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MARK QUINN
A convicted bank robber was sentenced 70-years-to-life on March 1 by Judge Daniel Proud.
Mark Allen Quinn, 51, was charged in 2012 with two counts of robbing banks. The first charge involved the South Lake Tahoe Bank of America on April 16, 2012. The second count was for the March 12, 2012, robbery of a Morgan Chase bank in El Dorado County.
A third count against Quinn was conspiracy to commit a crime — a third bank robbery. Quinn, the criminal complaint states, conspired with another unknown individual, discussing robbing a bank in the El Dorado Hills Town Center, driving to the Town Center and splitting the money.
Special enhancements included prior counts, with two convictions in Orange County of bank robberies in 1982 and 1984. Other prior offenses listed are assault with a deadly weapon and first-degree burglary.
Quinn remains in custody at the El Dorado County Jail. Quinn filed an appeal to the ruling on March 7.
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LpMarch 15, 2013 - 12:24 am
Good! This is what walks our streets in Placerville 24/7...By, by scumbag! One down......
Walking TallMarch 15, 2013 - 11:28 am
When the time fits the crime we will have a true determent and less crime...
DB SmithMarch 15, 2013 - 3:20 pm
Absolutely Walking Tall! We need to stop this crap of plea bargaining and inside deals and let the person that does the deed know that there are real consequences to what they do. If you are sentenced to 5 years then it's 5 frigin years and that is only if you do good time and if you don't do good time then more time will be added sucker! If you are sentenced to life then that is FINAL decision and come on down! If you get the death sentence and that is on the books in the state that you do it then so be it. It's all a matter of true consequences. True definitions and consequences of your actions. Oh ~ if I'm a good boy while I'm in prison after screwing somebody's life up then maybe I can get out early. Bullcrap! These frigin liberal judges and lawyers are constantly making a shame of anything definitive, logical or the true definition of a word. Bleeding heart frigin idiots!
DB SmithMarch 15, 2013 - 3:51 pm
Well Walking Tall ~ It looks like we can agree on the "time fits the crime" thing but your following comments aren't jiving with me. I have my MD commentator categories listed as the "GOOD" the "BAD" and the "UGLY". I need to put you in the "BAD" for now. Don't bad mouth our Sheriff!
Ken SteersMarch 15, 2013 - 6:59 pm
DB, Walking Hard is a sore loser.
Walking TallMarch 15, 2013 - 9:54 pm
DB/Ken not at all just stating facts and the knowledge of the things he said he would do and hasn't. The GOB's have had control long enough and it would have been nice if he had done what he said he would and not ignore what he was told. Funny how several others say the say thing guess we are all sore at him together.
CatherineMarch 16, 2013 - 7:21 pm
Wait, gentlemen. A guy robs two banks, and the judge wants to spend $50K/year for perhaps the 30+ years remaining in his life, to "protect society." Meanwhile, bankers rob the public trust and hurt thousands, and no one bats an eyelash. The guy is a criminal, but 70 years seems a bit much when white collar criminals get zero years.
James E.March 16, 2013 - 8:32 pm
There are two systems of justice -- one for us little people and one for the elite. Unequal justice under law. Wonder if local, state, and federal judges ever think about that?
EvelynMarch 17, 2013 - 6:08 am
James, the answer to your question: NOPE. ********** Catherine: Concerning disproportionate responses to financial crime, "Obama Prosecuting Fewer Financial Crimes Than Under Reagan or Either Bush" HERE. The government has more or less made it official policy not to prosecute fraud, and instead to do everything necessary to cover up for Wall Street.
EvelynMarch 17, 2013 - 6:12 am
"Even Democratic Party Loyalists Starting to Wake Up to the Fact that Obama Is As Bad As Bush … Or Worse" HERE - Obama Is Worse than Bush In Favoring the Super-Elite, Bailing Out the Big Banks, Protecting Financial Criminals, Targeting Whistleblowers, Keeping Government Secrets, Trampling Our Liberties and Starting Military Conflicts In New Countries
EvelynMarch 17, 2013 - 6:16 am
THIS (hopefully) is a functioning link for the above.
EvelynMarch 17, 2013 - 6:18 am
Yes, is is functioning. I just neglected to put "THIS" (above) in bold so you could see it!!! Sorry. The caffeine hasn't kicked in yet.
