zena martin. they met at church.r her mod evaluate pension and her husbands. she received statements every month, showing impressive returns, 15% and more. but those statements were false. prosecutors say martin spent the money on herself. and it didn't stop there. >> and i got a call from a bank, saying, you're in default of your mortgage. and i said, you must have the wrong number because my mortgage is paid. >> reporter: yobagi hired an attorney who said zena martin forged the paperwork on two mortgages, worth about $700,000. then she let them go into default. >> she caused this house to go into foreclosure. nancy has lost every cent of every dollar she's ever worked for. >> reporter: yobagi raised four children and lost two of them to cancer. she said she'll survive this tragedy, too. >> i'm sad because i was foolish. [ crying -- i was foolish to trust her. >> reporter: zena martin pleaded guilty to robbing investors of just under 1 million. she's serving a 10-year prison sentence. but that doesn't bring back the

a daughter, zena -- no, nina died of natural causes of tuberculosis in the 1920's. another daughter, zena, died of suicide in berlin in 1933, and younger son sirgay was arrested and with the trotsky's did not know is he was shot while trotsky was in mexico and still alive. other family members of the trotsky's had to endure a similar fate, as did most of trotsky's followers. it is, after all, is the period of the great terror. trotsky's paris organization had been penetrated by the nkvd. in fact, his closest to the kurson's closest confidant was a nkvd agent, so it is conceivable that his son's death was in fact murder. beginning especially 1938, trotsky now had to worry about the speech nkvd's presence in mexico. and the reason for this is that the spanish civil war was under way, had been since the summer of 1936. in spain in those two years had become a recruiting ground for the nkbd, and the forces rolled to victory mexico becomes a haven for refugees from the war, defenders of the republic to be sure, but they include agents or if not agents, certainly stalinis

zena, ohio on the line for democrats. cynthia. caller: hi. the place we could cut is the defense budget and to do away with those tax cuts for the top 1% of the country. most don't see the faces tt are people that work in public service every day in financial institutions when you have numbers come in and they are talking about their finances. just yesterday i had a lady in my office that talked to me about she had a job as a professor at a college, lost it, making over $60,000 a year, got a new job making $35,000. she said i can't make it. so, most people don't understand because they don't see the faces. host: the "los angeles times" blogs failure to pass unemployment insurance extension could cost billions reports say. letting the nation's unemployment benefits expire could drain billions from the economy and cost millions of jobs. according to two reports it week on thursday house republicans voted to deny an unemployment benefits extension unhappy with the method planned to fund it. ending federal extensions would drain the economy of $8

zena, ohio on the line for democrats. cynthia. caller: hi. the place we could cut is the defense budget and to do away with those tax cuts for the top 1% of the country. most don't see the faces that are people that work in public service every day in financial institutio when you have numbers come in and they are talking about their finances. just yesterday i had a lady in my office that talked to me about she had a job as a professor at a college, lost it, making over $60,000 a year, got a new job making $35,000. she said i can't make it. so, most people don't understand because they don't see the faces. host: the "los angeles times" blogs failureo pass unemployment insurance extension could cost billions reports say. letting the nation's unemployment benefits expire could drain billions from the economy and cost millions of jobs. according to two reports it week on thursday house republicans voted to deny an unemployment benefits extension unhappy with the method planned to fund it. ending federal extsions would drain the economy of $80 bi