ROBBINS' EX-TENANT SENTENCED.Byline: Jeannette DeSantis Daily News Staff Writer A former tenant of ex-state Sen. Alan Robbins was sentenced to state prison Thursday for stealing valuables from the once-prominent lawmaker's home. Ted Titmas, a 48-year-old businessman, moved into Robbins' million-dollar Encino estate while Robbins was serving his federal sentence for corruption. Titmas, who was convicted in August of two counts of grand theft of personal property, was given a two-year, eight-month sentence Thursday by Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Michael Hoff. ``I think you are a con man,'' Hoff told Titmas before sentencing him. ``You have made it an art form.'' Robbins said when he had Titmas evicted for not paying rent, he ``stripped the house of everything he could physically take out'' including furniture, art, doors, fixtures, toilets, stained glass windows Stained Glass Windows was an early broadcast television program, broadcast on early Sunday evenings on the ABC network. The program was a religious broadcast, hosted by the Reverend Everett Parker. The program ran from September 26, 1948 until October 16, 1949. and the desk the legislator LEGISLATOR. One who makes laws. 2. In order to make good laws, it is necessary to understand those which are in force; the legislator ought therefore, to be thoroughly imbued with a knowledge of the laws of his country, their advantages and defects; to had used in the Senate. ``At that time I had to pay the federal government for restitution In the context of Criminal Law, state programs under which an offender is required, as a condition of his or her sentence, to repay money or donate services to the victim or society; with respect to maritime law, the restoration of articles lost by jettison, done when the , so I had no access to money, I had to do without any furniture and I was taking the bus to get around,'' Robbins said. ``It didn't really hit me until I went down to the beach to jog later on and someone stole my tennis shoes tennis shoes npl → zapatillas fpl de tenis tennis shoes npl → (chaussures fpl de) tennis mpl tennis shoes tennis . That's when it all hit me - there was nothing more anyone could take.'' For almost two decades, Robbins was known as a maverick political operator in Sacramento, where he introduced a record number of bills each session that often served the interests of Valley residents. Robbins later admitted he was extorting money from lobbyists and former business partners while in office and was convicted on one count each of racketeering Traditionally, obtaining or extorting money illegally or carrying on illegal business activities, usually by Organized Crime . A pattern of illegal activity carried out as part of an enterprise that is owned or controlled by those who are engaged in the illegal activity. and filing a false tax return. Robbins served only 18 months of a five-year prison term when he cooperated with authorities. The two-week trial of Titmas brought agonizing memories back to Robbins of his own experiences. ``It is really hard to be around (the courtroom),'' he said. ``It is hard to see people brought into court with handcuffs hand·cuff n. A restraining device consisting of a pair of strong, connected hoops that can be tightened and locked about the wrists and used on one or both arms of a prisoner in custody; a manacle. Often used in the plural. tr.v. and shackles, like I had to wear. ``I am just glad it was the judge's responsibility and not mine to sentence him,'' Robbins said. ``I have a hard time with dealing with anyone who is suffering the pain (of incarceration Confinement in a jail or prison; imprisonment. Police officers and other law enforcement officers are authorized by federal, state, and local lawmakers to arrest and confine persons suspected of crimes. The judicial system is authorized to confine persons convicted of crimes. ).'' |
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