California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s Corruption: $840,000 in Behested Campaign Cash Directed to a Charity He Ran!

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Aug 142019
 

In what is becoming a pattern of continuing crookery there is yet another story in the Ricardo Lara chronicles of corruption. He directed Funds to a Charity when he was CEO.

Embattled Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara directed contributors to give hundreds of thousands of dollars — more than $840,000 — to nonprofit organizations so far during his career.   Amazingly, Lara served as the CEO of one of those 501(C)3 nonprofits which received funds at his behest.

He sat on the board of at least one of charity during the time he was acting to behest the funds between the charities.  More telling is one particular charity where the intake and expenses were by so a wide margin larger than its charitable contributions as to be potentially unconscionable.

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P.S. This looks an awful lot like the Chuck Quackenbush scandal…

After Taking $53K From Applied Underwriters, Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara Is Resolving Case after Case in Their Favor!!!

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Jul 242019
 

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara interceded in another dispute between Applied Underwriters and a California insured and again issued his own amended decision that is viewed as beneficial to the carrier.  Sources say the Commissioner’s unilateral order blocks the insured – RDR Builders – from potentially collecting $250,000 from Applied Underwriters and allows the carrier instead to collect an additional $250,000 from the insured. The disputes revolve around the Applied Underwriters’ EquityComp Program.

The new cases are consistent with the timeline and process in our previous story and could mean hundreds of millions of dollars for Applied Underwriters’ out of the pockets of California employers.

“It basically takes a quarter of a million dollars away from RDR and makes them pay an additional quarter of a million dollars,” says attorney Larry Lichtenegger who is representing RDR and numerous other former Applied insureds in cases before the California Department of Insurance. “It’s a half-million turnaround for Applied.”

Continue Reading About the Abuses of Ricardo Lara Here.

For the original article suggesting Ricardo Lara’s Corruption – see here.

 

Did Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara Take Campaign Cash Before Regulatory Decisions Affecting Donors?

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Jul 172019
 

By now, thanks to the general media, everyone knows that California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara took money into his 2020 campaign – some $53k – from individuals related to Applied Underwriters. The evidence in the timeline of events strongly suggests that he took official actions – by changing or staying administrative law judges’ decisions to Applied’s benefit – after receiving Applied Underwriters’ money.

Correlation may or may not equal causation, but the proximity of his direct favorable actions in legal cases before the Department of Insurance raise the issue. What’s at stake is far more subtle and farther under the radar than the approval of the sale of Applied Underwriters’ and its affiliates, or the approval of rate filings for wildfire, or cannabis cultivation coverage, all of which are on Lara’s desk.  It is about dozens of cases, a precedent, and hundreds of millions of dollars that Applied wants from California employers who may not owe it or who may be due refunds.

Read the rest here ….  https://www.wcexec.com/flash-report/lara-took-money-before-favorable-actions-in-applied-cases

Religious Freedom Under Full Scale Assault: SB 1146 seeks to Shut Down William Jessup and Other Christian Universities

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Jun 202016
 

Please click here to see a live interview with William Jessup University President John Jackson.

Ricardo Lara – an extreme left-wing homosexual activist is at it again. Lara has been on an obsessive rampage to use the heavy hand of California State Government to force acceptance of homosexuality.

This bill would strip religious exemptions from any university that teaches anything other than training pastors for ministry.

If passed, it would enable students to sue over bathrooms, having to go to chapel service or if they are “offended” by scriptural teachings:

Dear Friends,

California’s State Senate recently passed a bill that limits religious liberties for all California Christian Colleges and Universities, and that same bill is now pending approval in the Assembly. The bill labeled SB 1146 is a flawed bill that denies faith ­based universities in California the ability to function based on religious beliefs and constitutional principles.

Although this may not be the intention of state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D­Bell Gardens) and colleagues, the bill is discriminatory and violates the First Amendment and freedom of religion that we are promised in our nation and state. For those familiar with SB 1146, the overall assumption is that the bill protects LGBT students against discrimination at private Christian universities. However, this perception serves merely as a Red herring leading audiences toward a false conclusion based upon discrimination and ultimately omitting the devastating impact upon constitutional freedoms.

Tens of thousands of students in California, many of them first­ generation college students and people of various nationalities, will potentially have their college of choice removed from the menu due to this bill.

SB 1146 seeks to narrow a religious exemption in California to only those schools that prepare students for pastoral ministry. This effectively eliminates the religious liberty of all California faith based universities that integrate spiritual life with the entire campus educational experience.

Prayer, chapel services, spiritual formation groups and required public service are all integral parts of the educational experience on faith ­based campuses. In the name of “transparency and recourse,” the bill opens up the pathway for harassment lawsuits when the universities simply go about the integrated spiritual experience of their shared life.

Students choose to attend faithbased universities because they find a place of safety and freedom. The universities provide residential facilities that are clearly delineated by gender and supported by a loving and caring student life staff. Faith ­based universities in California work hard at providing their students a diverse, respectful, safe and challenging environment to learn and prepare for service and vocation in life. The passage of SB 1146 seeks to destroy that time ­honored foundation.

Our country was founded upon principles of religious liberty that enable people to express their religious convictions in their lives, including the environment where they study and grow.

If passed, SB 1146 would undercut the very fabric of higher education, which advocates for diversity of opinion and freedom of discourse. For faith based universities, the educational and religious missions are intertwined and the separation of the two would destroy the framework of our institutions. William Jessup University in Rocklin and other similar universities in the state continue to urge reasonable dialogue and implore political and educational leaders to join with all Californians in creating an environment where grace, kindness and civil discourse can coexist with strong sentiment on matters of great importance.

The passage of SB 1146 would have a profound negative impact upon all California faith based students and the universities that have successfully integrated higher education with spirituality. Therefore we advocate a No vote on SB 1146 and urge the Governor not to sign the bill should it make its way to his desk.
John Jackson, Ph.D.
President

Dr. John Jackson is the President of William Jessup University, the Sacramento area’s only WASC accredited Christ-­centered residential four­ year private university.

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