Drew Brees, Brittany Brees

Mina Brees had a famously strained relationship with her famous son, Drew Brees, quarterback for the New Orleans Saints. When she was running for a Texas appeals court seat in 2006 she used her son’s pictures in her television commercials. Drew Brees asked her to stop using him as an endorsement, which she did immediately. She replaced the ads and stated she didn’t anticipate using his image in her campaign would upset him. That wasn’t the first incident, however. Drew had stated publicly that his relationship with his mother was ‘nonexistent’ since about 2000 when he refused to use her as his agent.

Mina Brees died on August 7, 2009 while visiting her son Reid, and staying at a friend’s house in Granby near Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Following an autopsy and toxicology testing, her death has now been ruled a suicide by overdose of prescription drugs. The announcement was made by Grand County coroner Brenda Bock. She was 59-years-old and a prominent attorney in Austin, Texas. At one time she had been president of the Austin Bar Association.

Shortly before her death, Brees had been subpoenaed by the Texas attorney general’s office for her business records. It’s alleged that she sent letters to restaurants in Austin and Houston informing them they had lost their rights to use their names to a company she represented. In the letter, she told the restaurant owners they could win back their rights to their business names by paying up to $25,000. She didn’t mention in the letter that she was the president of the company, Chicksports, Inc. or that the corporation was based out of her offices. The Texas Restaurant Association alerted the restaurant owners that they did not have to pay to maintain rights to their business names.

Now that Mini Brees death has been ruled suicide it puts to rest speculation and questions as to how and why Drew Brees’ mother died. Hopefully, it will give the family some peace.

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The story is that Randolph Forde asked a 16 year old student of his if he was gay. The altercation escalated in the coming days to the point where he reportedly asked a fellow student to “put a hit” on the supposedly gay student.

The mother is named Marcia Killebrew but the alleged victim’s name has not been identified. He was removed from the school by his parents after the incident until Forde was arrested.

Read more about the story here and here and here.

In his defense, a lawyer has suggested that Randolph Forde was just kidding, and that the student is only complaining after getting in trouble for behavioral problems. The incident was just talk meant to be a joke. Sounds like a testosterone thing.

Forde was arrested and charged with terrorist threats for his question and alleged hit. He was released on bond and put on administrative leave from the school.

We cannot know the truth of the Clayton teacher charged for putting a “gay hit” on a student. Like most stories there is probably more to it than meets the eye.

See the video below and tell us what you think.

Read below about how Ronald Hunt was caught faking a disability on TV and see how you too can join unscrupulous people throughout the country by faking a disability below.

According to this report, Ronald Hunt was collecting disability pay for nearly three years before he was discovered. During those three years he collected nearly $150,000 on top of the nearly $400,000 he earned as an interior designer.

This story, states that Hunt plead guilty to two felony counts of fraud.

Ronald Hunt, 56, of Los Angeles was sentenced Tuesday to 200 hours of community service and ordered to pay more than $180,000 in restitution, unpaid taxes and fines. He pleaded guilty to two felony counts of fraud.

I sure hope the community service involves lots and lots of manual labor, preferably involving a shovel of some sort. It’s almost too bad that the chain gang isn’t in effect in California, but I guess that would make people feel bad about being locked up and we know that it’s against the law to feel bad about something in California.

So, how did he get caught? This is the best part. The story goes that an employee of the insurance company that was paying Hunt’s benefits saw Ronald Hunt on an HGTV show where he was doing some design work. After the employee realized who Hunt was, and that he sure did not look disabled, he contacted the State Department of Insurance, and charges were pressed.

It kind of makes me wonder if he saw this commercial and that’s what gave him the idea to fake a disability.

So, it looks like this time crime didn’t pay for Ronald Hunt, caught faking a disability on TV, and then getting spotted by someone who works for the insurance company that is paying his claim. I mean, really, talk about your unlucky day. I mean who even watches HGTV these days? The chances of this guy getting caught seem really slim. I guess it was just his time. Anyone want to throw out some punishment suggestions? I’m all ears.

Andreas Forster was a 28-year-old University of Vienna student doing some research on the murders of forced laborers in a forest outside the Austrian village of Deutsch Schuetzen. The massacre of the Hungarian Jewish forced laborers happened during a forced march between Deutsch Schuetzen and Hartberg on March 29, 1945. During his research, Forster found documents that implicated Adolf Storms in the massacre leading to the 90-year-old former train-station manager being charged in the horrific execution of 58 Jews during the desperate death march.

Storms was an SS sergeant with the 5th SS Panzer Division ‘Wikings’, General Felix Steiner. His division had been fighting on the Eastern Front. As the war was coming to a close, the division began a march towards Austria in an attempt to surrender to the Americans rather than to fall into the hands of the Russians. It was during this march that the SS division decided to rid themselves of evidence of their war crimes. Apparently to them that meant ridding themselves of the Hungarian Jews who had been forced into slave labor with their unit. A mass grave was dug in the forest outside of Deutsch Schuetzen. They then took them out into the forest in groups, turn over their belongings and valuables and kneel by the grave. The prisoners were then shot in the back of the head. This process was repeated until 57 had been killed.