EvelynMarch 17, 2013 - 7:00 am
Speaking of bank robbery . . . Cyprus has imposed a tax on all bank savings. HERE. "Under the deal, all bank deposits over €100,000 will be hit with a levy of 9.9 per cent. Those with smaller savings will pay 6.75 per cent." ********* Fortunately, nothing similar could happen here.
EvelynMarch 17, 2013 - 7:06 am
"Eric Sprott, Jim Sinclair, & JPM’s Head CIO Trader: The Current Financial System Will End In Ruin. The Later, Greater Depression. Things Like This, It’s Like The Twin Towers Falling Down" - HERE
EvelynMarch 17, 2013 - 7:15 am
"The Federal Reserve System Is A Massive Wealth Redistribution Scheme" - HERE - During fiscal year 2012, $359,796,008,919.49 that had been forcibly extracted from American taxpayers was transferred into other hands. Most of it ended up in the pockets of the global elite. So what did the American people get in return for that 359 billion dollars? Nothing at all. No roads were built, no schools were constructed, no teachers were paid and none of it went to national defense. It was simply interest that was owed on the national debt, and most of it just made the ultra-wealthy even wealthier. But this is exactly what the Federal Reserve system was designed to do when it was created back in 1913.
EvelynMarch 17, 2013 - 7:18 am
The Federal Reserve Act: Signed into law December 23, 1913. Nothing to celebrate.
Phil VeerkampMarch 17, 2013 - 8:11 am
Evelyn, when I read your Cyprus link I actually thought it was an "Onion-like" hoax. Apparently not!!! - LINK -Facing Bailout Tax, Cypriots Rush to Get Their Money Out of Banks - New York Times - By LIZ ALDERMAN - Published: March 17, 2013
EvelynMarch 17, 2013 - 8:27 am
Phil: With all my heart, I wish it had proven to be a hoax. Anyone believing something similar couldn't happen here hasn't been paying attention.
EvelynMarch 17, 2013 - 8:43 am
"Cypriots Rush Banks To Get Cash Out Facing Immediate EU Bailout Tax – Man Threatens to Bulldoze Bank!" HERE (I refuse to reveal whose side I'm on!)
EvelynMarch 17, 2013 - 8:50 am
A final comment before signing off to go do something productive. Last Tuesday our County Board of Supervisors signed off on selling us out to private interests. Get ready for THE NEXT ECONOMY REGIONAL PROSPERITY PLAN. (There are many ways of fleecing the people. Banks are only one of them.)
Phil VeerkampMarch 17, 2013 - 5:06 pm
LINK - (Reuters) - Cyprus was working on a last-minute proposal to soften the impact on smaller savers of a bank deposit levy after a parliamentary vote on the measure central to a bailout was postponed until Monday, a government source said. - "The Cypriot government on Sunday discussed with lenders the possibility of changing the levy to 3.0 percent for deposits below 100,000 euros, and to 12.5 percent for above that sum, a source close to the consultations told Reuters on condition of anonymity." . . . giving bank robbery a good name . . .
EvelynMarch 19, 2013 - 4:10 pm
Think we're immune to the contagion of official theft from our bank accounts? It's catching on, now proposed in New Zealand. "Under the policy . . . if a bank fails a statutory manager is appointed to calculate the bank's liabilities. The statutory manager can then freeze a percentage of customers' bank deposits to cover those liabilities before it reopens the next trading day." HERE
EvelynMarch 19, 2013 - 6:29 pm
Cyprus Situation “DOMINOS LACED WITH DYNAMITE” Ready to IMPLODE ENTIRE DERIVATIVE BUBBLE! - US Deposits In Perspective – $25 Billion In Insurance, $9,283 Billion In Deposits – $297,514 Billion In Derivatives HERE
EvelynMarch 22, 2013 - 9:05 am
"Bernanke Fails to Answer Concerns about a Cyprus-Style Seizure of American Bank Deposits" - <HERE ... [M]ore and more Americans realize that the government has bailed out the super-elite of the big banks, and enabled their fraud … while hosing the little guy again and again (and again). People see that we have socialism for the rich, but cut-throat, sink-or-swim capitalism for everyone else.
EvelynMarch 24, 2013 - 7:45 am
Bank of Cyprus (quoting another): "I have concluded that the reports of a deal are merely propaganda to reduce the possibility that citizens in the rest of Europe and the US will empty their accounts starting Monday. Keep in mind that by the time the people of Cyprus learned of the impending bank levy, their accounts were already locked. The same will happen across Europe and the US. By the time it is officially acknowledged that the looting of the depositors' accounts is being considered, it will be too late to take your money out."
