Los Angeles—James Fayed is due to appear befor U.S. District Court Magistrate Ralph Zarefsky at 2:00 PM for initial appearance on a single count Indictment that was unsealed today. Although bail must be set I suspect that prosecutors may seek an order from the assigned trial judge to freeze Fayed’s assets because of the certainty of future asset forfeiture proceedings. That may make posting bail or paying lawyers difficult or impossible for Fayed. Sources told me the LAPD is keeping Fayed’s booking photo under wraps at least until they can complete showing witnesses a photo line-up so not to taint the identification process. That makes it quite clear that Fayed is a “Person of Interest” if not a suspect in his wife, Pamela Fayed’s murder. Updated! Click here for the very latest information on this investigation Here is a copy of Fayed’s Indictment. Fayed - Goldfinger indictment[1] - Upload a Document to Scribd Read this document on Scrib...

Landstuhl, Germany --The U.S. Army Hospital Landstuhl Is Ground Zero for all American military heroes seriously wounded in combat. Arriving here means these kids have lost their limbs or suffered painful and permanent disabilities for doing what your fellow Americans asked them to do. I don’t give a rat’s ass what anyone thinks of our involvement in this or any war. These boys and girls with broken bodies are our very own children. Barack Obama snubbed our own heroes for an international “rock Star” style photo-op with everyone but those who suffered in the service of our country. I for one can’t stand the Idea of this bum holding the office of Commander in Chief. Barak Obama’s disrespect for our wounded soldiers is absolutely unforgivable. It beyond shocking to see so many young allegedly educated American’s supporting Obama for President. Too many of our schools have obviously failed our children.

Century City, CA.-- Tomorrow morning a U.S. District Court Magistrate is going to have no choice but to release James Fayed on bail. Fayed is in the Ventura County Jail in connection with the about to be unsealed Indictment related to securities sale violations involving Goldfinger Coin and Bullion Sales or a second Internet business, e-Bullion. This prosecution was rushed because police are convinced that Fayed either murdered his wife Pamela Fayed or orchestrated the crime. There is little doubt that James Fayed had the motive, means and opportunity to kill his wife. The LAPD detectives need time to analyze the mountains of data and evidence they’ve seized while serving search warrants. I’m convinced that evidence of any accomplices to the crime will or has already been found in the seized material. If any accomplices have a brain they will run at once to a good lawyer, and have that lawyer get them immunity from prosecution in exchange for their testimony . Prosecutors wou...

Ventura County, CA -On Thursday, July 31 I made a prediction on this blog. This of course involves the brutal stabbing death of 44 year-old Pamela Fayed on the third floor of a Century City parking garage. The exact quote was, “If there is the slightest amount of probable cause for criminal fraud you can count on law enforcement pulling that trigger and arresting James Fayed just to lift his passport if for no other reason pending any trial. Let me go out on a limb and predict that a quick arrest unrelated to murder is in the cards.” The L.A. Times has just reported the arrest of James Fayed by FBI agents in connection with business irregularities involving, Goldfinger Coin and Bullion Sales and a second Internet business, e-Bullion . Last night Law enforcement officers executed search warrants of Fayed’s Moorpark home and business locations. Fayed was arrested and is being housed without bail in the Ventura County Jail pending his appearance before a U.S. District Court Magistr...

Chicago— If you own an unregistered handgun, today you’re safe. If you don’t have a Firearm Owner’s Identification Card now there’s no need to worry. As long as you’re not prohibited by any other law to own firearms you will escape being convicted of anything. There are serious issues of FIOD card applications disclosing two incriminating things. One is that you reside within the City limits of Chicago and two that you probably own a gun in violation of the city gun ban. The state FIOD process violates Chicago handgun owner’s rights against self-incrimination. Of course you were prohibited from registering a handgun by that unconstitutional city gun ban. As long as you live in Chicago under current laws you need not have an FIOD or worry about the gun ban. If Chicago by a new law demands and does not block your registration of handguns you will then have to get that FIOD card and register your gun with the city for sure. Lots of people will escape prosecution until the City of ...

