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Fighting Sex Trafficking One Internet Site at a Time  

April 16, 2018 by Diane Dimond 2 Comments

Fighting Sex Trafficking One Internet Site at a Time  

Dateline Washington: “The Justice Department announces the seizure of Backpage.com, the Internet’s leading forum for prostitution ads, including ads depicting the prostitution of children.”

All I can say is, it is about time.

Since 2010, state and federal politicians and law enforcement have known about Backpage.com’s classified section which offered a seemingly [Read more…]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Fighting Sex Trafficking One Internet Site at a Time ", 93 count indictment agasint Backstage.com executives, Backpage.com, Diane Dimond, Diane Dimond's weekly crime and justice column, National Center for Missing and Exploiterd Children, Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA)

Beware the Con Who Steals the Valor of Military Heroes

April 9, 2018 by Diane Dimond 3 Comments

Beware the Con Who Steals the Valor of Military Heroes

They blend in to veteran’s groups, military parades and usually sport a hat or jacket displaying the logo of a branch of the service. They tell intriguing stories about their military exploits with highly trained and super-secret special forces like the Navy Seals, Green Berets or Army Rangers.

Some may let you see their Medal of Valor, Silver Star or Purple Heart. You instinctively want to thank them for their service. But beware. Those patches and medals can be bought online as fast as you can type in a credit card number. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: " Gordon Hamel, "Beware the Con Who Steals the Valor of Military Heroes, "Beware the Military Con", Diane Dimond, Diane Dimond's weekly crime and justice column, Gilbert George Rainault, GuardianoftheGreenBeret.com, Military Records Archive in St. Louis, MilitaryPhony.com, Stolen Valor, Stolen Valor Act of 2013, William Hillar

Your Privacy in This Digital World

April 2, 2018 by Diane Dimond 2 Comments

Your Privacy in This Digital World

Here we go again. Facebook critics are up in arms, outraged over the idea that their personal information might have been mishandled either by the U.K. based company Cambridge Analytica, by Facebook or both.

It’s as if people are surprised that digital information is shared or outright sold to other companies. Since no one pays to join Facebook how do you think its founder Mark Zuckerberg, 33, became a multibillionaire? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alvaro Bedoya, Diane Dimond, Diane Dimond's weekly crime and justice column, Facebook, Facebook and your privacy, Federal Trade Commission, Georgetown Law Center of Privacy and Technology, Mark Zuckerberg, Your Privacy in This Digital World

Was It the Bomb’s Fault or the Mind That Made Them?

March 26, 2018 by Diane Dimond 4 Comments

Was It the Bomb’s Fault or the Mind That Made Them?

There is no doubt the deadly mayhem endured by the citizens of Austin, Texas at the hands of a mysterious bomber this month was horrendous. But in the annals of crime 23-year-old Mark Anthony Conditt (a.k.a. the Austin Bomber) will go down as an amateur.

And, sad to say, bombings are not that unusual.  The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reports that in 2016 there were 439 of them, set in motion by jilted lovers, stalkers or relatives seeking revenge or an inheritance. Since 1990, dozens have been wounded or killed by a package bomb. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "The Mad Bomber", Austin Bomber, Conditt was no Unabomber, Conditt's fatal mistake was mailing FedEx packages, Diane Dimond, Diane Dimond's weekly column, Eric Rudolph, George Metesky the "Mad Bomber" of New York, Mark Anthony Conditt, Mark Conditt aka Kelly Killmore, Ted Kaczynski

Love It or Hate It — Daylight Saving Time is the Law

March 19, 2018 by Diane Dimond 19 Comments

Love It or Hate It — Daylight Saving Time is the Law

Ahh. The extra sunshine these days makes me long for spring. Thanks to daylight saving time nearly all of us are now able to enjoy an extra hour of sun on the back end of the day. The only U.S. residents who don’t benefit live in Hawaii, most of Arizona (excluding the Navajo reservation) and about a half dozen American territories that stay on standard time.

But not everyone is as happy as I am with the extra sunlight.   [Read more…]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Love It or Hate It Daylight Saving Time is the Law", 1966 Uniform Time Act, Albert Hussman, daylight saving time, Diane Dimond, Diane Dimond's weekly crime and justice column, New Mexico State Senator Cliff Pirtle

Hello, FCC and FTC – Can You Hear Me Now?

March 12, 2018 by Diane Dimond 21 Comments

Hello, FCC and FTC – Can You Hear Me Now?

It happens 2.9 billion times each month. All across this nation citizens are being pestered by privacy-invading telephone calls from either live or tape-recorded telemarketers, spammers and scammers even though there are state and federal laws against such unwanted calls.

Think about this. 2.9 billion calls a month translates to 96.6 million of these annoying and frustrating calls placed every single day. That’s four-and-a-quarter million phone calls every hour causing many who answer the calls to want to tear their hair out.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Diane Dimond, Diane Dimond's weekly crime and justice column, FCC, Federal Communications Commission Federal, FTC, Hello FCC and FTC - Can You Hear Me Now?", Lois Greisman of the FTC, Robokiller, Senator Charles Schumer, Trade Commission, unwanted robocalls are illegal, unwanted robocalls now number 2.9 billion per month, who regulates robocalls?, YouMail

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About Diane

I was raised in the great American Southwest by parents who stressed personal responsibility, integrity, compassion for others and the ability to tell a good story. Growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico I absorbed the moral and ethical values I would carry with me throughout life and use daily as a journalist.
After a humble beginning in Albuquerque radio (covering the cops and courts beat) I moved east. First, radio in Washington, DC where politics was the name of the game and then to New York where I got my first taste of television. It was to be a long draw at the TV trough, from New York to Hollywood and back again. And always my most fulfilling work was done in the crime and justice genre. My long running syndicated column allows me to deep dive into the human stories behind the headlines on a weekly basis. Writing books about crime and how society reacts to it still fascinates me.

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