San Jose Escorts: CNET Defendant Heads For Dr. Phil Show

… He will be able to reach a lot of people” on the daytime show, Cardoza said. “A lot of wives of police officers will be watching and we hope they will have a chit-chat with their husbands in the evening.
“If he can reach just one person, he will feel good,” the defense attorney said. Cardoza said the stress Wielsch was under at the time of the alleged crimes between 2009 and 2011 included neuropathic problems with his feet and anxiety over a daughter’s medical problems.
Wielsch and Butler are accused in the federal indictment of stealing and then reselling marijuana and methamphetamine seized by CNET, extorting payments from women in an illegal massage parlor they ran, and conducting phony sting operations in which they stole money and cellphones from prostitutes they identified from Internet advertisements.

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San Jose Escorts: Former Contra Costa County drug task force commander facing federal charges to …

… A lot of wives of police officers will be watching and we hope they will have a chitchat with their husbands in the evening.
“If he can reach just one person, he will feel good,” the defense attorney said.
Wielsch and former private investigator Christopher Butler of Concord face an array of drug and corruption charges in a federal grand jury indictment issued Aug. 8.
Cardoza said the stress Wielsch was under at the time of the alleged crimes between 2009 and 2011 included neuropathic problems with his feet and anxiety over a daughter’s medical problems.
Wielsch and Butler are accused in the federal indictment of stealing and then reselling marijuana and methamphetamine seized by CNET, extorting payments from women in an illegal massage parlor they ran, and conducting phony sting operations in which they stole money and cellphones from prostitutes they identified from Internet advertisements.

See the full article from “Contra Costa Times”

San Jose Escorts: CNET Defendant Heads For Dr. Phil Show

… He wants to make a plea to officers who are in the same type of trouble he was in, with physical disabilities and stress, not to let the macho atmosphere of police departments prevent them from getting help,” Cardoza said. ”He will be able to reach a lot of people” on the daytime show, Cardoza said.
“A lot of wives of police officers will be watching and we hope they will have a chit-chat with their husbands in the evening. ”If he can reach just one person, he will feel good,” the defense attorney said.
Cardoza said the stress Wielsch was under at the time of the alleged crimes between 2009 and 2011 included neuropathic problems with his feet and anxiety over a daughter’s medical problems.
Wielsch and Butler are accused in the federal indictment of stealing and then reselling marijuana and methamphetamine seized by CNET, extorting payments from women in an illegal massage parlor they ran, and conducting phony sting operations in which they stole money and cellphones from prostitutes they identified from Internet advertisements.

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San Jose Escorts: Filipino Professionals and Businessmen’s Association celebrates 50th anniversary

Some of the projects of FILPABA since its inception includes the contributions of funds for the construction of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, sending financial aid to victims of Taal and Mt. Pinatubo volcano eruptions, sponsored the Philippine team for international competitions, sent boxes of medicine to Cebu in response to an appeal of Cardinal Julio Rosales, and organized award events for outstanding community leaders. FILPABA also donated medical equipment and supplies to the Ospital ng Maynila, initiated the Filipiniana library at the Philippine Consulate in San Francisco, arranged donation of an ambulance in northern Luzon, initiated the Philippine garden project at the SF Golden Gate Park and sponsored a major fundraising event that generated $100,000 for the garden program that brought rare Philippine plants, provided funds and other types of aid to typhoon victims in the Philippines and raised funds to support to the project aimed at rehabilitating child prostitutes in the Philippines through Caritas Manila.

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San Jose Strip Clubs: It’ll Be Tops at the New Mt. Madonna Inn

The Mt. Madonna Inn closed for good a couple of years back. The owner staved off foreclosure for a time. Sterling Pacific Financial, with an office on Freedom Boulevard, gained control of the property last year.
Fischer gave Watsonville Patch a tour of the currently empty building a recent afternoon.
The cavernous restaurant looks like something out of The Godfather. Black leather booths ring the top level of the Mt. Madonna Inn. Wrought iron railings separate sections of the dining room and every seat has breathtaking view of the Pajaro Valley and Monterey Bay.
There’s a stage and two dance floors in the bar area. That same railing surrounds one dance area—which is sunken below the level of the main floor—but is bent in toward the dancing space, likely from years of people leaning against it to watch the action.
“When we finally got into clean it up, there was a stripper pole on the stage,” Fischer said.

