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Love seeing friends across AZ: Border tour & Douglas Chamber of Commerce last night, Clifton Veteran’s events today.

My heartfelt prayers to the families of victims of today’s Ft. Hood tragedy. The victims served our country honorably.

Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced that Robert Stuart Reed, 55, of Phoenix, has been sentenced to 10.5 years in prison followed by three years probation for setting fire to his rented Phoenix townhouse and endangering the lives of a dozen other residents of the building, including six children.  

According to court documents, in the early morning of April 28, 2007, Reed set fire to the Phoenix townhouse he was renting. By doing so, he risked the lives of 12 sleeping residents of two town homes attached to Reed’s residence. Following the incident, Reed submitted a fraudulent insurance claim to his homeowner’s insurance provider, Travelers Insurance Company, claiming the fire was accidental.

In June 2008, Reed was charged with one count of committing arson of an occupied structure, a class 2 felony, one count of submitting a fraudulent insurance claim, a class 5 felony, and 12 counts of endangerment, a class 6 felony.

Reed failed to appear for his scheduled trial date in January 2009 and was subsequently tried in absentia.  On January 20, a jury convicted Reed of all 14 felony counts and the court issued a warrant for his arrest.  

Reed was arrested by Yavapai County Sheriffs deputies on August 15, 2009.  At the time of his arrest, he was using the assumed name Charles Olson. He was also in possession of a red 1997 Nissan Pathfinder belonging to Kristal Forest, a 64-year-old resident of Camp Verde who has been missing since March 29, 2009, when she was last seen with Reed.  The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office is investigating Ms. Forest’s disappearance. No charges have been filed.

This case was brought to law enforcement’s attention by Traveler’s Insurance Company. It was investigated by the Arizona Department of Insurance Fraud Unit and the Phoenix Fire Department as well as fire investigators with J. Perkins and Associates, Inc.  Assistant Attorney General Beverly Rudnick prosecuted this case.

After meeting with Gen. Breedlove at the Pentagon, it is crystal clear:
Protecting Luke AFB against encroachment is critical to F-35 success

http://twitpic.com/o14bg Great meeting with Peoria Mayor Barrett and General Breedlove on the best way to protect Luke AFB & attain the F-35

Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced that Gordon W Deibler, III, 53, and Renata Majda Deibler, 36, both of Litchfield Park, have pleaded guilty in Maricopa County Superior Court to participating in a criminal syndicate by running several companies that defrauded clients of more than $1.5 million.

The Deiblers owned and operated 1031 Exchange Consultants, LLC, Etna Land Trust, Executive Realty Group, and Tax Management Consultants, LLC. Through these companies Gordon Deibler, acting as a qualified intermediary, accepted the proceeds from property sales for clients.  Deibler was supposed to use the proceeds to purchase new property, resulting in delayed tax consequences for his clients.  Instead, he diverted his clients’ money for personal use. The Deiblers used the scheme on seven different occasions between 1998 and 2008.

The Deiblers also worked with their handyman, Bronislaw Galica, to purchase a home in Galica’s name in 2006.  Gordon Deibler acted as the agent for Executive Realty group and facilitated the purchase.  Renata Deibler acted as the broker for the transaction.  The Deiblers gave Galica false credit and salary information to use on the loan application. Gordon Deibler also obtained an inflated appraisal for Galica to use in obtaining the loan.  Galica bought the home and defaulted on the loan within a couple of months of the purchase.

Gordon Deibler pleaded guilty to one count of directing a criminal syndicate, a Class 2 Felony, and one count of fraudulent schemes and artifices, also a Class 2 Felony. Under the plea agreement, he must pay restitution to the victims in the amount of $1,559,644 and faces a prison term between 3 and 12.5 years.

Renata Deibler pleaded guilty to one Class 4 Felony count of assisting a criminal syndicate. She must also pay restitution to the victims.  The court has the choice of placing her on probation for up to three years or sentencing her to up to 3.75 years in prison.

Sentencing for the couple is scheduled for January 14, 2010.

The convictions are the result of an investigation by the Attorney General’s Special Investigation Unit. Assistant Attorney General Timothy Linnins prosecuted this case.

While AZ must have strong leadership next year when stimulus $ ends, it’s good it was used now to protect teacher jobs: http://bit.ly/2JGjkD

Attorney General Terry Goddard expressed appreciation today for the decision by the U.S. Air Force to include Luke Air Force Base as one of the finalists to become a training base for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

“This is very good news for all of Arizona as well as for Luke,” Goddard said. “In the weeks ahead, we need to do all we can to make sure the Pentagon is fully aware of Luke’s unsurpassed suitability and the state’s overwhelming support for its selection.”

Luke, which has long been the world’s largest training facility for F-16 pilots, was joined by Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico on the Pentagon’s short list of potential secondary training bases. Eglin was previously selected as the primary base for the F-35. If it were also chosen as the secondary site, the entire training program would be located there. Some 200 Air Force sites were initially considered in the selection process.

Goddard has been among Luke’s leading advocates for the F-35 assignment. In addition to meeting with senior Air Force and Defense Department officials in Washington on the matter, he filed a lawsuit last year against Maricopa County to force the county to comply with state law and protect the base from encroaching residential development. A Superior Court judge agreed with the State’s position and ordered Maricopa County to stop issuing residential building permits in the high noise and accident potential zones around the base.

Peoria Mayor Bob Barrett said of the news, “Now, more than ever, we must unite behind the base, its people and its mission.  The ‘Joint Strike Fighter’ (F-35) represents the new mission of our airmen and women at Luke.  It will replace the F-16 as the most capable combat aircraft in the history of American airpower.  You can be assured that Peoria will do everything it can to help Luke transition to this incredibly important mission, thereby ensuring the long term mission viability of Luke Air Force Base.”

Goddard and Barrett will travel to Washington, D.C. again next week to meet with top Air Force officials to express their support for the selection of Luke.

The Pentagon is expected to make a formal announcement of the three finalists on Friday. The final decision is expected next spring.

Driving home from Nogales forum. Thanks to Santa Cruz County Atty George Silva, Sheriff Antonio Estrada, & Mayor Octavio Garcia-Von Borstel.