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Comment by Phoebe Macon on August 5, 2010 at 1:43am
Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats Marry (July 31, 2010)

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CNN) -- R&B power couple Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz have tied the knot, Keys' representatives confirmed to CNN on Sunday.



The two were married Saturday at a private residence overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.



Keys, 29, a 12-time Grammy-award winning singer, wore a Grecian-inspired, one-shoulder Vera Wang gown. Her groom, a DJ/producer/rapper, wore a tuxedo designed by Tom Ford that featured a white jacket and pale pink shirt.



The couple are expecting a child together.



Swizz Beatz and Keys have been friends for several years and worked together on one song for her current album, "The Element of Freedom."
Comment by Phoebe Macon on August 5, 2010 at 1:30am
Rapper T.I. and Singer Tiny Get Married (July 31, 2010)



Superstar ATL rapper T.I. and his longtime leading lady Tameka "Tiny" Cottle got married in Miami, Florida. They first sealed the deal in a Miami courthouse on July 30, 2010 according to a wedding license provided by TMZ. Then on Saturday, July 31 they tied the knot in a lavish private ceremony in front of close family and friends on Star island off the coast of Miami in a major celebrity mansion ( rumored to be Lebron James estate).


Tiny was ready to walk the aisle in her beautiful Valentino wedding gown, while the "Da King of the South" TI was rocking PRADA. Her bridesmaids were: Kandi of Real Housewives of Atlanta and former Xscape group mate, R&B singer Monica, and her reality show mate Toya Carter (former ex wife of Lil Wayne). The colors were platinum and black. There were a lot of A-LIST celebs who attended their wedding.



Some the stars who were on the guestlist for the wedding were:

Atlantic Records Executives

Lebron James

Diddy

Jay Z & Beyonce

Judy Greenwald (Atlantic Records)

Kevin Lyles

DJ Toomp

Ryan Cameron

Trey Songz

Kandi Burruss

Chelsea Lately

Young Jeezy

Attorney Dwight Howard

Antonia Carter

Jason Geter

Keri Hilson

Tyra Banks

Chris Brown

Monique

DJ Khalid

DJ Greg Street

Jamie Foster Brown



According to US Magazine, "They plan on returning to their hometown of Atlanta for a reception Saturday afternoon before jetting off to Las Vegas to celebrate with friends into the wee hours." They will plan to return to Atlanta early next week, so you can expect the party to keep going.


Tiny told Vibe earlier this year, "We living, we're happy, we're in love. I mean, it's no doubt in my mind that he doesn't love every piece of me and vice versa, so we're just doing what's comfortable and what works for us. Tiny and T.I.: Not for the world," Tiny told Vibe magazine. "When we get ready to make a move, we will make it. We just can't do it for everybody."


I guess Tiny did get her wish with an intimate private ceremony and the fairytale wedding she dreamed of. They truly celebrated their nuptials in style and I wish this hip-hop couple much continued success and blessings! I love them together!
Comment by Phoebe Macon on August 5, 2010 at 1:12am





RHINEBECK, N.Y. — Bill and Hillary Clinton have tried to shield their daughter, Chelsea, from the gaze of the public for most of her life.


But on her wedding day on Saturday, even as the Clintons sought to shroud the event in secrecy, residents and onlookers here decided they were going to celebrate along with them, invited or not.


So despite confidentiality agreements, anonymous hotel reservations and a no-fly zone established over the area, this moneyed and normally subdued town turned into a Chelsea theme park, with shop windows filled with tributes to her, including one with a live model in a wedding dress having her makeup done.


A baseball team sent its mascot, dressed up as a raccoon, parading through town with a sign asking Ms. Clinton to marry him. Teenage boys chased after former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, seeking autographs. Young women passed out slices of pizza with “I do” written in pepperoni.


Caravans of guests sped by reporters who waited forlornly in a pen on the road leading to the wedding site, while, just beyond, a dozen brown milk cows chewed on dinner.


At 7:23 p.m. came an announcement from the family via e-mail: Ms. Clinton was now married to Marc Mezvinsky.


