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RHOBH’s Meets RICO MY TURN--RICO stands for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–1968) and was designed to stop the Mafia, La Costa Nostra, wise-guys, etc.  As RHOBH’s Erika Jayne saga unfolds, the extent to which Erika participated in corrupt activities is murky, except for her spending vast sums of money.  According to Los Angeles attorney, James Spertus, of Spertus, Landes & Umhofer, who is suing Erika Jayne and Tom Girardi, Girardi’s activities may be likened to a Ponzi Scheme.   Substantial funds from lawsuit settlements seem to have...

Photo by Barbara Van Cleve: Fern Sawyer at Richuela Ranch, N.M., heading a calf at her spring. The new exhibit at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Museum and Western Art busts some hard myths about gender. That is to say, you'll find more than just cowboys in the American West.   Hard Twist: Western Ranch Women, a traveling exhibition on loan to the Eiteljorg from the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas, opens Jan. 30 and continues through April 25. The exhibit features 62 black-and-white photographs by photographer Barbara Van Cleve of ranch women who compete ...

Leaving neighborhoods like this one full of middle class homes that are modern, spacious, and completely abandoned. >> i believe at one time there was upwards -- i know there was well over 33% were vacant. and i think at one point it got closer to 50% in this area in western ranch. >> wow. >> richard and his wife anne have lived in stockton for more than 12 years. they say all the empty houses have torn the fabric of their community. >> is there a lot of crime in this area now? >> there is now. i mean, it's pretty obvious which homes are lived in and which is not. say you're a criminal, it's p...

>> and that's happened in your neighborhood? >> yeah. that's how brazen is it now. western ranch used to have a substation. we used to have our own police station and have officers around all the time. we don't have police officers out here. so it doesn't take a very advanced criminal to figure out there is nobody here to catch me. i'm pretty open to going out and doing whatever i want, right. >> all i want is a stop in the violence. i mean the violence stops, then the home values go back up, of course. then the jobs come back to stockton. business comes back to stockton. all the businesses th...

In a new mayor later today. >> some residents are already expressing some hope that a change in leadership will mean a less violent and more financially sound future for their city. >> i anthony silva do solemnly swear. >> do solemnly swear. >> that i will support and defend. >> that i will support and defend. >> the constitution of the united states. >> the constitution of the united states. >> and the constitution of the state of california. >> and the constitution of the state of california. >> marianne johnston lost her bid for reelection to silva and went back to running the balloonery. t...