It’s what happened the next day that may be the crux of the case against Adolf Storms. He is alleged to have shot and killed one of the forced laborers who fell behind in the march. There are still living witnesses to that murder while there are none to testify about the mass murder. The trial for those murders will be based on court documents from other trials related to the massacre.

Forster happened upon Storms name in documentation about the Hitler Youth unit that was tasked with digging the mass grave. He then found Storms name in documentation of other trials related to the massacre. Several of the former Hitler Youth have given testimony related to Storms involvement in the murder that occurred on Good Friday, October 30, 1945.

Storms was taken into custody by the Americans and held in an American Prisoner of War camp after the war. He was released in 1946. He is said to have changed the spelling of his name and worked as a train-station manager until he retired in the village of Duisburg where he still lives. Storms admits to being a sergeant in the 5th SS Panzer Division ‘Wiking’, but says he has no memory of the massacre.

The site of the massacre was discovered in 1995. The victims were given a proper burial by the Austrian Jewish Association and a plaque was placed at the site of the mass grave.

A Duisburg court will decide if there is enough evidence to try ex-SS Adolf Storms as a Nazi war criminal.

With all of the regulations coming out of Washington under the Obama administration it is no wonder they are trying to solve a problem that nobody knows exists. Who has ever had to pay a fee when using a gift card or had any problem other than the company going out of business? Comments are welcome.

The new Federal Reserve rules would require that the terms of use of gift cards be clear and that the cards would not prompt hidden costs when the customer attempts to redeem them. Anyone every had that problem? Me neither.

One of the things targeted by the gift card crackdown are expiration dates contained in the fine print in the bottom of the card or back. We are all accustomed to expiration dates, but the federal government is proposing that they can never be less than five years from the date the card was issued. That is a really bad idea for a new store attempting to get name recognition.

Another part of the gift card crackdown would ban any fees within the first year of using a card, and only small fees allowed after-wards. Some companies charge $2 to $5 per month for dormant unused cards, apparently as a way to deplete the liability off the company’s books. If you’ve paid a fee to use a gift card tell us your story.

Lastly, there will be greater disclosure required of the terms, which means more fine print to read. All of these regulations will add more costs for companies issuing gift cards, which means choices will be restricted and they will begin to charge fees to the purchaser of the gift cards rather than the users of them. The $50 billion dollar gift card industry will shrink which means loss of jobs and consumer choice. This is the unintended consequence of government doing too much.

Onerous regulations are the order of the day as our government regulates more and more of our lives. The gift card crackdown appears to be another example of our federal government run amok.

Shaniya’s body was found near Walker Road, in the area of Highway 87 in North Carolina. Read more about this tragic story and the circumstances surrounding how Shaniya Davis, found dead in North Carolina, went missing. Check out the video well.

According to reports, here, here, and here, authorities had received “reliable information” which lead them to the body of Shaniya Davis. Shaniya’s mother is also facing felony child abuse charges, prostitution charges, and a charge for filing a false police report. She is alleged to have sold Shanyia as a prostitute. You have to be one sick individual to think that sex with a five year old little girl is anything but completely and totally evil. Mario McNeill was reportedly spotted on a Hotel surveillance camera with the girl and he has been charged in her murder.

CBS News is reporting:

Antoinette Davis is scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon. Police said that arrest documents say that she “knowingly provide[d] Shaniya Davis with the intent that she be held in sexual servitude” and she “permit[ted] an act of prostitution.”

There is nothing more vile, and evil, that I can think of but to sell your own five year old daughter into prostitution. I don’t think anyone can argue otherwise. A life sentence for these two is being too lenient if these two are found guilty.

So, Shaniya Davis, found dead in North Carolina, appears to have been used as a prostitute and was sold to some of the most vile individuals around. Anyone who is willing to sell there own five year old little girl into prostitution does not ever deserve to see the light of day again. Locked in a cell 24 hours a day, seven days a wekk, 365 days a year, and no chance of release, would be too good for anyone found to have participated in the murder of little Shaniya. She did not deserve to die, and especially did not deserve to be sold into sexual slavery by her own mother. I would be okay with the death penalty in a case like this. What do you all believe would be an appropriate punishment now the Shaniya Davis, found dead in North Carolina, won’t be coming home?

He is listed as #41 on the Forbes list of 500 most powerful people in the world, one of two Mexicans on the list. The other is a respectable business man, perhaps signaling the blending of cultures in Mexico between crime and business.

As a biography Joaquin Guzman is nicknamed El Chapo which is Spanish for ”Shorty.” Hard to believe that he likes that nickname since nobody scary should be called Shorty. He was born April 4, 1957 which makes him only 52 years old.