Hollywood --Humans have a fetish to peer into the lives of those who are exposed in the various media outlets. Those movie star rags you see at supermarket checkout stands are big business. If you become famous or infamous you will have your privacy compromised in a big way. It comes with the territory. Entertainers need publicity and exposure or to get respect as money makers. Hollywood’s top talent agencies don’t care about those that don’t get media attention. Fame nearly always leads to wealth except for axe murderers and there are even a few exceptions here too. The trick is to be famous for your art form or product. If you can manage that then your publicity stays limited to what you’re producing. The amount of people rummaging through your trash or following you with cameras outside of special events, are reduced. Magazine covers sell lots of movie theater tickets and music. So do stories about the famous. The truth is that photographers and tabloid writers get paid a...

Chicago--Mayor Richard M. Daley may finally be seeing the Light. He appears to be backing off his plan to fight rolling back the city’s unconstitutional handgun ban. Daley knows any continued fight will cost the city untold millions in legal fees and civil damages paid to unlawfully arrested gun owners. Daley’s really in a no win situation and has no choice but to look for a new approach to curb violence. Daley has expressed concerns for first responders to violence calls and wants some rules. The problem is only the reasonable and law abiding folks will follow rules. Criminals don’t follow rules. There is one way for the city to deal with concerns and that’s though bringing gun safety education to Chicago’s gun owners. That’s simple enough. Daley can and should call on the world’s greatest firearm training resource, The National Rifle Association. Daley needs to get facilities open in Chicago for training civilians about safety, the laws and liabilities of the justifiable use of...

Homeland security announced their new policy to put American travelers through yet another level of assault, insult and privacy invasion. The late Director of Nazi Germany’s own version of Homeland Security, SS Administrator , Heinrich Himmler certainly would have coveted this kind of tool for the Third Reich. Traveling with electronic storage devices? Lap tops, cameras, Ipods, Blackberrys, cell phone and items not yet invented are waiting for total data inspection by Homeland Security agents. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco says the government needs no search warrants or probable cause to believe a crime is involved. Government officials are now free to simply confiscate and copy your information and share it all with any and every other government agency. There can be no question that America’s Thought Police have arrived and are in business. Our judges simply refuse to protect our rights under the Fourth Amendment anymore. We need not submit to this like sheep...

Century City, CA --The L.A. Times is reporting that the FBI is involved in an investigation of James and Pamela Fayed's gold trading business. The investigation was underway at the time of Pamela Fayed’s murder. In high octane divorces such as Fayed’s criminal accusations by one spouse against the other are common. My obvious thought’s go to a really nasty betrayal giving rise to an incredibly volatile motive for murder. James Fayed has retained Los Angeles Criminal lawyer Mark J Werksman and it's safe to say Fayed is no longer answering any questions posed by law enforcement. If there is the slightest amount of probable cause for criminal fraud you can count on law enforcement pulling that trigger and arresting James Fayed just to lift his passport if for no other reason pending any trial. Let me go out on a limb and predict that a quick arrest unrelated to murder is in the cards. Updated! Click here for the very latest information on this investigation Here’s what the L....

Los Angeles, CA .—This time it will all be a lot different. The second murder trial of Phil Spector may not be continually broadcast. Court TV is no longer covering high profile trials under their new direction and name, Tru-TV . Other TV news outlets are very unlikely to provide full-time trial broadcast crews. One reason is local and national news directors feel the public does not really care about these high profile trials. Another reason is the budgets for such coverage no longer exist since TV viewers have fled the medium in droves. Court TV provided a cheap Internet Feed of the first trial to KTLA-TV and KNBC-TV . With the help of a streaming video broadcast both KTLA -TV and KNBC-TV were able cover the entire trial on their websites. The KTLA-TV effort was anchored by veteran reporter Marta Waller and various lawyers used co-anchors. KTLA-TV also ran a Court TV style Internet forum that became more of a gossip outlet for those who hated Phil Spector. Over all KTLA-TV and Mart...

