Constitutional law (AKA Common Law) is being restored! Today, there was a civil grand jury hearing calling out government corruption. I testified about State of CA corruption. I start at 3-hours, 36-minutes, 35-seconds:
Here is the full verified affidavit, which contains the specific citations to all the evidence cited in the oral and written testimonies. All of the evidence cited can also be found here:
Note: The oral testimony was limited to three-minutes, so my written, submitted testimony was longerand more detailed.The footnotes section of the PDF in the verified affidavit linked abovecontains the source material for the citations cited..
AB-1519 is currently pending. Its purpose is to change the definition of “tax liability” and extend the statute of limitations to 20 years
FTB has budgeted $11 million for their program where they pay NGOs to find low-income people and convince them to a file tax return, including undocumented migrants.
FTB’s customer service is still abysmal, so it’s likely they are still falsely imposing penalties and interest as a result of customer service “failures.”
FTB disclosed that there is a 20 to 1 return on investment for the Collections department. That means that for every dollar it spends on the collections department, they collect $20 in revenue from debtors
AB-1518 signed into law in January of 2026 and codified as Revenue and Tax Code 18537. The State of CA agrees to turn a blind eye to the exploitation of illegal aliens as long as the state gets a cut of the money; therefore, the state itself is involved in human trafficking.
Here is the text of the 10-minute video above:
This is Christi Grab. I’m here today to tell you about the latest news regarding the California Franchise Tax Board, also known as FTB. I know, I know, most people don’t want to hear about taxes because it’s a dry, boring subject. But I think most of you will find these tidbits of information to be not only relevant to your own life, but also very interesting — especially the last one, so stay to the end.
FTB just had a public meeting on Monday, June 22, 2026. I’m going to give you the meeting’s highlights. If you want more information on any of the items, complete information can be found on FTB’s website — but they make it hard to find, so at the end of this video, I’ll give you instructions on how to find it.
I know that my website can be difficult to navigate, so here is a “FTB Table of Contents”: a list of what I have done with links to more information on each item. I am still working on adding links, so if you need more information ASAP on a particular topic, post a comment and I will make digging that particular info up a priority.
The issue that started it all:
Between the years 2008 and 2016, the Franchise Tax Board, California’s Income Tax Agency, “lost” 16 of the 20 payments that my husband and I had made. When I say “lost,” I mean that they cashed our checks right away, but didn’t apply the money to our account. Instead of locating the “lost fund,” FTB aggressively harassed me to pay the “outstanding balance” and imposed penalties for “paying late.” Here is the list of payments.
The Administrative Process (FTB’s internal bureaucracy)
I filed an Abatement Request (now called a Request for Refund) for tax year 2010. FTB never responded. A FTB employee lied to me and told me that if FTB didn’t respond, I was out of luck. The woman who “found” our “lost” money kindly reopened the request. It was denied without being reviewed. FTB also denied tax years 2011 and 2013, even though we had not yet applied.
I’ve learned that with FTB, what they don’t say is far more telling than what they do say. The first public comment that I’d made was asking FTB what they were going to do to correct their issues with the small business collections line. I pointed out long hold times and high hang up rates. FTB did not acknowledge the public comment at the time I made it; they responded with “Next speaker.” And they didn’t respond in writing to that comment, even though I’d sent two follow up emails stating that I expected a response. Per California law, failure to deny constitutes admission: Any material allegation in the complaint that is not effectively denied is deemed admitted. [CCP § 431.20(a); see Hennefer v. Butcher (1986) 182 CA3d 492, 504, 227 CR 318, 325]. This failure to acknowledge my comment is basically an admission that they are intentionally trying to destroy small businesses by making it impossible to resolve “issues.”
Issue 1: In the written version, I asked FTB’s board and executives to stop putting their employees at risk of federal prosecution by having FTB staff cite laws verbatim so that they can no longer deceive people about their unlawful and extra-lawful policies and procedures. In the verbal version, I asked FTB staff to protect themselves from federal prosecution by refusing to comply with unethical and unlawful behavior.
For those that prefer video, here is a 12-minute speech that I made to State Controller Betty Yee via webinar in December 2020, which sums up the info below. We’re also working on a documentary series exposing the corruption.
The over-simplified explanation of the schemes that I got ensnared in is that the Franchise Tax Board does not apply the money that you send them to your account right away. Then they charge you penalties for “paying late.” Then they over-charge interest on these penalties.
As I watched the video, my jaw dropped as I realized that CPS in AZ used strikingly similar tactics to violate the laws as the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) in California (CA) used against me. It can’t be a coincidence that my experience was so similar to hers when it was a completely different issue, involving a completely different agency, with completely different circumstances.
I am starting to realize that there must be a playbook of tactics that government agencies use to extract extra revenue for themselves. Obviously, the specific tactics are customized by the agencies, but the general playbook appears to be identical: 1. Lay a trap, 2. Deny due process 3. Rig the justice system and 4. Have other government agencies cover it up.
At the FTB Board Meeting on Monday, December 8, in addition to making my planned speech, I had the opportunity to make a couple of off-the-cuff public comments that helped to put the pieces together of how FTB uses “gross incompetence” as a cover for their bona-fide criminal schemes to overcharge taxpayers, particularly small businesses.
The first comment was in response to a presentation on how FTB was going to improve its customer service by modernizing its contact platform. In the presentation, Mr. Banuelos and Ms. SoRelle did not address the serious problem that FTB has with hanging up on callers, so I asked about it in an 80-second public comment. FTB did not even acknowledge that I had made the comment.
This was the speech that I intended to make at the Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Meeting. The text, with links to evidence, is at the bottom of the post. The speech is only an overview, a detailed explanation is here.
Below are the show notes. I have a few more links to add, particularly with documents that I need to redact and upload. I won’t be able to finish it today, but I wanted to get this posted anyways since most of the links are already in place.
Betty Yee is currently running for governor of California. During her eight years as State Controller, she was also Chairman of the Board for the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB), which is California’s income tax agency. I followed the work she did regarding FTB very closely, and have kept an eye on her since she left office.
I believe that Ms. Yee is genuinely committed to her ideology, which includes opacity about government spending, increasing government authoritarianism, eliminating constituent’s rights, increasing social welfare programs that are questionable in terms of being ethical and lawful, rewarding corruption and unlawfully overcharging taxpayers. Here are a few of the things she has done over the years that have caused me to form this opinion:
When Betty Yee was State Controller,she stated in court that she wasn’t tracking how she was spending California’s money.
OpentheBooks.com, a government watchdog organization, sued her to open the accounting ledgers to show where our tax dollars were being spent. From the article:
