California’s corruption is the unnatural disaster behind the fires.
The Los Angeles wildfires estimates have hit $40 billion and may continue to rise. These are four times the losses of the most recent destructive fires and that is likely to convince even more insurance companies to leave the state and make homeowners even more uninsurable.
The exodus of insurance companies led to a 123% increase in the number of California homeowners relying on the state’s FAIR Plan. The FAIR Plan, a government gimmick that seemed good at the time, has $458 billion in total exposure and $4.8 billion in exposure from the current fires, but only has $377 million to cover claims. Once that’s exhausted, the state is likely to hit up insurance companies and homeowners to make up the difference. With mudslides expected to arrive after the rains, the chain of disasters may just be getting underway.
While the state’s worst insurance crisis was going on, Sen. Susan Rubio, the former chair of the Senate Insurance Committee, was fighting for illegal aliens while under suspicion of bribery.
Illegal aliens like her.
“We do not let Trump harass, intimidate, and push our immigrant community,” Sen. Susan Rubio threatened at a ‘healing circle’ convened by the state legislative building to protest Trump.
Rubio, who varyingly claims to have been deported when she was 4 or 6 years old, has made that her claim to fame. That and also having her sister serve in the assembly. And being caught up in the wave of FBI corruption investigations hollowing out the California Democratic Party.
Over the last decade, 576 California officials were convicted on federal corruption charges.
Rubio’s Baldwin Park, in the San Gabriel Valley region, was an epicenter of local corruption with its former city manager, city attorney and city councilman pleading guilty in a drug bribery scheme. Drug ‘legalization’ unleashed a whole new crime wave of ‘illegal’ marijuana growing operations and bribes to politicians by ‘legal’ drug businesses seeking permits. Sen. Rubio, who came out of the corrupt Baldwin Park City Council, was questioned by the FBI in that massive drug bribery scheme which briefly prevented her from heading up the insurance committee.
According to CalMatters reporting, “nobody else” but Rubio fits the description of “Person 20, who is accused in recently released federal court documents of asking for $240,000 in bribes from a cannabis company and accepting $30,000 in illegal campaign contributions.”‘
This would be a major issue in California’s insurance business whose Democrat leaders are nearly as corrupt as the state’s growing drug business.
Former Sen. Ron Calderon, who had previously chaired the Senate Insurance Committee, had been ousted over his role in the “largest insurance fraud case” in the history of the California Department of Insurance and was sentenced to several years in prison.
Senate Democrats had tried to protect former Sen. Caledron by removing him ‘without prejudice’ from the chairmanship of the Senate Insurance Committee. They attempted to do something similar but also far worse for Sen. Rubio, holding the chairmanship of the committee open for her by maintaining a vacancy just in time for the catastrophic wildfires to hit California. --->READ MORE HERE
A person matching Democratic Sen. Susan Rubio’s description is accused in federal court documents of soliciting bribes and illegal campaign contributions. Rubio, who’s not been charged with a crime, denies the allegations, but she’s no longer chair of the Senate Insurance Committee as investigations continue
As fires rage through Southern California and exacerbate the state’s insurance crisis, the California Senate has no one in charge of its Insurance Committee due to questions surrounding a federal corruption investigation.
Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire said he is waiting to hear from federal prosecutors about Sen. Susan Rubio, who’s been questioned in a federal corruption probe, before making a decision about reappointing her to her previous position as chair of the Senate Insurance Committee.
“We have requested and are awaiting additional information from the U.S. Attorney’s Office before finalizing any decisions,” McGuire’s office told CalMatters in an email.
Rubio, a Democrat from Baldwin Park, said she’s “currently not involved” in the federal corruption investigation that has already ensnared a handful of other officials in San Bernardino County, Compton, Commerce and Baldwin Park.
Federal officials have not identified Rubio by name in the case. However, there is nobody else matching the description of “Person 20,” who is accused in recently released federal court documents of asking for $240,000 in bribes from a cannabis company and accepting $30,000 in illegal campaign contributions. The allegations stem from when Rubio was a member of the Baldwin Park City Council.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles is overseeing the case. A spokesperson declined to comment about who Person 20 is or say when – or if – charges would be filed against them.
Experts in federal corruption cases suggest that McGuire is right to be concerned.
At CalMatters’ request, three former federal prosecutors reviewed the court documents.
The prosecutors – one of them a former U.S. Attorney – said there’s no way the U.S. Department of Justice would make public that much identifying information about a suspect in a corruption investigation if they didn’t think they could convince a jury of his or her guilt.
“If federal prosecutors are putting that level of detail — especially in a public corruption matter — into a public-facing document, they are fairly confident that information is 120% correct,” said Carrie H. Cohen, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in New York and former chief of the public integrity bureau at the New York State Attorney General’s Office.
Mark D. Chutkow, the former chief of the U.S. Attorney’s public corruption unit and criminal division in Detroit, said “it would appear that there is more due to drop in this case.”
Chutkow said when it comes to public corruption cases, federal prosecutors typically have their sights on the “highest-ranking public officials and not necessarily on … middle persons and the bribers themselves.”
“This Person No. 20 would be a higher-ranking (official) and the more important target of the federal investigation,” he said. “So one would think that they would want to finish the job.”
Last week, Rubio declined to be interviewed by a CalMatters reporter as she departed the Senate after the first floor session of the new year. Instead, her office responded with an emailed statement.
“It’s unfortunate that Senator Rubio continues to receive questions based on a case that she is currently not involved with,” her spokesperson, Matthew Z’berg, said in an email. “Senator Rubio’s focus is on serving the constituents of the 22nd Senate District and addressing important issues affecting California families.” --->READ MORE HERE
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