Century City, CA—Pamela Goudie Fayed, 44 of Camarillo in Ventura County was stabbed to death Monday evening in an nearby parking structure of the Century City Mall . Witnesses heard the victim’s blood-chilling loud screams that echoed throughout the mall until her last breath. Century City Mall area is a place where crime is the exclusive province of some upscale shoplifters and a few dishonest store employees. This is as safe a place as can be found around any trendy mall. These types of crimes are unheard of where the high fashion ladies spend huge amounts of money so they dress and look wonderful. I can’t help but wonder what Fayed needed for that extraordinary look for a special event in her second coming as a divorcee? The mother of two children was there for a reason. Maybe she was there for something more mundane. She was at a building located at at 1875 Century Park East, that houses officers for lawyers, accountants, movie producers and others. Perhaps Fayed was there to take...

Joliet, IL --In a ruling handed down this morning by Will County, Circuit Court Judge Richard Schoenstedt he refused to dismiss a felony Indictment against retired Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson for, Unlawful Use of a Weapon. The issue is the length of the barrel on Peterson’s Colt, AR-15 rifle he used in connection with duty on the department’s SWAT Team. The Illinois State Police claimed the barrel was 3/8 on an inch too short of the required 16 inches for civilian ownership. Apparently the judge did not agree with defense lawyer Joel Brodsky’s position that a federal law in fact allowed such possession. The ruling came after a motion made last month by Peterson’s lawyer to dismiss the allegation based on a federal law that allows such weapons to be in possession of police officers. Now this case moves into the discovery phase and it’s expected that the defense will seek to have Peterson’s rifle examined and measured by a firearms expert. I have repeatedly report...

Los Angeles --The L.A. City Council has stepped in to control the diet and nutritional choices for residents of certain poor neighborhoods. The council was concerned about obesity and all those diseases that are enabled through poor nutrition. Yesterday, they banned new fast food restaurants in or near poor neighborhoods. I’m trying to figure out why only folks in the poor neighborhoods are worthy of having the food police? Perhaps the concerned folks on the City Council could bring more laws that would mandate good table manners and brushing teeth after every meal while they’re at it. What makes politicians believe they must interfere with absolutely every aspect of our lives? Where in the Constitution did they suggest America’s free enterprise needed to be strangled by red tape, regulations and outright bans? With the unlimited lawmaking ability of city councils, county, state and state federal government we will soon have killed every tree in America to make enough law books. Is thi...

Los Angeles 11:42 AM .–Being in a multiple story building while the building begins shaking is unsettling. I’m always prepared for any emergency but felt foolish that I was wasting time looking for my wallet, keys, cell phone and gun so I could escape a potential disaster. Quick! I need my laptop and cameras! There’s no time! Had this been a big one I was toast and knew it. The building went up and down numerous times before it began to rock back and forth. It seemed like little more than 2 minutes but soon the quake slowed down and stopped and that gave me hope. I also knew the odds were slim that this was going to hit really big. After a deep breath and a quick phone call I went outside and saw the wide smiles of people, mostly UCLA students that were glad to be alive and not dealing with property damage. At this time we all seem safe and things are getting back to normal. I can’t help but wonder how they weathered this quake at the downtown L.A. pre-trial hearing of record ...

We in America were protected by our brilliant founding fathers better than most will ever realize. We have a Bill of Rights that most folks don’t really know about or think are only protections for serial killers. A regular visitor to this blog was just sworn in as a citizen. He is a refugee from the United Kingdom. He sought citizenship because he admired our freedom that exists in few countries on this planet. He sent me a link to a Tucson, AZ blog link, Disloyal Opposition . I got a lot of questions as a firearm instructor about cooperating with police after someone justifiably shoots another in self-defense. I put an entire half-hour into my presentation to cover this subject. I always get lots of argument about my instructions to students about the four words I tell them to say, “I want a lawyer.” The emotionally charged critics of my advice tell me, “No! Tell the cops you shot him because you were in fear of your life!” Confession to the police that it was you who shot that...

