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April 12, 2012
Igor Olenicoff, OC Billionaire, Has Suit Tossed Against Swiss Bank That Hid His Money
Billionaire Igor Olenicoff, who lives in Laguna Beach and oversees Newport Beach-based Olen Properties, lost his bid in federal court to blame Swiss bankers for his guilty plea to felony tax evasion. In a 28-page decision tossing Olenicoff's suit against Zurich-based UBS AG, Judge Andrew J. Guilford ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2012
Anaheim GardenWalk Tax Breaks Speak of a Tale of Two Cities
Ahead of yesterday's Anaheim city council meeting, a mailer to city residents from the Orange County Employees Association and numerous news reports on recently approved tax incentives for two future GardenWalk-area hotels made sure for a packed house. Mayor Tom Tait had an idea what would domin ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2012
Reps. Gary Miller and Ken Calvert Get Their Assets Handed Back to Them
The Washington Post compared the annual financial disclosure reports filed by every member of Congress over the past decade to various public records and discovered that nearly 50 senators and House representatives directed millions of dollars in earmarks to projects that could either enhance ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2011
Richard and Jolene Engel, High-Flying Society Couple of the '90s, Hid $180 Million in Income
Richard Gardner EngelIn 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
July 28, 2011
Rick Warren Tweets and Then Removes Debt-Ceiling Jab
"I can see the debt ceiling from here."Saddleback (mega-) Church's pastor Rick Warren's got a loose Twitter finger again, texting and then deleting a jab at those who want to raise the nation's debt ceiling."HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the o ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2011
Monica C. Lozano, La Opinion CEO, Gets Visited Today by UC Students and Costumed Disney Workers
Monica C. LozanoDozens of University of California students and Disney Resort workers in costumes plan to protest this morning outside the La Opinion office building in downtown Los Angeles.Perhaps this will make sense with a little more context. Another UC tuition hike has been proposed. The uni ... 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
March 8, 2011
Barney Frank Drops Octobomb (Again)
Is Rep. Barney Frank becoming like your grandpa who keeps repeating the same story, over and over?The Massachusetts Democrat elicited some laughs and headlines last week for comparing the largest country on the planet to La Habra's world-famous mother of 14, Nadya Suleman.But, while getting the l ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2011
Lou Correa Lets Online Poker Bill Ride
State Senator Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana) has introduced a bill that would help cut into California's budget deficit by installing an online poker system that aims to generate $1 billion in state revenues and 1,100 new jobs over the next 10 years.Vegas gives it 3-5 odds to pass--or at least Vegas d ... More >>
Blogs
January 10, 2011
Jerry Brown's Budget Slashes Higher Education Funding By $1.4 Billion
The Gov. The University of California president called it "a sad day for California." Today, Gov. Jerry Brown released his 2011-12 state budget proposal, one he described as "a tough budget for tough times," and higher eduction is feeling the blow. Under the proposed budget, funding for the ... 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 >>
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
July 7, 2010
Legalization Could Cut Costs, Increase Consumption of Marijuana: RAND Study
A new study shows legalization and distribution of marijuana in California could cut the price of cannabis by up to 80 percent and increase consumption.Findings by the RAND Corp. also show revenues from taxing legal pot could be significantly higher or lower than the $1 billion estimated by the s ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2010
Grand Jury Report Blasts Great Park Financing, Accuses Irvine City Council of Lying, Conflicts
Hot air keeps it afloat.A new grand jury report: questions whether the Irvine Redevelopment Agency created to usher in development of the Orange County Great Park can fully repay its initial $134 million loan from the city; faults the city of ignoring the poor business climate while churning ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2010
OC Democrat Asks Republicans To Drop 'No New Tax' Pledge
Photo by Christopher VictorioDemocratic Assembly candidate Melissa Fox has a taxing idea.According to Melissa Fox, a Democratic Party candidate for Orange County's 70th Assembly District, the problem with California government isn't high taxes, a bloated bureaucracy or the massive $20 billion bud ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2010
Progressive "Brownbaggers" Invite Teabaggers to Join Them in Government Spending Protests
Tim Carpenter hammers away at the war.Former Orange County progressive activist Tim Carpenter, who now does his agitating for the Michigan-based Progressive Democrats of America, is inviting tea partiers to protests at congressional district offices nationwide Wednesday aimed at reducing "unjusti ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2010
Experts Kick Around Obama's State of the Union Speech
Photo by Pete SouzaThe PrezIf you drop what you're doing and head over to Fullerton right now, you can catch a live viewing of President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech followed by a forum examining what the leader of the free world just said.The global anti-poverty group ONE in Orange C ... 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 4, 2009
Does Miguel Pulido Work out of a Tax Preparer's Office?
