Rick Geist and the Reader
New Hope sinking, trolley at night, Southeast firemen, Frost Hardwood Lumber, sea urchins, Jim “Mouse” Robb
Rick Geist 8:30 a.m., Sept. 14
La Costa News & Stories
Husband and wife cheated workers' compensation
Indicted for hiding the existence of 800 hotel workers
Hyok "Steven" Kwon and his wife, Woo Hui "Stephanie" Kwon, were sentenced to prison yesterday (March 15) for concocting and carrying out a complicated scheme to avoid paying workers' compensation insurance premiums and employment taxes ...
The parting out of Haggen
Smart & Final reputedly to bid on 10 of the 25 stores
With large “Store Closing” banners draped across the front of the La Costa Haggen Food and Drug, advertising 10 to 30 percent off, the much storied four-month expansion to bankruptcy of the Washington based-chain may ...
Haggen, dogged by problems, closes
Some customers unaware of closures but aware of no donuts
Nine months after announcing the biggest move into the Southern California grocery business, Washington-based Haggen Foods is giving up, leaving 127 California, Nevada, and Arizona stores vacant and laying off thousands of workers. The closures ...
La Costa developer Merv Adelson dead at 85
After long lawsuit, and denial, he admitted he had mob ties
Merv Adelson, one of the co-founders of La Costa, is dead at age 85, according to a story yesterday (September 9) on deadline.com. Adelson, co-founder of Lorimar Television and former spouse (twice) of TV star ...
Developer of La Costa dies
Resort's reputation as former hangout for hoodlums perseveres
Irving "Irv" Roston, who in the early 1960s headed up development and construction of the La Costa Resort and Spa, died March 13. After heading up the development, Roston remained as a partner and director ...
Gargantuan grocery-store shakeup
Cerberus owns Albertsons owns Vons/Safeway
The merger between Albertsons supermarkets and the parent company of Vons — Safeway — will cause the closing of numerous stores in San Diego County, it was recently announced. To avoid lack-of-competition pressure from the ...
Dining on the links
Bistro 65 at the La Costa Omni Resort offers classic fare and impressive views.
Hanging out at luxury golf resorts isn’t exactly my standard scene. But when I had the opportunity to dine at Bistro 65 at the La Costa Omni on someone else’s dime, I didn’t hesitate to ...
How was I-5 traffic this summer?
SANDAG plan moves forward to widen 27 miles of interstate
On August 13, with the unprecedented support of all six cities between San Diego and Oceanside, the California Coastal Commission gave the green light to SANDAG’s long-term plan to widen I-5. After the unanimous vote ...
Home of La Costa co-founder Allard Roen for sale
He was partner of notorious hood Moe Dalitz
A home near the third tee of La Costa Country Club, at 2050 Caleta Court in Carlsbad, is up for sale for $2.2 million. It was the home of Allard Roen, one of four controversial ...
Lost love to a convent? Or the mob at La Costa Resort?
Former Encinitas resident tells tale
In the early 1970s, Cardiff resident Rick Crocket met the love of his life in a physics class at Encinitas’ San Dieguito High School. The couple went to prom, dated for a year after his ...
Chabad at La Costa
God in Tijuana on Christmas Day
Chabad La Costa’s rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort trains to desire Godliness.
Why would the FBI give $223 million to Irwin Molasky.?
The project is a few miles down I-5 from the legendary La Costa
He is the man who helped build a greater part of Las Vegas with millions of dollars from Jimmy Hoffa’s mobbed-up Teamsters’ pension fund. Along with his close friend and business partner, the legendary Moe ...
Union-Tribune obituary Allard Roen omits mob connections
Joined with Dalitz, Irwin Molasky, and Merv Adelson to build Las Vegas’s Sunrise Hospital with Teamster funds
On August 31, the Union-Tribune printed an obituary on the death of Allard Roen, one of the original developers of Carlsbad’s La Costa Resort and Spa. He was living there when he died August 28 ...
A La Costa gibbon saves a marriage
When I think of La Costa, I remember the wildlife — the skunk that lived under our house, for instance, a beautiful creature whose size would double when it puffed up its fur after it ...
La Costa's Mo Dalitz – friends with Lucky Luciano, Jimmy Hoffa, Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky.
Mobsters like to golf there
You enter the spa through oversized oak doors and immediately see sun stream down on a naked old man as he climbs out of a sunken Jacuzzi tub in the center of a brightly lit ...