EvelynMarch 24, 2013 - 7:51 am
Speaking of bank robbers: "Cyprus, Troika agree to 20% tax on deposits over 100,000 euros at Bank of Cyprus" - here - Hang the bankers.
EvelynMarch 24, 2013 - 7:55 am
True or False? The guys at the top legislate to eliminate competition from the remaining 99.9%.
Phil VeerkampMarch 24, 2013 - 8:04 am
LINK - In what could pose serious problems for the government, some (bank workers) suggested that they should strike on Tuesday – the day banks are set to reopen after being closed for more than a week.
Phil VeerkampMarch 24, 2013 - 8:39 am
Evelyn, your mistake is in attaching venal human motives of greed etc. to the certain and unavoidable (though imperfectly predictable) mathematical certainty of monetary growth and collapse. Compounding monetary systems “produce” money from “MONEY HEAVEN” and in time money returns to from whence it came. POOF! The “banksters” do not take the loot. It simply returns to “money heaven”. A = P(1+r/n)^nt ultimately is a Ponzi scheme.
EvelynMarch 24, 2013 - 8:46 am
Ponzi, indeed. The bankers know it. Bernie Madoff knew it. ("But trust them anyway, 'cause I know them and I trust them," says an empty headed local pol.)
EvelynMarch 24, 2013 - 8:54 am
I totally fell in love with the "visioning" facilitator who verbally slapped his "visioning" skeptics with the wet noodle "Some people are just untrusting." Yep. Built-in accountability really is sooooooooooo passé.
EvelynMarch 25, 2013 - 7:20 am
"IT'S OFFICIAL: Banks In Europe May Now Seize Deposits To Cover Their Gambling Losses" - HERE
EvelynMarch 28, 2013 - 8:37 am
"Stunning Facts About How the Banking System Really Works … And How It Is Destroying America" (HERE) Most people now realize that the big banks have become little more than criminal enterprises. ... But the Federal Reserve is enabling the banks. Indeed, the giant banks and the Fed are part of a malignant, symbiotic relationship.
EvelynMarch 28, 2013 - 9:44 am
"The Global Elite Are Very Clearly Telling Us That They Plan To Raid Our Bank Accounts" - HERE - One of the key players that was pushing the idea of a "wealth tax" in Cyprus was the IMF. And everyone knows that the IMF is heavily dominated by the United States. In fact, the headquarters of the IMF is located right in the heart of Washington D.C. not too far from the White House.
EvelynMarch 29, 2013 - 4:20 pm
"It Can Happen Here: The Bank Confiscation Scheme for US and UK Depositors" - HERE - Can They Do That? Although few depositors realize it, legally the bank owns the depositor’s funds as soon as they are put in the bank.
EvelynMarch 30, 2013 - 10:09 am
"An 80% Wealth Confiscation Scheme?" - HERE
EvelynMarch 31, 2013 - 3:28 pm
Speaking of robbery: "Cypriot Politicians’ Loans Written Off" - HERE - Definitely something we'll be emulating.
EvelynMarch 31, 2013 - 3:34 pm
DAVID STOCKMAN: "We’ve Been Lied To, Robbed, And Misled" - "Then, when the Fed’s fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion during its first 90-four years . . . " (CAREFULLY read those figures.) HERE
EvelynMarch 31, 2013 - 3:52 pm
Indecisive about where to put this on public toilet usage, inclusion with bank robbery postings seemed permissible. ********** "Arizona Wants To See Your ID Before You Use The Restroom" - HERE
EvelynApril 01, 2013 - 7:44 am
"Large Bank of Cyprus savers lose access to deposits" (HERE) - Substantial savers in the Bank of Cyprus, the island’s largest, have lost access to 100 per cent of their deposits ... .
MarkApril 02, 2013 - 10:23 am
Lp,u don't know anything about this man. He is the nicest man u can ever meet. All he was trying to do was to support his family. So don't post things when you don't know the background
EvelynApril 04, 2013 - 9:49 am
Leaks reveal secrets of the rich who hide up to $32 TRILLION offshore - HERE - (ICIJ original research: "Ponzi schemers and other large-scale fraudsters routinely use offshore havens to pull off their shell games and move their ill-gotten gains.")
EvelynMay 05, 2013 - 7:48 am
"Billionaire Bankster Breaks Into Obama's Cabinet" - HERE Next Economy aficionados will fall in love with Penny Pritzker, Obama's newly appointed Secretary of Commerce.