We Americans are so candyassed and super-sensitive about such terms as Nigger, Kike, Slope, Wop, Spick, Polack and Mick. You can call people the most vile of insulting names and nobody cares until race is involved. The question I have is who is more ignorant, the person using the words or those reacting or more often over-reacting to them. I’m not sure why that too many African-Americans use the ‘N” word on each other but absolutely go bananas when they hear that word said by members of other races. Fighting words? Hardly, just pure and simple bad taste. Civilized folks avoid those words. These are only words and we give these words and those who use them raw power they don’t deserve. If people would stop programming themselves to be offended and remember the, Sticks and Stones” rhyme instead the nasty racial epithets those ugly words would soon disappear.

Los Angeles— Yes, I do serious criminal defense investigations along with other endeavors. When I’m retained to work on a defendant’s behalf I’m on the side of exploiting reasonable doubt and mitigating despicable acts that people do. I prefer the matters where a client is innocent any day and there are an abundance of them to handle. If I’m retained on a criminal case I cannot also blog about it. No defense lawyer would allow that and when it was discovered any judge would impose one of those rare gag orders. The defense attorneys would be very unhappy about that. As for those high profile criminal cases I showcase here are for the most part matters where reasonable doubt and serious questions of innocence are very real. Private investigators like me exist for one simple reason; people lie and do so freely even while under oath in courtrooms. That includes government witnesses and people designated by police as victims. Our job is to learn the truth for our clients so it can be ...

Bollingbrook, IL-- I received a comment from one of the Illinois State Police self described informants, Len Wawczak . Wawczak claimed that he and his wife used Illinois State Police eavesdropping equipment during a seven month period to somehow implicate, retired Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson in the mysterious disappearance of his fourth wife Stacy Peterson. For obvious reasons I can’t reprint his remarks for the libelous statements and gratuitous profanity contained in the response. Here is an excerpt from his comment where Wawczak defends his Bankruptcy with an explanation that is in no way supported in the official court records. Here is the excerpt: “I would like to talk about the bankruptcy for a few though , if anyone knows anything about filing bankruptcy then you would know that my case was filed May 11th 2004 and dismissed July 14th 2004 ( 2 months later ) that's not even long enough to do a chapter 13 which by the way is a pay-back plan ( so I had plans on ...

I have wondered what it would be like for Drew Peterson’s Children to be caught in the middle of the investigation and search for Stacy Peterson. I think we can all agree that no child deserves punishment for what their parents are merely suspected of doing. With respect to Peterson’s children the government ‘s conduct must be reigned in somehow. I personally take no position on the guilt or innocence of Drew Peterson for any crime. America’s presumption of innocence is something that I’m thankful about. It’s the hallmark of a free country along with free speech and the right to keep and bear arms. If police can establish a crime and probable cause to make an arrest that is their mission that we all must respect. A suspect’s Due Process rights to a fair trial will follow. Proven guilt will be punished under our justice system. During an interview with Peterson's lawyer, Joel Brodsky he expressed concerns about continuing police conduct and the emotional damage that's being in...

Click on scene picture to enlarge. Bolingbrook, IL .—Self -described Illinois State Police informant, Len Wawczak is in custody of Bolingbrook police after he was arrested for battery on Drew Peterson outside the Hydrogliphics barber shop on Schmidt Rd in Bolingbrook just walking distance from Peterson’s home, The attacked happened shortly before 2:00 PM. Witnesses claimed to have seen the "wired" informant attack Peterson while Peterson's back was turned. Reportedly neither Peterson nor his attacker required emergency medical treatment. Wawczak should be eligible for release on the standard $1000.00 bail after he completes the booking process and his fingerprint clears a standard warrant check. Update: Bolingbrok police have asked the Will County State'sAttorney for approval of felony charges. If they are approved the bail must be set by a judge in Joliet before Wawczak can be released. Second update: Bollingbrook police have infact charged Wawczak with a sing...