Subject: Daniel Garcia

• Attorney, Ex Client, Alleged Serial Con Man, art consultant, among San Francisco Defendants in Palm Springs Fraud Case

  Kaushal NiroulaAttorney David Replogle and three other San Francisco defendants face charges linked to the fraudulent sale of a Palm Springs home whose elderly owner disappeared December 4, police say. Bail is set at $5 million.Prior to the Palm Springs charges filed earlier this month, Replogle's purported accomplices had separately been charged in a three year string of unrelated frauds and other crimes, with alleged victims often plucked from the Castro District bar scene. Suspects include no

  March 10, 2009

• Palm Springs Arrests Cast Doubt on Famous SF-Mexico Sex Tourism Case

  Five years ago, federal sex abuse charges lodged against against financier Thomas Frank White put an elderly San Francisco multimillionaire's face on what was then seen as the growing international scourge of sex tourism. This week White's main accuser and his attorney, who together helped set into motion a federal sex crimes investigation against White, pleaded not guilty to unrelated Palm Springs fraud, embezzlement and forgery charges. If true, these new allegations against San Francisc

  March 12, 2009

• IM Conversation, Purportedly from S.F. Fraud Suspect, Sheds Light on Bizarre Palm Springs Case

  Kaushal NiroulaThe recent arrest of San Franciscans Kaushal Niroula, Daniel Garcia and a bevy of alleged cohorts in an alleged Palm Springs identity theft scam, provided a glimpse into an apparently illicit world where a band of young, attractive men used the casual, all-male intimacy of the San Francisco-Palm Springs bar scene as a pond for fishing hapless victims. SF Weekly obtained a printout of an alleged Yahoo! Instant Message conversation, between Tyson Wrensch, who claims he was victimiz

  March 16, 2009

• San Francisco Fraud Suspects Niroula, Garcia Charged with Capital Murder in Palm Springs Case

  Courtesy Tyson WrenschDaniel GarciaKaushal Niroula, 27, and Daniel Garcia, 26, both suspects in an alleged scheme to loot the assets of a missing Palm Springs man, have been charged with murder, according to new filings in Riverside County court. Both men face charges of murder while committing a felony, and murder for financial gain, which carry a penalty of death, or life imprisonment without possibility of parole.As first reported in SF Weekly, Niroula and Garcia were earlier charged with fra

  March 19, 2009

• S.F. Attorney Charged With Capital Murder in Palm Springs Fraud Case

  David Replogle, a San Francisco attorney famed for winning a $7 million sex abuse settlement from prominent local stockbroker Thomas White, has been charged with murder in connection with an unrelated Palm Springs fraud case, according to new charges filed in Riverside County court. Replogle has been charged with murder while committing a robbery, and murder carried out for financial gain, as well as fraud, embezzlement, and damage to property of over $1 million. If convicted of murder under the

  March 19, 2009

• Death Penalty DA Vows End of the Line for Gay Grifter Murder Suspects

  Rod PachecoRiverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco, a former death penalty prosecutor who ran for office on a law-and-order ticket, vowed he would end a purported gay grifter crime spree carried out by a band of San Francisco murder suspects. Sometime boyfriends Kaushal Niroula, 27, and Daniel Garcia, 26, along with alleged coconspirators David Replogle, 60, a San Francisco lawyer, and Russell Manning, 67, a San Francisco art broker, have  been charged with capital murder in connecti

  March 20, 2009

• Mystery Solved: Alleged Con Man Danny Garcia Isn't a Killer -- He's a Lover

  Courtesy Tyson WrenschDaniel GarciaDaniel Garcia, 27, one of five San Francisco alleged con men charged with murdering and robbing a retired Palm Springs art dealer, knew nothing of the purported crimes, his attorney said Wednesday.So how is it that during the two weeks following the Dec. 4 disappearance of Cliff Lambert, 74, Garcia used Lambert's bank card to make 21 withdrawals and purchases totaling more than $13,000? And why did alleged co-conspirator Miguel Bustamante, 26, finger Garcia as

  March 25, 2009

• The Dark Prince

  April 1, 2009

• The Thomas White Affair

  March 18, 2009

• S.F. Gay Grifters No Longer Face Death Penalty in Palm Springs Case, Prosecutor Says

  Kaushal NiroulaFour San Franciscan alleged con men accused in Palm Springs of robbing and killing a 74-year-old retiree can breathe easier following a meeting last week with prosecutors, according to City News Service ace Jessica E. Davis. Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco had filed charges that, in the event of a guilty verdict, could have led to the death penalty for Kaushal Niroula and his on-again, off-again lovers Daniel Garcia and David Replogle, a San Francisco attorney. Also

  July 1, 2009

• Getting the Band Back Together: S.F. Art Dealer Becomes Sixth Gay Grifter Suspect

  Russell Manning​San Francisco art dealer Russell Manning, 67, has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges related a to the December killing of a Palm Springs collector. He is the sixth suspect charged in the so-called gay grifter murder, in which a group of sex-partner-swapping alleged con men attempted to loot the assets of Clifford Lambert, 74.Manning had been held in a Guadalajara-area prison on unrelated charges prior to his arrest by Palm Springs police last week. Police had not to

  August 24, 2009

• Judge Orders Murder Trial for Gay Grifter Suspects Niroula, McCarthy

  Kaushal Niroula​ A Southern California judge today ordered a murder trial for two of five men charged in the "Gay Grifter" case, in which a crew led by a San Francisco-based Nepalese immigrant allegedly killed a Palm Springs retiree and and looted his assets.Testimony during a preliminary hearing last week suggested scheme was the brainchild of Kaushal Niroula, 27, who purportedly plotted to loot the assets of retired art dealer Cliff Lambert, 75, murder him, and hide his corpse. Lambert has b

  September 14, 2009