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Income Taxes

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    IRS Nabs Costa Mesa Tax Preparer For Claiming False Deductions

    Based on an Internal Revenue Service investigation and a 50-count federal grand jury indictment issued this week, authorities today arrested a Costa Mesa tax preparer in Prescott, Arizona.Ronald Vernon Strawn, 67, will face charges that he fraudulently prepared income tax forms that focused on manuf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Richard and Jolene Engel, High-Flying Society Couple of the '90s, Hid $180 Million in Income

    Richard Gardner Engel​In the 1990s, you could not serpentine around a champagne server at a high society soiree in Orange County without bumping into Richard and Jolene Engel. They were everywhere, even landing aboard the P'zazz yacht when the Nordstrom family hosted a private Newport Harbor suppe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Pancha Keophimone, Recruiter of Patients in $154 Million Insurance Scam, Cuts a Deal

    ​A woman who was a "capper"--one who illegally recruits healthy patients to undergo unnecessary and often dangerous surgeries so medical practices can earn health insurance payments--was sentenced today to a year in jail for her role in what prosecutors call "the largest medical fraud prosecution ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Can You Fleece Me Now? Verizon Among Nation's Top Tax Dodgers: Report

    ​Verizon Communications has been one of the nation's biggest tax dodgers for the past three years, according to a new report that is to be released today."Unpaid Bills: How Verizon Shortchanges Government Through Tax Dodging and Subsidies" is to be unveiled at a press conference held by the Commun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    Dave Gilliard, OC Sheriff's Adviser, Caught in "Shady" $840,000 Scheme

    ​Dan Morain, one of the true jewels of mainstream journalism in California, has tied a key campaign adviser to Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, Congressman Ed Royce and state Assemblyman Jim Silva to a "shady" effort to smear Sen. Barbara Boxer in the 2010 election.Veteran political consultant Dave Gillia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Dana Rohrabacher Co-Sponsors Bill Saving Pot Clubs Cash

    ​Everybody's favorite surfing congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, (R-Surf City), has co-authored legislation on Capitol Hill that would save medical marijuana dispensaries untold thousands of dollars per year in tax charges. We heard this amazing news courtesy of our Bay Area sister paper, the SF Weekl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    MoveOn.org Comes to the Rescue of Taxes Today

    ​Taxes must be suffering from battered women's syndrome about now. We're all like, "Aw come on, baby. You know I loves ya," Then--BAM!--corporations and rich people rap taxes upside the head, saying they ain't returning to Clinton-era levels. Then we get all lovey-dovey again and--WHAM!--House Rep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Feds Arrest Ex-OC Man in Massive Tax Refund Scheme

    ​News agencies are reporting that a former Orange County resident orchestrated a $763 million tax conspiracy that may have defraud the IRS and U.S. taxpayers of more than $10 million.According to the Associated Press, federal prosecutors in Seattle have charged Ronald L. Brekke, a 54-year-old form ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

    Unauthorized immigrants make up just more than 3 percent of the U.S. population. But they're accused of sucking up public benefits and dodging taxes

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Meg Whitman in Garden Grove Today Telling The Jobbed How She is Going to Create Jobs

    ​Meg Whitman, your Republican nominee for governor, tours Earth Friendly Products in Garden Grove at 10 this morning, before pausing to tell workers how she is going to create jobs.Great. But why share her cure with a bunch of people who already have jobs? Why not face the huddled masses yearning ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    FBI Seeks Man Who Allegedly Stole Billionaire's Tax Refund

    Donny's Dough is missing​Donald Bren, Orange County's richest man with at least $12 billion, doesn't part easily with money. Just ask some of the teenage children he's had out of wedlock. They've been forced to go to court to collect what amounts to a buck fifty in Bren's imperial world.So Bren mu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Thanh Viet Jeremy Cao Indicted for Allegedly Filing Tax Liens Against Fed Officials, Tax Returns With $20 Billion in Refunds for Himself

    ​A Rancho Santa Margarita man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas, where he also lives, for allegedly filing 22 false liens ranging from $25 million to $300 million against four federal judges and employees of the IRS, Secret Service, Securities and Exchange Commission and the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Steven Bren, Son of Billionaire Irvine Co. Chairman, Lands on Tax Delinquent List

    Only known photo to exist anywhere and everywhere of Steve Bren, not counting those other ones.​A former Grand Prix racing champion and son of billionaire Irvine Co. chairman Donald Bren occupies the No. 18 spot on the most recently updated list of California's most delinquent tax delinquents.Ste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Meg Whitman: Spend It If You've Got It

