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By Renee Booker, eHow Contributor, last updated June 25, 2011 Once an attorney is licensed, she may practice in any area of the law she chooses. Some choose to practice criminal law as either a prosecutor or defense attorney. Prosecutors represent the state or federal government in criminal prosecutions while defense attorneys are charged with defending the person accused of the crime. Both prosecutors and defense attorneys must complete the same education and pass the same examinations. While the qualifications may vary somewhat by state, the process is similar in all states
What's wrong in Opposition becomes right, once in power
By Deborah Castelane, Vancouver SunMay 12, 2012
Re: C-38 makes a mockery of the role of Parliament, Column, May 1
In spring 2005, Stephen Harper threatened to bring down Paul Mar-tin's government for using the Budget Implementation Act to change laws.
"This is an attempt by the government to get unlimited power to impose multimillion-dollar fines on any basis, without any parliamentary approval or discussion, whatsoever. It is completely unacceptable," Harper stated in the House of Commons.
He then went on to clarify: "This is a back-door way ... a dangerous way of proceeding, and it will certainly not have the support of this party."
Fast forward to last week. The Conservatives' Budget Implementation Act C-38 includes changes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, the Kyoto Implementation Act and the Fisheries Act, while under-mining the Species at Risk Act.
Imperial Oil considering sale, conversion of Dartmouth refinery
Imperial Oil's Dartmouth refinery is partially obscured by Arctic sea smoke rising from Halifax harbour on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. (Andrew Vaughan / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
The Canadian Press
Date: Thursday May. 17, 2012 8:40 AM ET
HALIFAX — Imperial Oil plans to shop its refinery in Dartmouth, N.S., and related supply agreements to prospective buyers in the coming months.
Imperial says the move is part of a review that could see the Dartmouth operation converted to a terminal or some other alternative.
Company chairman Bruce March says Imperial realizes the importance of the refinery to the local community and that the decision has been a "difficult" one.
However, he said the company remains committed to providing service to its customs and pledged to keep employees and the community updated on developments as the review process moves forward.
March says the company hopes to make a decision on the sale or some other alternative by early 2013.
the City of London (a financial area which, like the Vatican, is a legal
territory unto itself) acting as director of the government of the
United States of America.
Vatican Tries To Explain U.S. Classification As Potential Money Laundering Hub
Evidence reveals systematic, egregious and dangerous practices at ---------------------------exacerbated by a lack of
accountability and controls. The FBII Justice Department found reasonable cause to believe that a pattern or practice of unconstitutional conduct exists in several areas, including: economic architecture of the first phase of the British Empire-FALSE FLAG
“Forged Warranty Deeds” US MAXIMUS WELFARE Fraud Scheme : The Pentagon understands that the problem they are dealing : with is ultimately the owners of the Federal Reserve Board : and their efforts to
save their own asses by starting World : War 3. A lot of the people in the CIA are also fed up with : the crazy stuff they have been ordered to do by their Fed : (Council on Foreign Relations) bosses. There is going to be
: a coup d'etat against these people and the bribed and : corrupt Washington political establishment.
My question concerns fraud and forgery. There is a Warranty Deed that deals with selling interests in inherited land property. One seller's signature is definitely forged. It has not been determined yet whether the other signature was forged. Does it invalidate the whole document if just one of the two signatures turns out to be forged?
“Forged Warranty Deeds” Fraud Scheme affidavits of heirship and other documents “fraudster heir" could then sell the property to another fictitious person,
Deceased Grandmother used to conceal “Forged Warranty Deeds” Fraud Scheme
A Texas man was arrested on federal charges that he stole actual houses in an elaborate scheme involving fake buyers and fraudulent titles, prosecutors said. He is alleged to have taken over 100 homes and other properties worth more than $1 million.
The scheme, according to the complaint, involved the filing of affidavits listing a fictitious person as the heir of a property left to them by the owner who had recently died. The new owner, so called “fraudster heir" could then sell the property to another fictitious person, the complaint stated.
