FTB Fighter – Page 2 – Fighting Corruption at the CA Franchise Tax Board (CA's income tax agency)

October 13, 2025December 14, 2025

Shawn E. Moore Had Me Back to Update on FTB and Talk About Betty Yee’s Deceptive Gubernatorial Run

For some reason, WordPress won’t let me embed the video, but here is the link: https://rumble.com/v708zne-episode-155-christi-grab-returns-to-talk-about-betty-yee-and-the-ftb.html?mref=4jj09p&mc=9r6uw

Here are the show notes:

:30 Oaths — These are the oaths I have collected. Why oaths are required, how to order them and who to report violations to.

3:50 FTB — Here is both the video and text of the speech I made on September 8, where I tried to make FTB employees understand that they are being set up as patsies by their bosses.

October 12, 2025October 28, 2025

How Will Betty Yee Govern, if Elected?

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:

September 9, 2025March 20, 2026

Update on FTB’s $10 Million “Education and Outreach” Program For Low Income People

February 2026 update: FTB finally responded. It is issue 7 in this post that encompasses several topics.

October 2025 Update: FTB was supposed to respond to this Public Comment by October 7. FTB has yet to respond. Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that once the NGOs sign up the migrants for health care benefits, the migrants are sent a voter registration card.

I’ve previously posted about a program that I find concerning. The quick summary is that the State of California’s legislature passed a law requiring that the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) (California’s income tax agency) give Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) (another term for charities) $10 million dollars per year to notify low-income people that they may qualify for a cash refund if they file a tax return. More details are in the previous post.

At the September 2025 FTB Board Meeting, I wanted to make a 5.5 minute speech where I called out a portion of the corruption that I’ve uncovered in connection to this program. I also connected some dots to indicate this program has nefarious purposes. This was the 5.5-minute speech that I wanted to make:

However, I was limited to 3-minutes, so I had to essentially cut the speech in half. I kept the corruption part, but wasn’t able to properly connect the dots. This was the speech that I actually made at the meeting.

September 9, 2025October 28, 2025

At the September 2025 FTB Meeting, I Called Out FTB’s Culture of Corruption

Here is the speech that I made at the meeting.

Below is the text.

My name is Christine Grab. I would like to address FTB’s staffing problems.

I sued FTB in San Diego Superior Court. I believe that in that case, Keith Swank committed Five Counts of Perjury, Five Counts of Collusion to Cover Up Racketeering, Five Counts of Collusion to Cover Up Embezzlement and Fifteen Counts of Obstruction of Justice.

September 8, 2025April 13, 2026

Table of Contents of My FTB Fight

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 Bona Fide Criminal Schemes I’ve Uncovered:

The 8 schemes to overcharge taxpayers that were documented via court records.

The Legal Process (Statutory Law)

September 7, 2025September 14, 2025

2018 Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Requests

As I was updating my latest posts with links to older posts, I realized I had never posted about the 2018 Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Meeting. Here is the text of the speech that I made and this is the video:

Due to the time limitations on the speech, the written requests are much more detailed than the oral requests. Here are written requests 1 – 6 and here are 7 – 8. This addendum contains a letter signed by Christopher Calhoun in which I believe he committed fraud and violated my taxpayer rights. This second addendum contains an email chain between myself and Susan Maples in which I believe she committed fraud and violated my taxpayer rights.

Here is FTB’s response. I believe that Susan Maples also committed multiple counts of fraud in this response.

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.

June 10, 2025September 9, 2025

Shawn E. Moore of National Talk Radio Had Me Back On to Discuss Lack of Oaths, FTB Paying NGO’s to Sign Up Migrants for ITINs, and FTB’s Customer Service Failures

We immediately launch into content with virtually no chit chat. I give a quick recap of what we’d discussed in the previous episode.

At 2:00, I read off the names of the legislators who do not have current oaths on file with the SOS. Here is a list of oath laws. In a nutshell, not swearing an oath is a penalty punishable with three years in prison. However, government employees will choose not to take oaths if they know they are going to be committing treason of oath, which has a more severe penalty. Here are all of the oaths that I have collected from CA state level government employees. Scroll all the way down to nearly the bottom for the State Assembly and State Senate.

June 5, 2025June 5, 2025

Update on the Oath/Bond Situation for 2025/2026

In my last post on this topic, I had stated that I’d ordered copies of oaths and bonds from the State Senate Rules Committee on December 3, 2024 for some state senators and many staffers. Those oaths/bonds were due on December 17. As of that post on March 7, 2025, the State Senate had not provided any oaths. In that document, I’d also requested other information, as well.

In my last post on this topic, I’d also stated that I’d ordered oaths/bonds from the Secretary of State on 100 people. On February 10, 2025, the SOS stated that only two of those people had current oaths on file, and no one had a bond on file (the images of the letter are at the bottom of the previous post on the topic).

I always said that the large number of people lacking current oaths could be a mistake and that I was trying to confirm that the SOS information was accurate. However, the lack of bonds is intentional — it seems that the State of California stopped following the bond laws when Reagan was governor.

June 5, 2025October 28, 2025

Charlee Simons of “Do Not Talk” Had Me Back to Talk About Oaths, Signing Up Migrants for ITINs and FTB’s Disguising Criminal Schemes as Customer Service Failures

I come on at the 4-minute mark and we greet one another and talk about the previous episode we did together.

At 5:15, I give the background information about oath laws and explain why government employees choose not to take oaths.

At 6:30, I read the names of the legislators that the Secretary of State confirmed do not have a current oath on file for 2025 – 2026. Here are all of the oaths that I have collected. Scroll all the way down to nearly the bottom for the State Assembly and State Senate.

At 9:00, I talk about my next strategy: Since it is illegal to pay government employees who don’t have fully executed oaths, I plan to contact State Controller Malia Cohen to ask her to halt pay on these people and claw back funds already paid.

May 15, 2025June 1, 2025

Following the Money… FTB Has Disclosed Some Things That Have Warranted a Deeper Dig…

Summary: FTB has increased its budget by $35 million a year for customer service staff — but it doesn’t appear they’ve hired any more staff and their customer service numbers are getting worse.

2023: FTB Admits Failures and Increased Budget

In March 2023, FTB admitted that penalties and fees were being falsely imposed as a result of customer service failures. They didn’t outright say this, but they also implied that wage garnishments, liens and levies were also being falsely imposed due to these customer service failures.

FTB requested a $25.23 million per year budget increase in order to correct these customer service issues. FTB had stated that they intended to hire more customer service agents and give raises and bonuses to the existing staff.