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Acity program aiming to provide housing to those living in encampments in Los Angeles is launching in Miracle Mile, Mayor Karen Bass and Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky announced Thursday.

The specific encampments are located near the intersection of Sixth Street and Fairfax Avenue.

According to Bass’ office, the Inside Safe Initiative will work to identify the “highest need encampments” that have a chronic and high demand for services. Using citywide coordination between various departments and agencies, the plan calls for identifying interim housing and eventually permanent housing resources for each person living in the encampments.

Bass announced the program after declaring a local state of emergency over homelessness in her first week in office. Officials with the mayor’s office said more than 100 people were

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housed as a result of the first two Inside Safe sites in Hollywood and Venice.

“Together — with the county and service providers, this new program

is a real solution that proves there is hope in Los Angeles. Together, we

will confront this crisis by bringing unhoused Angelenos inside for good.”

The initiative also launched in South Los Angeles earlier this month.

Yaroslavsky and Bass announced the initiative a day after Yaroslavsky voted against expanding zones where the city’s anti-camping law would apply. She cited a lack of coordinated engagement strategy in making credible offers of housing and services across the city’s 15 districts, and criticized how the 41.18 ordinance enforced had been enforced in her district prior to her taking office in December.

“For many of the people brought inside today, tonight will be their first night sleeping in a bed in years,” Yaroslavsky said of Inside Safe. “And tomorrow, they will wake up with services and stability to help them get back on their feet.”

Man suspected in shootings of Jews leaving synagogues in Pico-Robertson district arrested

By City News Service

Aman suspected of shooting two Jewish men after they left synagogues in the PicoRobertson district less than 24 hours apart was in custody Friday.

“The facts of the case led to this crime being investigated as a hate crime,” according to a Los Angeles Police Department statement.

Federal civil rights charges will be filed against the man, who “has a history of animus towards the Jewish community,” according to a statement from the Jewish Federation of

Greater Los Angeles.

The suspect was tracked to an area in Riverside County and investigators began working collaboratively with federal and regional partners to locate him, police said. The suspect was arrested at 5:45 p.m. Thursday without incident, police said.

Detectives recovered several items of evidence including a rifle and a handgun, police said.

The suspect’s name was not released.

The LAPD announced before the arrest it was

“re-allocating police resources to provide a highly visible and preventative presence in the area.”

“In an abundance of caution, there will continue to be an increased police presence and patrols around Jewish places of worship and surrounding neighborhoods through the weekend,” the department announced following the arrest.

The first shooting occurred around 9:55 a.m. Wednesday in the 1400 block of Shenandoah Street, near Pico Boulevard, between Robertson and

La Cienega boulevards. A man in his 40s was shot in the back while walking to his vehicle, authorities told the Los Angeles Times.

The second occurred at 8:30 a.m. Thursday in the 1600 block of South Bedford Street, two blocks south of Pico Boulevard and one block east of Shenandoah Street. The man was shot in an arm, The Times reported. Both victims survived.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna wrote on his Twitter page that his department “will increase

patrol checks around Jewish synagogues and Jewish centers in our jurisdictions. Patrol stations will remain vigilant and report any threats of violence to Major Crimes.”

Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement that “antisemitism and hate crimes have no place in our city or our country”

“Those who engage in either will be caught and held fully accountable,” Bass said. “At a time of increased antisemitism, these acts have understandably set communities on edge.

“Just last December, I stood blocks away from where these incidents occurred as we celebrated the first night of Hanukkah together. Now, my pledge to the Pico-Robertson community and to the city of Los Angeles as a whole, is that we will fight this hatred vigorously and work every day to defeat it.”

Anyone with information on the shootings was urged to call the LAPD at 877-5273247. Anonymous tips can be made through Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or at www.lacrimestoppers.org.

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“Inside Safe is about putting quick fixes aside,” Bass said in a statement.

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Rep. Sánchez delivers $2M for San Gabriel Valley homelessness programs

By Joe Taglieri

Rep. Linda Sánchez, D-Whittier, met Wednesday in Montebello with officials from San Gabriel Valley cities to deliver $2 million in federal funds for programs aimed at reducing homelessness in the region.

The funding Sánchez secured for San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments will be used to launch a workforce development program for adults and at-risk youth from disadvantaged communities who are experiencing homelessness, according to Sánchez’s office.

The funds’ priority will be for residents of Montebello involved with the city’s Operation Stay Safe program. The program will connect participants with paid work experiences and supportive services, with the goal of “placing them on a pathway to economic security,” according to Sánchez’s office.

Among the attendees at the ceremonial check presentation were SGVCOG President and Monrovia Mayor Becky Shevlin, SGVCOG Second Vice President and La Verne Mayor Tim Hepburn and April Verlato, SGVCOG third vice president and Arcadia mayor pro tem.

The event took place at the Operation Stay Safe headquarters, 2000 Flotilla St. in Montebello.

The Operation Stay Safe site opened May 18 and has 30 tiny home units for Montebello residents who are unhoused, according to the San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust. The facility features on-site supportive services provided by Volunteers of America Los Angeles, three meals a day for residents, case management tasked with connecting residents to additional services and eventual permanent housing, laundry, restroom and shower facilities, 24/7 security, a privacy fence and secured entry.

UCLA has received a $20 million gift to establish a center to study microbes, which play a role in such autoimmune diseases as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis and fibromyalgia, officials announced Wednesday.

The gift from Andrea and Donald Goodman and Renee and Meyer Luskin will establish the UCLA Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center and fund efforts to develop new treatments for a wide range of conditions.

“The Goodmans and Luskins have been enduring supporters of UCLA Health’s mission to heal humankind and we are deeply grateful for this visionary gift,” UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said in a statement. “This is an investment in our distinguished researchers and their ability to find new pathways that advance patient care.”

Microbial organisms in the human gastrointestinal tract, commonly referred to as the gut, are essential

to human development, immunity and nutrition. Such conditions as inflammatory bowel disease, obesity and eating disorders, neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases such as autism, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, irritable bowel syndrome, substance use and psychiatric disorders are associated with dysfunction in the microbiome.

Scores of investigators at the UCLA Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases and across the campus are working to “fingerprint” the brain and gut microbiome to elucidate the role microbial diversity plays in resistance to disease, and whether lifestyle interventions can reduce the risks for and symptoms of chronic diseases, researchers said.

“Further study of the relationship between the microbiome and the brain is critical,” said Dr. Steven Dubinett, interim dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. “We extend our heartfelt appre-

ciation to the Goodmans and the Luskins for their commitment to this innovative field.”

Donald Goodman is the president of Don Lee Farms, a multigenerational family food company he founded in 1982. It produces food products for the country’s top retailers, including Costco, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, Sam’s Club, Walmart, Kroger and Albertsons. He and his wife, Andrea, have been recognized by the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank for their longstanding philanthropic efforts, and by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, for their support of scholarships for exceptional high school students in Inglewood.

Renee and Meyer Luskin earned degrees from UCLA in 1953 and 1949, respectively. Meyer Luskin is an industry leader in the business of recycling and processing food waste. In 2011, the couple made gifts to name the UCLA Luskin Conference Center and the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

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Record seizures of animal contraband from China reported at port complex

By City News Service

U.S. customs agents seized a record amount of contraband animal products from China at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex in fiscal year 2022, authorities announced Wednesday.

From Oct. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, 2022, agriculture inspectors intercepted more than 1.2 million pounds of prohibited pork, chicken, beef and duck products arriving from China, according to Jaime Ruiz of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

“This represents a 7% increase from fiscal year 2021, and a 162% increase from fiscal year 2020,” Ruiz said in a statement. “These animal products are not approved for consumption by any U.S regulatory agency.”

According to USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, China is a country affected by African Swine Fever, Classical Swine Fever, Newcastle Disease, Foot and Mouth Disease, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Swine Vesicular Disease.

“While these products are not a threat to human health and cannot be transmitted from animals to humans, these highly contagious viruses could cause 100 percent mortality in animals, devastating vital U.S. livestock resources,” Ruiz said. “It can be spread by ticks that feed on infected animals.”

Prohibited animal products are often commingled in boxes of products like headphones, cell phone covers, clothing, shoes and household goods, Ruiz said.

