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August 17, 2009
A BAD PENNY: Three years ago, in a San Diego Magazine article called “Hook, Line and Sucker,” ex-cop Tom Basinski wrote about a pair of scam artists who dealt in phony investments and family rip-offs. One of them, Giuliana Bosco, was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty in 2005. She got out in 2008, but old habits are hard to break, apparently. This summer, Basinski says, a Los Angeles teacher and her husband, who’d been desperately trying to adopt a child, were contacted through their attorney by a woman who said she was pregnant and willing to give up her baby. The couple liked her. Their attorney wasn’t so sure. He told them to run her name through the Internet. Bingo. Up came the San Diego Magazine story about Giuliana Bosco. The couple contacted Basinski, who confirmed it, and then alerted authorities. And Bosco, who’d been out on parole, may have earned herself a return ticket to the slammer.
THE CITY SEEN: California’s new incentive package, aimed at keeping filmmaking in the film capital of the world, appears to be working. And San Diego film commissioner Cathy Anderson, who lobbied hard for the incentives, says they’re already working for us. A&E’s Fugitive Chronicles just finished a two-week project in San Diego with a bang: A car chase scene that ended with a staged explosion in the Morena district. And the pilot for the FX channel’s Terriers, starring Donal Logue (Just Like Heaven), starts filming here this week ... A two-day joint event staged by our city’s Air & Space Museum and the USS Midway Museum, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the U.S. moon landing, has drawn the appropriate star power. The party starts September 4 with “Meet the Space Legends,” a conference featuring 14 astronauts, including Buzz Aldrin, of the historic Apollo 11 moon walk mission, and Scott Carpenter, the second American to orbit the earth . . . Tickets for the Scripps Oceanography’s October 23 dinner gala honoring Prince Albert II of Monaco start at a lofty $500 apiece. Underwriting opportunities top out at $100,000.
FOR SPORT: The FiX Magazine’s 2009 Season Preview puts the Chargers atop the AFC West. With this advisory: “If Tomlinson ever gets hurt, check the obituary section the next day to see how many fantasy football-related suicides resulted from it.”
THE POKING NOSE: Most informed observers put Platinum Equity’s payout for The San Diego Union-Tribune at $50 million last spring. And that must sound good to the owners of The Boston Globe. According to a Globe story, Platinum has reportedly bid just $35 million for the Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette ... As if the medical marijuana backers weren’t enough, now comes another interest group aiming to limit the terms of our county supervisors. The Service Employees International Union says it’s preparing to collect the 77,837 signatures needed for a ballot initiative limiting the supes to two terms. Average tenure of current board members: more than 15 years . . . Yes, that was Richard Dreyfuss wandering about at the Town & Country Hotel last week. The Oscar-winning actor (The Goodbye Girl) was there to keynote the Girl Scouts’ “Leading the Way” conference. It was just a quick commute for Dreyfuss, who lives these days in Olivenhain and shares his passion for bringing civics courses back into schools.
THE LAST WORD: Just found this in the toxic waste pile on my desk: “January 12 is National Clean Off Your Desk Day.” Maybe next year.
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Giuliana Bosco just showed up in Kenosha, Wisconsin with a baby...no one knew. not even her parents...hopped on a plane less than a week after a supposed C-section...very worried. May need investigating?
Yes, she is now out of the stats of Wisconsin. And she was arrested in Caifornia on August 25, 2011 on Four Felony Burglary Charges!! She was on Probation in California, When you are on probation, YOU CANNOT LEAVE THE STATE WITHOUT YOUR PROBATION AGENT PERMISSION! What is wrong with you people!!
And if, in fact she had a C-section a week prior to visiting with a baby boy, What Mother in their right mind would travel on a plane, a week after a C-section. Have you ever had a C-section?
Who's the REAL Mother of that Child? Who is the Father? Her partner in crime? Mark Levine, the FAKE husband? You people need to realize that something is WRONG in this picture, and investigate where that baby belongs. Do you people realize that an adopt a baby was one of her scams?
If you, (prior poster) were present when Giuliana came home, out of the blue, mind you, with a baby boy.......wasn't that a shock? Her parents didn't know she was having a baby, and no one else did either? Have you ever had a baby? A C-section? Who in their right mind would travel with a new baby after a C-Section? What is wrong with you?
What a shocker......to find out that Giuliana did in fact have a baby by c-section. And travel on a plane with a baby to present the baby to the family in Wisconsin.......What kind of person does that? I realize that she was in a desperate situation, but she knew that she was headed back to the slammer, and needed to confirm that her 'family' would take care of her child. I am sure she will be in prison for a longggggg time, she only thinks of herself. That is the most troubling thing of all. She took advantage of her own family, and then expects them to take care of a child with his own issues. It is too bad she couldn't even be honest with her mother, as to his medical issues. That is the most disparaging thing of all, in this situation. Everyone is speculating, or thinks that they know his issues, and couldn't be more wrong. Who is the REAL father of that child? Why doesn't he even care about him? That child will be better off without his mother and father in his life. They couldn't be honest about anything in their own life. I hope they never see that baby again.