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Taxes

  • Culture

    March 22, 2012

    Occupy Sherwood Forest?

    Maverick Theater's production of the Robin Hood saga is a parable for our times

  • 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

    November 11, 2011

    Lincoln Club of Orange County Proposes "Legalization" Path For Illegal Immigrants: Permanent Serfdom for Mexicans

    ​In the most hilariously misguided local effort to get Latinos to vote Republican since Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina downed tequila shots in Newport Beach, the Lincoln Club of Orange County, that august group of rainmakers whose donations make or break candidates and issues, have proposed a way t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    Dana Rohrabacher Identifies National Income Disparity Cause

    Rohrabacher​Since 1993, the wealthiest one percent of Americans have captured 50 percent of the nation's economic growth.If that fact alarms you, Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher knows who to blame for the 18-year-old crisis: a Chicago constitutional law professor. You may have heard of ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2011

    Occupy OC Plays the Percentages

    [Moxley Confidential] Even Orange County has far more 99 percenters than 1 percenters. Can Occupy OC be part of effecting real change?

  • 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 >>

  • Columns

    July 14, 2011

    This Elephant Never Remembers

    [Hey, You!] Trunk off, GOP push-pollster!

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Loretta Sanchez Defends Obama Attack on GOP Budget Plan

    Obama finally gets Sanchez backing​Appearing this afternoon on MSNBC, Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez defended President Barack Obama's morning speech declaring that he will not allow Republicans to continue to force the poor and middle class to pay for massive tax cuts for the rich.In ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    FAIR-y Tales In the Immigration Debate

    Anti-immigrant think tanks are aiming their dubious statistics at the 14th Amendment

  • 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

    April 22, 2010

    Arnold Schwarzenegger's Indian Tribe Tax Idea Slapped Down

    screenrant.comBarbarian Tax Man"We find all of the state's arguments unpersuasive."--From the Ninth Circuit's ruling this week that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's made strong-arm efforts to force the Rincon San Luiseno Band of Mission Indians to accept an illegal tax on tribal gambling ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    Celebrate Tax Day With a High-Tech Toilet, "An Inconvenient Tax" Film

    Second prize: steak knives.​Ah, Tax Day. What better day to get a spritz up your butt crack?

  • 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

    March 25, 2010

    Teabagging Chuck DeVore

    Photo by John GilhooleyDoes Chuck DeVore have an app for teabagging?​Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine), who's in the middle of a longshot bid to become your U.S. senator, is cooing about his impending endorsement Sunday from the Tea Party Express, the national conservative movement that helped s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Can't Pay Your State Tax by April 15?

    ​If there's no way in Helena you can pay what you owe in state income tax by April 15, fear not: you don't have to.That is, you will have to pay your taxes eventually, but the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) today advised those who need extra time to contact the agency immediately for assista ... 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 >>

  • Columns

    December 10, 2009

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    ​"'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 >>

  • News

    November 5, 2009

    Don Bren's Gift That Keeps On Taking Public Money (or Trying to, Anyway)

    ​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

    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

    March 2, 2009

    An OC-Based Car Empire Breaks Down

    madaise / Flickr / Creative CommonsThe Capistrano Insider caught a story in Automotive News about Newport Beach's Mike Kahn, who, until recently, ran one of the fastest-growing car dealership chains in America. Or at least, that's how Automotive News ranked his company in 2007. Come 2009, though,&nb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    DeVore Scoffs at Budget Data Suggesting Orange County Uses More, Spends Less for State Services

    Assembly Budget Committee chairwoman Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) released data from the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) that suggests cuts under the state budget plan approved Thursday morning could hit Republican areas hardest because they use more government services, while ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2008

    The Bono - Jesse Helms connection

    From our good friends at Rock & Rap Confidential: "Jesse Helms died yesterday, the Fourth of July. The LA Times front page described Helms as 'the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who for half a century infuriated liberals with his race-baiting campaign tactics.' President Bush described H ... 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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2007

    A Billion Here, A Great Park There

    "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money", runs the quip that is the only reason most people who remember Senator Everett M. Dirksen remember him at all.  And news of the Great Park in this morning's Times brings that quote, if not Everett M., to mind. Orange ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2007

    From Most Corrupt to Most Wanted?

    Some of the FBI agents not busy investigating what you're pulling out of the tubes of the internet are engaged in truly worthwhile work: investigating the imaginative land deals of Congressman Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar, and one of the 20 most corrupt members of Congress according to Citizens for R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2006

    Speaking of congressional races ...

    Check out this little ray of sunshine from Bloomberg (the news service, not the mayor): Candidates Ignore $1.35 Trillion Minimum Tax `Bomb' By Ryan J. Donmoyer Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Congressional candidates this fall are furiously debating Iraq, Medicare and extending tax cuts. Most are staying qu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2006

    Eddie Rose on "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly"

    Eddie Rose writes: "In California this year, we have--with one notable exception--the WORST slate of candidates, including a man who can't pronounce the name of the state he claims to serve! Were it not for the importance of several ballot propositions, it probably wouldn't make much sense to go to ... More >>

  • News

    June 9, 2005

    The Smart Guy

    Chris Cox in charge of Wall Street? Dumb

  • News

    June 2, 2005

    The Smart Guy

    Chris Cox in charge of Wall Street? Dumb

  • News

    April 8, 2004

    Burning Bush

    The presidents conservative critics

  • Columns

    April 10, 2003

    Mr. Bigs Sack

    The presidents conservative critics

  • Columns

    August 2, 2001

    Letters

    The presidents conservative critics

  • News

    November 4, 1999

    Virtual Tax

    Cox and Packard find a war they can winagainst a nonexistent tax

  • News

    August 26, 1999

    Send Lawyers, Guns and Cigarettes

    Whos monkey-wrenching the Loose Moose Saloon?

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