On Friday, January 30, Paul Preston had me on the third hour of his show. I come in at the 2-hour, 11-minute mark. For some reason, I was unable to embed the video, so just click on the link to see the video. Show Notes:
2 hours, 12 minutes – 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” funds, FTB aggressively harassed me to pay the “outstanding balance” and imposed penalties for “paying late.” Here is the list of payments: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/chart-of-payments-made-to-FTB-updated.pdf
2:13 – Certain that I had been ensnared in an embezzlement and racketeering scheme, in 2020, I filed suit in San Diego Superior Court: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=217.
As a side note, I filed this suit because I believed it was the only way to get my hands on complete records (FTB had only given me limited records in the OTA case). Later, I found out that FTB is supposed to send you complete records upon request, though two different people have told me that FTB did not provide all the information that they’d requested. Here are instructions on how to request your own data. To request general public records, you simply need to send an email to FTBDisclosureOffice@ftb.ca.gov.
2:13 – The 8 schemes to overcharge taxpayers that were documented via the records submitted in the SDSC case: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=611
2:13 – Here are two of the documents I submitted in the SDSC case detailing the extensive accounting fraud that I’d found in the records they’d submitted to the court: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=917 and https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=617.
2:14 – In court, it was documented that the “lost” payments had been identified in FTB’s records as “no payments.” These “no payments” couldn’t be located no matter how many times I sent cancelled checks. As is documented in the links above, the payments had accounting irregularities surrounding them. I believe these funds were put into an off-the-books-spending account.
2:15 – Here were some of the egregious things the OTA court did in my case in order to cover up FTB’s crimes: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=422.
Another thing that I mentioned on air was the OTA did not make FTB swear to tell the truth. You can see it for yourself in the video at 5:15, they made me swear to tell the truth before I spoke. But at no point did they have FTB swear to tell the truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjAaHxFPchI
2:17 – Here is the current turn time for processing notices: https://www.ftb.ca.gov/help/time-frames/. It takes FTB 75 – 77 days to process personal responses and 241 days to process business responses. This means there is a zero chance that FTB will process your response before the 60-day deadline. Then FTB claims that you didn’t respond “timely” when they had your response on time; it was them who didn’t process it “timely.”
FTB covers up their Denial of the Taxpayer Right to Protest by “misfiling” notices: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Legislative-Request-Change-Repeal-of-Four-Laws-that-Violate-Due-Process-Laws-Guaranteed-in-the-Bill-of-Rights-I-believe-the-Federal-Supreme-Court-would-overturn-all-four-.pdf
2:18 – The judge in my San Diego Superior Court Case committed many improprieties in order to cover up FTB’s crimes: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=1373. In his closing, he alluded that my family and I would be harmed if I tried to appeal.
2:24 – Over the years, there have been many arrests made for child trafficking at the San Diego Convention Center. Here is one example: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/14-arrested-comic-con-anti-human-trafficking-sting-san-diego-rcna164638.
For four months, the Convention Center was used to house unaccompanied migrant children.
The Convention Center is conveniently located steps away from the container port and the main train station depot, where containers are moved between ships and trains. Literally at the back door of the train station is a school for homeless children called Monarch: https://monarchschools.org.
I believe that traffickers are moving children between shipping containers and the train, and use this school as cover for why so many different children pass through and disappear. “Oh, they’re homeless… homeless families come and go…”
2:25 – The “letter” Paul was referring to was the request I made at the Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights meeting for 2025, where I asked for more information about FTB’s policies and procedures: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/My-7-TBOR-Requests-for-the-December-8-meeting-email.pdf
2:26 – Here is a recent legislative request that I made to the State Senate and Assembly Revenue and Tax Committees where I use the $9,000 “lost” payment as an example of why FTB should be required to follow due process laws: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Legislative-Request-Change-Repeal-of-Four-Laws-that-Violate-Due-Process-Laws-Guaranteed-in-the-Bill-of-Rights-I-believe-the-Federal-Supreme-Court-would-overturn-all-four-.pdf
FTB did respond, and I think their response is damning: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=4152
2:35 – My complete collection of oaths for State of California employees: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=1608.
Here is my write up on oath laws. Per Title 18 U.S.C. 912, anyone working for the government without an oath is considered a foreign agent posing as a government agent . Per Title 10 U.S. Code § 906 – Art. 106., impersonating a public official (a) shall be punished as a court-martial. The Attorney General, Rob Bonta, has sole purview to prosecute oath violations. Here is more information on oaths/bonds.
2:36 – Letter from the Secretary of State confirming that 28 State Senators don’t have current oaths of office on file: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/SOS-Response-to-Oath-Request-Oct-2025.pdf
Per California law, it is illegal to pay public officers and employees who have not followed the oath laws., so my plan for this week is to send a letter to State Controller Malia Cohen to ask her to stop paying the State Senators without oaths.
2:36 – I did get the Cease and Desist Notice done and served! Here is more information to help understand the bigger picture.
2:37 – My Wiener Campaign — I thought it was hilarious to say it that way, but in all seriousness, it was a campaign to remove State Senator Scott Wiener from office and void his work for not filing an oath with the Secretary of State.
2:38 – More information about the Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Requests: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=4040
2:38 – FTB did respond, and I think their response is damning: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=4152
2:39 – Here is information about FTB’s program where they pay NGOs $10 – $20 million per year to hunt down illegal aliens and sign them up for tax identification numbers (ITINs): https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=3771 and https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=3185
2:39 – FTB admits that it is issuing its own tax identification numbers to illegals, separate from the federal government (see answer to #3): https://gwsandiego.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/25-01012-Disclosure-Response.pdf.
2:40 – The biggest recipient of FTB’s “education and outreach program” funds is called Golden State Opportunity Foundation, and they are a tax lobbyist.
2:40 – Dreams for Change is one of United Way’s San Diego subsidiaries. It has had many allegations of the staff sexually assaulting the clients. After I brought attention to this issue up at the Franchise Tax Board September 2025 Board Meeting, United Way became more clandestine about the fact that it is sending vulnerable people there for help with getting taxpayer identification numbers.
2:53 – FTB targets small business. The small business lines usually has a 3 hour hold time and they hang up on 36% of business callers at the end of the long hold. It takes FTB between 4.7 months to 8 months to process small business correspondence. In the December meeting, I accused FTB of deliberately trying to destroy small business. In FTB’s response, they did not deny the allegation.
Note: I am not suicidal, I don’t have depression issues, I am a careful driver, I rarely drink alcohol, and I do not use drugs of any kind (not even aspirin). My family lives a wholesome life. If something happens to me or my family that is out of character for us, we were set up by the State of California as revenge for exposing their crimes.