The unsettling link between a group of firms that sell financial planning services to elderly Californians and one of the most notorious con men in U.S. history
The international soap opera that surrounds the crumbling San Francisco landmark that was center stage for the incomparable "King of Torts," Melvin Belli
Your ringmasters...At a ridiculously well-attended press conference this afternoon in front of the San Francisco Chronicle, a histrionic red-headed woman named Deborah Perez announced that she had solved perhaps the greatest mystery in the history of Bay Area crime. Her father, she claims, was the Zodiac killer. His name was Guy Ward Hendrickson, apparently a Jekyll-and-Hyde type and a carpenter who died of cancer 26 years ago.
Perez claims to ha
The State Bar of California has taken over the law firm of Mitchell Roth, who had, in partnership with convicted felon Paul Noe II, convinced more than 2,000 troubled homeowners to fall for an apparent "foreclosure assistance" scam.The apparent swindle, fist described in the September, 2008 SF Weekly column "Facing foreclosure? Con man Paul Noe II has a deal for you," involved a boiler room of agents who would contact Spanish-speaking homeowners behind on their mortgage payments. Roth's canvasse
So far, two have given it a shot -- but if credulous local media outlets have anything to say about it, then we should probably enlist more.The past several months have seen two disbarred lawyers presenting dubious Zodiac revelations via the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle, and the stories have provided just the kind of undeserved attention that encourages Zodiac obsessives and publicity weasels to keep it up.
First, the Examiner published a c
​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
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