California Unemployment Fraud: Death Row Inmates, Crime Rings, and $280 Billion in Stolen Taxpayer Money
California's unemployment system was looted by neo-Nazi gangs, Romanian organized crime rings, rap promoters, and death row murderers — all...
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California's unemployment system was looted by neo-Nazi gangs, Romanian organized crime rings, rap promoters, and death row murderers — all...
What Sacramento is selling as a one-time levy on the ultra-wealthy comes with a fine-print provision that legal experts warn...
The numbers are damning, the connections are documented, and California's most expensive government program may be the state's most corrupt...
California motorists are being squeezed at the pump like nowhere else in America. A new federal bill aims to force...
California lawmakers just passed a bill that quietly extends a penalty surcharge stacked on top of your traffic tickets —...
Sacramento lawmakers just voted down a constitutional guardrail that would have protected California drivers from being charged twice just to...
A 1,000-page audit has exposed a web of fake diplomas, political favors, and campaign cash connecting California's state treasurer to...
California politicians have quietly packed the June 2 Primary ballot with 90 local tax measures totaling over $738 million in...
AB 2624 would give taxpayer-funded organizations the legal power to demand removal of video evidence and criminally punish those who...
A California bill advancing through the legislature would give taxpayer-funded organizations the power to silence journalists, impose $10,000-per-violation penalties on...
Two explosive cases — a fraud-indicted former Newsom chief of staff and a Bakersfield man who pleaded guilty to funneling...
When the company that literally built Silicon Valley relocates its headquarters to Texas, it's not a footnote in the business...
From Charles Schwab to Chevron, major corporations and billionaires are leaving California at a historic rate — and the working...
When accusations of sexual assault finally caught up with Rep. Eric Swalwell, it wasn't conscience that forced his hand —...
While California faces a $20 billion budget deficit, its own unemployment agency quietly burned through millions in taxpayer dollars on...
When a sitting sheriff uses standard law enforcement tools to investigate a contested election, and the state's highest court rushes...
A convicted child sex offender living in the United States is now in federal custody after ICE's Enforcement and Removal...
Seventy California farming families who honored their contracts are now watching their orchards face the bulldozer. The question isn't just...