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MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 - OCTOBER 20, 2013 - VOLUME 2, NO. 41
Foster Farms Rep. Schiff – Grieving military families should Salmonella not be affected by government shutdown outbreak causes serious concern CDC cites 278 cases - 213 cases from California CDC is collaborating with public health and agriculture officials in many states and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg infections. Public health investigators are using DNA “fingerprints” of Salmonella bacteria obtained through diagnostic testing with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, or PFGE, to identify cases of illness that may be part of this outbreak. They are using data from PulseNet, the national subtyping network made up of state and local public health laboPlease see page 4
Adam Schiff said” The families of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our nation shouldn’t have to wait for the mess in Washington to be over for help with burial expenses.” -Photo by Terry Miller
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) released the following statement announcing he would vote to reactivate halted payments to grieving families of fallen servicemen and women, who typically receive a
$100,000 death gratuity, monetary reimbursement for funeral expenses and other expenses associated with the death of a loved one: “It is yet another stain on this destructive shutdown
that it has been allowed to affect grieving members of our military families who have lost loved ones – this must not persist another minute. The families of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of
our nation shouldn’t have to wait for the mess in Washington to be over for help with burial expenses. These families must have immediate access to those benefits which they have earned at such tremendous cost."
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Governor signs bill giving military personnel a tax break – AB 143 Members of the Armed Forces and National Guard will get a break on state use tax when they are transferred to California under Assemblymember Chris Holden’s bill signed today by Governor Brown. “It just doesn’t seem fair to tax active duty military personnel when they are already making so many sacrifices,” explained Assemblymember Holden (D-Pasadena). “It’s the right thing to do to relieve some of the tax burden for our service men and women who are already sacrificing so much for their country.” AB 143, the Military Use Tax Exemption, would eliminate a type of sales tax known as use tax, on personal property purchased by an active duty military member or National Guard Please see page 3
FBI seeks fugitives from international organized fraud ring
Wicked Lit’s immersive theatre brings scary lit to life
3 Los Angeles & Burbank fugitives wanted
BY SHEL SEGAL
Hovhannes Harutyunyan
Yermek Dossymbekov
Alisher Omarov
The FBI is seeking the public’s assistance to locate three fugitives being sought as part of an international organized tax and bank fraud ring. The three fugitives were charged along with 52 other co-conspirators under
four federal grand jury indictments involving the theft of more than 3,500 identities that were used to claim more than $27 million in fraudulent Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax refunds of which the IRS paid out
more than $7million dollars. A total of 55 people were charged with conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft. Please see page 6
If you’re someone who doesn’t get scared off pulling up to a mausoleum after dark, then this is for you. Taking place in the Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery in Altadena, “Wicked Lit” brings to life scary literature in even scarier surroundings, complete with songs and dances. Jonathan Josephson, one of the producers of the show, said the three-anda-half-hour performance is not to be missed. “Wicked Lit is an evening of immersive theater inspired by classic horror literature,” Josephson
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said. “It is three adaptations of stories by H.B. Lovecraft, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Washington Irving and there’s also connecting material that’s adapted from Edgar Allen Poe. This all happens while you
move through the space of a working mausoleum and cemetery.” He added this is a moving show that works its way throughout the Please see page 4