Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff retains copies of all correspondence sent to the Regents; such correspondence is considered a matter of public record and, therefore, is potentially subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act.
Correspondence addressing items on the agenda of the Board of Regents or its committees must be received by the Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff no less than twenty-four (24) hours in advance of the beginning of the regular two-and-a-half day Board and committee meetings or any off-cycle or special meeting of the Board or its committees.
The email must clearly identify the agenda item being addressed. Each communication should include a subject line identifying the specific agenda item being addressed; failure to do so could prevent delivery of your comments. Such materials will be distributed to members of the Board, or its appropriate committee, prior to beginning of the Board or committee meeting.
The email must clearly identify the agenda item being addressed. Each communication should include a subject line identifying the specific agenda item being addressed; failure to do so could prevent delivery of your comments. Such materials will be distributed to members of the Board, or its appropriate committee, prior to beginning of the Board or committee meeting.
We appreciate your interest in the University of California and for taking the time to write.
Best regards,
Correspondence Coordinator
Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff to the Regents
Major General Joseph Franklin
Major General Joseph Franklin
(USA, Retired, USMA 1955)
Born in 1933 in the small Appalachian town of Cumberland, Maryland, Franklin won a competitive appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1951 and graduated in 1955 with a a commission in the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
After preliminary military schooling, which included Parachute and Ranger qualification, Franklin was assigned to Karlsruhe, Germany where he served with Combat Engineering units until 1959. He was then sent to MIT to earn a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering and Nuclear Engineering. In 1961 Joseph Franklin was assigned to the Army's Nuclear Power Program, headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. where he was Project Manager for the installation of a nuclear power plant on board a converted Liberty ship. In 1963 Franklin was assigned to command Camp Century, a nuclear-powered research outpost on the Greenland Icecap. He directed the shutdown and disassembly of the nuclear power plant, shipping the entire facility back to the United States in 1964.
Selected for instructor duty at West Point in 1965, Franklin taught the first Nuclear Engineering course and coached the football and ski teams during his three years as an Assistant Professor at the Academy. After a year's further study at the Naval War College, Franklin he shipped out to Vietnam to command a Combat Engineer Battalion in the Central Highlands, ending his tour after participating in the 1970 operations in Cambodia.
The decade of the 1970's was taken up with Joint Staff duties in the Pentagon, including assignment as Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, plus a Brigade Command at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and another year of study at the Army War College.
Promoted to Brigadier General in 1979, Franklin was selected to be Commandant of Cadets at West Point where he served until 1982. A tour of duty as Assistant Commander of the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii was followed by promotion to Major General and assignment in 1983 as Chief of the Joint US Military Group and Senior US Defense Representative in Spain. Franklin chose to retire in 1987, and remained in Spain, founding Franklin, S.A. a Spanish business consultancy located in Madrid, specializing in investments and joint ventures.
He was elected to the Board of Directors of several Spanish and American companies and returned to the United States in 1993, when he was elected Chief Executive Officer of Frequency Electronics, Inc. He has remained as Chairman of the Board of Frequency Electronics, Inc. since 1999. He also serves on the Board of Directors of RKO Pictures and Kriss-USA, a Swiss manufacturer of advanced technology small arms for military and civilian applications.
(USA, Retired, USMA 1955)
Born in 1933 in the small Appalachian town of Cumberland, Maryland, Franklin won a competitive appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1951 and graduated in 1955 with a a commission in the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
After preliminary military schooling, which included Parachute and Ranger qualification, Franklin was assigned to Karlsruhe, Germany where he served with Combat Engineering units until 1959. He was then sent to MIT to earn a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering and Nuclear Engineering. In 1961 Joseph Franklin was assigned to the Army's Nuclear Power Program, headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. where he was Project Manager for the installation of a nuclear power plant on board a converted Liberty ship. In 1963 Franklin was assigned to command Camp Century, a nuclear-powered research outpost on the Greenland Icecap. He directed the shutdown and disassembly of the nuclear power plant, shipping the entire facility back to the United States in 1964.
Selected for instructor duty at West Point in 1965, Franklin taught the first Nuclear Engineering course and coached the football and ski teams during his three years as an Assistant Professor at the Academy. After a year's further study at the Naval War College, Franklin he shipped out to Vietnam to command a Combat Engineer Battalion in the Central Highlands, ending his tour after participating in the 1970 operations in Cambodia.
The decade of the 1970's was taken up with Joint Staff duties in the Pentagon, including assignment as Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, plus a Brigade Command at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and another year of study at the Army War College.
Promoted to Brigadier General in 1979, Franklin was selected to be Commandant of Cadets at West Point where he served until 1982. A tour of duty as Assistant Commander of the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii was followed by promotion to Major General and assignment in 1983 as Chief of the Joint US Military Group and Senior US Defense Representative in Spain. Franklin chose to retire in 1987, and remained in Spain, founding Franklin, S.A. a Spanish business consultancy located in Madrid, specializing in investments and joint ventures.
