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Monday, December 17, 2012
Owner of Rivera plane denies drug connections Associated Press Writer
PHOENIX — The man who runs the business that owns a luxury jet that crashed and killed Latin music star Jenni Rivera says he has never been involved in drug trafficking and that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has dogged him for more than two decades without ever proving a single narcotics connection. DEA spokeswoman Lisa Webb Johnson has said two planes owned by Las Vegas-based Starwood Management were seized by the agency in Texas and Arizona this year, but she declined to discuss details of their ongoing investigation. The agency also has subpoenaed all the company’s records, including any correspondence it has had with a former Tijuana mayor long suspected by
U.S. law enforcement as having ties to organized crime. Christian Esquino, 50, who runs the business and has a long and checkered legal past, told The Associated Press on Friday that the DEA has been investigating him since the 1980s around the time he sold a plane in Florida to a major trafficker who later used it as part of a massive smuggling operation. The federal government has also claimed Esquino is involved with Tijuana’s notorious Arellano Felix cartel, he said, a charge he vehemently denies. “The DEA has been investigating me my whole life,” Equino told the AP in a telephone interview from Mexico City. “They can investigate me all they want and they can investigate Starwood all they want, but they’re not going to find anything.”
NEW YORK — Only at a Rolling Stones concert could appearances by Bruce Springsteen and Lady Gaga seem almost like afterthoughts. Those superstars and other top acts including the Black Keys and John Mayer jammed with the Stones on Saturday night, winding down a series of concerts celebrating the 50th year of rock’s most enduring band (the occasion was also marked by a pay-per-view special). The Boss rocked out with the band on out “Tumbling Dice”; Gaga matched Mick Jagger shimmy-for-shimmy on “Gimme Shelter”; the Black Keys joined on “Who Do You Love,” and John Mayer and Gary Clark Jr. showed their con-
siderable guitar chops alongside Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood on “Goin’ Down.” But the Stones would not be upstaged. While the sold-out crowd roared with each special guest, it was the aging but dynamic foursome that generated the most excitement of the night, as they put new energy into their decades-old catalog of hits, including “It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll (But I Like It),” ‘’Start Me Up,” ‘’Brown Sugar,” ‘’Sympathy for the Devil” and more.
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Musician Bruce Springsteen, center left, performs with, from left, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ on Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012.
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“Pelebon” Procession of Desak Gede Raka Nadha
Photos and flowers honoring late singer Jenni Rivera, placed by fans next to religious images, are seen at the cemetery where her maternal grandfather is buried in Hermosillo, northern Mexico, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012.
The band took a moment to acknowledge the shooting deaths of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school Friday in Newtown, Conn. “We just wanted to send our love and condolences to all the people who lost loved ones in the tragedy in Connecticut,” Jagger early on in the concert as the audience applauded. Jagger noted the entire world was feeling the pain of the stunned nation. But it was the only somber moment in an a frenetic show that showed why the Stones are considered by many to be the greatest rock band, and belied the much-discussed advanced age of the group’s lineup (their ages range between 65 and 71). Jagger himself poked fun at the senior citizen status of the band and their fans; speaking of the pay-per-view crowd at home, he joked: “Some of you have got your grandchildren watching you.” But few acts in their so-called prime would have been able to match the energy the Stones radiated onstage. The group had the crowd on its feet for the entire show as Jagger gyrated across the stage, his voice in top form. Both Wood and Richards dazzled on guitar (Richards got a raucous, sustained ovation as he took over vocals on two songs). And Charlie Watts kept the beat strong on the drums. Before performing in London together late last month for the first of the concerts, the Stones hadn’t performed in concert together since 2007. Going into these shows, there was some speculation that Saturday’s concert, held at the Prudential Center, might be their last.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Conn. school victims shot by rifle multiple times
“I would have to be the smartest drug trafficker in the world to be able to stay away from a drug conviction with the DEA looking at me under a microscope for 20 years,” he added. The 43-year-old California-born Rivera died when the plane she was traveling in nose-dived into the ground last week. Rivera was an internationally known star who sold more than 15 million records in her career.
Springsteen, Gaga join Stones; Newtown noted Associated Press Writer
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Bali Post
Tabanan – The Pelebon procession for the late Desak Gede Raka Nadha was held on Sunday, December 16, 2012 in Lumajang Cemetery, Samsam Village, Tabanan. The procession was started with Apel Persada in Pesraman Lumajang led by the Head of Indonesian Veteran Legion (LVRI) Bali, Sarja Udaya. Several important people were also present in the ceremony, they were the Head of Press Council Bagir Manan, the Head of Indonesian Army branch Bali Wisnu Bawa Tenaya, the member of Press Council Bambang Hari Murti, Bekti Nugroho and Ridlo Aisy. There were also the Head of WHDI Bali Bintang Puspayoga, member of Keraton Yogyakarta Gusti Bendoro Pangeran Haryo Prabu Kusumo, The Secretary of Denpasar AA Rai Iswara, and the son of I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Gusti Ngurah Alit Yudha. The procession started exactly at 9 am local time. The family represented by Satria Naradha gave their best gratitude to all people who help and take part in the ceremony. He also apologized for the mistakes done by Desak Raka during her life. Continued on page 6
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Ngaben procession of founder of Bali Post, Desak Gede Raka Nadha, that held on Sunday, December 16, 2012.