Subject: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

• Behind every great man...

  For some reason, I had forgotten that former OC congressman and current chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Christopher Cox is married, but married he is, and to a very industrious woman. Like many who belong to the bedrock traditional values strata of the Republican Party, which loudly proclaims the value of a stay-at-home wife, the Coxes are a two income couple. And a good thing, too, because while political appointments like hubby's have a limited shelf life, Mrs. Cox's busines

  August 2, 2006

• Prop 90: Enriching the Rich, Making Us Their Bitch

  Congressman John Campbell (R-Irvine Company) has signed on to support Proposition 90, the Taxpayer Trap Initiative (or Save our Homes, if you're gullible). This is no surprise; back in September 2005, Prop 90's main backers poured $120,000 into Campbell for Congress, the campaign committee formed to help Campbell seize the seat left vacant by Christopher Cox's appointment to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Campbell's cash windfall came in a matter of days from over 850 separate donations

  October 13, 2006

• Film Flam

  Your favorite Co-ed Dorm Wall Clock was shocked--SHOCKED!!!--to read our fresh-pressed copy of the Monday edition of the Chapman University Panther student newspaper (where, little known factoid, we twice toiled as a fill-in faculty advisor, until a certain former LA "By God" Times slacker slid in and put a spell under head honchoess Sue Paterno. Damn you, Jerry Hicks, damn your shapely thighs!) It was this headline that had our just-chewed Special K flying across the breakfast nook: "Racy Stud

  April 26, 2006

• Saturday's Headlines & Surprises

  July 14, 2007

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Rhinotillexomania

  August 27, 2007

• Chris Cox Finally Speaks The Truth!

  For more than a decade, I've slammed Christopher Cox, the current chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), for a long list of political misdemeanors. Cox has a shameful record of representing the financial interests of the elites, but if Jeremy Grant with FT.com is right, the ex-Newport Beach congressman is finally showing a hint of populism. According to Grant, Cox recently said that shareholders "should not need a machete and a pith helmet to go hunting for what the CEO ma

  September 3, 2007

• OC Conservatives Have Something to Cheer!

  On Monday, Orange County conservative activists lost the fight to block liberal law scholar Erwin Chemerinsky from becoming the first UC Irvine law school dean. But this morning must feel better. The United States Attorney's Office based in Los Angeles announced that it has won a guilty plea from William S. Lerach, a plaintiff's lawyer who successfully sued corporate America in class-action lawsuits. Lerach, a 61-year-old Rancho Santa Fe resident and major campaign contributor to Democrats, now

  September 18, 2007

• Oh, Death!

  January 3, 2002

• Same Cox, New Box!

  August 4, 2005

• More Blast From the Past Fraud Allegations in Irvine Election

  This examines a fraud case from the past involving a big donor to, ironically enough, Irvine Citizens for Ethics in Government, the independent committee against Irvine's Measure R, which asks residents to give a vote of approval to the Irvine City Council's planning of the Great Park on the old El Toro Marine Corps base. This tells you about how more than half of Irvine Citizens for Ethics in Government's funding comes from contributions and loans from the various campaigns of and independent

  November 3, 2008

• The Lawsuit Against the Husband of Assemblywoman Diane Harkey Has Generated an Internet Shitstorm

  April 2, 2009

• As Cox Takes More Heat, a Bizarro World Blast From the Past

  The hits keep coming for embattled Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox, the former local congressman (R-Newport Beach). Amid the Bernard L. Madoff scandal, Cox last week publicly blamed his staff for not vigorously investigating complaints against the fraudster. Today, we hear from...Wayne State State Law School professor Peter J. Henning, in the New York Times: "I always thought the whole idea of leadership was that 'the buck stops here,' which means the chairman takes t

  December 22, 2008

• Well That's the Cox Calling the Kettle Black

  While former longtime Newport Beach Republican congressman-turned-Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox lashes out at his own staff for ignoring complaints that could have exposed Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme many years earlier, others wonder if Cox is not simply diverting attention away from his own incompetence.Fans of presidential history from long ago will recall the plaque on Harry S. Truman's Oval Office desk that read, "The buck stops here." Ol' Chrissie mu

  December 17, 2008

• Our Ex-Rep.-Turned-SEC Chief Chris Cox Comes Out Swinging

  The Washington Post reports today that embattled Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox is defending his restrained response to the country's financial crisis, arguing he has guided his agency with a steady hand while other federal regulators have not.Our former Republican congressman out of Newport Beach has come under heavy criticism since essentially blaming the largest Ponzi scheme in history on his own SEC underlings. That has led critics to point out that while all of

  December 24, 2008

• Alleged Fraud Within Irvine City Limits Keeps SEC, Whistleblower Busy

  Two corporations doing business in Irvine that are the subjects of a noteworthy/notorious whistleblower's fraud investigations have now apparently drawn the attention of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.The SEC is reviewing whether James Peterson, CEO of Irvine-based defense industry computer chip maker Microsemi Corp., misled investors when he denied making up his college degrees, reports Bloomberg. The same consumer group that outed Peterson now says it is cluing in the SEC to alleg

