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Estates on the Bay Guilty Of Fraud

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Beware of who you deal with.

Wills found the pair engaged in fraudulent business practices, including loan fraud, and imposed a civil penalty of $120,425 and victim restitution of $29,575.

The case came to officials’ attention after an elderly woman filed a complaint, prosecutors said.

Investigators found Silva and Gobert knowingly falsified the woman’s income information on two loan applications.

She lost her home after the brokers signed her up for two adjustable-rate mortgage loans that she couldn’t afford to repay on her limited income, prosecutors said.

Silva’s real estate broker license was revoked by the Bureau of Real Estate in 2004 for loan fraud, but she continued to act as a broker until 2010.

Estates on the Bay Guilty Of Fraud

Stuart Elder Sued

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Lawsuit claims Elder was going 70 mph in a 25 zone..

The family of two women who died in a head-on collision in Pebble Beach when alleged drunken driver Stuart Elder slammed into their car after attending a food and wine event in Pebble Beach has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver.

On April 7, Sharon Daly, 72, and Linda Larone, 65, were killed when Elder, 30, of Pacific Grove, crashed his Cadillac Escalade into their much smaller Ford Freestyle while they were driving on Sloat Road near Bird Rock Road.

The lawsuit against Elder was filed Dec. 11 in Monterey County Superior Court by Anne Margaret Larone, Larone’s mother; Melanie Robinson, Daly’s niece; and Rhonda Dodge, trustee of the two women’s trust, according to the suit. The claim alleges Elder was negligent when he crossed over into Daly’s lane and struck her vehicle.

“Stuart Elder was negligently, carelessly, recklessly or in some other actionable manner driving the Cadillac Escalade under the influence of alcohol after spending the afternoon at the Pebble Beach Food & Wine festival,” the suit contends.

Stuart Elder Sued

One Phony P.G. Contractor Gets Arrested

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Has to be more than one out there that got away.

Danny Jess Langley was sentenced on 11 felonies and 10 misdemeanors to an “executed suspended sentence” of eight years, which was suspended for five years. He was subsequently placed on probation.

The 11 felonies included premium insurance fraud, five counts of using a false contractor’s license, filing a false document, grand theft, forgery and failing to register as an employing unit. The 10 misdemeanors included two counts of failure to secure workers’ compensation insurance, five counts of contracting without a license, two counts of advertising as a contractor and failure to observe a stop-work order.

One Phony P.G. Contractor Gets Arrested

Rainwater Will Pollute The Ocean?

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Sarah Hardgrave. Isn’t she gone yet?

The storm runoff water might be an environmental danger if it is diluted into the Pacific Ocean, but would be safe to spray into the air where people play golf and wildlife live. Can’t come up with anything kookier than that, eco-freaks.

The city is looking at recycling storm water runoff because last year, the State Water Resources Board redefined storm water runoff as waste water for parts of the coastline designated as Areas of Special Biological Significance or ASBS. The city immediately applied for and received an exception that buys it some time.

Hardgrave says, “And the exception says storm water is waste and you can only discharge it if it is not having an effect on the natural water quality of the ocean in the near shore within the ASBS.”

Tests are now being conducted to see if storm water really does pollute the ocean. But even if the tests find the water does not pollute, the city still faces skyrocketing costs of watering its golf course and cemetery.

Rainwater Will Pollute The Ocean?

Truck Fire On Eighth Street An Arson?

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Narrow street, lucky no homes caught fire.

A vehicle fire at 10 p.m. Sunday involving a 2000 Ford F-150 extended-cab pickup is being investigated as a possible arson, according to the Pacific Grove Police Department.

PG Police and Monterey Fire responded to the fire on the 200 block of Eighth Street in Pacific Grove and found the pick-up fully engulfed in flames.

Truck Fire On Eighth Street An Arson?

Peppers Mexicali Cafe So Hot It Catches On Fire

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Clean those grease filters!

Jim Brown, a division chief for the Monterey Fire Department, said the fire broke out in a flue designed to carry exhaust and grease away from the stove at Peppers.

“Those flues can get a buildup of grease inside, and sometimes the grease catches fire, which is what happened today,” Brown said. “The initial knockdown of the fire was from the outside of the restaurant, and we actually cut the flue pipe open to get to the seed of the fire.”

Peppers Mexicali Cafe So Hot It Catches On Fire