The U.S. Postal Service’s proposal to end Saturday delivery is a positive thing, said Netflix Chief Service and Operations officer Andrew Rendich. In testimony given before joint Senate and House subcommittees on Wednesday, Rendich said that: “Netflix believes that a well functioning Postal Service, positioned over the long hual to meet changing customer and consumer demand is more important than maintaining current delivering frequency…” That’s no small endorsement given that Netflix, which has 14 million subscribers, ships out and receives millions of its DVD’s daily
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Internal Revenue Service Presents Asset Seizure Money to Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force
In 2002, the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force, the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division, and the United States Secret Service, with the assistance of the United States Postal Inspection Service, launched an extensive investigation into an international cable piracy scheme that resulted in the sales and distribution of approximately 100,000 cable descramblers which were designed to illegally obtain premium and pay-per-view cable programming. Investigators estimate the scheme resulted in gross sales of over $12 million.
IRS gives Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department $202,000
The Sacramento Sheriff’s Department was presented with $202,000 in asset seizure money Friday for helping to shut down an illegal cable television descrambler box sales operation. Internal Revenue Service criminal investigation Special Agent in Charge Scott O’Briant presented Sheriff John McGinness with an over-sized check representing the money at a news conference.
Sacto 9-1-1: Sacramento sheriff gets $200,000 seized in cable-TV descrambler probe
The Sacramento Sheriff’s Department will get $200,000 today for its part in shutting down an illegal cable television descrambler distribution operation. Internal Revenue Service criminal investigation Special Agent in Charge Scott O’Briant will present Sheriff John McGinness with the money this morning.
Task Force Detectives Seek Identity Theft Suspects
The Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force (SVHTCF) is asking for help in locating two identity theft suspects with outstanding arrest warrants: 24-year-old Bernell Bryan Washington and 21-year-old Sky Manriquez (see photos below).
The Week Ahead: Seven things that will shape the news in Our Region
MONDAY Elk Grove high honors fallen soldiers What: Elk Grove High School students will unveil plaques honoring Joe Nurre and Bryan Hall, graduates who died serving in Iraq. Joseph Nurre, 22, a sergeant in the Army Reserve’s 463rd Engineer Battalion, was killed by a roadside bomb in August 2005 while on a convoy mission near Samarra.
Sacramento woman pleads guilty to mail fraud, ID theft
By Cathy Locke clocke@sacbee.com A Sacramento woman has pleaded guilty in federal district court to mail fraud and identity theft in a scheme to defraud Wells Fargo Bank customers. Ronita Prasad, 28, entered the plea this morning before United States District Judge John A. Mendez, according to a federal Department of Justice news release
Prescription narcotics vanish from Sacramento post office
The United States Postal Service is investigating multiple reports of prescription drugs that have disappeared from a south Sacramento post office.
Sacramento postal worker indicted for worker’s comp fraud
A federal grand jury has indicted a 46-year-old Sacramento postal worker for allegedly illegally claiming $278,000 in workers’ compensation benefits, according to the U.S. attorney Benjamin Wagner.
Presidents Day closures
The following agencies are closed Monday in honor of Presidents Day: • Federal offices • State offices • Postal Service • Most county and city offices • El Dorado Transit • Elk Grove etran • Placer County Transit • Placer Commuter Express The following agencies are open Monday: • Sacramento Regional Transit operates a weekday schedule with trips marked “H” not running • Yolobus operates a Sunday schedule