He was elected to the Board of Directors of several Spanish and American companies and returned to the United States in 1993, when he was elected Chief Executive Officer of Frequency Electronics, Inc. He has remained as Chairman of the Board of Frequency Electronics, Inc. since 1999. He also serves on the Board of Directors of RKO Pictures and Kriss-USA, a Swiss manufacturer of advanced technology small arms for military and civilian applications.
OBIT: Bennett Witness Murdered - Robert Frazier
CONCORD — A Concord man shot to death in front of a bar early Saturday has been identified as 42-year-old Robert Frazier, authorities said Monday.
From the blogger: There are three dead bouncers each known to me, one was an assailant, one was nice guy, another was nice that was friendly with Sara Hoda killed in The GhostShip Fire.
Frazier became the city’s second homicide victim of 2017 when he was hit by gunfire in front of Nica Lounge at 1907 Salvio Street just before 2 a.m. Saturday, police said. Police arrested a man suspected in the shooting after he was involved in a solo car crash later Saturday.
Lt. James Nakayama, the head of investigations for the Concord Police Department, said details of the investigation have kept police from identifying the suspect, a 27-year-old man who was still in a hospital Monday receiving treatment for non-life threatening injuries.
The hunt for the shooter also led to police fatally shooting a pit bull while they searched an Oakley address for the suspect. According to police, a pit bull broke loose from his collar and charged officers and the police dog named Hancock. The pit bull bit Hancock in the leg and clamped down on his neck, causing the officer to shoot, police said.
“It’s unfortunate that that happened,” Nakayama said. “We have to protect our police K9s and officers, as well.”
Police ordered a shelter-in-place during that Oakley neighborhood search in the 1900 block of Teresa Lane. Police used a SWAT team to help them in the search.
A fundraising account set up to help Frazier’s family raised $3,855 by 2 p.m., with one poster saying that Frazier “enriched my life with friendship and love.”
Staff writer George Kelly contributed to this report. Contact Rick Hurd at 925-945-4789.
Sierra Drive Attempted Murder
Walnut Creek CA
Only a small select narrow and dubious group of people understand how complex events are near Pete Bennett. On or about October 31st, 2014, after a night of performing music in downtown Walnut Creek buskin to replace the cash stolen from me by Walnut Creek,
Only a small select narrow and dubious group of people understand how complex events are near Pete Bennett. On or about October 31st, 2014, after a night of performing music in downtown Walnut Creek buskin to replace the cash stolen from me by Walnut Creek,
District Attorney Mark Peterson resulting FELONY CHARGES FOR PERJURY
Mark Coon met with Pete Bennett in June 2008 regarding the fatal flight of Eric Nunn, and the 1989 murder of Floyd Brown Jr. witness in the matter of BennettvsSouthernPacific.com
Mark Coon met with Pete Bennett in June 2008 regarding the fatal flight of Eric Nunn, and the 1989 murder of Floyd Brown Jr. witness in the matter of BennettvsSouthernPacific.com
OBIT: Elizabeth Torres, 81
The Torres Family Tragedies or Murders
Perfectly Framed
The large Torres family is suffering the loss of a family matriarch, as relatives pray that three other family members will recover rapidly from burnsresulting from the blast. Elizabeth Torres, 81, who lived with her daughter Cindy and son-in-law Allen Braun in a Claremont Drive home in San Bruno, died
despite Braun's attempt to rescue her by carrying her to the front porch, said one of Torres' nine children, David Wharton, 57, of Fair Oaks. "He saved my
mom," Wharton said. "But a second blast" killed her. Braun is now in the hospital with 40 percent of his body burned, Wharton said. Braun's wife, Cindy,
45, and her sister Sandy Arnold, 58, are both in induced comas at St. Francis hospital. Arnold, who lives in Petaluma and works as an office clerk, has
burns on 70 percent of her body. Cindy Braun, who used to be an office manager for Forbes magazine, has burns covering half her body, Wharton said. "This
is monumental for us," he said. "The only reason I can talk is because I haven't accepted it yet." He said his mother worked as a nurse's aide for UC San
Francisco for 27 years. In her later years, she got around in a wheelchair, even when she visited casinos, a favorite pastime. Torres was married twice and
had nine children: Everett, Virginia, Sandy, David, Linda, Michael, Sharon, Gregory and Cindy.
The Contra Costa Narcotics Enforcement Taskforce
This news of the scandal broke in February 2011 when Commander Norman Wielsch and Chris Butler faces were plastered all over local media. Then a few monthslater Deputy Stepen Tanabe and Officer Louis Lombardi. I recognized every face immediately but by summer I was in jail, my car was totaled and to
this day remain unpaid by a PG&E Vendor who brought me into their explosion cover-up.