“Today, we watched with great pride and overwhelming emotion as Chelsea and Marc wed in a beautiful ceremony at Astor Courts, surrounded by family and their close friends,” the Clintons said. “We could not have asked for a more perfect day to celebrate the beginning of their life together, and we are so happy to welcome Marc into our family.”


The former president and Mrs. Clinton, the secretary of state, also thanked Rhinebeck for its welcome and good wishes.


Ms. Clinton, 30, wore a strapless gown, beaded at the waist and designed by Vera Wang (who caused a commotion of her own when she showed up in town on Saturday). The mother of the bride wore a plum-colored gown by Oscar de la Renta.


The interfaith ceremony was conducted by Rabbi James Ponet and the Rev. William Shillady. Ms. Clinton is Methodist, and Mr. Mezvinsky is Jewish.


It included elements from both traditions: friends and family reading the Seven Blessings, which are typically recited at traditional Jewish weddings following the vows and exchange of rings.


A friend of the couple read the poem “The Life That I Have” by Leo Marks.


Many of the guests were friends of the bride and groom from college and work; they both attended Stanford University, and Ms. Clinton recently received her master’s degree from Columbia University’s Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health.


Family flew in, too. The president’s half-brother, Roger Clinton, was spotted in town in a T-shirt and track pants hours before the wedding.


Marie Clinton Bruno, a cousin of the president’s, reminisced about a 10-year-old Chelsea appearing as a bridesmaid at her own wedding, which was held at the Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock, Ark., in 1990. That day, Chelsea wore a pale pink dress with ruffles on the shoulders and tended to the artificial flowers in the bride’s bouquet.


“She was just a wonderful bridesmaid,” Ms. Bruno said. “She’s just as wonderful today as she was back then.”


As she strolled through Rhinebeck, Ms. Bruno spoke approvingly of the location: “It reminds me of the Ozarks in Arkansas, except more chic.”


President Clinton appeared to have followed his daughter’s instructions and lost quite a bit of weight for the ceremony. She had ordered him to lose 15 pounds, but people close to him said he had actually lost more than 20.


While the media and local residents have been buzzing for months about celebrities who were expected here — including Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg and John Major, the former British prime minister — none of those particular bold-faced names were invited.


Still, there was star power: One of the most prominent guests was Vernon Jordan, a longtime confidant of Mr. Clinton’s and a family friend.


But he was not generally recognized by the gawkers here as he strode into a cocktail reception Friday night. One man in the crowd authoritatively identified him as Hamilton Jordan, who was a top aide to former President Jimmy Carter and who died in 2008.


Another man in the crowd declared that Vernon Jordan was actually Warren Buffett.


The media pack surrounded the actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, who are married, with the force of a sudden summer storm. “We must be the only celebrities in town,” Mr. Danson said. “I’m sorry.”


Linda Ennis, a Clinton fan who drove more than an hour in hopes of glimpsing the former president and possibly the bride, seemed star-struck about Ms. Clinton. Like many here, she said she had watched Ms. Clinton grow up, then compared her grace to that of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.


“She’s turned into such a beauty,” Ms. Ennis said.


“It’s royalty,” her friend, Arlene Newman, added. “It’s our royalty.”


Photos released by the Clintons showed the former president looking solemn as he walked his daughter down an aisle created by rows of white chairs against a backdrop of arched windows and columns that evoked the White House. They also showed Ms. Clinton bursting with joy at several moments during the ceremony.


Jim Valli and his band provided music at the reception (the couple’s good friend Tim Blane and his band played at the rehearsal dinner). The reception was catered by the St. Regis Hotel (the rehearsal dinner by Blue Ribbon Restaurants). La Tulipe Desserts made the gluten-free wedding cake.


Mr. Mezvinsky, an investment banker at 3G Capital Management and a son of two former Democratic members of Congress, proposed to Ms. Clinton over Thanksgiving weekend, and the pair released a statement to friends joyfully wishing them a happy Thanksgiving and telling them about their wedding plans. The couple lives in a three-bedroom apartment on Lower Fifth Avenue in New York with views of Madison Square Park and the Flatiron Building; Mr. Mezvinsky bought the apartment in 2008 for $4 million.


Maureen Missner, whose shop, Paper Trail, was believed to be helping to prepare the gift bags, said this wedding felt different from one last year in the area, when the actor Griffin Dunne was married and residents spotted stars like Hugh Jackman.


