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Rumor: Manchester Buying Orange County Register
It's an open question whether Papa Doug can meet his financial commitment to develop the Broadway Naval Complex. Buying the U-T and the OCR has to be a financial stretch for Papa Doug. His marital estrangement has to be a financial strain as well. Papa Doug is a deeply religious man who prides himself on doing the Lord's work. When the Lord told him to go forth, be fruitful, and multiply, he did as he was told. When his wife found out, she kicked him out of the house.— March 8, 2012 10:51 p.m.
Newsom Attacks Critic of Project Backed by Wealthy Donor
Newsome is a sinner and a fornicator who coveted his best friend's wife. He is a moral degenerate and is unfit to hold public office.— March 5, 2012 10:57 p.m.
Newsom Attacks Critic of Project Backed by Wealthy Donor
Jacobs wants to build a monument to himself, similar to an Egyptian pyramid, so we don't forget him after he expires. He wants to build a huge museum in the center of Balboa Park named after himself, and has likely provided for construction costs in his will. Once he builds the parking structure in the center of the park, the battle is over. If the parking lot is built then you might as well build the museum. This is why he is fixated on the parking lot: no parking lot, no museum. Jacobs does not care about San Diego. He has no memories of Balboa Park as a child to preserve. Jacobs is from Slobsville (Boston). He is about naked greed, a lust for money and power, and imposing his will on Christians. Jacobs is a one percenter trying to rape public park land for the benefit of his inflated ego.— March 3, 2012 10:12 a.m.
How Shames Threatened UCAN Staff with Mass Firings
The link below summarizes the rules and indicates that Nucor cannot deduct costs incurred to influence public opinion about elections or legislative matters. I think Nucor gave Navarro $1 million to produce a documentary that was intended to influence the public to press Congress to enact tariffs on Chinese imports. I think the FBI will get to the bottom of this. However, I support and applaud Nucor's efforts to enact tariffs on Chinese products. http://www.ehow.com/info_7749375_contributions-po…— March 2, 2012 3:58 p.m.
How Shames Threatened UCAN Staff with Mass Firings
The problem is that it appears that Navarro will own the documentary and will realize profit from the documentary. The documentary is to be produced by a profit making LLC, not a tax exempt organization. Giving money to Navarro to produce a documentary made for profit is not a public purpose. If this is the case and Nucor transferred the money directly to Navarro, the payment would be treated as a nondeductible gift from Nucor to Navarro. Nucor shareholders would not have to approve a $1 million payment. Most CEOs have authority to pay expenses without board authority. I think Nucor is paying Navarro as part of an orchestrated lobbying effort to enact tariffs against imported Chinese steel.— March 2, 2012 2:31 p.m.
Military Members Sue BBG Communications
Don Bauder was the first journalist to cover this story. The New York Times recently discovered the story, and Senator Boxer is demanding an investigation. I the DOJ will soon be after BBG Communications and its owners.— March 2, 2012 1:53 p.m.
How Shames Threatened UCAN Staff with Mass Firings
You would only need to find a few diverted or stolen checks to prove there was theft. You cannot cash a check without having your driver's license number recorded on the check. Any stolen checks would likely have to be deposited into a bank account set up by the prepetrator with a name similar to that of UCAN. Copies of checks from donors would provide all the information needed to identify the thief, if there is a thief. With regard to the Nucor payment, this is obviously a tax scam. Corporations are not permitted to deduct the costs of lobbying congress or influencing public opinion on matters that affect their business. Nucor obviously funded the documentary to convince the public that trade sanctions are needed against China. So Nucor funneled the money through UCAN in order to convert a prohibited expense into a legal charitable deduction.— March 2, 2012 10:32 a.m.
How Shames Threatened UCAN Staff with Mass Firings
I would like to know what the lawyers and forensic accountants did for their fees. It's fairly easy to determine if donations are being skimmed. An auditor would obtain a listing of donors and send a postcard to each donor asking them to mail in copies of their cancelled checks. The auditor would then inspect each check to see if the check was deposited into UCAN's bank account. An auditor could easily identify any checks that were either cashed or stolen and diverted to a non-UCAN bank account. The forensic accountants hired by the UCAN board should have been able determine if there was skimming with little effort and cost. This situation should have been cleared up years ago.— March 1, 2012 9:57 p.m.
Big Money Landed in UCAN Misspelled Accounts
copy of an internal report by an attorney UCAN hired says that Shames was paid bonuses of between $87,000 and $101,000 a year between 2008 and 2010, constituting roughly half his salary. ===== Don reported on Shames's compensation months ago. This is stale news.— February 29, 2012 10:37 p.m.
Big Money Landed in UCAN Misspelled Accounts
But since Don wanted the journalistic completion so there it is from VOSD. ============== VOSD is a day late and a dollar short.— February 29, 2012 10:35 p.m.