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By “48 Hours Mystery” writer Greg Fisher
At a heart of a LAPD double-homicide examination featured in this week’s “48 Hours Mystery: Playing with Fire” have been scarcely $1 million value of valuables ripped-off when a sovereign supervision seized a resources of Wall Street Ponzi-schemer Mark Yagalla.
48 Hours Mystery: Playing with Fire
Police hold which Yagalla’s girlfriend, Playboy indication Sandy Bentley, as well as her subsequent boyfriend, nightclub doorman Michael Tardio, ripped off a wealth as well as programmed to sell them for income upon a black market.
Tardio had no knowledge as a rapist as well as this incursion in to a Los Angeles black market resulted in his attempted attempted attempted murder as well as a attempted attempted attempted murder of his most appropriate friend, Chris Monson.
The dual were as if executed when they went to sell a wealth by a person(s) who they incorrectly suspicion were starting to compensate them $1 million. Their bodies were dumped in an upscale North Hollywood area inside a burning, rented Mercedes SUV they gathering which night.
Those wealth disappeared. While cops pretence they have been damaged down, melted, afterwards sole in pieces as well as pieces, “48 Hours” has a little disdainful photos for your review. The LAPD is meddlesome in conference from anybody with any report about a jewels.
Have You Seen These Jewels?
It turns out Sandy Bentley had been vital in a $3 million, lush Las Vegas palace which her rich Wall Street boyfriend, Mark Yagalla, had purchased for her. Bentley lived a intemperate lifestyle with a $100,000-per-month spending comment paid for by Yagalla.
In further to a spending account, Yagalla paid for Bentley a uninterrupted tide of costly gifts together with a $500,000 Chopard watch as well as a $150,000 reproduction of a necklace singer Julia Roberts wears in a movie “Pretty Woman.”
Bentley’s Vegas home was filled with value purchased with Yagalla’s ill-gotten gains when sovereign agents seized it.
Here is a duplicate of only a single standard monthly American Express check from Mark Yagalla, a tab: $707,975.21.
Check out a credit label bill
A check which Yagalla would compensate with a tough warranted income stolen from his gullible clients. He outlayed some-more than $600,000 as well as Bentley outlayed $103,989.68.
Yagalla seemed to have favourite to fly in isolation jets since he ran up scarcely $500,000 upon a label during Exxon Jet Aviation in New Jersey. He unloaded $25,000 as if upon toys during FAO Schwarz a single day.
The Ponzi scammer charged up scarcely $60,000 during a Four Seasons in N.Y. which month.
He seems to have had a good eighth month during a Westin upon a Kohala Coast in Hawai, spending $8,000.
Although it seems doubtful Yagalla would take such a outing unless accompanied by a pleasing woman, by a looks of Sandy Bentley’s bill, she was not there with him. In fact, about a same time she was you do her tanning during a beauty sauna in Las Vegas.
According to her bill, Bentley similar to to shop: dropping $1,000 during Chanel in Beverly Hills, scarcely $6,000 upon men’s wardrobe during Versace in Las Vegas upon a same day; afterwards a really subsequent day, spending $1,000 during Chanel in Las Vegas.
One day she competence outlay some-more than $9,000 upon garments during Baracci, or an additional day some-more than $9,000 during smart Fred Segal in Los Angeles, afterwards off to New York to outlay scarcely $6,000 during a disdainful St. John Boutique. One day she outlayed $1,000 upon women’s accessories from Nude Inc. in Los Angeles.
There is a assign for a $3,000 waterbed, copiousness of whim restaurants similar to Morton’s as well as Yamashiro’s ,which overlooks Los Angeles from a Hollywood Hills.
There have been additionally copiousness of charges during a Garden of Eden nightclub during a time of a attempted attempted attempted murder some-more than 8 years ago which was a hottest end in Hollywood filled with a luminary clientele.
That is where Bentley outlayed time with her sister as well as a live-in beloved she common with identical tiwn sister Mandy – Playboy Hugh Hefner. Another a single of Hef’s live-in girlfriends, Izabella St. James, told “48 Hours” which a Garden of Eden was a unchanging end for Hef as well as a limousine full of girlfriends.
Izabella St. James upon hold up in a Playboy Mansion
Hollywood Madame Michelle Braun, a crony of Bentley’s who granted Yagalla with a solid tide of escorts, busy a bar as well as met most of her rich clients there.
Michelle Braun: Life of a madam
Yagalla additionally busy a Garden, as well as Bentley’s boyfriend, Tardio, was a doorman there. In fact, military hold Tardio found a people during a Garden of Eden who finished up murdering him over a valuables deal.
Anyone with report about this box is urged to call teh LAPD during 1-877-LAPD-24-7 | 1-877-527-3247.
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