{"id":579,"date":"2004-01-08T02:10:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-08T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2016-10-09T14:42:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T19:42:39","slug":"579","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/08\/579\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Cold Out There, Prosecutors; Don&#8217;t Forget To Layer Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More from prosecutorial &#8220;layering&#8221; of charges indicated in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/News\/3293E19A47FE99AA86256E14001A39E9?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Teen+stuffs+baby+in+bag,+jumps+out+window\" target=\"new\"><i>St Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> Law and Order round-up<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Two men are indicted in construction scams<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Two men have been indicted on charges that they bilked people through home construction scams, the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office in St. Louis said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>One of the men, Jeffrey Thomas, is accused of selling the same property in St. Louis County to three buyers. He collected more than $500,000 on the sales, and did nothing to build on the property, according to the federal indictment.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, 36, of the 300 block of Autumn Creek Drive in Valley Park, is charged with mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>The other defendant, Carlton Dinwiddie, 39, of East St. Louis, is charged with mail fraud and misuse of a Social Security number. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps I should write to my state legislator, Al Liese (who replaced his own term-limited son in the state legislature by posting signs that looked just like the incumbent legislator&#8217;s&#8211;ELECT LIESE&#8211;perfectly gaming the gullible voters), to enact laws against <i>fraud committed for monetary gain<\/i>, <i>Crimes committed during commission of fraud<\/i>, <i>Fraud committed during course of a crime<\/i>, <i>English-language fraud<\/i>, and <i>Sound-wave fraud<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><strike>Double-jeopardy?  Hah!  We spit upon your double-jeopardy!<\/strike>  Prosecutors need flexible and innovative tools to deal with <strike>their burgeoning political careers and their appearances as depicted by the media<\/strike> modern con artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More from prosecutorial &#8220;layering&#8221; of charges indicated in a St Louis Post-Dispatch Law and Order round-up: Two men are indicted in construction scams Two men have been indicted on charges that they bilked people through home construction scams, the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office in St. Louis said Tuesday. One of the men, Jeffrey Thomas, is accused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-overreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15752,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/15752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}