    Photo by Christopher VictorioMeg Whitman campaigns in Buena Park.​Money is not an issue for Meg Whitman as she seeks the governor's office. She has vowed to spend $150 million of her own money, if that is what it takes to win. With seven months until election day, she's well on her way.Chase Davis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Mortgage Scheme is "Most Sophisticated and Arrogant Fraud" Judge David O. Carter Has Seen

    ​Jared Tornow, 34, of San Clemente, was sentenced this morning to nearly six years in federal prison for what U.S. District Judge David O. Carter called one of the most sophisticated and arrogant frauds he has ever seen.According to court documen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    Soooo Lucky: He Could've Got 300 Years in Prison for Ripping Off Seniors, But He Only Got 90 Years

    Courtesy of Orange County District AttorneyJeffrey Gordon Butler readies for his 90-year stretch.​After Jeffrey Gordon Butler, 51, of San Juan Capistrano, was convicted in June of stealing the life savings of more than 125 unsuspecting elderly victims in a "Ponzi" scheme by fraudulently soliciting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Youth Shelter Embezzler Pleads Guilty, Must Pay Back More Than $400K

    ​"'Tis the Season to Bone Nonprofits, Fa La La La La, La La La La," which dealt with a spate of inside thefts from Orange County charities lately, included the case of 48-year-old Lydia Kathleen Fitzgerald, the former Casa Youth Shelter executive assistant accused of stealing nearly $450,000 over ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Accountant Gets 4 Years for Stealing $500,000 From Trust Fund to Pay for Doll Collection

    ​A Laguna Hills accountant hired to manage a brother and sister's trust fund has been sentenced to four years in state prison for stealing more than a half million dollars to pay for a doll collection.  Margot Jean Strawn, 58, had pleaded guilty to two felony counts ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    Where Have All the Anti-Tax Crusaders Gone?

    When he wasn't running for governor, Fountain Valley's George "Nick" Jesson was associated with the We the People Congress, an anti-tax group that bought an ad in USA Today in 2001 challenging the government's right to tax income. Indeed, Orange County used to be crawling with anti-tax crusade ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Local Billionaire/Tax Felon Says His Swiss Banker Made Him Do It

    Amid President Barack Obama's vow to end off-shore tax breaks for U.S.-based multinational corporations and individuals within a decade, billionaire Igor Olenicoff, who owns homes in Laguna Beach and Florida, says from his Newport Beach office that his Swiss bankers led him to lie about his foreign ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2009

    Pablo Escobar, Other OC Tax Delinquents Snared

    Pablo Escobar, now dead and probably not of Huntington Beach.The LA Times reports today that Burt Reynolds, Dionne Warwick and Sinbad are among the 250 folks who owe $143 million in back taxes, according to the California Franchise Tax Board's list of the top state tax delinquents.Orange County may ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    A Fortuitously Timed Tax-Denying Conference Comes To Our Tax-Hating County

    Man met bril / Flickr / Creative CommonsSpotted on the commute to Weekly world headquarters today: a brown Dodge pickup whose back window read, in blue electricians-tape lettering, "TAX REVOLT!" Spotted on Red County and Orange Juice Blog: recall fever against all the Republicans who supported the s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    State Taxman Pops Buena Park Doctor and Wife for Alleged Fraud

     The state Franchise Tax Board (FTB) reports today that physician John S. Han, 61, and his wife Sonya Han, 55, were arrested on felony counts of Medicare fraud and filing fraudulent state income tax returns after a search of their Buena Park home. According to FTB special agents, Mr. Han ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    Nonprofits Help Low-Income Families File Tax Returns, Get Credits

    The Boys & Girls Clubs of Garden Grove, Orange County United Way and the Legal Aid Society of Orange County have teamed to sponsor Free Community Tax Days to help families file their income taxes and claim tax credits they may not be aware they are eligible for. Particular focus will be directed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2007

    Read Sheriff Carona's indictment here

    This morning, the Weekly stood with folks from the LAT, ABC7, NBC4 and other media outlets outside the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, waiting with bated breath and loaded cameras for the man of the hour—Sheriff Michael S. Carona (R-Indicted)—to make his walk of shame. Alas, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2007

    New test of American-ness

    The pool of 100 questions unveiled today to be used on naturalization tests starting in October 2008 doesn't look all that different from the 96 questions they're replacing. At least not $6.5 million different, the reported sum spent on the revamp. Some hard questions were simplified – applicant ... More >>

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