Ex-Illegal Alien Senator Suspected of Bribery Leads California’s Insurance

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

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.

Senate President pro-Tempore Mike McGuire corruptly prioritized Sen. Rubio’s political standing over that of the welfare of California homeowners by keeping a crucial position vacant for her. And with a fire and insurance crisis engulfing the state, no one was heading up the Senate Insurance Committee while its head-in-waiting was busy campaigning for illegal aliens.

Mounting outrage over the move did not lead Senate Democrats to appoint a credible alternative. Instead, Senate President McGuire announced that he was reappointing Rubio because “no case has been filed by the U.S. Attorney’s office and no additional information is available from the U.S. Attorney’s office.” This does not mean that Sen. Rubio isn’t potentially Person 20 who may be indicted at any time over allegations of soliciting $250,000 in bribes.

Should that happen, the work of the Senate Insurance Committee will devolve into a mess.

According to McGuire, he kept the Senate Insurance Committee seat vacant for the formerly deported illegal alien because “the Senate takes allegations of ethical and criminal behavior incredibly seriously”. The Democrat leadership took it so seriously that it kept the seat vacant for over a week while its legal counsel conducted its own ‘investigation’ into the allegations.

The investigation apparently consisted of querying the U.S. Attorney’s office over whether Sen. Rubio was about to be charged. Now, according to McGuire, since she isn’t being charged as of the moment, he has “confidence in her experience, and her ability to lead the Committee while the State faces unprecedented challenges with the insurance market.”

According to Sen. Rubio’s spokesman, she’s “currently not involved” in the investigation. That same spokesman also claimed that she wasn’t even interested in the role anymore. Now a week later she’s ready to lead the Committee through “unprecedented challenges”.

Unless it turns out that she actually is being indicted.

Should she be indicted, Rubio, a former deported resident, who is one of two sisters in the California legislature, will make history once again because “no woman California legislator has ever been indicted on public corruption charges while in office. Several male Assembly members and senators have been charged with such crimes over the years.” Truly historic.

That would make two Senate chairs of the Insurance Committee to be indicted in a dozen years.

California homeowners are facing an unprecedented crisis. And the crisis is as much of a political disaster as it is a natural one. While some blame global warming for worsening this latest disaster, it is the corrupt politics of the state’s political majority that is the real issue.

California’s Democrat majority has sent the state down into a chain of crises, from crime to homelessness to droughts and disasters, worsening natural crises and manufacturing human crises, raising endless taxes and bonds with the promise of finally solving them only to corruptly loot the money for special interests, politically connected allies and into their own pockets.

Now, as California desperately needs to save its insurance market, the ex-illegal alien in a position to shape the state’s response may become its latest official indicted for corruption.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.Thank you for reading.

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Academic Corruption, Intellectual Decadence and Depravity on Display

By Rich Kozlovich

Being an Ohioan I paid particularly close attention to the Oberlin College/Gibson's Bakery story where the college attacked the bakery for years claiming they're racists.  The fact is Oberlin is a leftist insane asylum, and the inmates are in charge.  Oberlin College students wage war against the hidden racism of their cafeteria menus, and it's my guess just about everything is racist, and that idiocy is tolerated, and it's my guess, it's encouraged.  

"Considerable focus has been placed on the role of progressive college professors in setting the intellectual norms on campus. The ever-growing ranks of left-leaning administrators are equally consequential in transforming our educational institutions into progressive caricatures of academies of learning. Presidents, provosts, development officers, human resource and residence hall advisors, deans of diversity, and inclusion and student life and Title VI and IX staffers interact on a daily basis with students in all aspects of their campus lives, acting as parents, nursemaids, friends, and, too infrequently, disciplinarians. They often lead the charge for speech codes, safe spaces, and limits on free speech. Johns Hopkins Professor Benjamin Ginsberg calls the situation “administrative blight.”

Recapping the events involving Gibson's Bakery.  Oberlin students, black students, Aladin, Endia Lawrence and Cecilia Whettstone were robbing Gibson's Bakery.  A bakery worker confronted them and ended up being beaten by the thieves, including being kicked by two women.   They were arrested and later found guilty.

However, from the get go Oberlin students and faculty were outraged at Gibson's Bakery for defending their business against thieves, claiming they're actions were racists, protesting for days, and even sending out notices claiming racism.  In spite of the fact there was not one iota of evidence of racism.   Gibson's sued, and then it really started.  University staff sent them an e-mail warning they were going to "rain fire and brimstone" on their business.

Thomas Lifson writing about this stated the students and the university "pretending that they are interested in "social justice."' in effect "wanted its students to be granted something akin to extraterritoriality, exempt from law enforcement action in the town of Oberlin .......This is utterly appalling — a cancer on social order.   

The fact is, this isn't an isolated case.   Lifson points out the number of shoplifting arrests in Oberlin involving Oberlin University students is appalling.   

As revealed in a tweet from L.I., a 2017 article in a student publication at Oberlin, The Grape, discussed the predominance (over 80%!) of Oberlin students in shoplifting arrests in that small Ohio city. Oberlin students acted as predators on the larger community. The pervasiveness of the student culture that regarded shopkeepers as prey is indicated by the admission of the author that he himself had stolen from the people he interviewed.

They lost the lawsuit and Gibson's was awarded tens of million of dollars, and they've trying everything they can to squirm out of it, even claiming poverty.  That didn't work.  But they've not given up on not paying, they want others to pay for their transgressions. 

On August 8, 2023, Bob Unruh published this article,  College falsely shouts racism, now wants OTHERS to pay $36 million 'Colossal failure of leadership'.  As it turns out they want their insurance companies to pay for that judgement, and their attorney's fees.  Their acts were outrageous and illegal, so I find this to be an interesting twist.   

In Ohio in order to have a legitimate business, you must have liability insurance, and those who insure pest control companies make it clear if the business commits an illegal act, they're on their own, and it also appears this is the claim by the universities insurance companies, but it seems they might not have worded their contract with the university definitively enough, so the university wants them to pay for their illegal acts.  There's more here.  Oberlin College sues 4 insurance companies over Gibson's Bakery settlement.

I'm not an attorney, and will happily admit I think judicial rulings can be as confusing as trying to understand the definitions of logical fallacies.  So this may or may not be worth spit, but in the past the Ohio the Supreme Court has ruled in what seems to me to be a somewhat similar case, and with what seem to be to some awfully strange reasonings - reasonings I will admit I don't understand at all - have found against the insurance company.  But that was a 4-3 split ruling, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out if it goes that far.   

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By Michael D. Shaw

One of the many huge issues with the infamous healthcare.gov website, that is only now getting the notoriety it deserves is this: There is currently no mechanism to get payments from the enrollees to the prospective insurance companies.  But, hey...No prob, bro. The insurance companies can simply submit their estimates to the Feds, who will get them the money—all to be settled up later.
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