from News Release from Employers’ Fraud Task Force (EFTF) The State of California Department of Industrial Relations, the Employers’ Fraud Task Force, the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation, and the Disneyland Resort are jointly sponsoring a special Workers’ Comp Fraud Conference & Awards Ceremony on this Monday, January 11th 2010.  The conference... Read More

Cara Cruz-Thompson and her new attorney, Brian Gurwitz, started off the morning yesterday, January 5th 2010, with a bang just minutes after being back on the record in Orange County Court House Room C-53 with the Honorable Elaine Streger.  Gurwitz asserted Cara’s position that she will waive all her rights to a Preliminary Hearing and choose... Read More

Cara Cruz-Thompson, in a bold action to vigorously defend herself and to free herself from jail, fired her attorney, Michael Currier, yesterday, and hired Brian Gurwitz, a 15-year veteran lawyer who was admitted to the California State Bar in 1994 and who graduated from McGeorge School of Law of the University of the Pacific, in... Read More

So, finally at 2:00 PM, the Preliminary Hearing for Porrata, Montes, Martinez, and Cruz-Thompson began.  The three male defendants were led in first.  Hector Porrata led the pack.  He was wearing Orange and had his dark brown hair cropped very short.  He is a small man and he was handcuffed from his left to George... Read More

December 18th, this coming Friday, could possibly be an eventful day in Court for alleged AIG/Matrix embezzlers Hector Porrata, Cara Cruz-Thompson, Rene Montes and George Martinez.  But, who knows at this point? I’ve said this before: the Preliminary Hearing got “trailed”.  So, once again, yesterday, December 15th, the scheduled Preliminary Hearing in the above, aforementioned... Read More

So, I’m here back on the record with Cara Cruz-Thompson at the Orange County Jail in Santa Ana, California, in the late afternoon of Wednesday, December 2nd 2009.   Cara has been incarcerated since her arrest took place in front of her Victorville, California, home in the morning of May 6th 2009. Her husband, Hector Porrata,... Read More

This time when I spoke into the darkened one way glass-mirrored booth at the Orange County Jail’s Intake and Release Center, the Deputy within the darkness spoke positively, “Yes. I remember you. I got a phone call just a while ago.  I am going to set this up for you.” I had called the Director... Read More

I was in my kitchen yesterday, Sunday late morning, November 29th 2009, making a pot of coffee when my cell phone rang.  So I walked over to my kitchen table, picked up my Blackberry, and looked at the caller ID.  It was from some number with a 713 area code. Where is that from? I... Read More