  February 2, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 5

  Orange County Register: Four earthquakes have shook North Orange County in a week. Jeez, gay people, what have you done to piss off God now? . . . OC banruptcies jumped 57 percent in January. So you've got to love Southern California Edison's timing in these fucked-up financial times: included from yet another rate increase is $100 million set aside for bonuses to top execs and employees. . . . Mano-a-Nano: a group of young men beat, stabbed and robbed a man of his

  March 3, 2009

• [Scariest People 2008] Count Coxula

  October 30, 2008

• [Moxley Confidential] Chris Cox Says He's a Tough Wall Street Regulator, SEC Record Proves Otherwise

  October 2, 2008

• Bitch, Bitch, Bitch: Episode 1

  August 14, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 13, 2002

• Ryan's Hope

  March 30, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  December 15, 2005

• Vitamin C

  Even Dr. Chaudhuris critics say hes a genius

  September 22, 2005

• a Clockwork Orange

  September 22, 2005

• The Regulatory Disaster That Isnt

  September 15, 2005

• Angry Liberals

  September 8, 2005

• 'Not to Seem Too Critical or Unsympathetic . . .'

  June 23, 2005

• The Smart Guy

  June 9, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 9, 2005

• The Smart Guy

  June 2, 2005

• Diary Of A Mad County

  July 8, 2004

• To Tell the Truth

  January 22, 2004

• The Real The O.C.

  November 20, 2003

• It's the Economy, Stupid

  August 8, 2002

• The Martian Plan

  August 1, 2002

• George Bush, Failed Corporate Crook

  July 18, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 4, 2002

• Made in Newport Beach

  March 7, 2002

• Poor Edison

  April 26, 2001

• The Stock Detective

  April 29, 1999

• The Year in Cyberspace

  January 7, 1999

• Orange County May Become the Avis of Municipal Bankruptcies

  Since 1994, Orange County has held the . . . um . . . honor of having achieved the . . . erm . . . distinction of the largest municipal bankruptcy in history, a $1.64 billion financial fuck-up that has managed to stick like Roger Maris' single-season homerun record.But the seemingly unbeatable always seems to be beat by the equivalent of a hulking, juiced-up Mark McGwire lurking around the corner, followed by an even hulkier, juiced-er Barry Bonds lurking around the next corner.Orange County's B

  May 11, 2009

• Shamed ex-SEC Chairman Chris Cox to Float Not on Ice Floe But Orange County Republican Party Boat

  John McCain wanted Christopher Cox fired as the George W. Bush-appointed chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Los Angeles Times opined that Cox's chairmanship will be characterized by missing the signs that Wall Street was poised for a meltdown, noting the critics who said Cox's long-standing support of a deregulated market and friendliness to business made him "the wrong SEC chairman at the wrong time." Securities law professor Robert Hillman at UC Davis blasted Cox for being

  July 20, 2009

• New Complications In the IHHI Saga

  July 30, 2009

• Ex-Coto de Caza Fraudster Gets 27 Years in Federal Pokey

  ​Former Coto de Caza resident golf equipment company CEO Colin Nathanson was sentenced today to 27 years in federal prison for his admitted masterminding of a multifaceted fraud scheme that bilked hundreds of victims out of approximately $55 million. Nathanson, 62, who lived in Coto de Caza until his arrest in 2005, was sentenced to 324 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney. Nathanson had been

  August 19, 2009

• SEC Investigation of Medical Lender Sets Sail for a Party Yacht

  August 20, 2009

• Anaheim Ducks Owner, Broadcom Co-founder Samueli May Be Prison Bound

  Wikipedia.org Henry Samueli's next uniform may be an orange jumpsuit.The Anaheim Ducks owner, Irvine's Broadcom Corp. co-founder and UC Irvine Henry Samueli School of Engineering namesake may be prison bound. Orange County Register reports a federal court today dismissed an appeal by the billionaire, who had sought to overturn a judge's rejection of a plea bargain that would have kept him out of prison. He now faces up to five years in prison at his yet-to-be scheduled se

  September 24, 2009

• Weekly Story Cited in Major Bank Lawsuit!

  ​Remember that ongoing controversy over Medical Capital Holdings, Inc, (MCH) the Orange County-based medical lender who the SEC claims bilked investor funds to dole out cash to its own executives while also allegedly investing in a yacht and a shady internet porn spamming operation, among other delightfully non-medical things?The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has already frozen the company's assets and a federal judge has appointed a receiver to try to regain hundreds of millio

  September 17, 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 Yorba Linda Republican morality cop and married father of two bragging about banging female lobbyists.Not only did at least one lobbyist have business before Duvall's panels, he sat on the Assembly

  October 21, 2009

• Western Medical Center's Owners Sued Their Doctors to Muzzle Them, But One Wouldn't Shut Up

  November 12, 2009