“Behind this concerning trend is the exponential increase in e-commerce purchases during the pandemic,” said Donald Kusser, CBP port director of the LA/LB seaport. “Our agriculture specialists have done an outstanding job focusing on this threat, resulting in these record-breaking interceptions.”

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SoCalGas teams with community orgs to help consumers pay gas bills

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The Arcadia Weeklyhas been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number GS 004333 for the City of Arcadia, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The Monrovia Weeklyhas been adjudicated as a newspaper of General Circulation in Court Case GS 004759 City of Monrovia, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

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As the cost of natural gas has jacked up bills for consumers nationwide, United Way of Greater Los Angeles is partnering with the Southern California Gas Company to aid families struggling to cover the skyrocketing heating costs.

In partnership with SoCalGas, United Way of Greater LA is providing Southland income-qualified residents with up to $100 for gas bills. The funding comes from this year’s $1 million Gas Assistance Fund.

“Families are feeling the pain of high gas bills and this relief can help them prioritize spending on food, medicine, and childcare, and other pressing needs,” United Way LA President and CEO Elise Buik said in a statement. “Programs like the Gas Assistance Fund are critical to United Way’s efforts to support people in crisis, and by connecting to neighborhoods through

trusted, local organizations we can keep thousands of people safe and warm in their homes.”

Since 1983, SoCalGas and the United Way LA have provided bill payment assistance totaling nearly $18 million to more than 224,000 disadvantaged and disabled individuals, families, seniors and veterans through the Gas Assistance Fund.

This year SoCalGas projects that a customer who received a $300 bill in January will, if gas consumption remains the same, see their February bill decrease to about $135. Despite the bill relief, prices in the western U.S. are still considerably higher than last year when the average residential customer’s February bill was $99.

“Catholic Charities of Los Angeles is grateful to have this important tool to help families in need, and we know firsthand what a difference the right help at

the right time can make in someone’s life,” Sister Jenny Areas, from Catholic Charities San Gabriel Region in El Monte, said in a statement. “Often, utility assistance helps people connect with resources they weren’t aware of, like free tax preparation or tutoring for their kids. This can help families begin to build savings and free them from barriers to economic stability. The little things add up.”

Southern California residents can request assistance by doing the following:

Visit the SoCalGas Fund

at https://www.socalgas. com/save-money-and-energy/assistance-programs/ gas-assistance-fund.

Click on the “Agency List” and identify the nearest agency in your county. Call the agency to schedule an appointment and complete an application. Program applicants must provide a copy of a current SoCalGas bill and proof of income for all members of the household. For more information or for answers to questions about the Gas Assistance Fund, call 877-238-0092.

How the wealthy save billions in taxes by skirting a century-old law

By Paul Kiel and Jeff Ernsthausen and ProPublica

Series: The Secret IRS Files Inside the Tax Records of the .001%

At first glance, July 24, 2015, seems to have been a brutal trading day for Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO. He dumped hundreds of stocks, losing at least $28 million.

But this was no panicked sell-off. Among the stocks Ballmer sold were those of the Australian mining company BHP and the global oil giant Shell. Had Ballmer lost confidence in BHP’s management? Was he betting that the price of oil would not soon recover? Not at all. That very day, Ballmer also bought thousands of shares in BHP and Shell.

Why would he sell and buy shares in the same companies on the same day? The answer is counterintuitive to the average person but obvious to a sophisticated investor: A loss, for tax purposes, is valuable; a big one can wipe out millions in potential taxes. Ballmer’s two-step process allowed him to use the loss to lower his taxes, while the near-simultaneous purchase meant he effectively hadn’t changed his investment.

Since 1921, claiming tax losses from so-called wash sales — selling shares of a company then buying them again within a short period — has been forbidden. But Ballmer collected his losses anyway because, technically, the types of shares he bought and sold weren’t the same.

Both Shell and BHP offered two different versions of their common stock. For each company, the two stocks were legally distinct, but they performed very similarly because, after all, they were shares in the same company.

Ballmer’s not-so-bad day, in fact, was carefully planned, part of a strategy by Goldman Sachs, which conducted the trades on Ballmer’s behalf, to wield the stock market’s natural volatility to the billionaire’s advantage. At Goldman, the hundreds of stocks in Ballmer’s “Tax Advantaged Loss Harvesting” accounts were selected to follow the movement of the broader markets. Over time, the markets, as they had historically, would buoy Ballmer’s investments upward. When, inevitably, some of the stocks underperformed or the whole

market dipped, Goldman was ready to pounce, selling off the losers and replacing them with equivalents.

Sometimes, the replacements were nearly identical securities, as with Shell and BHP. More often, they were not. But well-tuned software could easily find the right stocks to keep the accounts tracking the market. His losses secured, Ballmer was ready to catch the bounce back.

Over and over, Ballmer sold and bought stocks in roughly equivalent amounts, as on that July day, when he swapped around $200 million worth. A month later, he did it again, landing at least $23 million in tax-reducing losses. Similar efforts that December brought $26 million more.

ProPublica estimates that from 2014 through 2018, Ballmer was able to generate tax losses totaling $579 million without changing his investment portfolio in a meaningful way. The tax savings from these losses amount to at least $138 million.

The scale of Goldman’s feat was remarkable, but Ballmer was just one client pursuing such a strategy. And Goldman

was just part of an industry that helps the ultrawealthy report billions in losses — and save billions in potential taxes — even as their fortunes rise.

ProPublica was able to reconstruct the tax-loss strategies of scores of the nation’s wealthiest people, including Ballmer and Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz, using a trove of IRS data that has been the basis for “The Secret IRS Files” series. This trove includes not only some two decades of tax returns for thousands of the nation’s wealthiest citizens but also voluminous records of their trading.

After inquiries by ProPublica, Goldman said it would halt transactions like Ballmer’s Shell and BHP trades. Goldman conducted a review, according to a statement by the bank, and found that a “very small percentage” of its “tax investment solutions” trades were “inadvertently made in a manner inconsistent with our strategy.” The bank said it strives “to provide bestin-class investment advice

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Foundations

announce $5M initiative to advance Latinx art

By Staff

Several foundations announced Wednesday the Advancing Latinx Art in Museums initiative that will provide $5 million in funding to art centers nationwide.

Two Southern California institutions that will receive funds are the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

The new effort represents the second phase of a multiyear funding collaboration between the Mellon, Ford, Terra and Getty foundations, which seek “to nurture and prioritize” Latinx art in the United States and Puerto Rico.

The foundations will provide 10, $500,000 grants to enable institutions to create and formalize permanent early and midcareer curators who have expertise in Latinx art.

Latinx artists are defined as “creatives of Latin American or Caribbean descent who live and work in the U.S.,” according to a Mellon Foundation statement.

Funding from the ALAM initiative aims to bolster museums and visual art organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to collecting, studying, exhibiting and engaging with Latinx art and its creators, according to the Mellon Foundation. The grant program also includes chances to increase the number of curators with Latinx art expertise as well as establish a point of connection among the Latinx curators at participating art centers and also to a wider circle of museum professionals.

“The deep knowledge and understanding of Latinx art these ten curators hold comes from rigorous expertise and commitment to the creative expression of Latinx communities in the United States and Puerto Rico,” Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander said in a statement. “Through ALAM we are proud to help expand opportunities for Latinx art curatorship across the country, and to do our part in upholding the centrality of this work in our museums and arts organizations.”

Getty Foundation Director Joan Weinstein added, “We need to invest more if we want Latinx art to be more broadly represented in our museums, with dedicated curators who can focus exclusively on building and stewarding these collections. ALAM is a decisive next step made possible through collaborative funding.”

People who identify as

Latinx comprise nearly 20% of the U.S. population and a considerably higher percentage in some of the country’s largest cities. However, Latinx causes and organizations regularly get less than 2% of philanthropic funding, according to the Mellon Foundation.

“While annual funding for Latinx arts and culture has seen a gradual annual increase since 2020, Latinx artists remain the largest majority missing from most museum collections, exhibitions, scholarship, and programming,” the Mellon Foundation noted.

“Institutional change can happen when we have experienced and knowledgeable voices at the table,” E. Carmen Ramos, chief curatorial and conservation officer of the National Gallery of Art, said in a statement. “Our renowned collection offers opportunities for Latinx art to be presented in dialogue with both the national and the global, and we anticipate that the curator’s work will benefit from the breadth and depth of our expanding holdings.”