But scary he is as the head of the head of the Sinaloa cartel, a drug-trafficking organization unparalleled in Mexico. They are responsible for smuggling billions of dollars of cocaine and other narcotics into the United States each year, which has landed El Chapo, Joaquin Guzman on Forbes list three times. Aye yi yi yi.

Joaquin Guzman has been at the center of the Mexican government’s anti-drug trafficking crackdown which as sparked two years of horrific violence south of the border. At this point it is unclear who is winning except we know that the tourism trade is losing. Fear of violence is keeping Americans from traveling to Mexico.

To continue his biography Joaquin Guzman escaped from a Mexican prison in 2001. He was on orders for deportation to the United States since everyone figured he would bribe his way out of prison in Mexico. Sure enough rumor is that guards helped him escape in a laundry truck. He has been on the country’s most wanted list since then, managing to marry an 18 year old bride while on the run.

So there you have it. Joaquin Guzman, Forbes, and the most powerful people in the world. Does he belong on this list? See the video and tell us your thoughts.

Ready more about this story below and see a video about the decision made by the state of Ohio to change the method of lethal injection from the three drug cocktail to a single drug method.

The United State Supreme Court had previously ruled that the three drug cocktail method was humane and that was not cruel and unusual. The three drug cocktail works by first rendering the prisoner unconscious, secondly paralyzing the prisoner, and third causing a fatal cardiac arrest. Critics argue that if the first drug is not administered correctly then death occurs very slowly, and painfully.

According to this report, regarding the Supreme Court’s ruling on the three drug lethal injection method:

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injection last year, but Ohio’s new system is substantially different from the three-drug process the court examined. In its ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts briefly addressed the prospect of using a single sedative in a dose large enough to cause death.

The one-drug method, Roberts said, ”has problems of its own, and has never been tried by a single state.”

It was concern about the three drug method that caused Ohio to switch to single drug lethal injection execution
methods. The single drug method amounts to an overdose of anesthesia and is used in veterinary applications as well.

The problem with the switch to the single drug method is that it has never been used on humans. This is going to give death-penalty opponents some ground to stand on regarding the method because the Supreme Court specifically addressed this issue in the previous ruling regarding a method that the Court has already approved.

So, the decision by Ohio to switch to single drug lethal injection execution methods is going to cause controversy. It is anticipated that the method will be in place prior to a scheduled execution on November 30. Plan on a number of suits being filed to stop the next execution. It will be interesting to see exactly how this will play out in the courts. What do you think? Is the current three drug cocktail sufficient or should states move towards a single drug execution method? Regardless of your thoughts on capital punishment the Supreme Court has declared that it it not a violation of the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment and it doesn’t look like this is going to be overturned given the makeup of the current court.

Read more about how Jerome O’Hara and George Perez’s names were given to the federal investigators and what role the pair is accused of playing in the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme.

According to reports, here, the information used to file charges against the two was based upon an informant’s tip.

The complaint relies heavily on inside information provided by Madoff’s chief financial officer, Frank DiPascali, who is cooperating after pleading guilty in August.

Of course their defense attorneys are going to have a heyday with the fact that DiPascali is facing sentencing, and I’m sure the argument is going to be that DiPascali is going to throw anyone he can under the bus for a lighter sentence. Bail was set for the pair at $1 million. Authorities are also trying to seize O’Hara’s home because it was claimed that he used his profits from the scheme to purchase the home.

The two programmers were arrested at their homes and will face multiple charges for generating the false investment reports that were used to keep the scam running. When the pair went to Madoff in 2006 and threatened to go to the authorities with details of the scam they were both paid $60,000 and given 25% raises in exchange for their continued silence.

The video below explains the fraud and how Madoff scammed thousands of investors. Jerome O’Hara and George Perez are accused of helping perpetuate the scam.

Jerome O’Hara and George Perez, in addition to criminal charges have also been served with a civil complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange Committee. All in all it was not a good day for the former Madoff computer programmers charged with multiple criminal charges related to the multi-billion dollar Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme. Hopefully the authorities can get to the bottom of this scam and will be able to recover some of the billions of dollars lost by innocent investors throughout the nation.

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Sherene has some medical issues and has apparently stopped taking her medication. Without the medication she becomes disoriented and easily confused. The missing and endangered person report was filed Monday night with the Salt Lake County Sheriff. She called home from Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday and asked for a bus ticket home. A bus ticket was purchased and she was supposed to arrive home on Thursday, but she was not on the bus and hasn’t been heard from since. After it was discovered that she was in Phoenix a missing persons report was also filed with the Phoenix Police.

Sherene Reese Davis is 38 years old, 5′5″ tall, approximately 130 lbs, with brown shoulder length hair. There is a possibility that she is at a homeless shelter in Phoenix. She may be wearing her work uniform, with a shirt that says Taco Time. Sherene may be disoriented or confused about where she is or whether she needs help. If anyone in the Phoenix, Arizona area happens to see Sherene please call the Phoenix Police Department at (602) 262-7626 or simply call 911. We just want her home safe and sound.