The fraudster rented post office boxes using the name of his elderly grandmother and listed her as an officer of a company he incorporated. She was 99 when she died in 2002, according to the complaint.
A district attorney's investigator identified more than 300 forged warranty deeds, affidavits of heirship and other documents filed from 2007 through December 2009. They expect that other property owners have been affected, but have not been discovered yet.
Forging signatures is illegal and if your ex has done so, then you need to take legal steps in order to safeguard your interests.
The other fraud scheme was identifying houses whose owners had recently died and claiming to be the owner's sole heir. The fraudster would then file a forged heirship affidavit, attesting that a fictitious person was the sole heir of the deceased owner. The next step was to file another fraudulent warranty deed that transferred the property from the “fictitious heir “to businesses he controlled. In his attempt to conceal his involvement he would use companies to transfer stolen properties using the names of deceased relatives and/or fictitious people as the owners of the business entities.
sell the property to a buyer who was in general unaware of the fraudulent
conveyances.
Eventually, after transferring the stolen properties to an entity that he controlled, the fraudster would lease the mineral rights on the property or sell the property to a buyer who was in general unaware of the fraudulent conveyances.
"To my knowledge, it's one of the biggest property scams to ever hit this county," David Lobingier, an assistant prosecutor in the DA's economic crimes unit... "They just made up names and, later, those non-existent persons would sell the house to another person and to another person. Eventually it would go to a shell corporation Fisher controlled."
We should praise the work done by the members that are investigating this case, the USPIS and the Economic Crimes Unit of the Tarrant County District Attorney's Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Weimer is in charge of the prosecution.
We must be vigilant against fraud, recognizing its signs and taking proactive, definite, and realistic steps to not only prevent it but also punish it. It starts with me. It starts with you. It starts with us…
You are all encouraged to report any suspected mortgage fraud activity to authorities, www.PreventLoanScams.org
Michael S. Richardson Director/Mortgage Fraud Services www.mortgagefraudsolutions.com Author of "An American Epidemic, Mortgage Fraud a Serious Business"
falsifying notary stamps and diverting mail to the post office box
However, to conceal his connection with the initial fraudulent conveyance, and ensure that he would receive the original warranty deeds, he then filed change-of-address forms with the U.S. Post Office that caused these warranty deeds to instead be forwarded to a post office box that he had rented using his deceased grandmother’s name.
The County clerk's office was not aware of the scheme and accepted the paperwork as being authentic. The alleged thefts went undetected for months. He allegedly duped clerks by falsifying notary stamps and diverting mail to the post office box, postal inspectors said.
fraudulent warranty deed transfers The first scheme involved properties where fraudulent warranty deed transfers were almost always used for vacant lots with unpaid back taxes due and/or with weed liens filed against them by the city. After identifying a property, the fraudster would file a forged warranty deed transferring the property to a fictitious buyer, forging the signature of the true property owner, and forging the signature and notary stamp affixed to the documents and then file it with the County Clerk's Office.
(The Washington Post): The Vatican has rewritten its 2010 anti-money laundering law after European inspectors found that it didn’t fully meet their tough standards to combat the financing of terrorism. The new law, a copy of which was obtained Friday by The Associated Press, requires the Vatican to create a list of terror organizations based on those issued by the United Nations and requires the Vatican enter into agreements with other countries to share financial information. The Holy See has been working for years to comply with European norms on money-laundering and terror financing in a bid to shed its image as a secrecy-obsessed tax haven and join the so-called “white list” of countries that crack down on tax fraud.
The Vatican’s efforts to get on the “white list” went into high gear after Rome prosecutors in September 2010 seized €23 million ($30 million) and placed the pope’s top two bankers under investigation in an alleged money-laundering scheme.
The money was subsequently released and no indictments have been handed down, though the president of the Vatican’s Institute for Religious Works, or IOR, and his deputy remain under investigation.http://one-evil.org/acts_global_depression/acts_global_depression.htm
the San Fransisco MILITARY prison "has allowed a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts and conditions to germinate, the sum of which places the Durham crown estate victims at substantial ongoing risk."