ALAM recipients include large institutions, college and university museums, and leading Latinx museums — spanning scale, modality, and location — all aligned in their commitment to building or expanding a curatorial focus on Latinx art and ultimately creating a more inclusive curatorial field.

In addition to the Vincent Price Art Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, other ALAM recipients are:

-- 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico

-- Arizona State University Art Museum in partnership with CALA Alliance, Tempe, Arizona

-- Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas

-- El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York

-- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

-- National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

-- National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois

-- Newark Museum of Art; Newark, New Jersey

Forty-eight arts organizations from the U.S. and Puerto Rico were invited to apply, according to the Mellon Foundation. A five-member panel of Latinx art and museum experts reviewed grant applications.

More information on the ALAM initiative is available at https://mellon.org/programs/ arts-and-culture/faq-advancing-latinx-art-museums/.

to clients, consistent with both the letter and the spirit of all applicable tax laws and regulations.”

A Ballmer spokesperson said: “Steve takes his responsibility to pay taxes very seriously. Goldman Sachs has just provided Steve with corrected loss reporting information for prior years. Steve will amend his filings and pay any associated tax, interest or penalty promptly.”

But, by Goldman’s own description, it is halting only a narrow slice of its lossgenerating trades — the ones involving two kinds of stock from the same company. The bank will continue its broader practice of finding similar stocks that achieve the same effect.

Goldman’s ability to deliver tax losses to its clients won’t be significantly curtailed. That’s because over the past 25 years, investing has undergone a transformation that’s made the law against wash sales toothless. Improved computing, new financial products, cheaper trading costs and a shift away from picking stocks to passively tracking the broader market are the main ingredients of the change.

Asset managers have used these advances to forge loss-harvesting accounts that boast hundreds of billions of dollars in assets. What the law sought to prevent — generating a tax loss without a substantial change in the investment — is now commonplace.

That ability is available even for smalltime investors, who can mimic the sorts of techniques used by Goldman on their own or opt for products offered by mass-market brokerages such as Vanguard and Charles Schwab. But relatively few Americans have stocks or mutual funds outside of taxprotected retirement accounts, meaning most can’t employ the strategy.

It is the wealthiest who benefit most. The losses can be used to erase an unlimited amount of investment gains. Someone like Ballmer can easily deploy $100 million in losses to cancel out a $100 million gain from selling some of his vast Microsoft holdings. It’s a very different story when it comes to wages and other forms of income, of which only $3,000 can be offset. On average, only the top 0.001% of taxpayers made a majority of their income through investment gains in 2018, according to public IRS data.

Those gains, like many aspects of wealthy Americans’ tax returns, are usually the result of careful planning. Since, in the U.S. system, gains aren’t taxed until they’re sold, even the richest Americans can have years where they owe no tax at all.

The story is exactly the opposite with investment losses. From 2014 to 2018, Ballmer grew $22 billion richer, a fact that doesn’t appear on his tax returns. Meanwhile, Goldman made sure that even momentary losses were listed by the thousands.

For the rich, the “tax system is sort of like a rigged coin,” said David Schizer, a tax expert and professor at Columbia Law School: “If you win, you get to keep all of it, but if you lose, you can pass some of those losses on to the government.” The wash sale rule, he said, is easily skirted by “welladvised taxpayers.”

IRS data shows how widespread the use of investment losses is among the richest Americans. In the U.S., short-term gains, those sold less than a year after buying, are taxed at about twice the rate (around 40% for the top bracket) as longterm gains. That makes short-term losses more valuable since they reduce this higher tax rate income. In 2018, almost two-thirds of Americans with income over $10 million reported net short-term

losses. That was the highest share of any income slice; with more income, counterintuitively, came more losses — at least, on their taxes. Meanwhile, long-term losses were rare for them.

Take a look at the taxes of Jim Walton, the youngest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton and the 10th-wealthiest American, and you’ll see years of short-term losses, thanks to a tax-loss harvesting account at Northern Trust, a bank that specializes in managing the assets of the rich. (A representative for Walton declined to comment.) From 2014 to 2018, Walton grew $10 billion richer, according to Forbes, but reported only $111 million in long-term gains on his taxes. Since his losses easily overwhelmed those gains, he paid no taxes on them at all.

In November 1920, a reader of The Wall Street Journal identified as R.H.T. wrote in with a question. It was a time with parallels to today: The stock market, after reaching highs amid a pandemic (then the Spanish flu), had plummeted. R.H.T.’s portfolio had fallen about $50,000 ($750,000 in current dollars).

“I do not want to sell these stocks at the present market,” wrote R.H.T. “Would it be legal for me to sell these stocks and deduct the loss from this year’s income, even though I bought them in again the same day?” Yes, the Journal responded, the transaction was permitted under the law.

“Basically, the strategy went viral,” said Lawrence Zelenak, a law professor at Duke Law School, and author of a history of the early income tax.

Lawmakers decided to do something about “evasion through the medium of wash sales,” as a 1921 Senate conference report put it. They passed a law that barred taking a tax deduction if, within either 30 days before or 30 days after a sale, an investor bought a security that was “substantially identical” to the one sold.

In the following decades, investors still found ways to collect losses that would reduce their taxes. Often, the volume of selling at year-end was enough to temporarily depress stock prices.

But with the wash sale rule in effect, there were real risks to what was often known as “tax-loss selling.” Investors could sell their losers and try to pick stocks with better prospects. That, as The New York Times reported in 1983, often led to “regret” when an abandoned stock went to the moon. If investors wanted to stick with a stock, they’d have to work around the 60-day limitation. That meant either buying the same stock 30 days before they sold (called “doubling up”) or after. Both options carried danger. If the stock continued to tank while they were doubled up, their losses were compounded, and if the stock boomed before they could buy back in, they missed out.

In the mid-1990s, amid a historic market ascent, new strategies were forged to serve a new generation of superrich Americans. Asset managers began to emphasize post-tax returns. “Tax-aware investing is the challenge of the moment,” wrote Jean Brunel, the chief investment officer of JP Morgan’s global private bank, in the journal Trusts and Estates in 1997. The “tax-sheltering volatility” of stock movements, he explained, presented a “free option” to investment managers, who should “make a greater effort to identify ‘harvestable’ tax losses.”

Enabling this new “tax-loss harvesting” was a shift away from stock picking and toward passive products, such as funds that track the S&P 500. The wash sale rule still foreclosed easy solutions to the problem of replacing a specific stock. But

replacing an investment in something as broad as the S&P 500 with another similar product became increasingly simple. As the Times reported in 1998, “it is getting easier for investors to find a close double for almost any portfolio.”

Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, which emerged in the ’90s, fit this purpose perfectly. Unlike mutual funds, they could be traded like stocks, making them easier to use in loss-harvesting transactions.

Consider a trade by one billionaire in the summer of 2015. Markets had dropped after troubles in the Chinese economy, providing a loss-harvesting opportunity for investors with exposure to Asia.

Brian Acton, a co-founder of WhatsApp, which a year before had been sold to Facebook for $19 billion, was one of those investors. He owned shares of Vanguard’s emerging markets ETF, which tracks an index of companies in China and elsewhere.

At the end of August 2015, according to ProPublica’s IRS data, Acton sold $17 million in shares, resulting in a loss of $2.9 million. The same day, he bought $17 million worth of the emerging markets ETF offered by Blackrock.

The two funds have only minor differences, with large holdings in many of the same Chinese companies. Unsurprisingly, the two funds perform similarly.

When emerging markets fell even further toward the end of the year, Acton did the same deal in reverse: He sold Blackrock and bought back into Vanguard. That allowed him to bank another $600,000 in tax losses.

In 2015, well over 100 wealthy Americans in ProPublica’s database switched from one company’s emerging markets ETF to another to collect tax losses.

Asked about loss-harvesting transactions, Acton told ProPublica, “To be honest I’m not really aware of any events like that.”

“Broadly my wealth is managed by a wealth management firm and they manage all the day to day transactions,” Acton, who has donated to ProPublica, added in a brief exchange over the messaging app Signal, where he is now interim CEO. He did not respond to a detailed list of questions.

Why was Acton’s trade, and the many others like it, not a wash sale?

