Subject: Kaushal Niroula

• Embattled New College President Resigns

  August 3, 2007

• 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

• 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

• Alleged SF Con Man Possessed By Supernatural Evil, Attorney Claims

  Lawyers say the darndest things... Kaushal Niroula, 27, the alleged ringleader of a group of purported San Francisco con men facing capital murder charges in Palm Springs isn't merely a criminal, says a Hawaii attorney representing a woman claiming to be one of Niroula's victims. Rather, Niroula is an earthly vessel for supernatural forces of evil, said Stephen Shaw, who is representing Megumi Hisamatsu, a Japanese woman who has claimed in a San Francisco federal lawsuit that Niroula

  March 24, 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

• New College of Weirdness

  The stories coming out of the school point to a common S.F. malady — leaders expect everyone to drink the Kool-Aid

  August 15, 2007

• Alleged Gay Grifter Ringleader Collapses in Court

  Kaushal NiroulaKaushal Niroula, prime suspect in the Gay Grifter murder case, in which a group of high-living San Francisco nightlife denizens allegedly killed and robbed a retired Palm Springs art dealer, collapsed in court Monday and was taken to the hospital.Niroula, 27, faces murder charges in connection with the December disappearance of Cliff Lambert. Also charged are some-time Niroula boyfriends Danny Garcia, 26, and David Replogle, 60, as well as purported Niroula hangers-on Miguel Busta

  May 4, 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

• Alleged Knife Man Added to Accused Gay Grifter Killers' Lineup

  Kaushal Niroula​December's Gay Grifter murder, in which a quartet of sex-partner-swapping purported San Francisco con men allegedly killed a lonely, elderly Palm Springs man then attempted to fraudulently sell his house had, until this week, seemed to lack a key plot element: How did police think they actually bumped off the poor old guy?We knew that Nepalese immigrant and alleged serial con man Kaushal Niroula, along with four local co-conspirators, allegedly made a 74-year-old Palm Springs m

  August 12, 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

• Testimony: S.F. Gay Grifter Murder Suspects Coddle Dog After Allegedly Killing its Owner

  ​Are the alleged Gay Grifter killers pet fanciers? According to two independent accounts of new testimony in the Gay Grifter case -- in which a crew of alleged San Francisco con men are charged with killing and robbing a Palm Springs retiree -- the suspects stabbed their victim to death, then tenderly took care of his dog.According to a pair of sources attending this week's preliminary hearing in Riverside County -- who aren't being named because they aren't authorized to talk about the case t

  September 10, 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