Business Licenses

The California Board of Accountancy said Thursday that it has revoked the license of Elizabeth Ann Tuey Tatman of Mission Viejo under a stipulated settlement. In settling, Tatman admitted that she diverted at least $568,740 over 10 years from the corporate funds of Howard & Tatman, an accounting company in which she was a half owner. Tatman falsified entries on the firm's financial records to conceal the diversions between 1986 and 1996, the board said.

Fullerton police said Tuesday they arrested 10 women on suspicion of falsifying their credentials to work as massage technicians. Police Sgt. Joe Klein said the vice squad began investigating in March after a detective spotted discrepancies in applications by people seeking licenses to work as massage technicians in Fullerton. He noticed that several applicants "had certificates from one or a couple of these colleges," Klein said. "The names were the same, but the signatures were different.

Hilary Stern developed a love for handcrafted Italian ceramics while studying for a year in Italy during college. But after she graduated with a degree in marketing, she went to work as a public relations agent in New York, and then Sweden. It wasn't until she received an inheritance from her grandfather that she decided to pursue her dream of importing the artisan pieces she admired so much. Now that she has survived her first year in retailing, Stern talked with freelance writer Karen E.

Investigators impounded 67 vehicles from a North Hollywood car lot after discovering they were illegally parked, authorities said Wednesday. Last week, police investigators warned the owner of Charity Vehicle Donations, which sold cars and trucks from a lot in the 6100 block of Vineland Avenue, that the vehicles were parked on land owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. High-voltage wires hang over the land, said LAPD Det.

Health inspectors on the trail of illegal food vendors talk of their tally of violations found on the streets: raw fish kept in malfunctioning freezers; cheese prepared in home bathtubs and sold in balls; pigs roasted on a home barbecue grill and sold from a gardener's truck. One Anaheim inspector recently stumbled across carne adobada--a Mexican dish of pork marinated in red sauce--served from the back of a 1976 Ford Pinto wagon.

Los Angeles has become one of the easiest places in the country to drive a taxi--illegally. While tough licensing and franchising rules make it hard for newcomers to break into the business legally, lax enforcement has helped create a flourishing illicit business that operates openly, brazenly and, sometimes, dangerously. City officials say this is the year they will begin to destroy the bandit taxi business.