In theory, the stocks inside two different funds could overlap so much that the IRS might deem them “substantially identical” and thus disallow any tax loss on such a trade.

In practice, however, there is only one scenario in which the wash sale rule is consistently enforced. IRS regulations require brokerages to mark a trade as a wash sale if, in the 60-day period around the sale, the investor buys, in the exact same account, the exact same security (with the same ID, called a CUSIP number). The amount of the forbidden loss is then noted on a form, called a 1099-B, that brokerages send to the IRS each year to detail stock trades.

Beyond that, the IRS has provided no clear guidelines. Instead, the agency has commented on only a few little-used scenarios, while directing taxpayers to “consider all the facts and circumstances” of a trade. Is it OK to swap Vanguard’s ETF tracking the S&P 500 for Blackrock’s version of the same index? Some tax experts say yes, some say no. Besides the IRS’ vague guidance, there are few relevant court cases, and all are decades old. (The IRS declined to comment.)

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ProPublica’s analysis of its IRS data found dozens of examples of taxpayers switching between funds with the exact same holdings. More common were switches like Acton’s between funds with significant, but incomplete, overlap.

The clearest sign that these sorts of trades do not, in the IRS’ eyes, violate the wash sale rule is that ProPublica could find no example of the agency challenging one.

In fact, audits very rarely target wash sales at all, attorneys who’ve represented wealthy taxpayers in IRS disputes told ProPublica. “I have had only one audit on this,” said Bryan Skarlatos, a partner with Kostelanetz & Fink, and it was “for a trader who totally screwed up.”

As popular as ETFs are for harvesting losses, the premier vehicle for delivering tax losses to wealthy clients is another innovation of the 1990s: the separately managed account.

In these accounts, managers make decisions about what to buy as they would for a fund, but the investor owns the stocks directly. When the account mimics an index like the S&P 500, it’s called direct indexing. Such products have boomed in recent years. A 2021 report by the consulting firm Cerulli Associates estimated that $362 billion was invested in direct-indexing accounts, most for “high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients.” The main use of such accounts are for “tax optimization,” the report said.

The advantage, as Goldman Sachs explained in a recent promotional document, is that “with an ETF, an investor may only harvest a loss when the entire index is down.” But if you own the components of an index, now you have hundreds of stocks that might dip.

The year 2017, for example, was great for investors, with the U.S. market up around 20% and world markets up even more. There were no obvious, broad dips to exploit — but that didn’t stop Goldman Sachs from delivering big tax losses to its clients.

That year, Ballmer’s direct indexing accounts, which tracked both U.S. and world indexes, posted over $100 million in tax losses through 15 loss-harvesting transactions. At the same time, the performance of those indexes in 2017 meant that, overall, Ballmer’s accounts were actually way up.

In a direct indexing account, you don’t need to own all the stocks that compose the index, and it doesn’t really matter which specific stocks they are. Instead, what matters is that the collection of stocks closely tracks the index’s movements. This is achieved via a “thoughtful sampling of the underlying positions,” as a

team of Morgan Stanley wealth managers put it in a recent issue of an investment journal. When it comes time to harvest tax losses, the manager sells off the losing stocks and then chooses replacements with the aim of continuing to match the index.

Tax records show that Goldman Sachs routinely made trades for direct-indexing clients like Ballmer that included the sale and purchase of the same company’s stock. These companies offered two classes of common stock, and when Goldman traded from one class to another, it was not required to flag them as wash sales.

Often, these two classes of common stock were distinguished only by the right to vote on things like directors and shareholder initiatives. The sports apparel company Under Armour, for instance, offers a Class A voting stock and Class C nonvoting stock. The two classes command a slightly different price, with the Class A shares usually trading at a premium of around 10%. But the prices move in sync, making them nearly perfect loss-harvesting replacements.

As part of larger rebalancing trades, Goldman clients also swapped other votingnonvoting pairs from companies like Discovery, TwentyFirst Century Fox and Liberty Global.

Shell and BHP, both part of Ballmer’s loss-harvesting trade in 2015, each offered shares based in two different countries. Each company viewed these two versions as interchangeable in value. In fact, in 2022, both companies chose to merge their two classes into a single stock on a 1:1 basis.

ProPublica’s IRS data contained several hundred examples of these kinds of trades by Goldman clients dating back as long as 10 years ago. The records show instances of these sorts of trades through other brokerages, but the overwhelming majority were made through Goldman.

Goldman said that the impact of the now-halted trades on its clients would be “minimal,” and that it would “cover any costs they incur” as a result of disallowed losses.

“We have also initiated a discussion with the IRS and will address any questions they may have on this matter,” the statement said. Generally, only returns filed within the past three years would be subject to possible audit.

At wealth management firms, loss harvesting accounts are often designed to work in tandem with other services, as a kind of knob to turn up or down, depending on the need.

At Iconiq Capital, this is part of an approach that goes far beyond investing to things like managing personal staff. In 2007, the firm’s co-founder,

a former Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley banker named Divesh Makan, told a wealth management magazine that he’d even organized clients’ parties and helped find possible marriage partners. Clients, he said, “want us to look after them these days.”

The San Francisco-based firm manages about $13.2 billion for its 337 high-networth clients, according to a regulatory filing. Among them is Facebook co-founder Moskovitz, Zuckerberg’s old roommate at Harvard. Since the mid-2000s, when Moscovitz’s six-figure Facebook salary made up almost all his income — he’s now worth more than $7 billion — his financial life has grown considerably more complicated. After leaving Facebook, Moskovitz co-founded Asana, a software company, in 2009, but his stake in Facebook still accounted for the vast majority of his wealth. He set about changing that. From 2012 through 2018, he sold $3.6 billion worth of his stock, funds that he, with Iconiq’s help, could then use for other investments.

One of those new ventures was a tax-loss generating account. In late 2012, Moskovitz harvested his first tax losses, according to ProPublica’s analysis. It was a tiny haul by the standards of a billionaire, just $309,000, but it was a start. By 2013, he’d put over $100 million into the account, and his tax losses began to swell. In December of that year, he sold off 153 stocks to produce his first million-dollar loss.

Asset managers recommend adding to a direct indexing account over time, since it ensures there are always new losses to harvest. That’s the strategy Moskovitz followed, every few months seeding $13 million here, $25 million there. As the account grew, so did the tax losses.

Although ProPublica could not determine which index Moskovitz’s account tracked, the transactions followed the telltale pattern of direct indexing. In March 2016, for instance, Moskovitz sold off a basket of 85 stocks worth $27 million and bought a collection worth about the same amount. The two baskets were stuffed with stocks that had performed very similarly in the previous year, according to ProPublica’s analysis. The trade delivered $6.2 million in losses.

Meanwhile, Iconiq arranged other investments for Moskovitz, and the point of these was simply to make money. Most of the money Iconiq manages is in the form of venture capital, private equity and hedge funds, and Moskovitz bought large shares of partnerships run by the firm with names like Iconiq Strategic Partners and Iconiq Access. From 2014 to 2018, Iconiq entities sent over $200 million

to Moskovitz.

The two types of investments were complementary, with the direct indexing account helping to blunt the tax sting from that income. Over the same period, Moskovitz’s dozens of loss-harvesting trades resulted in $84 million in tax losses. That saved him at least $20 million in taxes, ProPublica estimates.

For Zuckerberg, too, Iconiq provided the same twin services of providing and erasing income. His Iconiq investments earned him $88 million during the five-year period, while his tax-loss harvesting trades produced losses of $34 million.

Representatives for Iconiq and Moskovitz, who has tweeted that he’s “in favor of raising taxes on the wealthy,” did not respond to written questions. A representative for Zuckerberg said, “Mark has always paid the taxes he is required to pay.”

To prevent the wealthy from easily skirting the wash sale rule, Congress would need to change the law, experts said. One fundamental, but long-shot, reform would be to automatically tax the annual fluctuations of investments’ value (called “marking to market”). That would prevent the wealthy from being able to defer taxes on gains forever — and also render tax-loss harvesting unnecessary.

But even narrower changes could have an impact. Steve Rosenthal of the Tax Policy Center suggested a law aimed at how products like direct-indexing accounts are marketed: If an asset manager touted the ability to replace securities with positions that were economically the same,

then those losses could be deemed wash sales. This, he said, wouldn’t be a major change, “but it might slow people down.”

