| Victims applaud Net scam sentence | | Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:12:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | EBay trader Brian Bell never got the Rolex watches he ordered two years ago, but he is pleased with the Christmas present a judge delivered last week: Michael Deppe was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in federal prison for swindling Bell and others in cyber schemes totaling more than $500,000. "That accurately reflects the seriousness and longstanding nature of Deppe's conduct," said Adam Bookbinder, the assistant US attorney who prosecuted the case. Deppe, 22, already has served 13 months, which will be credited toward the sentence. US District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV pronounced the sentence in a Worcester courtroom last week, nearly three years after charges in the case were first lodged. The sentence covers Deppe's conviction on charges stemming from scams dating back to March 2003.... | |
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| | | Cartier, Tiffany's - and Mayors | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:44:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | Mayors Jewelers, a South Florida luxury dealer for nearly 100 years, has decided it's time to dazzle the world. Officials with Birks & Mayors Inc., the Canadian parent company of Tamarac-based Mayors, are working to build an international brand that could someday be synonymous with the industry's crème de la crème -- Tiffany's and Cartier. Birks & Mayors President and CEO Tom Andruskevich says the company has set a high bar for bringing creativity and innovation to its products and stores. Tiffany & Co. represents Park Avenue glamour, he said, and Cartier is a symbol for European chic. "We want Birks to stand for international elegance," said Andruskevich, who was in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday evening for a Swiss watches event at The Galleria store.... | |
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| | | Mandelson to talk tough in Beijing | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:23:29 AM by Blog57 Team | | PETER MANDELSON will appeal directly to China?s business and political leaders this week to remove a series of ?unfair? barriers to European companies, as he tries to bring about a change in trade relations between the European Union and the People?s Republic. The growth in counterfeiting and technology theft, hidden state subsidies and China?s reluctance to open up government procurement are putting relations and investment at risk, the European Trade Commissioner will tell his Chinese counterparts. .... | |
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| | | Starkville police recover 255 watches in tri-state burglary investigation | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:15:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | STARKVILLE, Miss. The investigation of a Tennessee residential burglary that saw a 60-year-old former Starkville nightclub owner arrested this past week is now spreading across three states. Plus-- thousands of dollars worth of stolen watches have been recovered as of yesterday (Monday). Starkville police recouped 255 watches ranging in value from 35-dollars to more than 9-thousand dollars while searching a camper trailer that had been towed to Oktibbeha County from Gadsden, Alabama. Police say the trailer was one of many places former Cheers nightclub owner Bill Arrington was reported to have lived. Police Sergeant Shawn Word says the 255 watches _ including such brand names as Invicta, Swiss, Gucci, Seiko and Rolex _ were in addition to the more than 50 police recovered at the time of Arrington's initial arrest a week ago outside Starkville.... | |
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| | | Woman Accused Of Selling Fake Watch To Undercover Officer | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 3:21:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | A Davie woman is accused of selling counterfeit watches to an undercover police officer, an incident that police said led them to a bigger stash of fake goods. Mantin Ng, 35, is accused of selling counterfeit goods to unsuspecting retailers who would then sell the items for double, triple or sometimes quadruple what they paid for them. .... | |
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| | | Repairing A Rolex Watch | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:13:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | (PRLEAP.COM) Jewelplus.com offers full services repair and restoration services for all models of Rolex watches. They have experienced watch craftsmen and facilities to maintain, repair and restore Rolex wristwatches. They have the ability to supply all Rolex parts as needed during repair. They place the highest emphasis on providing quality service for the Rolex watch. Swiss movement services for Rolex watches include completely disassembling, inspecting, and ultrasonic cleaning of the movement. The movement is then re-lubricated. The movement refers to the principal mechanisms in the watch including the winding or setting mechanism, mainspring, train, escapement and regulating features. Some time after the watches initial manufacture or last service the oil begins to deteriorate and the friction between the different elements of the movement increases.... | |
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| | | Few big spenders at gem auction: $15,000 limits for most bidders, as expensive items remain on block | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:11:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | There was enough bling at the Hilton Garden Inn near the Halifax International Airport to make any wannabe gangsta swoon. The hotel was the site of the Heritage Auctioneers International precious-gem auction yesterday, with stones and watches from bankruptcies, estate sales and private consignment available to the highest bidder. Russ, a retired real-estate developer from Head of St. Margarets Bay who paid more than $26,000 for five items, said coming to the auction was his idea of recreation. "It's having a good time," he said. For obvious reasons, he did not want his full name used. Russ was the auction's biggest spender, buying a custom-designed diamond sapphire necklace worth $67,500 for $12,000, bringing applause from the other gem enthusiasts.... | |
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| | | Cognac Is Newest Weapon in Fight to End North Korea Atomic Push | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 7:19:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations is hitting Kim Jong Il where it hurts, cutting off trade in the luxury goods favored by the North Korean dictator and his entourage. Kim, his family and members of North Korea's ruling class fancy Mercedes-Benz cars, Hennessy cognac and French wines, says Michael Breen, author of ``Kim Jong Il: North Korea's Dear Leader.'' They buy the goods abroad and bring them back to a country locked in poverty where annual per capita income is $914. ``The idea is to punish the leaders and not the people,'' says Jean-Baptiste Mattei, a spokesman at the French Foreign Ministry in Paris. ``It's a way to hit the nomenklatura, who are the only ones who can travel abroad and consume these goods.'' The UN Security Council included the ban on luxury goods in an Oct.... | |
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| | | [Opinion] Beware of Kim Bearing Gifts | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 11:20:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | I think the North Korean population has been losing average height and weight over the years and maybe this will be a little diet for Kim Jong Il, John Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to U.N., said after the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution condemning North Korea`s nuclear test. The resolution calls for a ban on all trade in luxury goods, including expensive cooking ingredients. Even during the so called arduous march, when millions of his people starved to death, North Korean leader Kim enjoyed dainties of all lands and seas with top quality cognac and wine which even absolute monarchs or emperors would have had difficulties in having. Kim even has Japanese, French and Italian cooks who have been preparing dishes like shark`s fin soup everyday for Kim. High-ranking officials of the army and the party have also been apple-polishers of the table.... | |
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| | | Network | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 7:22:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | Gross. when suddenly Im distracted by a group of douchebags that have to talk loud enough for the world to hear. Anyways douchebag 1 is ranting about how some kid he knows is 'the most racist guy' he's ever met. Net: Was it Mel Gibson? Then he goes on to describe the said racist kid and says "I think he's Chinese, or maybe Japanese ... well you know, he's one of those - they all look the same". WTF? Way to do exactly what you're hating on - and to make matters worse, the other two d-bags just nodded in approval of their king douchebag friend. Net: What else can they do? They're just peons. Oh and as long as Im ranting, it's into the second month of school now - FRESHIES - stop sitting at the end of rows in lecture, people dont bite, and they certainly dont like to squeeze past your fatasses to get to a seat, start at the middle and fill out! Net: They don't need help getting fatter.... | |
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