With IRS troubles like his, will Don Papi become Obama's ambassador to Mexico?For years, opponents of SanTana Mayor Don Papi Pulido have openly wondered how an invisible politician can make so much cash that he can afford an estate in the city's ritzy Floral Park neighborhood. His Form 700s have alw ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2009
Revenge of the Anti-Teabagger
In light of all the teabagging going on today, the Weekly's Favorite Lefty Who Leads a Jazz Trio, Ron Kobayashi, wonders why the teabaggers' corporate sponsor, Fox News, "failed to organize any protests when George W. Bush created $500 billion budget deficits by spending more than any president befo ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2009
DeVore Now Bugs Henley, Boxer AND Scrooge McDuck (Updated)
Barbara BoxerWe vowed to be more sparing in our blog coverage of Irvine Assemblyman/2010 senatorial candidate Chuck DeVore's publicity campaign to seem like the most affably goofy nuclear-power lobbyist in the state. But it's time for an update, because DeVore's gone and made another Don Henley paro ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2009
Welcome to the Poorhouse: Ah, Tax Time
Collectors for credit-card companies have the phone ringing off the hook, but the messages in the mailbox are worse. Other creditors, the ones not calling because they have miraculously been paid on time, inform that finance charges are being jacked up due to late payments to other creditors. Non-pa ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2009
Will Obama's Stimulus Plan Help Make the OC Great Park a Reality?
Calling the action "momentous," the Great Park Corp. Board of Directors voted unanimously today to recommend the Irvine City Council adopt the Great Park Design Studio's Comprehensive Park Plan, the final planning piece required before the building phase can begin--as soon as March 20--on the ambiti ... 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 >>
News
September 4, 2008
Historic $618,000 Settlement Was Money Well-Spent for Owners of Low-Income Stanton Apartment Complex
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
January 19, 2008
Obey My Jowls!
Below is a video of Ken Calvert on his support of the 241 Toll Road. Nevermind that his reputation is on the line. Nevermind that he worked to garner earmarks (see Of Pork and Ken, Feb. 16 2006) so that taxpayer money could be spent on "environmental studies" for the toll roads - millions upon milli ... More >>
Columns
August 2, 2007
It's Your Money
But the government spends it
Columns
July 26, 2007
It's Your Money
But the government spends it
Columns
July 19, 2007
It's Your Money
But the government spends it
Columns
July 5, 2007
It's Your Money
But the government spends it
Columns
June 21, 2007
It's Your Money
But the government spends it
Columns
June 14, 2007
It's Your Money
But the government spends it
Columns
June 7, 2007
It's Your Money
But the government spends it
Columns
May 31, 2007
It's Your Money
But the government spends it
Columns
May 17, 2007
It's Your Money
But the government spends it
Blogs
October 31, 2006
Department of Chastity
From this morning's USA Today, a report on your tax dollars in action: The federal government's "no sex without marriage" message isn't just for kids anymore. Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of dollars in ... More >>
Blogs
July 24, 2006
Another good reason to be rich
Sure, there are plenty of good reasons to be rich– don't have to worry about the rising cost of living; the greater likelihood of attracting a pneumatic mate (or at least being able to afford to surgically alter your mate into a more pneumatic state, until a newer, pneumatic-er model comes alo ... More >>
Blogs
February 21, 2006
See, the Iraq War IS worth it
Thousands of dead Americans, tens of thousands of dead Iraqis, an unstable region, everyone hates us, no end in sight . . . sure, when you put it that way, the Iraq war doesn't sound so good. But what about the unforseen benefits, as extolled in this press release that just rolled into the Clockwork ... More >>
News
July 14, 2005
Wrong Side of the Tracks
State investigates Placentia case that
OC grand jury said was legal
News
July 14, 2005
Tax Man Tran
Republican Van Tran talks tough on taxes, spends freely
Columns
November 6, 2003
Letters
Republican Van Tran talks tough on taxes, spends freely
Features
October 9, 2003
The Case for Governor Tom McClintock
Why progressives should vote for the most conservative candidate in the race to replace Gray Davis
News
August 28, 2003
Change Today?
TSOLs Jack Grisham looks to charge the governors mansion
News
April 3, 2003
You Paid for Tony Rackauckas Mexican Vacation
TSOLs Jack Grisham looks to charge the governors mansion
News
June 14, 2001
Super Suckers
TSOLs Jack Grisham looks to charge the governors mansion
News
April 20, 2000
The New Hugh
OCs highest-profile Republican is a liberal in his own back yard
Columns
September 11, 1997
Singled Out
GOP, Dems join to screw Generation X
Columns
July 24, 1997
Raises From The Dead
Chris Cox's camouflaged class warfare
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