Sau San Wu, Grow Op Queen

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 21 July 2011 06:21

CRIME WATCH Sau San Wu, Grow Op Queen "In happier times, Sau San (Jennifer) Wu loved getting her picture in the newspaper, posing with a cellphone at her ear and a coy smile on her face in ads for her former Richmond Hill real estate business. Now, Wu is heading to prison after getting her photo in a newspaper one time too many. York Regional Police detective Dave Noseworthy spotted her face in the background of a photo in an online Romanian newspaper earlier this year, five years after Wu fled the country -- and charges of helping run the largest indoor residential marijuana grow operation in Canadian history. ... Wu, 46, faced those charges in a Newmarket court Thursday, where she was sentenced to 6 ½ years in prison. ... She plead guilty to an assortment of charges for marijuana cultivation, tax evasion, utilities fraud, money laundering and violating court-ordered bail conditions. She was also given a year to pay $97,647.79 in back income taxes. ... Court heard she used her skills as a real estate professional to rent out 54 houses across the GTA to 'farmers,' who cultivated crops between September 2000 and December 2002. Court heard the 27,000 marijuana plants seized in the 54 houses were worth between $2.8 million and $15.3 million wholesale. Wu operated 17 personal and four corporate bank accounts and had nine credit card accounts to launder money and maintain the ruse that the houses were legally rented. ... Her partner in the scheme and co-accused, Phu Nhi (John) Trac, was sentenced to five years in prison on December 22, 2009. He was also ordered to pay a fine of more than $1 million. Noseworthy told the Toronto Star he located Wu after googling the name 'Eli Comsa,' Wu’s husband and a former auto mechanic in Vaughan. A Romanian newspaper article about a Bucharest daycare that offered language instruction in four languages appeared on his computer screen. In the foreground of the photo was Comsa. In the background was a woman identified as daycare operator 'Ivy Lim.' Noseworthy said he immediately recognized that 'Ivy Lim' was really Wu, one of the architects of the massive marijuana scheme and a fugitive for the past five years. [Lawyer Gary] Clewley told the court that many of Wu’s legal woes came because she has had bad luck choosing men. ... The father of her teenaged son abandoned her and didn’t pay any child support, Clewley said, while Trac, who was a 'top producer' with Living Realty, pulled her into the marijuana enterprise and then tried to paint her as its mastermind. 'It was his idea,' Clewley said. 'She had a young son and she wasn’t making much of a living . . . The father (of her first child) wasn’t contributing, and she ended up in a relationship with Trac.' Things appear far better with Comsa, a car mechanic who worked on her Mercedes and Chrysler Sebring in Vaughan before they became romantically involved shortly before her flight to Romania." (Toronto Star, May 12, 2011) Bad luck choosing men? Oh give the lady a little credit! She appears to have been equally adept using her paramours: The Vietnamese delivered unheard of wealth while the Romanian provided landed resident status in an obscure hidey-hole just when she needed it. Note their romantic relationship blossomed just before she needed to hole up somewhere. If she was reckless, or greedy, enough to promote her daycare centre posing for Internet photos, it wasn't because husband du jour was holding a gun to her coiffured head. And by the way, if owning a Mercedes and Sebring qualifies as 'not making much of a living,' where do we sign up? [This article appears in the July, 2011 issue of the CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE. Published monthly, the CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE is available by subscription for $30 per year. You can subscribe by sending a cheque or VISA number and expiry date to CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3.] _____________________________ Unsubscribe / Change Profile: http://ymlp122.net/u.php?id=gmjhqsqgsgbbqghq Powered by YourMailingListProvider

 

Hear Paul Fromm -- The Fighting Side of Me: The Hypocrisy of Political Correctness

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Thursday, 21 July 2011 06:20

Hear Paul Fromm -- The Fighting Side of Me: The Hypocrisy of Political Correctness July 12, 2011 · Paul Fromm discusses: A new book exposing Canadian hero and Mao pal Norman Bethune as a failure, a medical bungler, a fraudster, an abortionist and a communist fanatic; Toronto Board of Education says Moslems have right to prayers in school but Christians cannot have a Christmas Assembly; Families of Air India terrorist bombing reject gov’t $24,000 offer as an “insult” but it’s not about the money! NDP socialists launch petition for special privileges so Sikhs can pack their kirpans (daggers) in any government institution. http://reasonradionetwork.com/20110712/the-fighting-side-of-me-the-hypocrisy-of-political-correctness _____________________________ Unsubscribe / Change Profile: http://ymlp122.net/u.php?id=gmjhqsqgsgbbqghw Powered by YourMailingListProvider

 

Hear Paul Fromm -- The Fighting Side of Me: The Hypocrisy of Political Correctness

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 21 July 2011 04:29

Hear Paul Fromm -- The Fighting Side of Me: The Hypocrisy of Political Correctness July 12, 2011 · [image: Norman Bethune, Maoist] Paul Fromm discusses: - A new book exposing Canadian hero and Mao pal Norman Bethune as a failure, a medical bungler, a fraudster, an abortionist and a communist fanatic; - Toronto Board of Education says Moslems have right to prayers in school but Christians cannot have a Christmas Assembly; - Families of Air India terrorist bombing reject gov’t $24,000 offer as an “insult” but it’s not about the money! - NDP socialists launch petition for special privileges so Sikhs can pack their *kirpans* (daggers) in any government institution. http://reasonradionetwork.com/20110712/the-fighting-side-of-me-the-hypocrisy-of-political-correctness