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San Jose Massage Parlors: Former San Ramon Police Officer Pleads Guilty in Corruption Scandal

Former Danville police Officer Stephen Tanabe, 48, was also involved in the scandal and was charged in both state and federal court. Tanabe is accused of selling steroids and was allegedly involved in a “dirty DUI” scheme in which Butler’s employees targeted men in bars, got them drunk and sent them back on the road, where Tanabe arrested them, according to court documents.
The Discovery Bay resident was first arrested on similar state charges in front of the San Ramon Police Department last May.
The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office turned the case over to federal investigators over the summer.
Also charged in both state and federal court in the scandal are former CNET Cmdr. Norman Wielsch, 50 and former Antioch police officer and private investigator Christopher Butler, 49.
A grand jury indicted Wielsch and Butler last August on charges of stealing from a federally financed program, selling marijuana and methamphetamine stolen from police evidence lockers and extorting money from workers at an illegal massage parlor that the pair allegedly established.

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San Jose Escorts: Ex-cop pleads guilty in Contra Costa scandal (cops dealing drugs and stealing …

Fri Jan 27, 2012, 03:54 AM
Ex-cop pleads guilty in Contra Costa scandal (cops dealing drugs and stealing evidence)
A former San Ramon police officer who was also a member of an antidrug unit in Contra Costa County pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he sold drugs with his commanding officer, stole jewelry and cash from crime scenes and possessed stolen guns.
Louis Lombardi, 39, also admitted that during a four-year period, he had pocketed at least $40,000 in cash from alleged drug dealers and prostitutes while serving search warrants.
Lombardi was taken into custody in federal court in Oakland after admitting to nine felony counts of possession and intent to sell drugs, possession of stolen firearms, conspiracy to maintain a drug-involved premise and deprivation of rights under color of law. He faces a maximum sentence of more than 60 years in federal prison.

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San Jose Massage Parlors: Former San Ramon police officer pleads guilty to involvement in CNET scandal

dollars in cash and property during searches of suspects’ homes and to five counts for possessing and selling drugs and stolen firearms while he worked on the Central Contra Costa County Narcotics Enforcement Team, or CNET.
He faces a maximum sentence of more than 60 years in federal prison.
The Discovery Bay resident was first arrested on similar state charges in front of the San Ramon Police Department last May.
The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office turned the case over to federal investigators over the summer.
Also charged in both state and federal court in the scandal are former CNET Cmdr. Norman Wielsch, 50, former Antioch police officer and private investigator Christopher Butler, 49, and former Danville police Officer Stephen Tanabe, 48.
A grand jury indicted Wielsch and Butler last August on charges of stealing from a federally financed program, selling marijuana and
methamphetamine stolen from police evidence lockers and extorting money from workers at an illegal massage parlor that the pair allegedly established.

See the full article from “San Ramon Express”

San Jose Adult Entertainment: Ex-cop pleads guilty in Contra Costa scandal

A former San Ramon police officer who was also a member of an antidrug unit in Contra Costa County pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he sold drugs with his commanding officer, stole jewelry and cash from crime scenes and possessed stolen guns.
Louis Lombardi, 39, also admitted that during a four-year period, he had pocketed at least $40,000 in cash from alleged drug dealers and prostitutes while serving search warrants.
Lombardi was taken into custody in federal court in Oakland after admitting to nine felony counts of possession and intent to sell drugs, possession of stolen firearms, conspiracy to maintain a drug-involved premise and deprivation of rights under color of law. He faces a maximum sentence of more than 60 years in federal prison.
In exchange for his admission and possible testimony against his former boss at the Contra Costa antinarcotics task force, Lombardi hopes a judge will show leniency when he is sentenced April 18, his attorney said.

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San Jose Adult Entertainment: Ex-cop pleads guilty in Contra Costa scandal

… 01-26) 17:42 PST SAN RAMON — A former San Ramon police officer who was also a member of an anti-drug unit in Contra Costa County pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he sold drugs with his commanding officer, stole jewelry and cash from crime scenes and possessed stolen guns.
Louis Lombardi, 39, also admitted that during a four-year period, he had pocketed at least $40,000 in cash from alleged drug dealers and prostitutes while serving search warrants.
Lombardi was taken into custody in federal court in Oakland after admitting to nine felony counts of possession and intent to sell drugs, possession of stolen firearms, conspiracy to maintain a drug-involved premise and deprivation of rights under color of law. He faces a maximum sentence of more than 60 years in federal prison.

See the full article from “San Francisco Chronicle”

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