Every conspiracy has one or more co-conspirators but this story is a conspiracy blessed with cover from the top cop down.
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The PG&E Gas Can Man
This image broadcast around the world is part of why my
www.pgewitness.com
was launched that is spawned from my role in the San Bruno Explosion. The role that was hidden from Investigators from the NTSB, The San Mateo County District Attorney and most important
the Federal case where Judge Henderson ordered PG&E to perform community service.
The worst part is my family with their lives so PG&E could hire the best lawyers.
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The KinderMorgan Explosion and the Dead Witnesses
There is a most forgotten explosion story where on November 9th, 2004 five welders from Matamoras Welding were killed. This explosion occurre in themiddle a project to known as the East Bay Pipeline Extension. on that day I was at the Walnut Creek Superior Court making an appearance in front
Superior Court Judge Joel Golub. That was day I lost my license, the beginning of the loss of my sons, the connections to The Driscoll Family Murders
where Alicia Driscoll and her daughter Gineva Driscoll found dead.
There are several stories begging to be told via the criminal case I call
The Kinder Morgan Pipeline Murders of Walnut Creek CA.
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Gun that killed Pittsburg officer also used in fatal Modesto shootout
Police Inspector Ray Giacomelli
The gun that killed Pittsburg police inspector
First Contact: City of Pittsburg mid 1980s'
Former Pittsburg Officer Eric Bergen
Yea I know him from how he pointed his weapon at me. He also
broke into my cabinet shop took thousands in equipment.
12:17 a.m., June 11, 2003
PITTSBURG – The gun that killed Pittsburg police inspector Ray Giacomelli in
April is the same weapon his suspected killer fired in a fatal shoot-out with police, according to ballistics tests.
Contra Costa Sheriff's Lt. Dan Terry said Tuesday the .40-caliber Glock handgun
that killed Giacomelli was the same weapon used by Earl Foster Jr. during the firefight with police in Modesto.
Foster fled there after Giacomelli's slaying in Pittsburg on April 15.
Investigators found Foster at a strip mall pay phone in the Central Valley city two days later.
A shootout ensued after Foster began firing at police, Terry said.
Foster died of multiple gunshot wounds; he was hit 22 times, according to an
autopsy released Tuesday by the Stanislaus County coroner.
Law enforcement officials throughout northern California had launched a massive
manhunt to locate Foster.
The 46-year-old Giacomelli was killed while investigating the homicide of Eric
Louis Huffman, the brother of Foster's girlfriend who was found slain April 7.
Both Giacomelli and Huffman were shot in the face. Police have said Foster is
the only suspect in Huffman's slaying. |
Gun that killed Pittsburg officer also used in fatal Modesto shootout
 Gun that killed Pittsburg officer also used in fatal Modesto shootout |
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
12:17 a.m., June 11, 2003
PITTSBURG – The gun that killed Pittsburg police inspector Ray Giacomelli in April is the same weapon his suspected killer fired in a fatal shoot-out with police, according to ballistics tests.
Contra Costa Sheriff's Lt. Dan Terry said Tuesday the .40-caliber Glock handgun that killed Giacomelli was the same weapon used by Earl Foster Jr. during the firefight with police in Modesto.
Foster fled there after Giacomelli's slaying in Pittsburg on April 15. Investigators found Foster at a strip mall pay phone in the Central Valley city two days later.
A shootout ensued after Foster began firing at police, Terry said.
Foster died of multiple gunshot wounds; he was hit 22 times, according to an autopsy released Tuesday by the Stanislaus County coroner.
Law enforcement officials throughout northern California had launched a massive manhunt to locate Foster.
The 46-year-old Giacomelli was killed while investigating the homicide of Eric Louis Huffman, the brother of Foster's girlfriend who was found slain April 7.
Both Giacomelli and Huffman were shot in the face. Police have said Foster is the only suspect in Huffman's slaying.
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The Scherer Murders and Russian Mob of Trump Towers
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A little snippet. The timing of the Scherer Murders leads to the Mormon Community. The involved Mormon units are Mitt Romney, Danville Stake, The Oakland Temple and millions stolen.
Pete Bennett | Twitter | F: petercbennett LI: petercbennett
A little snippet. The timing of the Scherer Murders leads to the Mormon Community. The involved Mormon units are Mitt Romney, Danville Stake, The Oakland Temple and millions stolen.
When you buy Pru-Life in Contra Costa County
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Danville CA:
This area operates a murder for hire where investigators from the Contra Costa District Attorney Offices cover up murders of the sister and niece one of their own linked to a deadly pipeline explosion in Walnut Creek.
In this video Prudential boldly asks for your opinion. I have one about my Pru-life policy and their responses when I discovered how my near fatal event targeted their policy.
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