Reply #62: Here is the "rest" of the story:

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From the Whittier Daily News:

The transit agency took shape two years ago, when Yosuf "Yo" Maiwandi traded a few toy motorcycles to a friend in exchange for a 25-seat passenger bus.

"It was a joke," said Maiwandi, who owns and operates Homer's Auto Service on Lemon Street in Monrovia. The business shares an address with the transit authority.

"Then I got four more buses. As time went on, it got more serious," Maiwandi said. "And I found out you can have a security or police force. I thought, it's legal and it sounds like a cool idea."

Maiwandi recruited several friends to join the governing board. The list included Ashley Posner, a civil attorney from Sherman Oaks who also happened to represent Stefan Eriksson.

According to Maiwandi and Posner, Eriksson said he had worked on camera technology that could be used by police to monitor buses. The transit authority decided to launch a pilot program.

"We had hoped to get some government grants to pay for it," said Maiwandi. "Now this guy crashes his car and everyone wants out."

"It was a pilot program to develop a fairly high-tech video communications device for transit buses," Posner said. "As a result of this press, everything has been inactivated and we are re-evaluating everything."

As of Friday, the police portion of the transit authority Web site could no longer be viewed.

It also explains that one of the board members of SGVTA, Ashley Posner, was Stefan Eriksson's attorney. It sounds to me like they were all trying to start their own police force that would get funded by the DHS or something.

Sounds to me like Ashley Posner should be disbarred.