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Gibraltar, and former British colonies Hong Kong, Singa- pore, the Bahamas, Bahrain, and Dubai. But the United States is coming on strong — particularly Nevada, South Dakota, and Wyoming. San Diego has had its
share of offshore bank adventures. Last year, Har- old Bailey (B.J.) Gallison of Valley Center got an 18-year sentence for running a pump-and-dump scheme through offshore entities. Eighteen years is a very long sentence for stock fraud, but Gallison had gone to prison before for a similar offense and had run a penny-stock
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brokerage house that went down ingloriously. The most publicized
offshore caper took place in the 1980s. The late J. David “Jerry” Dominelli and his lover (then named Nancy Hoover) headed a firm named J. David that supposedly specialized in foreign-currency trading. Somehow, Dominelli’s crew persuaded investors that he was a genius at trading cur- rencies. Investors got state- ments indicating that they were making 40 to 50 per- cent a year. But, actually, he lost money when he traded currencies, so he did little of it. J. David was a Ponzi scheme. Early investors were paid off with funds from later investors. When the
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pyramid collapsed, Domi- nelli told investors and the bankruptcy trustee that he had funds in Switzerland, Austria, and the Bahamas. He didn’t. Then Dominelli went off to Montserrat in the Caribbean, promising to launch a currency-trad- ing operation there. But he got arrested. The game was over. Investors lost $80 mil- lion. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison but got out in 10½. He died of a stroke in 2009. Hoover was sentenced to 10 years in prison but got out in 30 months. She then married two men who were genuinely rich (one died). Former San Diego den-
tist L. Donald Guess had a tax-avoidance scheme for doctors and dentists. The tax
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havens he used were in Bar- bados and the British Virgin Islands. He beat the Internal Revenue Service in his first trial but got convicted later for filing false tax returns. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
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is to public higher education,” Mary Ruth Carleton, SDSU vice president for university relations and development said on the school’s website. Other May graduation hon- orees, per Campanile Foun- dation board minutes, will be Harold K. Brown, a San Diego civil rights activist of the 1960s who later became a dean of the school, and Andrea Skorepa, retired Casa Familiar head and onetime city council candidate. ... The fat cats who control the Democratic and Republican parties here are now able to give even more to San Diego city politicos under the latest hike in campaign fundraising limits, which are tied to the consumer price index. Last year’s $10,300 ceiling for contributions by the parties to city-council commit- tees bumps up $400 to $10,700. For mayor and city attorney, the party donation limits are raised by $750 to $21,400, effective February 17. Individuals who yearn to give more to city can- didates are out of luck, however, remaining restricted to $550 for council committees and $1050
for mayor and city attorney, per a February 14 notice on the city’s website.
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side fishermen’s market. At the time, fishermen promised stiff resistance against any proposal that threatened their ability to remain docked at Tuna Harbor. Local developer Gafcon
eventually got the nod to proceed with the redevelop- ment project, which will be named Seaport. “Fishermen have never
asked for anything more [on the waterfront],” Kelly Fukushima, captain of the vessel Three Boys, told a crowd assembled for a Tuna Harbor update organized by the San Diego Food System Alliance on April 13. Kip Howard, president of
Allegis Development, spoke as the representative of Seaport. “Tuna Harbor is the part of the project that we’ve been focusing the most on to date,” Howard told the group. Still, Tuna Harbor is a
relatively small factor in the development, which includes 280,000 square feet of retail space, massive underground parking structures, three hotels, a commercial aquar-
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ium, and a 45-story observa- tion tower where, for a price, visitors will get a bird’s-eye view of the bayfront. One serious point of con-
tention that Seaport officials have since dropped was a plan to bring recreational boats, including massive per- sonal craft, into the harbor. While pleasure-craft anchor- age could be lucrative for the developer, working boat cap- tains worry about disruptions to their business and com- plaints about noise, odor, and other facts of life that sur- round a working waterfront. Howard, meanwhile,
acknowledged his group was ready to make a concession on that point, sharing a pre- sentation slide that showed a revamped harbor design with pleasure craft conspicu- ously absent.
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Encinitas sheriff cleared in shooting Despondent man aimed shotgun at deputy A law-enforcement review board has ruled that San Diego County sheriff’s deputy Steven Block was justified in the shooting death of 56-year- old Gary Kendrick in Encinitas on March 27, 2015. The Community Law
Enforcement Review Board reviewed the death and released the ruling in its agenda for its April 17 meeting. Kendrick, armed with a
shotgun and a bottle of vodka and upset over marital prob- lems, informed his wife that
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