Schizer, of Columbia Law School, suggested a more comprehensive reform: Congress should replace “substantially identical” with “substantially similar,” a phrase that is used in some other areas of tax law. That could rule out some of the most common harvesting moves, he said. The rule, he said, “ought to be updated to reflect how people invest today instead of how they invested 100 years ago.”

Methodology Total Tax Losses Harvested

To calculate the total tax losses harvested for each taxpayer, we limited our analysis of 1099-B forms to days in which all the following conditions were true:

At least 10 positions were sold that day.

Of those positions, at least 90% resulted in a loss.

The total losses from sales that day exceeded the total gains by a factor of 10 or more.

The purpose of these limitations was to exclude days that did not appear to be motivated by harvesting losses. The method effectively identified sales from directindexing accounts, which tend to involve dozens or even hundreds of positions, but did exclude some loss-harvesting transactions that involved only a few positions — for instance, selling a couple large ETF holdings. As a result, these are conservative estimates that likely understate total losses. The totals shown in the story represent the net losses accu-

mulated from loss-harvesting days in 2014-18.

Steve Ballmer’s estimate uses a different methodology to calculate his total losses. For an unknown reason, ProPublica’s IRS database did not have information about Ballmer’s 2018 trades, so we based his totals for 2014-18 on the Schedule D forms from his tax returns. Our analysis of his 1099-Bs from other years showed that his direct-indexing accounts at Goldman Sachs dominated his short-term trading results, as represented on his tax returns. These he noted on his Schedule D, in the field reserved for trades that had been reported on a 1099-B form that included the basis. As a result, Ballmer’s total is the sum over 2014-18 for short-term trades that included a 1099-B form with the basis reported.

ProPublica provided detailed descriptions of our loss calculations to all the individuals named in this article, and none contested our totals or methodology.

Tax Savings

Since both Ballmer and Moskovitz did not have extensive net capital gains from short-term trading during the periods we studied, we opted for a simple method for calculating their tax savings: 23.8% of losses, representing the long-term capital gains rate plus the net investment income tax. The tax benefit of a harvested loss can be diminished if stock is sold in the future (given the lower basis). But Ballmer, Moskovitz and other billionaires we analyzed held on to their gains, and there’s good reason to think they will hold on to them indefinitely.

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Report finds nursing homes sedate too many residents; California bill looks to require written consent

By Suzanne Potter, Producer, Public News Service

“These are, by and large, residents who have not had a history of psychiatric conditions.”

This spring, the California Legislature will consider Assembly Bill 48, which would require facilities to get written consent from a patient or the patient’s representative before administering psychotherapeutic drugs.

The California Association of Health Facilities says it is reviewing the bill and hasn’t taken a position.

California has made significant progress on this issue. Federal data show antipsychotic use for longstay residents dropped from more than 21% in 2011 to 10.5% in 2021.

Carlson - who is also the director of long-term services and supports advocacy for Justice in Aging - said informed consent must be a bedrock principle for all patient care.

Groups that advocate for older Americans are speaking out about the overuse of psychotropic medications in nursing homes.

Last November, the federal

government reported that 80% of nursing facility residents they studied received these medications, which are supposed to treat conditions like psychosis, convulsions,

depression and anxiety.

But Eric Carlson, author of a new policy brief from the nonprofit Justice in Aging, said residents are sometimes being sedated as a form of

chemical restraint.

“Evidence suggests that nursing facilities are using these antipsychotic medications to keep residents manageable,” said Carlson.

“People should say, ‘Yes, I want this medication,’ or, ‘No, I don’t want this medication,’” said Carlson. “And that decision should be made after being given information on the benefits and potential

risks of the medication.”

The feds use the prevalence of antipsychotic medicines to rate nursing home quality, but they don’t count patients with certain diagnoses, like schizophrenia.

The brief points out that the number of diagnoses for that condition shot up 35% after the rating system took effect in 2015.

Disclosure: Justice in Aging contributes to our fund for reporting on Civil Rights, Health Issues, Senior Issues, Social Justice. If you would like to help support news in the public interest, click here.

References:

Long-Term Trends of Psychotropic Drug Use in Nursing Homes US DHHS OIG 11/4/22

Why Too Many Psychotropic Medications? (policy brief) Justice in Aging 1/1/23

National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes: Antipsychotic Medication Use Data Report (includes historical data) U.S. CMS 4/1/22

Number of residents in certified nursing facilities in the United States as of 2022, by state statista.com 2022

Settlement between former UCLA quarterback, ex-wife, still not finalized

By City News Service

Former UCLA quarter-

back Brett Hundley and his ex-wife have not finalized a settlement of her lawsuit in which she alleged he broke one of her ankles and caused her to suffer a back injury during arguments between the former couple in 2016.

In a Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit, the plaintiff, identified only as “Jane Doe,” alleged causes of action for domestic violence as well as intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent misrepresentation. The two had met while at UCLA, where Doe was a track runner, and were married in July 2016.

Doe’s lawyers filed court papers on Oct. 11 with Judge Elaine Lu stating that a “conditional” settlement was reached. However, the attorneys told the judge during a hearing Thursday that the accord was not finalized.

“The parties are in a dispute over the written settlement agreement,” Lu’s clerk stated in a minute order from the hearing.

The judge scheduled another hearing for Tuesday and ordered attorneys on both sides to be present.

Doe alleged that in January 2016, Hundley choked her during an argument in which she broke her ankle. In December of that year, Hundley “pushed her through an open garage door,” resulting in a back injury. In July 2016, Hundley became infected with a sexually transmitted disease after having unprotected sex with an unknown number of women at a Las Vegas bachelor party and later passed the malady on to Doe, the suit filed in April 2020 further alleged.

In a sworn declaration, Hundley denied abusing the woman.

“I have never put a hand on plaintiff in a violent manner, assaulted, battered or threatened plaintiff at any point over the course of our relationship,” said the 29-year-old, now a member of the Vegas Vipers of the XFL. “This includes hitting, aggressively grabbing, pushing, or choking or any

other physical manifestation of violence.”

Hundley denied pushing Doe through a garage door and says she broke her ankle when the two were dining out.

“During dinner, plaintiff had a severe allergic reaction to shellfish,” Hundley said. “Plaintiff went to the restroom and struck her foot on the bathroom stall causing, plaintiff to injure her ankle.”

Hundley further says that, in December 2016 or January 2017, Doe told him that she had contracted chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease.

“I got tested as a result of plaintiff telling me she was infected with chlamydia and also tested positive for the infection,” Hundley said. “I did not know I was infected with chlamydia until I was notified by plaintiff, nor did I have any reason to believe I could be infected with chlamydia or any other sexually transmitted disease or infection.”

Doe and Hundley renewed their vows July

2017, and even after she filed for divorce in November 2018, the woman “expressed the desire to continue a

romantic relationship with me,” according to Hundley.

Hundley was drafted in 2015 by the Green Bay

Packers and later played for the Seattle Seahawks, Arizona Cardinals and Indianapolis Colts.

Former UCLA quarterback Brett Hundley. | Photo courtesy of Neon Tommy/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

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INVITATION TO BID

Pursuant to Public Contract Code Sections 1600 and 1601, all bids or proposals shall be submitted through the City’s electronic bid management system (PlanetBids) at https://www.planetbids.

com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=43375 by 2:00 pm Pacific Standard Time on or before March 9, 2023 for the project listed below. A bid submitted after the time set shall not be considered. Bidders are required to submit (upload) all items listed in the section 4(d) of Instructions to Bidders, including a copy of the required Bidder’s Bond and acknowledgement of all addendums. Bids will be received by the City via the electronic submission up to the date and time shown in the Notice of Inviting Bids. The City will be responsible for bid tabulations. Bids will be opened and read out loud by the City Clerk’s Office in Council Chambers at the date and time stated in the Notice of Inviting Bids. Bid results will be made available to the public on the City’s website in the electronic bid management system once the bid tabulation has been completed.

The foregoing notwithstanding, the award of any contract shall be subject to approval by the City Council at a duly noticed City Council meeting and the City Council reserves the right to reject all Bids.

