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May 9, 2012
County of Orange to State of California: You Owe Us $23 Million, Pay Up!
The County of Orange has filed a $23 million claim against the State of California, which is accused of shortchanging the county that much in property tax revenues since 2005.But the dispute was actually set in motion by a complicated funding mechanism and the county's infamous bankruptcy in the mid ... More >>
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
April 12, 2012
A List of Food Specials and Freebies on Tax Day!
So have you subscribed to OC Weekly's The Spoon Feed newsletter yet? Do it now by entering your e-mail in that big old red box that you see to the right that says "SIGN UP".I'm subscribed and I got some tips about a few freebies and specials on tax day that I wouldn't have known about otherwise ... More >>
Blogs
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
December 29, 2011
State Supreme Court Upholds Abolition of Redevelopment Agencies
Governor and Norcal Democrat Jerry Brown and Assemblyman and OC Republican Chris Norby don't agree on much, but they do see graying eyebrow to graying eyebrow on abolishing local redevelopment agencies to help close the state budget gap. Today, they and other RDA opponents scored a victory when t ... 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 >>
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May 31, 2011
Laura Estrella Cruz, ex-County Treasurer-Tax Collector Assistant, Convicted of Theft of $2,600
Former Orange County Treasurer-Tax Collector accounting assistant Laura Estrella Cruz was convicted today of stealing over $2,600 in taxes and fees residents sent to her office.The 35-year-old Santa Ana resident pleaded guilty to one felony count of grand theft and one felony count of misappro ... More >>
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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 >>
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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
October 12, 2010
The Super Rich Aren't Like You and Me ... They're Whinier
A letter to the Wall Street Journal by a Newport Beach real estate executive who believes it would be unfair if the Bush tax cuts were not extended for those who make over $250,000-a-year certainly set off McSweeney's writer Edward Murray. "The Poor Top 2 Percent" on the Huffington Post is Murray ... More >>
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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 >>
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October 21, 2009
Diane Harkey Stink Smeared on Linda Ackerman, Who Seeks "Dripper" Duvall's Vacated Assembly Seat
Harkey's ethical challenges produced recall calls. Assemblywoman Diane Harkey (R-Dana Point) has endorsed Linda Ackerman to fill the vacancy left by ex-Assemblyman Mike Duvall, who resigned in disgrace quickly after the Weekly's R. Scott Moxley and KCAL/KCBS reporter Dave Lopez exposed the Yor ... More >>
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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 >>
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May 5, 2009
SanTana's Designated Choo-Choo Builder Cordoba As Controversy-Ridden as They Come
Spurious GeorgeAs we predicted, Don Papi Pulido and his SanTana City Puppets rewarded Cordoba Corporation over more-qualified candidates with a contract to head a proposed streetcar project because of Cordoba head George Pla's many SanTana connections. Doug Irving of the Orange County Register had a ... 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
March 6, 2009
Welcome to the Poorhouse: Ring-Ring-Ring!
Please do not take it personally if I do not answer the phone when you call. Bill collectors used to call my home every morning beginning at 8:30. Then it was 8 a.m. Now it can be any hour of the day. They now call my home, my cell phone and my work lines. One called my wife's main office line ... 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 >>
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
May 8, 2007
Saving them from WW2 Japan wasn't enough
Matt Cunningham's Red County/OC Blog has an interesting post today on legislation backed by Representative Loretta Sanchez (D-Anaheim) that would require present-day U.S. taxpayers to pay reparations to World War II residents of Guam. It's not that our citizens or soldiers have ever done anything ... More >>
Columns
April 12, 2007
!Ask a Mexican!
Is this over-reliance on her family a cultural difference?
Blogs
January 11, 2007
The Gov's Budget: Who, What, and How Hard?
If you're a college student in California, congratulations-- you play a leading role in Governor Schwarzenegger's new budget plan. The governor believes in you. He believes you're the sort of person who can make a sacrifice for the public good. Instead of turning to, say, big businesses, real est ... 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 >>
News
March 16, 2006
Live Free Now
Ask me how: Talking taxes and trilaterals in Irvine
Culture
June 2, 2005
Wreck (of) a Nation
A new board game lets everyone be president . . . until the money runs out
News
July 8, 2004
Burning Bush
The presidents conservative critics
Columns
November 6, 2003
Letters
The presidents conservative critics
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
Columns
March 6, 2003
Diary of a Mad County
Why progressives should vote for the most conservative candidate in the race to replace Gray Davis
News
May 16, 2002
Great Pork
Agrans plan for a Great Park will make Don Bren a far richer man
News
March 28, 2002
Air Argyros
The countys most sensational two-day trial youve never heard about
News
April 20, 2000
The New Hugh
OCs highest-profile Republican is a liberal in his own back yard
Unknown
March 2, 2000
Lie the Friendly Skies
El Toro Airport Watch No. 135
Features
August 27, 1998
How Bob Dornan Turned Political Defeat into a Windfall for his Family
How to feed your children on political contributions
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August 27, 1998
The Loser Wins
How Bob Dornan turned political defeat into a financial windfall for his family
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September 11, 1997
Singled Out
GOP, Dems join to screw Generation X
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July 24, 1997
Raises From The Dead
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