Can the Catholic Church’s Vatican banking system be laundering money for drug cartels, arms dealers and human trafficking? Good question. In all likelihood, this Vatican account closed by J P Morgan had to be closed because of Vatican secrecy and refusal to comply with the simplest of banking rules worldwide.
Thirty years after it was entangled in a scandal involving the mafia, money laundering and the mysterious death of the man nicknamed "God's banker," the Vatican bank faces fresh controversy. The bank - formally known as the Institute for Works of Religion or IOR - has suffered the ignominy of having one of its accounts closed by JP Morgan after stone-walling requests for information.
The sanction came less than two weeks after the U.S. State Department listed the Vatican as being potentially vulnerable to money laundering.
A Milan affiliate of JP Morgan said it will shut the account by the end of the month after revealing Vatican bankers had been "unable to respond" to requests for details about payments into the account.
A spokesman for JP Morgan in Milan declined to comment, citing client confidentiality. The Milan branch had been seeking information since 2010, when the Vatican bank was accused by authorities in Rome of contravening money-laundering regulations.
In an unusual move, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, president of the Vatican bank, was placed under investigation and a judge in Rome ordered a freeze on $30 million held in one of the bank's accounts.
The scandal prompted the Vatican bank to initiate anti-money-laundering legislation, which is currently being debated by the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy.http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/21/1076407/-Vatican-Money-Too-Dirty-Even-for-J-P-Morgan-Pot-Calling-the-Kettle-Black-
Monday, August 1, 2011 “It was a horrible issue. It was a disaster. It was badly handled. It was badly managed,” he said. “It’s an embarrassment right across the country.”-
Monday, August 1, 2011 - PREVIOUS REPORTS August 1-2011 -WHITE HATS REPORT #25 UPDATE: OBAMA CONTINUES TO MOVE HIS STOLEN FUNDS: As we indicated in our last White Hats Report #24, the following is new preliminary information just received in reference to Obama's illegal funds. World Security Agencies and Falcone’s investigators continue to watch the movement of Obama's illegal funds with trading profits exceeding 3 Billion Dollars. * At this time, Obama has not moved his funds from HSBC, but he has started to move his illegal funds out of Barclay Bank. We are watching these activities and suspect this is partly due to the fact that Price Waterhouse Cooper has put Barclay Bank on notice for the mismanagement of massive stolen funds.
* As we reported, Obama was moving some of his illegal funds into Asia. Investigators have found new accounts in the following Asian Banks: Royal Bank of Scotland
To hide the massive assets of the Catholic Church, a decentralized system with safeguards and controls were invented. Whereas it would have been unthinkable even 200 years ago to place such wealth in the hands of bishops. However thanks to modern communication, modern finance and accounting, the task was much easier.
The major investments of property, fixed assets were transferred under the control of the dioceses around the world. In turn, all non-visible church property was hidden via complex shelf companies and trusts.
Major classes of assets such as shares, gold bullion, diamonds and other precious resources were transferred for direct control under the banks owned and controlled by the Vatican.
Using the cloaks of secrecy in such states as Switzerland and even the Vatican itself, the true ownership and identity of these massive treasures could be hidden.
The Vatican depends upon these laws of secrecy to maintain the lie of its true wealth. Without the secret banking laws and lack of uniform, proper and transparent disclosure laws around the world, the great fraud that the Catholic Church is no longer No 1. could not be maintained.
Thus in the end, the single largest economic entity the world has ever seen disappeared from the radar of people’s minds and returned as a poor and impoverished church in desperate need of funds.
Latest in series of image problems for Vatican bank * Vatican bank trying to meet EU's transparency rules
JP Morgan Chase informed the IOR that the account was being closed because the bank's Milan branch felt the IOR had failed to provide sufficient information on money transfers. The financial newspaper, which gave the number of the IOR account, said some 1.5 billion euros passed through it in about 18 months. It said the account was a "sweeping facility," meaning that it was emptied out at the end of each day with funds transferred to another IOR account in Germany.