One of the considerations in the stadium-subsidy brouhaha is seldom on the table: how enthusiastic a sports-fan city is San Diego? It's well known that outdoor participation sports such as golfing, surfing, and hiking often …
September 8, 2015
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Stories by Don Bauder (RIP)
San Diego as sports fans' city: so-so
SEC kicks Ray Lucia's "Buckets of Money" ploy
San Diego radio host Ray Lucia Sr. has lost his appeal of the action by the Securities and Exchange Commission to ban him from the investment business. The appeal was heard August 6 by the …
September 7, 2015
Lawyer Carrillo won't fight charges
On September 2, a New York law firm sent an unusual letter to a judge in the Southern District of New York. The letter stated that San Diego attorney Luis Carrillo will no longer fight …
September 7, 2015
Divorce of a billionaire (cont'd)
In a decision that was issued August 31, the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, has sent the well-publicized divorce of Charles and Linda Brandes, who separated in 2004, back to the trial court. In …
September 6, 2015
Doctor enjoyed 'shrooms and ecstasy
Two San Diego physicians, Jason Roman Hess and Bret Robert Gerber, have been given probation by the Medical Board of California in decisions that became effective August 27. Hess was given five years of probation. …
September 5, 2015
Beat up in La Jolla? Or posturing for money?
Martin Chitwood has been cleared by a jury on charges brought by Carol Chitwood. UPDATE ON THIS CASE Carol Chitwood sued Martin Chitwood in San Diego Superior Court for allegedly pulling her hair, punching her …
September 4, 2015
New convention center study likely to fail test
The consulting firm of Convention, Sports and Leisure International has come out with a $90,000 study telling San Diego that if it builds a contiguous convention-center expansion, it will gain $157.1 million in direct convention-attendee …
September 3, 2015
USD’s Frank Partnoy might scare you
Can one trust the accounting of the big banks? Take a guess.
September 2, 2015
San Diegans cause Southwest Airlines plane diversion
A Southwest Airlines plane en route from San Diego to Chicago was diverted to Amarillo yesterday (August 31) because of alleged misbehavior of six San Diego area residents. They were taken off the plane by …
September 1, 2015
Good/bad news in Manchester world
Manchester Texas Financial Group of Austin, Texas, headed by Douglas W. Manchester, son of Douglas F. ("Papa Doug") Manchester, has enjoyed some good news. Manchester Texas is building a $350 million convention center hotel in …
August 31, 2015
Sharp rebuked
A wrongful-termination suit that had been thrown out by a Superior Court judge was reinstated in August by the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District. Karen Nosal-Tabor, a registered nurse who formerly worked in the …
August 30, 2015
Former UCAN founder wins lawsuit
Michael Shames yesterday (August 27) won a lawsuit filed against him by the Utility Consumers Action Network (UCAN), which he had cofounded. UCAN had filed suit claiming that Shames owed it $450,000. By 11 to …
August 28, 2015
Iranian national sentenced in San Diego
Arash Ghahreman, a naturalized United States citizen and former Iranian national, yesterday (August 27) was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for his role in a scheme to purchase marine navigation and …
August 28, 2015
San Diego: Tech City, U.S.A., babies
Technology accounted for 11.1 percent of San Diego County jobs last year but 22 percent of total wages, according to a new study by Kelly Cunningham, economist for the National University System Institute for Policy …
August 27, 2015
How will Qualcomm layoffs affect SD area?
The head-chopping at Qualcomm may not be a total disaster.
August 26, 2015
One San Diego bad boy sentenced, one released
Alfred Louis "Bobby" Vassallo, perpetrator of telecom scams, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison in federal court in the Central District of California on August 24. The onetime La Jollan had …
August 25, 2015
Less than two years for swiping $1 million
Almost a year after pleading guilty, Holli Dawn Coulman, who was an executive assistant to a senior vice president at the Rancho Bernardo operations of Hewlett-Packard, today (August 24) was sentenced to 21 months in …
August 24, 2015
San Diego biotechs bathe in stock market blood
United States stocks plunged between 3.5 percent and 4 percent today (August 24), continuing a selloff that began in early June. Stocks are dropping all around the world; the slaughter has knocked off $10 trillion …
August 24, 2015
Retire in San Diego! Juuust kidding.
