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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Who is Semanal Media LLC in Monrovia, California who bought LA Weekly? David R Welch, Brian Calle

LA Weekly, semanal media, brian called, david r welch, david ryan welch, advertising, mary cummins, los angeles, california, weekly, magazine, newspaper, laweekly.com,

UPDATE 12/02/2017 The new owners of LA Weekly fired all the writers telling them the new writers will be unpaid contributors. Like HuffPo? RIP LA Weekly. They barely paid those writers any money as it was. They want to be like failed examiner.com? If they fired all the writers, I would assume they already have a ton of free contributors with a month or two of articles already written.

Message from new owners. They want to be mainly digital but also with a print version.

http://www.laweekly.com/news/introducing-the-new-owners-of-la-weekly-8913902

ORIGINAL: October 18, 2017 the corporation was formed with attorney David Ryan Welch as the corporate agent. There is one manager who is Brian Calle as of 11/08/2017. As of 11/09/2017 the CEO is David Ryan Welch. The business is listed as "advertising." That information comes from here.

https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/

Generally a lawyer is the CEO of a company about to go bankrupt or through some serious change. I'd say firing all writers and editors except one is some pretty serious change.

Attorney David Ryan Welch was admitted to the bar in 2007. He's a well known marijuana lawyer. He went to Cal State Fullerton and Loyola Law School. He only has ten years of experience under his belt and now he's the CEO of LA Weekly? Before the sale LA Weekly actually turned a profit. It'll be interesting to see what happens. Maybe this is a way to "launder" or move marijuana profits since banks won't accept their money?

http://www.drwelchlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/

37 year old Brian Calle came from Orange County Register. He'll be taking over the paper. He has no journalism credentials and no association with Los Angeles. He does have a bit of an embarrassing past at the Register here. I don't think this will end well for the LA Weekly. RIP.

A little about Brian Calle via OC Register.

Brian Calle
OPINION EDITOR
Brian Calle
letters@ocregister.com
Brian Calle is the opinion editor of the Southern California News Group, overseeing opinion content for its 11 newspapers and websites including The Los Angeles Daily News, The Orange County Register, The Riverside Press-Enterprise, Daily Breeze in Torrance, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Pasadena Star-News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Whittier Daily News, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, The Sun in San Bernardino and Redlands Daily Facts.

Email: bcalle@scng.com

201729210014 SEMANAL MEDIA, LLC

Registration Date: 10/18/2017
Jurisdiction: CALIFORNIA
Entity Type: DOMESTIC
Status: ACTIVE
Agent for Service of Process:
D/R WELCH ATTORNEYS AT LAW A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION (C3041802)
To find the most current California registered Corporate Agent for Service of Process address and authorized employee(s) information, click the link above and then select the most current 1505 Certificate.

Entity Address: 500 S GRAND AVE, 18TH FLOOR
MONROVIA CA 90071
Entity Mailing Address: 500 S GRAND AVE, 18TH FLOOR
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LLC Management One Manager

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

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Monday, September 14, 2009

Mary Cummins gives expert witness testimony in legal case

"As events unfolded, though, it became questionable if Jimmy was actually living on Union Pacific property. The LAPD, for example, was unsure if the homeless man lives on railroad land, and L.A. City Councilman Greig Smith's office, which represents Northridge, told the Weekly that Jimmy lives on "county property." Longtime real estate expert Mary Cummins, in fact, said that she had no doubt Jimmy resides on county land.

Since two of the three charges against Jimmy involve trespassing on Union Pacific land, the findings were a major blow to the city attorney's case. Incredibly, the private/county property question came as a surprise to Atteukenian, whose boss is Carmen Trutanich.

When Atteukenian was confronted with Cummins' findings during one of Jimmy's court hearings this summer, the prosecutor was caught off guard, said he would make some calls, and asked for a continuance. Atteukenian obviously hadn't done the basic homework of finding out if Jimmy lived on private or county property -- if justice, in fact, was being properly applied to the homeless man's case.

