Cherry Blossom bust related to current activity?
[QUOTE=MedellinMike;4895605][QUOTE=Barolo;4895561]The is no secret about what happened to Cherry Blossom. Go look at articles in the paper. Kim, her sister, her husband and another man, all arrested under RICO. Over $300k from bank accts, 40k in cash hidden in a car and gold bars confiscated.[/QUOTE]That was big news, no mystery at all. She is a little Vietnamese viper. Has not gone to trial yet, won't be surprised to see her drag down as many girls as she can with her or try to bargain her way out by throwing someone under the bus. Never liked her. Think she is a snake.[/QUOTE]This got me thinking. Dangerous, I know, since I'm apparently prone to wild conspiracy theories and churning up "drama" like this. Regardless, I'll offer yet another wild thought.
While I don't know the targets/owners in the Cherry Blossom case, nor do I have any insight on the details of the case or status of the defendants, the statements offered by others, as shown above, led me to conjur up the theory that, just **maybe** the defendents possibly ARE negotiating some sort of plea for leniency by (possibly/probably falsely) identifying some of their past employees as the ACTUAL valuable targets for future/related investigations. Just the fact that the businesses identified in this thead are commercially related and number at least THREE locations in the immediate area, with additional locations reportedly in south Florida, could protray the "size of operation" that LE deems to meet some hurdle or criteria for classifying as 'racketeering' or 'organized criminal activity'. I have no idea if there is some measuable level to warrant interest, but with a multiple number of locations, I would chance a guess that LE could make some correlation to dollar volume of revenue they're seeking to wrap up into a larger, more substantial, criminal charge. In other words, single shop businesses, like most other AMPs in the area, don't rise to the level of "organization" that LE could pin anything substantial on them, so they're not the first AMPs targeted.
Doubling up on responses, I'll include this here as well:
[QUOTE=MedellinMike;4900015]I appreciate your information. I also got a call on my cell but it was from a detective at Orlando PD vice. I never talked to anyone, it was answered by a voice recording (answering machine) I never gave my cell out to anyone. They have not tried calling me back yet. Not familiar with MBI are they outside the PD or part of it?[/QUOTE]Google "Metrpolitan Bureau of Investigation - Orlando, FL", or you could visit their website (here: [url]http://mbi-police.net/[/url]and check out the ABOUT pages.
Hey, what about those Sherrif Elections, eh?!