One of the myths about San Diego County is that it is a great place to retire — wonderful climate, lots of golf courses, etc. To be sure, the county was once a retirement haven …
August 24, 2015
Ex-CPA Anton Ewing visits familiar grounds: court
On August 31, 2013, Anton Ewing lost his CPA license. According to Patti Bowers, executive officer for the California Board of Accountancy, Ewing was disciplined because he had pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy …
August 21, 2015
San Diego unemployment rate rises
The San Diego County unemployment rate rose to 5.4 percent in July, up from a revised 5.0 percent in June. The county lost 1900 jobs in the month, according to the California Employment Development Department. …
August 21, 2015
La Mesa broker suspended for forgery
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which regulates brokerage firms and brokers selling securities in the United States, has fined Robert Earl Holaday of La Mesa $10,000 and suspended him from association with FINRA members …
August 20, 2015
Banned boy of business talk radio
Jacob Cooper, head of Total Wealth Management and former host of a KOGO radio show, Uncommon Wealth, on Monday (August 17) was banned from the securities industry by the chief administrative law judge of the …
August 20, 2015
Stephen P./Steven J. Corso's name game interrupted
"Steven John Corso and Stephen P. Corso are the Same Person." Thus states a headline in a memorandum of law sent out by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday (August 17). In 2009, Stephen …
August 18, 2015
Petco goes public for third time
This old dog is not learning new tricks. Petco, the San Diego–based pet supplies retailer, yesterday (August 17) announced plans to go public for the third time, but the company itself will get no proceeds …
August 18, 2015
San Diego citizenry could be smarter
WalletHub, the statistics aggregator that reports on cities, metro areas, and states, says San Diego is 38th among 150 metro areas in education of its citizenry. The study looked at percent of adults aged 25 …
August 17, 2015
Sell, sell, sell that Tribune Publishing stock
Douglas Manchester on Wednesday (August 12) filed a shelf registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the possible sale of the stock he received when Tribune Publishing bought the Union-Tribune from him in May. …
August 14, 2015
El Cajon dentist's Chicago misfortune
On July 27, El Cajon dentist Husam Aldairi filed a suit in federal court against Gus Dahleh. According to the suit, Dahleh "has contacted [Aldairi's] wife and falsely informed her that [Aldairi] had engaged in …
August 13, 2015
And the drug war droned on and on
El Centro residents Jonathan Elias and Bryan Valle pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday (August 11) to bringing in 28.55 pounds of heroin illegally to the United States. They used drones to bring in the …
August 13, 2015
Polls by Lincoln Club, Chargers diverge widely
Polling results by local pollster John Nienstedt of Competitive Edge, financed by the arch-conservative Lincoln Club, purportedly show that 51 percent of San Diegans support a government subsidy for a Chargers stadium if the gift …
August 13, 2015
Fabiani has a laugh
The high school boy who calls a girl for a date and she says "no!" five times has to learn a lesson: she isn't interested. San Diego city and county leaders have yet to find …
August 10, 2015
U-T finally concedes what everybody knows
The Union-Tribune this morning (August 9) conceded on its editorial page something all but the most rabid Chargers fans already know: the team wants to get to Los Angeles, and its highly publicized attempts to …
August 9, 2015
Fraud suit filed against Edison
A securities fraud lawsuit has been filed in federal court in San Diego against Edison International, parent of Southern California Edison. The suit alleges that Southern California Edison made false and misleading statements about the …
August 7, 2015
Radio star Lucia has lost home; lives with son
San Diego-based, nationally syndicated radio and TV financial personality Ray Lucia Sr. has lost his home, is living with his son, and has suffered a "serious medical setback," according to his attorney, Mark Fagel of …
August 6, 2015
Judge spanks Edison for unreported meetings
Melanie Darling, the California Public Utilities Commission administrative law judge handling the San Onofre decommissioning matter, stated yesterday (August 5) that in the period leading to the decision to stick ratepayers with 70 percent of …
August 6, 2015
Edison didn't provide blackout emails to regulator
The San Diego law firm of Aguirre and Severson on Friday (July 31) filed a lawsuit against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, charging that it has suppressed evidence about the failure of the San Onofre …
August 3, 2015
Murder charged at American Addiction Centers
Today (August 3) the stock of AAC Holdings, a Tennessee-based chain of drug and alcohol addiction treatment centers, plunged by almost 14 percent. But it landed at $32.79, which is more than double the price …
August 3, 2015
San Diego rated 6th best city to live in
WalletHub, which keeps statistics on cities and states, ranks San Diego as 7th best city in which to live among the 62 largest urban centers. Among the factors considered are school systems, percentage of people …
August 3, 2015
"Jamaican" beer not brewed in Jamaica
The San Diego law firm of Robbins Arroyo, representing two local plaintiffs, filed a suit in federal court in San Diego against Diageo, the big London alcoholic beverage firm. It is a putative class action …
August 2, 2015
Lucchino to leave Red Sox in shakeup
Larry Lucchino, the sharp-elbowed executive who helped John Moores line his pockets with a subsidized ballpark, now named Petco Park, will be leaving his job as president of the Boston Red Sox, according to Dan …
August 2, 2015
Papa Doug buys Rhode Island estate
Manchester Financial Group, a limited partnership belonging to former Union-Tribune owner Papa Doug Manchester, has purchased an historic home on the ocean in Newport, Rhode Island, for $15 million, according to the Providence Journal. The …
July 28, 2015
Dr. Seuss gets posthumous front page
At last, the pseudo-controversy over Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" — was it a draft of "To Kill a Mockingbird?" — may move over for a genuine undiscovered book that reveals the author's greatness. …
July 27, 2015
Well-known market manipulator Anthony Elgindy is dead
Anthony Elgindy, 48, who was famous as a short-seller who claimed to be reforming the penny stock market, is dead. He died Thursday, July 23, although the county medical examiner and the sheriff's office have …
July 25, 2015
Animal rights activists arrested for terrorizing fur farms
Animal rights activists Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane were arrested today (July 24) and charged with conspiracy to violate the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. The government seeks their removal to face charges in federal court …
July 24, 2015
His radio show was on wealth; now he will pay $1 million
Up until 2011, La Jolla's George Charles Cody Price had a radio show on KFMB called "The Wealth Weekend Hour." In 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged that on the radio and in …
July 23, 2015
Qualcomm traveling Wall Street's road
Qualcomm, San Diego's largest for-profit, private sector employer, said today it will have a 15-percent company-wide reduction in employment, but it hasn't said how many of those cuts will be in San Diego. The rumor …
July 22, 2015
After 130 years, Daily Transcript going dark
The San Diego Daily Transcript/San Diego Source newspaper is going out of business after almost 130 years. The last paper will be printed September 1 and the company will cease operations three weeks later, according …
July 22, 2015
Ales Spanos – beneficiary of public largesse
The billionaires who get governments to subsidize sports stadiums induce billiousness.
July 22, 2015
No fun to be Qualcomm right now
Possible subhead: Company must announce something tomorrow (Wednesday) Stock of Qualcomm rose 2.12 percent to $65.14 today (July 21) as national media and securities analysts discussed what the company will announce in its conference call …
July 21, 2015