“This Public Comment Presents a Serious Conflict of Interest, Deceit & Fraud upon its Citizens. A Conspiracy to Mislead the People.”
- Corruption
- Conflict Of Interest
- Deceit
- Fraud
- Conspiracy To Mislead
- Received Large Campaign Donations in Exchange for CFD Bond Money
- CFD Bond Law Violations
- Making False Statements & Forging $400 Million onto Financial Statements in order to Cover up Past Crimes and Defraud Banking Institutions to acquire more Bond Funds.
Page 1: “The Riverside County Civil Grand Jury can identify and call to justice those involved in outright corruption.”
Page 2: “The Mello-Roos law requires that home buyers be advised at the time purchase of these bond instruments. Preliminary investigation showed that some disclosures are highly deficient, or lacking altogether.”
Page 3: “…either lack of knowledge or outright false and misleading information about CFDs”
“Some [prospective home buyers] were lied to when they asked if a Mello-Roos tax was on the home. There were actually three CFD’s on each home. This is either ignorance or dishonesty.”
Page 5: “This public comment presents a serious conflict of interest, deceit and fraud upon its citizens. It could be seen as a conspiracy to mislead the people.”
“Those voting on the CFDs; and in one case those supporting a lawsuit settlement favoring the developer, have received large campaign donations from the very developers whose bond sales they continue to approve.”
“Strangely, the City of Beaumont says that no money was lost from bond proceeds. This does not correspond to the court ordered restitution of the seven defendants.”
Page 6: “When the City of Beaumont’s Legal Representative was asked by the Grand Jury; “If money is recovered, would it be put back into the bonds from which it was misused?” They answered evasively “No money was stolen or is missing from the bonds!”
“Any city, before getting approval of CFD Bonds, must present a specific plan for the need and use of the money and educate the constituency of the community. The current public hearings provide only general information and not specifics. This does not give the public enough information to make relevant and informed comment.”
18 U.S. Code Chapter 47 Section 1001 – Federal Fraud and False Statements
- Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully—
(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact;
(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or
(3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry;
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both. If the matter relates to an offense under chapter 109A, 109B, 110, or 117, or section 1591, then the term of imprisonment imposed under this section shall be not more than 8 years.
18 U.S. Code Section 1002: Possession of False Papers to Defraud United States
Whoever, knowingly and with intent to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof, possesses any false, altered, forged, or counterfeited writing or document for the purpose of enabling another to obtain from the United States, or from any agency, officer or agent thereof, any sum of money, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Federal S.E.C. Laws against Tampering with Security Records
(2) Every issuer which has a class of securities registered pursuant to section 12 of this title and every issuer which is required to file reports pursuant to section 15(d) of this title shall—
(A) make and keep books, records, and accounts, which, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the issuer;
(c) It shall be unlawful for any director or officer of, or any owner of any securities issued by, any issuer required to file any document, report, or information under this title or any rule or regulation thereunder without just cause to hinder, delay, or obstruct the making or filing of any such document, report, or information.
(e) PROSECUTION OF PERSONS WHO AID AND ABET VIOLATIONS.—For purposes of any action brought by the Commission under paragraph (1) or (3) of section 21(d), any person that knowingly or recklessly provides substantial assistance to another person in violation of a provision of this title, or of any rule or regulation issued under this title, shall be deemed to be in violation of such provision to the same extent as the person to whom such assistance is provided.
SEC. 1102. TAMPERING WITH A RECORD OR OTHERWISE IMPEDING AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING.
Section 1512 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) by re-designating subsections (c) through (i) as subsections (d) through (j), respectively; and
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new sub-
section:
”(c) Whoever corruptly—
”(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or
”(2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.”.
SEC. 303. ø15 U.S.C. 7242¿ IMPROPER INFLUENCE ON CONDUCT OF AUDITS.
(a) RULES TO PROHIBIT.—It shall be unlawful, in contravention of such rules or regulations as the Commission shall prescribe as necessary and appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors, for any officer or director of an issuer, or any other person acting under the direction thereof, to take any action to fraudulently influence, coerce, manipulate, or mislead any independent public or certified accountant engaged in the performance of an audit of the financial statements of that issuer for the purpose of rendering such financial statements materially misleading.
(b) ENFORCEMENT.—In any civil proceeding, the Commission shall have exclusive authority to enforce this section and any rule or regulation issued under this section.
California Penal Code 115 (a): Every person who knowingly procures or offers any false or forged instrument to be filed, registered, or recorded in any public office within this state, which instrument, if genuine, might be filed, registered, or recorded under any law of this state or of the United States, is guilty of a felony.
California Penal Code 115 (b): Each instrument which is procured or offered to be filed, registered, or recorded in violation of subdivision (a) shall constitute a separate violation of this section.
California Penal Code 115 (d): For purposes of prosecution under this section, each act of procurement or of offering a false or forged instrument to be filed, registered, or recorded shall be considered a separately punishable offense.
California Penal Code 122: It is no defense to a prosecution for perjury that the accused was not competent to give the testimony, deposition, or certificate of which falsehood is alleged. It is sufficient that he did give such testimony or make such deposition or certificate.
California Penal Code 123: It is no defense to a prosecution for perjury that the accused did not know the materiality of the false statement made by him; or that it did not, in fact, affect the proceeding in or for which it was made. It is sufficient that it was material, and might have been used to affect such proceeding.
California Penal Code 125: An unqualified statement of that which one does not know to be true is equivalent to a statement of that which one knows to be false.
California Penal Code 126: Perjury is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 for two, three or four years.
California Penal Code 131: Every person in any matter under investigation for a violation of the Corporate Securities Law of 1968 (Part 1 (commencing with Section 25000) of Division 1 of Title 4 of the Corporations Code), the California Commodity Law of 1990 (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 29500) of Division 4.5 of Title 4 of the Corporations Code), Section 16755 of the Business and Professions Code, or in connection with an investigation conducted by the head of a department of the State of California relating to the business activities and subjects under the jurisdiction of the department, who knowingly and willfully falsifies, misrepresents, or conceals a material fact or makes any materially false, fictitious, misleading, or fraudulent statement or representation, and any person who knowingly and willfully procures or causes another to violate this section, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine for each violation of this section. This section does not apply to conduct charged as a violation of Section 118 of this code.
Conspiracy:
California Penal Code 182 (a) If two or more persons conspire:
(1) To commit any crime.
(5) To commit any act injurious to the public health, to public morals, or to pervert or obstruct justice, or the due administration of the laws.
Aiding and Abetting Government Corruption
Cali Govt Code 1097: (a) Every officer or person prohibited by the laws of this state from making or being interested in contracts, or from becoming a vendor or purchaser at sales, or from purchasing scrip or other evidences of indebtedness, including any member of the governing board of a school district, who willfully violates any of the provisions of those laws, is punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the state prison, and is forever disqualified from holding any office in this state.
(b) An individual who willfully aids or abets an officer or person in violating a prohibition by the laws of this state from making or being interested in contracts, or from becoming a vendor or purchaser at sales, or from purchasing scrip, or other evidences of indebtedness, including any member of the governing board of a school district, is punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the state prison, and is forever disqualified from holding any office in this state.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 483, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2015.)