She said that comparing it to Mr. Dunne’s wedding put these festivities into perspective. “This is not a star-studded wedding,” Ms. Missner said. “This is clearly about the bride and groom.”
Comment by Jacquelyn Brown on August 4, 2010 at 5:49pm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. PRESIDENT!

Love Jacq. B.

Comment by Phoebe Macon on August 4, 2010 at 3:26pm
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S BIRTHDAY IS TODAY (AUGUST 4, 2010)!!!!!!!!!!






Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama may be celebrating his 49th birthday (today) Wednesday Aug. 4, 2010 without his wife and daughters, but CNN has learned there will be a hush-hush party at the White House on Sunday with close family and friends to make it up to him.


Two top White House aides confirmed the belated birthday bash on the condition of anonymity because the details are a state secret around the corridors of the West Wing.


"There will be some stuff Sunday," a top adviser to the president said vaguely without giving away any of the details.


The president is celebrating his birthday without his immediate family because first lady Michelle Obama just arrived in Spain for a planned mini-vacation with the couple's youngest daughter, Sasha, while eldest daughter, Malia, is away at summer camp.


But contrary to some news reports, the president will not be celebrating his birthday alone on Wednesday. After delivering a speech in Washington to the AFL-CIO about the economic recovery and having lunch at the White House with a group of Democratic senators, the president is heading to Chicago in the late afternoon. Aides say he is expected to have a quiet dinner with some close friends back home.


On Thursday, the president will tour a Ford plant in Chicago to highlight the auto industry's rebound, followed by some Democratic fundraising, including a bash honoring his birthday one day late.


The plans are still being put together for Sunday's birthday party, which appears likely to be a hot invite for the lucky few White House aides who get on the list.
Comment by Phoebe Macon on July 15, 2010 at 4:04am
Fears Grow As Millions Lose U.S. Jobless Benefits



Alonzo Allen stands outside the apartment where he lives with his dog and sole companion, Ginger in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 7, 2010. Allen, 55, a former aid agency worker in Cincinnati whose benefits will run out in September, spends two days a week volunteering at the food bank in Over-the-Rhine and the other three looking for work. He said he worries about the one-bedroom apartment he rents and how he will feed his dog Ginger, who is the "only family I have."



CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Deborah Coleman lost her unemployment benefits in April, and now fears for millions of others if the Senate does not extend aid for the jobless.

"It's too late for me now," she said, fighting back tears at the Freestore Foodbank in the low-income Over-the-Rhine district near downtown Cincinnati. "But it will be terrible for the people who'll lose their benefits if Congress does nothing."

For nearly two years, Coleman says she has filed an average of 30 job applications a day, but remains jobless.

"People keep telling me there are jobs out there, but I haven't been able to find them."

Coleman, 58, a former manager at a telecommunications firm, said the only jobs she found were over the Ohio state line in Kentucky, but she cannot reach them because her car has been repossessed and there is no bus service to those areas.

After her $300 a week benefits ran out, Freestore Foodbank brokered emergency 90-day support in June for rent. Once that runs out, her future is uncertain.

"I've lost everything and I don't know what will happen to me," she said.

The recession -- the worst U.S. downturn since the 1930s -- has left some 8 million people like Coleman out of work.

Unemployment has remained stubbornly high at around 9.5 percent. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in June 6.8 million people or 45.5 percent of the total are long-term unemployed, or jobless for 27 weeks or more.

Before the recession began in late 2007, the unemployed received benefits, usually a few hundred dollars a week, for 26 weeks or around six months after losing their jobs.

Under the federal/state programs, which are administered by state governments and partly funded by taxes on business, only full-time workers are eligible for benefits. Within federal guidelines, benefits and eligibility vary from state to state.

As the downturn left more Americans out of work for longer periods, Congress voted to provide funding to extend benefits to as long as 99 weeks in some areas.

Some critics say this adds to the country's large fiscal deficit, and may even discourage job-seeking.


FOOD BANKS FEAR STRAIN

An attempt to pass another extension has become bogged down in partisan political bickering in the Senate. Relief agencies fear that failure to extend benefits will strain their resources and may worsen the U.S. housing crisis.

