Looking to a Software that allows me to auto buy off ticketmaster or any other Ticket website. If anyone has any info please let me know. Thanks

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio scoffs at the possibility that a federal civil rights and racial profiling investigation into his immigration raids and crime sweeps could be expanded into a broader look at his office’s use of power and finances.

Arpaio said the U.S. Justice Department’s civil rights investigation is a politically motivated inquiry by the Barack Obama administration into his immigration enforcement tactics, and he has no indication yet whether investigators are or will be looking into any other matters, including finances. The hard-nosed sheriff said the FBI and Justice Department will not find any financial irregularities within his office.

“I have nothing to hide. Let them look,” said Arpaio, who acknowledged that such investigations can be drawn-out affairs. “They are just coming down here hoping to find something.”

But some legal and public officials with familiarity of Justice Department and FBI inquiries into the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office say the federal investigation could be expanded. That includes investigators taking a closer look at financial management, contracting and vendor relationships, and how various pools of money are used by the MCSO, according to the officials and legal sources who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution.

The MCSO’s $270 million budget includes jails and law enforcement. County budget cuts could result in MCSO having a $228 million annual budget for the next fiscal year, according to Maricopa County spokesman Richard de Uriarte.

Federal investigators could examine MCSO’s vendor contracts; its equipment and vehicle purchases; how it uses federal grant money; the movement of pools of money within the office; and its overall financial management and use of county and federal money, according to a source familiar with the inquiry.

Arpaio stressed he is not aware of any criminal or financial probe by the feds into the MCSO, and that the Obama administration does not like his get-tough stances on immigration and law and order.

Justice Department attorneys began looking into Arpaio’s crime and immigration sweeps in late 2008 and earlier this year confirmed a federal civil rights investigation of the sheriff’s immigration and criminal enforcement, said Justice spokesman Alejandro Miyar.

Miyar said the MCSO inquiry started at the end of President George W. Bush’s second term, but the investigation has become more aggressive since Obama became president and Eric Holder took over as U.S. attorney general in January. Miyar would not comment specifically on the status of the Arpaio investigation, but said he was not aware of any expansion of the probe beyond the MCSO immigration and crime sweeps.

Arpaio, 77, confirmed federal investigators had been to his office and were conducting interviews, but said those inquiries will not deter his arrests of illegal immigrants and raids of businesses that employ them.

“You don’t see me stopping,” said the sheriff, who criticized the motivation and manner of the federal investigation.

There are some calls from Arpaio critics for a comprehensive financial audit of MCSO, but de Uriarte said he was not aware of any immediate efforts by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to conduct an audit.

The sheriff has been battling with the county board and other local officials over immigration issues, including spats with County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox and Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon. The MCSO said June 17 it was investigating restaurant lease deals between Wilcox and the city of Phoenix-owned Sky Harbor International Airport.

Arpaio and Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas led an investigation that indicted Supervisor Don Stapley in December on charges of not disclosing business and real estate development deals on public financial disclosure forms. Stapley denies wrongdoing.

Former Maricopa County Schools Superintendent Sandra Dowling also is suing the county and Arpaio over a 2006 SWAT-team raid of her Phoenix home. Dowling was indicted on numerous counts, including theft, but ended up pleading guilty only to the charge of improperly giving her daughter a job within the county school system.

Arpaio’s office also has an investigation into Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard’s handling of the state prosecution of former Arizona Treasurer David Petersen. Goddard denies wrongdoing in that case.

Arpaio, who was elected to a fifth term in November, said his political adversaries in Arizona are encouraging the Justice Department to go after him,,,,,,,,,,,
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2009/06/15/daily60.html

I’m looking to rent/lease/buy poker software. Here’s the plan:

I’d like to be able to have a poker network supply me with the tables.

I’ll have my own online website, will do the marketing, bring customers in and the company that supplies the software charges me a percentage of the rake.

My profit would be the leftover rake after the company’s deducted their profit. Since I’m only an affiliate, or a skin for this network, I’d assume they charge no money down, only the rake percentage as it is Poker (player vs. player, not house money as in a Casino) so there’s no risk for the company. Does anybody know of anyone that can offer me this ?

See L&L growing, like to open the Hawaiian BBQ restaurant.

I got a great deal, the owner runs a teriaki restaurants, no experience. The space 1600 sf. in a busy shopping center near Target, Marshall…

I can get it for $20,000 with all equipments, only 3 years old.

The rent is high, $6300/mo, the lease ends July, 2009;
elec & gas $1500/mo, the average annual sale $330,000, grocery about 30%, employee 30%…

If I take over, I definitely can drop grocery & employee at least 25%, that I can get over 20 - 30% net profit. My conservative net profit at least $60,000 per year.

Within 3 months, I can get my investment back. Gradually I will convert it to Hawaiian BBQ, there is new opening in the city, but far away.

1, Do you think it is good investment to buy the restaurant?

2, any idea how to miminize the risk?

3, pick good name for the restaurant?

4, don’t worry about competition? There are 19 L&L in my city - San Diego.

5, how to promote my restaurant business?

Thanks

We run a web design and development company and have a lot of relatively small run print work which we farm out, however we are considering leasing whatever print equipment we would need in order to be able to do everything “in house” but we’re blind as to what we would actually need - advice apprreciated.

A MAXIMUM OF $420 I am going to get a new laptop and i only have $400 to spend, i want one with:

160GB Hardware Space
A few GOOD software already installed
at lease a 13” screen
and MAYBE a built in webcam

I saw all that on the web for under $400, but i dont know if I should get it.
Thanks!
Hmm. Check this out:
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The first like 4 or 5 are under 400 with all those! OHHH! lol, which one should i get?

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A salesman pressured my wife to forge my signature onto a contract after I told him no to the deal.My wife is diagnosed for manic depression and is on the drug Ambien and does not recall anything. Who is responsible for the contract? The company Northern Leasing Systems, Inc. says I am, even though I did not sign anything and was against the contract to begin with. The salesman had my wife sign my name after I had left to go somewhere else.I had notice on Rip-Off.com there has been alot of complaints against Northern Leasing System, Inc.

I have been living in my current privately rented property for over a year now.

In my previous property (also privately rented) the landlord signed the lease along with me on my first day and gave me a copy along with all the relevent paperwork for the council tax applications.

This time I have had no lease, no information regarding the council tax - in fact nothing has been mentioned or given in writing besides you pay for your own gas, electric, telephone and internet as you require it and the rent is £XXX a month.

Just wondering how this goes with the council tax as I would be more than happy to pay it but refuse to without a lease to know where I stand yet the landlord is refusing to come across with it after almost a year of asking for it.
No need for the cheek! I am asking because there is no lease stating council tax bands or who is to pay it as in my friend’s lease it states her landlord will pay the council tax!!

Anyway as a full-time student I have discovered I am not eligible to pay it!

I am a small business owner who leased a Signtronix sign about 16 months ago. Come to find out it is a scam that continues to charge your account after your pymts should be up and charges you taxes that were never mentioned. The sign itself works fine and I have no problems with them, its the leasing company that has forged my signature on a bogus contract that I cant get out of. What should I do without bringing in expensive legal counsel or Causing abusive phone calls from this bogus leasing company.