The Bidder, by submitting their electronic proposal, agrees to and certifies under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California, that the certification, forms and affidavits submitted as part of this proposal are true and correct. The Bidder, by submitting its electronic bid, acknowledges that doing so carries the same force and full legal effect as a paper submission with a longhand (wet) signature. By submitting an electronic bid, the Bidder certifies that the Bidder has thoroughly examined and understands the entire Contract Documents (which consist of the plans and specifications, drawings, forms, affidavits and the solicitation documents), and that by submitting the electronic bid as its Bid proposal, the Bidder acknowledges, agrees to and is bound by the entire Contract Documents, including any addenda issued thereto, and incorporated by reference in the Contract Documents.

Sidewalk & Curb Ramp Reconstruction Project (PHASE 3), CIP 052

The proposed work consists of but not limited to removal and reconstruction of sidewalk, curb and gutter, driveway approaches, AC pavement, curbs, tree and stump removal, adjust to grade of utility meter box, sidewalk grinding, construct ADA curb ramp, and all other work as indicated in the construction documents. It is the goal of this project to improve pedestrian safety, mobility and access within the City. The City Engineer’s estimate for the project is Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400,000).

This is a federally assisted construction contract. Federal Labor Standards Provisions outlined in the HUD-4010 form, including prevailing wage requirements of the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA), will be enforced.

The “current Federal Wage Decision” is the one in effect ten (10) days prior to the bid opening date and can be found online at http://www.wdol.gov In the event of a conflict between federal and state wage rates, the higher of the two will prevail. “The Contractor’s duty to pay State prevailing wages can be found under Labor Code Section 1770 et seq. and Labor Code Sections 1775 and 1777.7 outline the penalties for failure to pay prevailing wages and employ apprentices including forfeitures and debarment.” This Project is a “public work,” and thus, the Contractor and any Subcontractors must pay wages in accordance with the determination of the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) regarding the prevailing rate of per diem wages. Copies of those rates are on file with the Director of Public Works and are available to any interested party upon request. The contractor shall post a copy of the DIR’s determination of the prevailing rate of per diem wages at each job site.

Section 3 Statement: This is a HUD Section 3 construction contract. First preference will be given to a bidder who provides a reasonable bid and is a qualified Section 3 Business Concern. Second preference will be given to a bidder who provides a reasonable bid and commits to achieving the Section 3 employment, training, and subcontracting opportunity goals by submitting a Declaration of Intent to comply with Section 3 requirements, including benchmarks. A Section 3 MANDATORY Pre-Bid Meeting will be held at 10:00am on Thursday, February 23, 2023 at El Monte Aquatic Center (Conference Room A), 11001 Mildred St, El Monte, CA, 91731, to discuss the Section 3 bid preference and goals. A bidder who is not responsive to the Section 3 requirements of the Housing Development Act of 1968 (as amended), will not receive consideration for a bid preference.

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5. It is not a violation for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

Completion of Work: All work shall be completed within fortyfive (45) working days from the date designated on the Notice to Proceed. Liquidated damages as provided for in the General Conditions of the Contract shall be in the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each and every day as defined therein for each different scope of work as defined by the Base Bid and each change order except as otherwise specified in the General Conditions.

Obtaining Contract Documents: Specifications and contract documents are posted in the City’s electronic bid management system (PlanetBids) at https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal. cfm?CompanyID=43375. All Bidders must first register as a vendor on the City of El Monte PlanetBids System website to participate in a Bid or to be added to a prospective Bidders list. Only those parties that have registered with the City as a plan holder on a particular project will receive the addendum(a) for that project. The City is not responsible for notifications to those parties who do not directly register as a plan holder on the City’s database. It is the responsibility of all perspective Bidders to register on the City’s database to ensure receipt of any addendum(a) prior to Bid submittals. Additionally, information on any addendum(a) issued for any bid specifications for any project will be available on the City website at: https:// www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=43375. The City reserves the right to reject as nonresponsive any bid that fails to include the information required by any addendum(a) posted on the City website.

Questions: Project-specific questions must be submitted in writing through the City’s electronic bid management system (PlanetBids) at https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal. cfm?CompanyID=43375 by 4:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on or before Tuesday February 28, 2023. All posted questions will be answered in writing and conveyed via written addenda to all Bidders via posting on PlanetBids.

Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting: A mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held on Thursday February 23, 2023, 10:00 a.m. at El Monte Aquatic Center (Conference Room A), 11001 Mildred St, El Monte, CA, 91731. Every Bidder is required to attend the pre-bid meeting. Failure of a Bidder to attend will render that Bidder’s Bid nonresponsive. No allowances for cost adjustments will be made if a Bidder fails to adequately examine the Project before submitting a Bid.

In light of the new health order issued by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health lifting the indoor mask mandate [for fully vaccinated individuals], effective Friday, March 4, 2022, the City of El Monte COVID-19 Prevention Plan will remain in effect. All employees and customers entering a City facility will be required to wear at least a face-covering or mask regardless of vaccination status. If you plan to wear a face-covering instead of a surgical mask or well-fitting respirators (e.g., N95 and KN95), please ensure that the face covering is a tightly woven fabric or non-woven material with no visible holes or openings covering the nose and mouth.

Submission of Proposals: All Bids or Proposals shall be submitted through the City’s electronic bid management system (PlanetBids) at https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal. cfm?CompanyID=43375 no later than the date and time prescribed. All Bids must be signed by an authorized representative.

All required sections, including pricing, shall be submitted (uploaded) to PlanetBids via the website. The Bidder shall attach Subcontractor(s) Listing, Experience Form, Copy of Bid Security, and all other documents as listed in the BIDDER’S CHECKLIST to the PlanetBids Attachments Tab. The system will not accept a Bid for which any required information is missing. Prior to the Bid due date and time, all Bidders shall submit the original Bid Security to:

Office of the City Clerk

City of El Monte – City Hall East 11333 Valley Blvd El Monte CA, 91731

The award of the contract by the City Council is contingent upon the Bidder submitting the required bonds and insurance, as described in the Contract, prior to the Bid due date and time. If the Bidder fails to comply with these requirements, the City may award the contract to the second or third lowest Bidder and the Bid security of the lowest Bidder may be forfeited.

Bids Remain Sealed Until Due Date and Time. Electronic Bids are transmitted into the City’s bidding system via hypertext transfer protocol secure (https). Bids submitted prior to the due date and time are not available for review by anyone other than the submitter, who will have until the due date and time to change, rescind or retrieve its bid should they desire to do so. Upon the Bidder’s entry of their bid, the system will ensure that all required fields are entered. The system will not accept a Bid for which any required information is missing. This includes all necessary pricing, subcontractor listing(s) and any other essential documentation and supporting materials and forms requested or contained in these solicitation documents. All Bid submission information must be fully transferred from the Bidder server to the bid system server before bid closing. Bids still transmitting at the time of bid closing will not be accepted. Bidders will receive an e-bid confirmation number with a time stamp from the bid management system indicating their bid was submitted successfully. The City will only receive those bids that were transmitted successfully. DO NOT FAX OR EMAIL.

Bid Security: Each proposal must be accompanied by a Bid Security in the form of a cashier’s check, certified check, or bid bond executed on the prescribed form, in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the total bid price payable to the City of El Monte. Bidders are hereby notified that in accordance with the provisions of Public Contract Code section 22300, securities may be substituted for any monies which the City may withhold pursuant to the terms of this Contract to ensure performance.

LEGALS

Prior to the bid due date and time, all Bidders shall submit the original Bid Security to the City Clerk. Proof of delivery that is date/time stamped and signed for by the City Clerk from other couriers other than Certified mail will be accepted. A copy of the proof of delivery shall be submitted with the bid package by the bid due date.

Contractor's License: Bidder must possess a current Class_”A” - General Engineering Contractor license or Class “C-8” – Concrete Contractor issued by the State of California, at the time the bid is submitted.

Contractor Registration: All Bidders and listed subcontractors must have registered with the California State Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 prior to submitting a Bid. Furthermore, a Contractor and all subcontractors must be registered pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 before entering into a contract to work on a public project.

City’s Right to Postpone Opening of Bids. The City reserves the right to postpone the date and time for the opening of Bids at any time prior to the date and time initially announced in this Invitation to Bid in accordance with applicable law.

