Second act for valley's notorious whiz kids Mitnick, Minkow, infamous sons of the Valley, are trying to atone for their whiz-kid misdeeds By Dana Bartholomew Staff Writer The call came in for Barry Minkow, the onetime San Fernando Valley whiz-kid con artist who'd just served 7 years for bilking investors out of $26 million in the notorious ZZZZ Best carpet cleaning company fraud. Minkow, living in a halfway house for felons in downtown Los Angeles in 1995, didn't want trouble. But on the phone was another Valley guy, Kevin Mitnick, on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list for hacking into...