"This will put a great deal of stress and strain on our organization, which has already been working hard," said Vicki Escarra, chief executive of Feeding America, which has a network of more than 200 food banks. In the year ended June 30, Feeding America distributed 3 billion pounds (1.36 billion kg) of food, a 50 percent increase over the past two years.

The benefits debate has pitted the majority of Democrats against most Republicans and some conservative Democrats.

When the House of Representatives passed a $34 billion benefit extension on July 1, 11 fiscally conservative Democrats voted against it. The Senate may take up the issue again in mid-July, but Republicans like Senator Tom Coburn have argued any extension must be paid for with cuts elsewhere.

"Even then he (Coburn) is not sure if that's a good idea," said John Hart, a spokesman for the Oklahoma senator. "The longer the unemployed have benefits, the less incentive there is to find a job."

Most economists argue that cutting benefits could slow recovery, describing benefits as direct economic stimulus because almost every penny of it gets spent. In a June 28 client note, Goldman Sachs said if all additional U.S. stimulus spending expires, it could slow the economy up to 1.5 percentage points from the fourth quarter 2010 to the second quarter of 2011.

The note added that extending unemployment benefits and a $400 tax credit would "substantially mitigate" that impact.


3 MILLION CUT OFF IN TWO MONTHS

During the Senate impasse, from the week ended June 5 to the week ended July 10, more than 2.1 million Americans lost their benefits. Another million will join them by July 31.

In Ohio alone, where unemployment stood at 10.7 percent in May, more than 83,000 people lost their benefits in June.

Sister Barbara Busch, executive director of non-profit housing group Working in Neighborhoods in Cincinnati, 65 percent of the people who come seeking help with their mortgages are unemployed or underemployed.

"I fear once the benefits run out, I suspect we'll see a new wave of foreclosures," she said. "I just hope I'm wrong."

Ohio is a bellwether U.S. state in elections. The state's Democratic attorney general Richard Cordray said blocking extending jobless benefits was politically motivated ahead of the midterm elections in November.

"If people lose their benefits they will blame the congressional majority and the administration," he said. "As unappetizing as it is, that would appear to be the strategy."

Senator Coburn's spokesman Hart said suggestions the Republicans were playing partisan politics were "ludicrous."

"The Democrats say that because they want to avoid making the hard decisions," he said.

Alonzo Allen, 55, a former aid agency worker in Cincinnati whose benefits will run out in September, spends two days a week volunteering at the food bank in Over-the-Rhine and the other three looking for work. He said he worries about the one-bedroom apartment he rents and how he will feed his dog Ginger, who is the "only family I have."

"If the benefits stop, I'll be out on the street and I'll lose all my furniture," he said. "That's going to be tough."


(Editing by Eric Walsh)
Comment by Phoebe Macon on July 15, 2010 at 3:29am
Triple-Digit Heat Wave Sends Many To Pools, Beaches, Seeking Relief From The Late-Breaking Sunshine


Coco Gruber and her daughter Katelyn Gruber, 4, of San Fernando, cool off at the San Fernando Regional Pool Facilty wednesday as temperatures headed into the triple digits. The forecast is for even hotter temeratures at the end of the week.









When the sun finally dredged itself out of the fog this week, Los Angeles rejoiced in its belated glow.



But when the mercury shot into triple-digit temps Wednesday, it proclaimed the true start of summer.



"The color's back," said surfer Bob Klewitz, 60, of Woodland Hills, an Arleta High School teacher surveying the sunrise break on Wednesday at Surfrider Beach. "It's classic Malibu. The waves glisten. They shimmer. It's indescribable.



"I would say summer is declared official."



Sun-worshippers grumbled when May Gray morphed into June Gloom, which sulked into mid-July. But after weeks of a moist marine layer that refused to budge, the rays shone through without a hint of the blues.



The above-normal heat - as much as 10 degrees in some areas - is expected to peak Friday and last through Sunday. Temperatures could soar to 105 degrees in the San Fernando Valley and 109 in the Antelope Valley.



Four Valley communities reached the triple-digit mark Wednesday, with Woodland Hills leading the pack at 103, Chatsworth and Van Nuys, coming in at 101, and Northridge hitting 100.