Opening of Bids. Bids will be received by the City via the electronic submission up to the date and time shown in the Notice of Inviting Bids. The City will be responsible for bid tabulations. Bids will be opened and read out loud by the City Clerk’s Office in Council Chambers at the date and time stated in the Notice of Inviting Bids. Bid results will be made available to the public on the City’s website and in the electronic bid management system (PlanetBids) at https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal. cfm?CompanyID=43375 once the bid tabulation has been completed.

Award: The award shall be made to the lowest responsible Bidder whose proposal complies with the specified requirements. The foregoing notwithstanding, the award of any contract shall be subject to approval by the City Council at a duly noticed City Council meeting. Contractor shall execute the Contract within ten (10) days after it has received the Contract from the City. The City reserves the right to waive any irregularity in the proposals. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days after the opening of bids.

Rejection of Bids: The City reserves the right to reject any and all Bids. The City further reserves the right to waive immaterial irregularities in any Bid. Any Bid not conforming to the intent and purpose of the Contract Documents may be rejected. The City reserves the right to make all awards in the best interest of the City.

Disqualification of Bidder: If there is a reason to believe that collusion exists among any Bidders, none of the Bids of the participants in such collusion will be considered and the City may likewise elect to reject all bids received.

Wage Rates: Bidders are hereby notified that the California Department of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rate of wages for each craft, classification, or type of worker needed to execute the work. Copies of the current schedules for prevailing wages applicable to this project are on file in the City’s office. It shall be mandatory for the Contractor and any subcontractor under it to pay not less than the said specified rates to laborers and workmen employed by them in the execution of the Contract. The contractor’s duty to pay State prevailing wages can be found under Labor Code, Section 1770 et seq. Labor Code Sections 1775 and 1777.7 outline the penalties for failure to pay prevailing wages and employ apprentices including forfeitures and debarment.

This public works construction project is also funded in whole or in part with federal funds. Accordingly, federal labor standards provisions including prevailing wage requirements of the DavisBacon and Related Acts (DBRA) will be enforced. In the event of a conflict between Federal and State prevailing wage rates, the higher of the two will prevail.

Bonds: The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a payment bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract price, and a faithful performance bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract price.

Conflict of Interest: In the procurement of supplies, equipment, construction, and services by sub-recipients, the conflict of interest provisions in 24 CFR 85.36 OMB Circular A-110, and 24 CFR 570.611, respectively, shall apply. No employee, officer, or agent of the sub-recipient shall participate in selection, or in the award or administration of a contract supported by Federal funds if a conflict of interest, real or apparent, would be involved.

Arcadia City Notices

Thursday March 2, 2023, at which time said proposals shall be publicly opened and the names of the proposers shall be read. Copies of the proposal may be obtained from the Purchasing Office, City of Arcadia, 240 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia, California, 91007, or by emailing Amber Abeyta, Management Analyst, at aabeyta@ArcadiaCA.gov. Said specifications and proposal forms are hereby referred to and incorporated herein and made a part by reference and all proposals must comply therewith.

The City of Arcadia reserves the right to accept in whole or part or reject any and all proposals and to waive any informalities in the proposal process, and all proposals are binding for a period of ninety (90) days after the proposal opening and may be retained by the City for examination and comparison, as specified in the proposal documents. The award of this contract shall be made by the Arcadia City Council.

CITY OF ARCADIA PURCHASING OFFICE

/s/ Linda Rodriguez Assistant City Clerk

Dated: February 13, 2023

Publish: February 13, February 16, and February 20, 2023

ARCADIA WEEKLY

CITY OF ARCADIA NOTICE INVITING BIDS

The City of Arcadia (“City”) will receive in a sealed envelope plainly marked on the outside “SEALED BID FOR Well Inspection and Rehabilitation of Orange Grove Well 5 Project / Project No. 72863623 - DO NOT OPEN WITH REGULAR MAIL” at the office of the City Clerk, located at 240 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia, CA 91007, no later than Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 11:00 A.M., at which time or thereafter said Bids will be opened and read aloud. Bids received after this time will be returned unopened. Bids shall be valid for sixty (60) calendar days after the Bid opening date.

Bids must be submitted to the City on the City’s Contract Bid Forms. Prospective Bidders may obtain Bid Documents only from the ArcadiaCA.gov. Please contact the Public Works Services Department at (626) 254-2720 for more information, including availability of Bid Documents. One or more Pre-Bid Conference and Site Walks will be held on the date(s), at the time(s) and under the conditions indicated in the Bid Documents. Bidder SHOULD attend.

All Bids must be addressed, sealed in an envelope and received by the office of the City Clerk no later than 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday, March 14, 2023. All Bids will be publicly opened, examined and read aloud at the City’s Clerk’s office at that time. Bids shall be valid for 60 days after the bid opening date. Bids must be accompanied by cash, a certified or cashier’s check, or a Bid Bond in favor of the City in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the submitted Total Bid Price. The successful Bidder will be required to furnish the City with a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond, each equal to 100% of the successful Bid, prior to execution of the Contract. All bonds are to be secured from a surety that meets all of the State of California bonding requirements, as defined in Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120, and is admitted by the State of California.

Each Bidder shall be a licensed contractor pursuant to the Business and Professions Code and shall be licensed in the following appropriate classification(s) of contractor’s license(s), for the work Bid upon, and must maintain the license(s) throughout the duration of the Contract: C-57.

Bidders are advised that this Contract is a public work for purposes of the California Labor Code, which requires payment of prevailing wages. City has obtained from the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations the general prevailing rates, and will place them on file at the City’s office and make them available to any interested party upon request.

Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations. No bid will be accepted nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the Department of Industrial Relations to perform public work.

City reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, to waive any informality or irregularity in any Bid received, and to be the sole judge of the merits of the respective Bids received.

CITY OF ARCADIA

Monday, February 20, and February 27, 2023

ARCADIA WEEKLY

the City Clerk of the City of Arcadia, 240 W. Huntington Drive, P.O. Box 60021, Arcadia, California, 91066-6021. Proposals are due no later than 11:00 a.m. on

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Probate Notices

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JAMES GILBERT COX III

CASE NO. 23STPB00726

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JAMES GILBERT COX III

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by BRADLEY TYER in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that BRADLEY TYER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act with full authority . (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on 3/2/2023 at 8:30am in Dept. 4 located at 111 N. HILL ST. LOS ANGELES CA 90012 STANLEY MOSK COURTHOUSE.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner:

Brittany Britton SBN 303084

2312 W. Olive Ave. Suite D Burbank, CA 91506, Telephone: (626) 390-5953

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

DERREL DEAN RHOADS

CASE NO. PROSB2300119

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of DERREL DEAN RHOADS.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by DEBORAH FAYE RHOADS in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that DEBORAH FAYE RHOADS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/22/23 at 9:00AM in Dept. S37 located at 247 W. THIRD STREET, SAN BERNARDINO, CA 924150212

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

TONY J. TYRE - SBN 269506, ALLYSON S. HELLER - SBN 315086, LAW OFFICES OF TONY J. TYRE, ESQ., APC 100 S. CITRUS AVENUE, SUITE 101 COVINA CA 91723 2/13, 2/16, 2/20/23 CNS-3669329# ONTARIO NEWS PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

VIRGILIA ESPLANADA

ARCEBIDO CASE NO. 30-2023-01305388-PR-LA-

CJC

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of VIRGILIA ESPLANADA ARCEBIDO.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by RACHELLE PARKS in the Superior Court of California, County of ORANGE.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that RACHELLE PARKS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

WEST, SANTA ANA, CA 92701

NOTICE IN PROBATE CASES

The court is providing the convenience to appear for hearing by video using the court’s designated video platform. This is a no cost service to the public. Go to the Court’s website at The Superior Court of California - County of Orange (occourts.org) to appear remotely for Probate hearings and for remote hearing instructions. If you have difficulty connecting or are unable to connect to your remote hearing, call 657-622-8278 for assistance. If you prefer to appear in-person, you can appear in the department on the day/time set for your hearing.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner PRISCILLA C. SOLARIO, ESQ.SBN 259607, LAW OFFICES OF PRISCILLA C. SOLARIO 9431 HAVEN AVENUE, STE. 108 RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730 2/13, 2/16, 2/20/23 CNS-3669349# ANAHEIM PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RUPERTO GONZALES ARCEBIDO CASE NO. 30-2023-01305291-PR-LACJC

