Livermore winemaker targeted by 'Dirty DUI' scheme sues wife, CNET scandal suspects

Pathetic Ploy, how do you know all this? Are you a friend of the wife, the husband, or did you hear it through the grapevine?

Pathetic Ploy wrote:

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The article says he's suing his wife for setting him up for the DUI. He has NO PROOF that she had anything to do with his DUI. She didn't set him up at all. What reason would she have for that? The article states because she wanted to have the upper hand in a custody battle... guess what? They weren't involved in a divorce at the time he was picked up for driving drunk..he WAS drunk and no one poured alcohol down his throat! Mitch is the one trying to benefit by filing this frivolous lawsuit to hurt his wife and family even more. He's hell bent on turning his sons against their own mother because he doesn't want to have to pay for casting his family aside due to his enormous ego and desire to sleep around with as many skanks who will have him. One of them bragged about her relationship with him as he lied to her telling her he was "going through a divorce" just so he could get her into bed... she got a nice Tiffany necklace though... and he told her he has no 'regrets'.... he's a dick for doing this to his family...

The article says that after he asked to file for divorce, she hired a private investigator, Christopher Butler, who has been suspect for these types of setups before. To summarize, he put GPS tracking on Katz's car, hired Carl Marino (an actor-model) to give a phony interview about a reality show as well as four women to encourage him to keep drinking during the fake interview. On top of that, it's suggested that the cop was in on it with Butler which is supported by a current investigation of Butler and a crooked cop being caught selling confiscated drugs earlier this year as well as many other crimes including kidnapping. The judge even said he was a 'danger to the public.' You can see his record with a quick Google search. The cop from Katz's DUI is now under current investigation.
Carl Marino, the guy who gave the fake interview apologized and is currently testifying against Butler and says it was all a setup.

Maybe we didn't read the same article? I'm not saying that it's okay that he was driving while intoxicated but when evidence has been gained illegally in a case, the evidence has to be dropped no matter what. I feel that applies to this DUI case as well.

Pathetic Ploy wrote:

Really Mr. Anon? his wife hired the PI, for what exactly? when they were not even involved in a divorce proceedings at the time of his DUI? and Mitch has proof of this? from who? a tainted snitch? Mitch was committing adultery, and the proof of that was revealed. He also drives drunk all the time and finally got a DUI. Just because he may have stepped into his own shit doesn't mean someone pushed him there. He walked on his own, bragging about it all the way. He has no regrets. He said so himself. ask Timmee.

A former Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy who allegedly helped a private investigator with "dirty DUI" arrests has been indicted by a federal grand jury.

Stephen Tanabe, 48, of Alamo, was indicted Thursday on four felony counts of conspiracy to extort under color of official right and aiding and abetting, in connection with the drunken-driving arrests. He is expected to surrender to authorities before a scheduled court appearance Monday in Oakland, attorneys said.

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Mike in Springtown wrote:

<quoted text>A former Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy who allegedly helped a private investigator with "dirty DUI" arrests has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
Stephen Tanabe, 48, of Alamo, was indicted Thursday on four felony counts of conspiracy to extort under color of official right and aiding and abetting, in connection with the drunken-driving arrests. He is expected to surrender to authorities before a scheduled court appearance Monday in Oakland, attorneys said.
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Not to change the topic completely, but this guy was making a lot of money by being dirty but nobody at the department or IA had a clue because everyone knows, yah, cops make enough money to live in Alamo. Normal regular working people that you hear of living in Alamo, you might say "Oh yah? What do they do?" Because you want to know - are they a doctor? a Lawyer? did they sell their start up to Facebook? Because its expensive. But a civil servant, hey, of course, that explains it!

Pathetic Ploy wrote:

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and you sound like the ass kissers that cowtow to the drunk egomaniac Mitch. He was cheating on his wife, bullying her daily, going around town for 4 months telling everyone he was going to divorce his wife, except he forgot to tell her, so he could get the skanks to sleep with him.(most of the skanks knew he was still married and some of the women are married themselves! hence the title "skank" but they still bragged about it to their friends.. well... people they thought were their "friends") and that's why Alicia filed for divorce several weeks after his DUI incident. I'm pretty sure that behavior he finally got caught for doing was more fuel he added to the fire of destruction he was brewing up in his family. and now for him to blame Alicia for his choice to DRINK AND DRIVE... pathetic.. he's a grown ass man and makes his own choices. He DROVE drunk and committed adultery. He made a choice to throw his family away.

Yah, ok, we get it, you're one of Alicia's coven of bitter washed up divorcee hens and you hate Mitch, he's a dirtbag, pond scum, yada yada yada. None of that changes the fact that instead of simply conducting her divorce proceedings like a normal person, which non-pyscho bitches can manage to do all the time, by letting their ATTORNEY handle it for them, she orchestrated a criminal conspiracy relying on the bribing of a law enforcement officer and the subterfuge of several fellow conspirators in order to frame her husband. She belongs in jail.

She certainly hasn't helped her argument for an equitable division of the marital assets.

The Real Anon wrote:

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Yah, ok, we get it, you're one of Alicia's coven of bitter washed up divorcee hens and you hate Mitch, he's a dirtbag, pond scum, yada yada yada. None of that changes the fact that instead of simply conducting her divorce proceedings like a normal person, which non-pyscho bitches can manage to do all the time, by letting their ATTORNEY handle it for them, she orchestrated a criminal conspiracy relying on the bribing of a law enforcement officer and the subterfuge of several fellow conspirators in order to frame her husband. She belongs in jail.
She certainly hasn't helped her argument for an equitable division of the marital assets.

Laughable ... Alicia orchestrated no such thing.. Mitch got picked up by a cop with bad past. Disgusting that he's trying to blame her for his philandering with women and getting caught finally driving drunk. Seems like Mitch had dumb luck all the way around. Typical liar, blaming others. If he got out of his DUI because of the cop being suspect, why sue Alicia and try to blame it on her after the fact? he was drunk.. Seems like Mitch is the sick evil one.

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Laughable ... Alicia orchestrated no such thing.. Mitch got picked up by a cop with bad past. Disgusting that he's trying to blame her for his philandering with women and getting caught finally driving drunk. Seems like Mitch had dumb luck all the way around. Typical liar, blaming others. If he got out of his DUI because of the cop being suspect, why sue Alicia and try to blame it on her after the fact? he was drunk.. Seems like Mitch is the sick evil one.

if he's suing his wife, wouldn't that make any proof she may have about his philandering become part of public record? especially if she was defending herself as to the real reason she hired Butler? Does Mr. Katz really want that information out on public record? I would think he wouldn't want his kids to know details of how he destroyed his family with his documented behaviors. But maybe this is good for business. Scandal sells and I heard he lost the lease to his tasting room because the owner Callahan refuses to continue doing business with Mr. Katz due to his behaviors.