Forecasters said the moist early summer veered into a fiery July with little time for residents to peel off their layers.



"Ouch!," said Bill Patzert, climatologist for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Ca ada-Flintridge. "This is called whiplash - from drizzle to sizzle in three or four days.



"Summer has not only begun,but it's begun with a vengeance."



Sunshine credits go to a high-pressure system from the Sonoran Desert, which cleared away the long-standing low- pressure blues, weather forecasters say.



But the Arizona blast may bring some monsoonal humidity that may make many Angelenos miserable.



"L.A. will be another swamp," said Bill Hoffer, a weather specialist for the National Weather Service in Oxnard. "Go to the beach, go to the malls, go to the bars, I guess. Drink Gatorade.



"Get some relief."



Early Wednesday, many took to the beach as the sun rose over the Santa Monica Mountains, sending waves of orange under the Malibu Pier.



Joanna Pardo and Austin Barrett, two wilderness rangers on break from federal jobs near Yosemite, had slept in their car in order to catch the moment.



"This is special," said Barrett, 21, of Dallas, Texas. "The sun ... it's starting to feel itself."



Walkers waded the waterline. Early sunbathers opened summer novels upon the sand.



And as clam-diggers scooped their limit in pools of an emerging tide, the surfers basked in the dawn of summer.



Jonathan Mariande, before waxing his 7-foot-4 Yater board, applied some of the first sunscreen of the season.



"At the right time of day, (Malibu is) paradise," said Mariande, 27, of Studio City.



"It's a beach day," said Nina Stutzman, 40, of San Clemente, cradling a Dan Brown novel while watching her 14-year-old son surf. "I'm so happy the sun's out, finally."



"Fabulous!," added Vera Soares, 45, of Malibu, strolling in sunshine.



Some, however, said the September-like temperatures follow an especially dry spring and could make for a trying fire season, which began with spot fires this week in Los Angeles and Camarillo.



"We have a La Ni a building, and it looks like a long dry summer," Patzert said. "If the Santa Anas arrive this fall before the rains, it's not only going to be scorching.



"It's going to be incendiary."
Comment by Tiffany Jackson on July 12, 2010 at 7:28pm
MONTHLY HOROSCOPES

-Capricorn 12/22 to 1/19

-Aquarius 1/20 to 2/18

-Pisces 2/19 to 3/20

-Aries 3/21 to 4/19

-Taurus 4/20 to 5/20

-Gemini 5/21 to 6/20

-Cancer 6/21 to 7/22

-Leo 7/23 to 8/22

-Virgo 8/23 to 9/22

-Libra 9/23 to 10/22

-Scorpio 10/23 to 11/23

-Sagittarius 11/22 to 12/21
Comment by Phoebe Macon on July 1, 2010 at 5:18am








Obama film co-director Damien Dematra (L) poses with Ilham Anas, (R), the Indonesian look alike of US President Barack Obama at the Jakarta cinema house for the debut screening of "Obama Anak Menteng" or "Obama the Menteng Kid", a film about Obama's childhood days in Indonesia.






AJAKARTA (AFP) – A film about US President Barack Obama's childhood days in Indonesia made its debut in Jakarta on Wednesday, promising a very different perspective on the man in the White House.


"Obama Anak Menteng" or "Obama the Menteng Kid", is set in the upscale Jakarta neighbourhood of Menteng, where Obama lived from 1967 to 1971 with his mother and Indonesian stepfather.


Co-director Damien Dematra said it showed the US president in a light that Americans might find strange.


"Viewers, especially Westerners, will see a different world. They'll see Obama eating chicken satay, not hamburgers. They'll see his neighbours and friends wearing chequered sarongs and Muslim caps," he told AFP.


Even so, producers skirted controversy surrounding the extent that Islam influenced Obama's early years in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country.


A scene showing Obama, who is a Christian, praying like a Muslim was dropped as it was deemed "too political", Dematra said.


"He was just imitating other kids when they were praying but it didn't mean he wanted to be Muslim. That scene wasn't even shot because I didn't want people to take it out of context and use it against him," he said.


Based on his interviews with Obama's surviving neighbours and friends in the Indonesian capital, Dematra claims the film is "60 percent fact and 40 percent fiction".