Atteukenian's less than exemplary work as a prosecutor only got worse from there.

At another court hearing on August 3, Atteukenian started to realize the impact of Cummins' and City Councilman Smith's findings. Before the hearing started, the prosecutor approached Jimmy and his friend, Edward Muzika, holding out a business card. With his fingers purposefully obscuring most of the card, Atteukenian used it as proof that he had a contact with the county's Department of Public Works, and said that the unnamed official wanted Jimmy off county land."

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2009/09/is_la_city_attorney_carmen_tru.php

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

Mary Cummins gives expert testimony in legal real estate case

LA Weekly. "Jimmy on the edge of town."

"Mary Cummins, a longtime real estate assessor, has independently deduced that he is, indeed, on county-owned land. But she questions whether or not Union Pacific issued a valid citation for trespassing. If Jimmy is living on county-owned property edging the railroad spur, Cummins’ logic goes, then the railroad company may not be able to charge him with “trespassing” on the railroad’s “private property” or of “lodging without [their] permission.”

As an expert real estate assessor for more than 25 years in the Los Angeles area, Cummins knows how to read tract maps. Just recently, for example, she was hired to testify in court over a major real estate dispute at the Ambassador Hotel. Feral-cat activist Muzika started looking into Jimmy’s case, and he asked Cummins, a friend from animal-rights circles, to help.

Cummins, who normally charges $100 per hour for her expertise, took up Jimmy’s cause for free. She looked up Jimmy’s location on Google Earth, found an L.A. County Assessor’s map, and placed the Google map on top of the county’s map. “You can clearly see Jimmy’s on the L.A. County flood-control channel” land, Cummins says. She is also “absolutely certain,” and would testify in court, that Jimmy is on county-owned property, not the railroad’s.

Cummins sent her findings to Muzika, who e-mailed the maps information to Councilman Smith’s office, and alerted the city attorney at Jimmy’s court hearing on July 1 in the Los Angeles Superior Court in the small town of San Fernando, in the far northeast Valley.

In court that day, the prosecutor handling the case, Apraham Atteukenian, looked surprised when Muzika, with Jimmy near his side, offered up the disputed land-ownership evidence. It’s clearly very basic land-ownership homework that Los Angeles city prosecutors should have done before hauling a man into court for trespassing on railroad property. The prosecutor promised to “make some calls.” Jimmy is defending himself pro per, having dumped a Los Angeles County public defender who advised him to plead guilty to trespassing against Union Pacific. Jimmy is now facing trial August 3, yet, Cummins says, even now, the city attorney and Smith’s office have not responded to her finding that Jimmy is not on railroad land."

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Mary Cummins gives real estate testimony in legal case

"So Jimmy, along with his animal rights friends Edward Muzika and Mary Cummins, took a trip to the Los Angeles Superior Court courthouse in the city of San Fernando to fight back. It had been an interesting few days for Jimmy, whose story was featured in last Thursday's issue of L.A. Weekly, titled "Jimmy on the Edge of Town."

After the article came out, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department came by his tent for a quick visit and several new friends, who apparently read the piece, dropped in and offered him food and money.

"They offered me financial help and I refused," said Jimmy, taking a break from the courtroom. "I said they could give me cat food."

On Monday, the City Attorney's Office wasn't so charitable.

In the courtroom, a prosecutor named Apraham Atteukenian appeared now and then, suggesting to Jimmy and Muzika, who was acting as a kind of advisor to his friend, that the city had a slam dunk case.

Attenukenian refused to back down from his stance that Jimmy was trespassing on the private property of the Union Pacific railroad, even though Los Angeles City Councilman Greig Smith and longtime real estate assessor Cummins had independently concluded that Jimmy lives on county property -- a finding that would seem to hurt the City Attorney's case."

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2009/08/jimmy_nasralla_city_attorney.php

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.