Subject: Palm Springs

• 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

• Follow the Bouncing Mayor: Gavin Basks in SoCal Crowds' Love ... Mostly

  Paris is a city blessed with so much dog shit, you could be excused for pondering if the French import the stuff. So when Willie Brown -- in a column that was, otherwise, so self-congratulatory it was an honest challenge to get through it -- notes of gai Paris, "what an incredibly clean city. ... San Francisco could learn a few things from its older sister city." Well, that says a lot. Who the hell's in charge of this filthy cesspool that forces Willie to hopscotch around puddles of filth (he's

  March 23, 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

• Shelby Lynne digs into Dusty Springfield’s archives

  April 23, 2008

• Par for the Course

  Give away city golf courses? Yet another scheme to take public property and put it into private hands without much oversight.

  February 7, 2007

• Repertory Film Listings

  September 27, 2006

• Repertory Film Listings

  June 28, 2006

• Salt of the Earth

  Funky, stinky, and some kind of beautiful, California's Salton Sea fights extinction

  February 22, 2006

• Tip Trouble

  When you're berated by a waiter for a too-small gratuity

  April 27, 2005

• Lights, Camera, Gospel!

  January 5, 2005

• BeatBox

  Celebrate Bastille Day, get "Fresh" at Ruby Skye, then take your broke ass to "Broke as Fuck."

  July 14, 2004

• House of Tudor

  Smackdown in Oaktown: Some saucy picks to lure you into the East Bay mix

  November 26, 2003

• The Hours and Times

  An experimental approach to the sensitive story of a man abused as a child

  September 24, 2003

• Hidden Treasure

  Half a century ago, ex-heroin dealer Alfredo Santos created an epic work of art inside San Quentin. Now, he's coming back to be honored for it.

  July 23, 2003

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of April 30, 2003

  April 30, 2003

• Reps Etc.

  April 23, 2003

• Ecstasy Is an Art Car

  Philo Northrup and his wacky automotive tribe take a road trip to places in California you can't even imagine

  April 9, 2003

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of April 2, 2003

  April 2, 2003

• SF Weekly Music Awards 2002

  A galaxy-spanning journey through space and sound!

  October 16, 2002

• Women who Love Women; A Guy Who Hates Noise

  The CW Saloon morphs into a lesbian bar, and Kimo's tries to stay open

  September 18, 2002

• On the Waterfront

  Crab House

  June 5, 2002

• No Sleep Till Indio

  Road trip to Coachella

  May 8, 2002

• The Ghost of Scandals Past

  Previous "creative financing" debacles should haunt city officials who've approved a risky $1 billion lease of Muni streetcars

  April 17, 2002

• My Life as a Eunuch

  What's a man to do if he doesn't want his balls hanging around? Simple: Just find someone to cut them off.

  June 28, 2000

• The Bridge and Tunnel Crowd

  October 6, 1999

• Karen Morley: Still Sexy After All These Blacklisted Years

  April 21, 1999

• Tales of the Circuit

  We follow three San Franciscans to the White Party, one in a continent-spanning series of huge, controversial, dance-filled, and drug-doused "circuit parties" for gay men

  May 13, 1998

• Riff Raff

  January 14, 1998

• Night + Day

  January 7, 1998

• Hats Off to Larry!

  July 16, 1997

• Pinstriped Medicine

  How the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger foreshadows the new -- and sometimes frightening -- world of health care

  January 29, 1997

• Night+Day

  July 3, 1996

• Night+Day

  May 3, 1995

• Beauty Knows No Pain

  Building a Better Body at the 28th Annual Session of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

  April 26, 1995

• Whirly Birds

  The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?

  March 29, 1995

• 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

• Law Catching up to 'Son of Super Swindler' Just as Infamous Dad Gets Out of Prison

  ​Paul Noe II, the apparent mastermind of a scheme the California Attorney General says was designed to bilk thousands of defaulted homeowners out of their remaining savings, appears even closer to having to suffer for his deeds. "He's such an ass. I would love to see these people jailed, because they are so bad,"  said Palm Springs attorney Marla Tauscher, who in May filed suit against Noe and his business partner Mitchell Roth accusing them of fraud and deceit in connection with their fo

  August 7, 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