ID Thief Tries To Get Witnesses Whacked

adeelarshad82 writes "Pavel Valkovich of Sherman Oaks, CA has pleaded guilty to solicitation of murder, admitting that he attempted to hire hit-men to kill witnesses working with Federal authorities in their investigation of Valkovich's ID theft activities and subsequent crimes. According to the Justice Department: '...Valkovich and others had stolen personal identifying information and used that information to transfer funds from victims' bank accounts to PayPal accounts.'"

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Re:i was called to jury duty once

[Norsefire]

I remember the time I was called in to do dury duty. In the NZ system the juror pool is sat in a room and names are called at random for the case, when your name is called you get up and walk to the juror's seats. At any time between when you stand up and when you reach your seat, the lawyers for either side are allowed to call "Objection", which means you go home. Each side can do this three-times and they're not allowed to give a reason why they object (because it's usually race or gender-related, eg. they want more females on the jury etc.) So as I was entering the juror room I sparked up a (loud) conversation with the guy standing next to me about how all criminals should be killed and "if they've got this far they must be guilty, we should just shoot them now -- losing the odd innocent guy for the benefit of society is no loss -- heck if they're here they must have done at least something worth killing 'em for". When my name was called, I hadn't even have completely stood up before the 3 defence lawyers and, to my surprise, one of the prosecution lawyers shouted "OBJECTION". Was lucky it worked because that case dragged on for three-weeks ...

Re:What bankers?

[Rogerborg]

Hmm, I see what you're saying. Let's ignore the global scale of the problem, pick one counter-example that disproves it, quibble over the distinction between cause and effect, and mens rea and mens absentis, and say that Hitler didn't do anything wrong because other Nazis did wrong things too.

That is what you're saying, isn't it? Look, just admit that you love and worship your hero Hitler, and we can agree on where you're coming from.

except cyclists

[SuperBanana]

Murder gets you extremely heavy time. Attempted murder doesn't get you as much.

Unless you're driving your car and hit a cyclist. That generally gets you nothing at all.

Re:except cyclists

[Anonymous Coward]

Murder gets you extremely heavy time. Attempted murder doesn't get you as much.

Unless you're driving your car and hit a cyclist. That generally gets you nothing at all.

Because, as we all so very obviously know, any time a car hits a cyclist, this is clearly premeditated murder. There are no accidents or mistakes involved here; cyclists are holy and blameless people, while drivers are evil, heartless monsters who want to kill everything that doesn't travel on four wheels and is less than a ton in weight. Yes. This is... um... very correct. Muchly.

Is someone just a wee bit bitter about something, SuperBanana?

Re:except cyclists

[davester666]

Because the only bad thing that happens is your car gets damaged... :-)

Re:"Copyright theft" and *Identity theft"

[ArsonSmith]

Please get a dictionary and look up theft and fraud yourself before posting again.

Re:What. The. Funk?

[operagost]

Two, that actual bankers that committed fraud to the tune of trillions were punished by (at most) being handsomely paid off and sentenced to go golfing for the rest of their lives.

No, actually those guys are still working on the universal health care bill.