Midwife Fitriah Sari, who was in the audience at the film's debut, said Obama was portrayed favourably.


"He showed that sometimes saying sorry is actually more effective than using the fist in solving conflict," Sari said.


Another who saw the film, Asmul Khairi, said: "This film was interesting.


"Obama is shown to be able to get along with anyone, regardless of race, religion or skin colour. He showed cultural or physical differences are no barrier to forging meaningful friendships."


The film features a cast of little-known Indonesian actors and was filmed in just over a month in the West Java city of Bandung -- which retains some of the sleepy charm of 1960s Menteng.


Its budget was a million dollars, Dematra said.


Twelve-year-old American Hasan Faruq Ali plays Obama, or Barry as the president was known to his schoolmates.


Like Obama, Ali -- who had no prior acting experience -- is the son of a mixed-race couple and moved from the United States to Indonesia as a toddler.


He speaks Indonesian and English, just as Obama switched between his mother-tongue with his parents and Indonesian with his friends.


Clips available on the Internet show "little Barry" learning to box with his stepfather after getting into a shoolyard fight, but ultimately learning to resolve conflicts through means other than violence.


"You're from the West, but black. You've got weird hair and a big nose," a neighbourhood boy replies when Obama introduces himself as Barry.


"We have to stick together to achieve our goals and resolve our problems and fights," Barry later tells his friends.


Dematra said: "When Obama first arrived, local kids rejected him as he didn't look like them. There was a scene where Obama was bullied and he had to fight. He fought and he won and then they accepted him".


Dematra said he did not want the film to be political, but to give viewers a sense of how Indonesia's cultural diversity -- mostly Muslim but with significant Hindu, Christian and other minorities -- might have influenced "this pluralist and inspiring figure".


The 100-minute film, produced by local company Multivision Plus Pictures, was due to debut earlier in June to coincide with a visit by Obama to his old hometown.


But the trip, like another scheduled for March, was postponed due to pressing issues in the United States. Obama is now expected in November.


"I was disappointed about the delays. If Obama sees the film, I'm sure he'll have a couple of minutes of reflection about his past. It will be a sweet memory for him," Dematra said.


The makers are hoping to release the film internationally in September.
Comment by Phoebe Macon on July 1, 2010 at 4:47am
Employee Embezzles $1.6 Million From Boss, Police Say



Detectives say Holly Martin-Campbell worked as a bookkeeper for a cement company near Gardena.


Embezzlement suspect Holly Martin-Campbell of Inglewood. (DMV photo)






LOS ANGELES -- An Inglewood woman is accused of embezzling $1.6 million dollars from her boss to fund a lavish lifestyle.


Detectives say Holly Daunielle Martin-Campbell, 37, stole the money while working as an administrative secretary at Blue Daisy Cement Products near Gardena.


Campbell used the money to buy a home in a gated community next to Hollywood Park, purchase a $22,000 Ducati motorcycle for her husband, and a BMW sport utility vehicle for herself, eat at expensive restaurants and attend sporting events and concerts, according to L.A. County Sheriff's detective Christopher Derry.


Martin-Campbell was arrested Tuesday on felony charges of grand theft and forgery. She is set to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon.


Her boss says he had no idea she had served a 16-month prison sentence in the late 1990s for credit card fraud when he hired her in 2002.


Martin-Campbell was in charge of accounts receivable. Her job was to process the incoming checks from customers, Detective Derry said.


An investigation found that she began depositing checks into her own bank account in 2004. The checks, which were for a few thousand dollars up to $21,000, were made out to Blue Daisy, but Bank of America still accepted the checks, Derry said.


She would then delete the transactions.


The scam was uncovered in late 2008 when a Blue Daisy accountant realized the company's profits did not match the amount of product they were selling. The company's owner began scrutinizing the business transactions and found that Martin-Campbell had been depositing the checks into her own account.


Martin-Campbell is being held on $1.5 million dollars bail. She served a 16-month prison sentence in the late 1990s for credit card fraud.


Martin-Campbell faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.


Martin-Campbell's parents have paid $300,000 toward restitution but still owes $1.3 million to Blue Daisy.
 

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