From www.carlsbadistan.com:
San Diego City Beat has uncovered a rather interesting Wikileak story regarding a wedding thrown by Dagestani ambassador to Moscow Gadzhi Makhachev. The reason it is interesting is that the cable also mentions that Makhachev had homes in San Diego and sent Dagestani youth (including his sons) to “a military type high school near San Diego.”
City Beat says Makhachev denied in published reports that he has homes in San Diego, however, they found that he actually owns four homes in Carlsbad, all of which we know well (one is located next door to Senior Grubby’s see below) and that he has sent 15 boys through Carlsbad’s Army & Navy Academy.
The more interesting news is that, aside from donating $100,000 to the Army & Navy Academy, Makhachev reportedly had connections with a local machinery exporter and Carlsbad developer Bernard Goldstein, a man who was “indicted by a federal grand jury in November for allegedly hiding millions of dollars in overseas bank accounts.”
City Beat says that Goldstein has since “fled the country.”
How’s that for some local intrigue? Click the link for all the details in a well researched piece of investigative journalism from City Beat senior writer Dave Maass.
[Link: San Diego City Beat]
Bernard Goldstein of Carlsbad and Jeffrey Chatfield of San Diego were identified as clients by UBS, the Department of Justice announced last week.
“This is part of a continuing effort by the IRS and Justice Department to combat international tax evasion,” said IRS Deputy Commissioner Steven Miller. “These actions send a clear, unmistakable message to anyone who tries to use international borders to evade federal taxes.”
Goldstein, a Canadian citizen, has fled the U.S. and his whereabouts are not known, the DOJ said. He was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to defraud the IRS, filing false tax returns and failing to report foreign accounts, the Department of Justice said.
The indictment said that Goldstein used UBS bank accounts from 1992 through 2008 under his own name and that of “a sham Panamaniam corporation named Kasler Management Corp.” Goldstein’s accounts were opened in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland and were valued at more than $2.5 million in 2003, according to the indictment.
Goldstein is the owner of MG Export-Import Inc., a California-based company that exported oil pipeline products to Russia, the Department of Justice said. The San Diego Union-Tribune identified him in 2006 as a developer, landlord and Carlsbad civic activist who relocated from Canada in 1990.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/23/irs-charges-two-san-diego-county-businessmen-swiss/
I love it. 008 – Klinge – James Klinge. Shaken – not stirred. Great job!
Great video!
That wedding cable is a great read too. Much of the wikileaks are dry stuff but that wedding cable puts the reader right there.
Jimbo – I’ve got an affinity for the Army-Navy academy as I went to an identical school up in the LA/Long Beach area called So CA Military Academy. We were sponsored under the Marines branch, same uniforms, etc.
Beautiful 1920’s campus, military generals as teachers, tons of discipline (and punishment). Got to clean the sidewalks with toothbrushes, cut the grass with fingernail clippers, etc. Teaches a 7th grader to keep his mouth shut in class in a real hurry!!!!
Great institution and hope they can keep this one alive for future generations.
Hey, international men of intrigue and crime need to live somewhere. Those hollywood types ruined Lago di Como so they had to find somewhere else.
What the hell was on the roof of that pink house?