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of RUPERTO GONZALES ARCEBIDO.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by RACHELLE PARKS in the Superior Court of California, County of ORANGE.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that RACHELLE PARKS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/15/23 at 1:30PM in Dept. C10 located at 700 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE WEST, SANTA ANA, CA 92701

NOTICE IN PROBATE CASES

The court is providing the convenience to appear for hearing by video using the court’s designated video platform. This is a no cost service to the public. Go to the Court’s website at The Superior Court of California - County of Orange (occourts.org) to appear remotely for Probate hearings and for remote hearing instructions. If you have difficulty connecting or are unable to connect to your remote hearing, call 657-622-8278 for assistance. If you prefer to appear in-person, you can appear in the department on the

day/time set for your hearing.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

PRISCILLA C. SOLARIO, ESQ.SBN 259607, LAW OFFICES OF PRISCILLA C. SOLARIO 9431 HAVEN AVENUW, SUITE 108 RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730 2/13, 2/16, 2/20/23

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF CLAIRE ESTELLE YOUNG Case No. 23STPB00857

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of CLAIRE ESTELLE YOUNG

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Petitioner, Kimberly De Chellis in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Petitioner, Kimberly De Chellis be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on March 3, 2023 at 8:30 AM in Dept. 44. located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: LAUREL A. BUCHANAN, ESQ SBN 293175

LAW OFFICES OF LAUREL A. BUCHANAN 6329 BROCKTON AVENUE RIVERSIDE, CA 92506-2031 (951) 530-8649

FEBRUARY 13, 16, 20, 2023

BALDWIN PARK PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MELANIE ANN THOMAS

Case No. 23STPB00323

To all heirs, beneficiaries, cred-itors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MELANIE ANN THOMAS

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Glen A. Wright in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Glen A. Wright be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administra-tion authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objec-tion to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on March 24, 2023 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 67 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your ap-pearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issu-ance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner:

ANTHONY C GROSSMAN ESQ

SBN 175408

SCHOFIELD & GROSSMAN APC 201 S LAKE AVE STE 403

PASADENA CA 91101

CN993984 THOMAS

Feb 16,20,23, 2023

BURBANK INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DOLORES L. LOTZ

CASE NO. PROSB2300131

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of DOLORES L. LOTZ.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by RICHARD LOTZ in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that RICHARD LOTZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority

to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act with limited authority. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

03/13/23 at 9:00AM in Dept. S35 located at 247 W. THIRD STREET, SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

MICHAEL G. EBINER, ESQ.SBN 183499, EBINER LAW OFFICE 100 N. CITRUS STREET, SUITE 520 WEST COVINA CA 91791

2/16, 2/20, 2/23/23

CNS-3669862# ONTARIO NEWS PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

GWENETH L. JACKSON CASE NO. 23STPB01404

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of GWENETH L. JACKSON.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ROBERT JACKSON in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ROBERT JACKSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/15/23 at 8:30AM in Dept. 5 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal

representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

JASON L. GAUDY - SBN 228975, GAUDY LAW INC.

267 D STREET UPLAND CA 91786

2/16, 2/20, 2/23/23

CNS-3669968# PASADENA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MARIA DIEPLINGER

CASE NO. 23STPB01455

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of MARIA DIEPLINGER.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by CHARLES DAVID YOUNG in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CHARLES DAVID YOUNG be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

03/17/23 at 8:30AM in Dept. 4 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner THOMAS O. HOFFMAN - SBN

100881

LAW OFFICES OF THOMAS O. HOFFMAN

302 W SIERRA MADRE BLVD

SIERRA MADRE CA 91024 2/16, 2/20, 2/23/23

CNS-3670353#

PASADENA PRESS

CARL LOUIS KANE, JR.

Case No. 23STPB01475

To all heirs, beneficiaries, cred-itors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of CARL L. KANE, JR. aka CARL LOUIS KANE, JR.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Michael C. Conner in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Michael C. Conner be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administra-tion authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objec-tion to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on March 16, 2023 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 11 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your ap-pearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either

(1) four months from the date of first issu-ance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner:

WENDY E HARTMANN ESQ SBN 204587

LAW OFFICES OF WENDY HARTMANN 300 W GLENOAKS BLVD STE 300 GLENDALE CA 91202

CN994215 KANE Feb 20,23,27, 2023

GLENDALE INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ANN HAYES HIGGINBOTHAM CASE NO. 23STP00794

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of ANN HAYES HIGGINBOTHAM.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by STEPHEN HIGGINBOTHAM in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that STEPHEN HIGGINBOTHAM be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and

LEGALS

shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/03/23 at 8:30AM in Dept. 79 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner DEBBY S. DOITCH, ESQ. - SBN 266731, KJMLAW PARTNERS, PLC 301 EAST COLORADO BLVD., SUITE 600 PASADENA CA 91101 2/16, 2/20, 2/23/23 CNS-3670542# PASADENA PRESS

NOTICE OF SUBSEQUENT PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: TOMMY BAKER CASE NO. 22STPB09188

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of TOMMY BAKER.

A SUBSEQUENT PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by PATRICIA ANN GAINEY in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE SUBSEQUENT PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that PATRICIA ANN GAINEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE SUBSEQUENT PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE SUBSEQUENT PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

03/17/23 at 8:30AM in Dept. 11 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal

authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner PETA-GAY GORDON, ESQ. - SBN 238995, OLDMAN COOLEY SALLUS BIRNBERG COLEMAN & GOLD, LLP 16133 VENTURA BLVD., PENTHOUSE ENCINO CA 91436 2/20, 2/23, 2/27/23

CNS-3670885# PASADENA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SHAOPING WU ZINN CASE NO. PROSB2300151

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of SHAOPING WU ZINN.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by DEHAO JIN in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that DEHAO JIN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

03/22/23 at 9:00AM in Dept. S35 located at 247 W. THIRD STREET, SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner WEI C. WONG - SBN 116428

LAW OFFICES OF WEI C. WONG 716 S. GARFIELD AVENUE ALHAMBRA CA 91801 2/20, 2/23, 2/27/23

CNS-3671506# ONTARIO NEWS PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

JOSEFA CAPULONG CHICO

CASE NO. PROSB2200783

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of JOSEFA CAPULONG CHICO.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by CRISTINA CHICO in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CRISTINA CHICO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/09/23 at 9:00AM in Dept. S35 located at 247 W. THIRD STREET, SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

JEFFREY FORER - SBN 108310, HINOJOSA & FORER LLP

2215 COLBY AVE.

LOS ANGELES CA 90064

2/20, 2/23, 2/27/23

CNS-3672021#

ONTARIO NEWS PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF SOOK TSING LEUNG

Case No. 22STPB12794

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of SOOK TSING LEUNG

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Ying Ming Chan who is also known as George Ying Ming Chan in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Ying Ming Chan who is also known as George Ying Ming Chan be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on March 27, 2023 at 8:30 AM in Dept. 4. located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner:

CYNTHIA H. LEE SBN 213064 AMERICAN TRUST INSTITUTE 2055 JUNCTION AVENUE SUITE 210 SAN JOSE, CA 95131 (415) 693-8882 FEBRUARY 20, 23, 27, 2023 WEST COVINA PRESS

Public Notices

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF Eason Weng (minor) by & through guardian ad litem: Zhihua Guan & Qiqian Weng FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 23AHCP00040 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 150 W Commonwealth Ave, Alhambra Ca 90801, Northeast Judicial District TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner Eason Weng (minor) by & through guardian ad litem: Zhihua Guan & Qiqian Weng filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a. OF Eason Weng to Proposed name Eason Guan 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reason for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing NOTICE OF HEARING a.

Date: 03/22/2023 Time: 8:30AM Dept:

3. Room:300 The address of the court is same as noted above. 3. a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the day set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Alhambra Press DATED: January 24, 2023 Robin Miller Sloan JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Pub. January 30, February 6, 13, 20, 2023 ALHAMBRA PRESS

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR

CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF Kristin

Marie Williams FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 23VECP00037 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 6230 Sylmar Avenue, Van Nuys, Ca 91401, Northwast Judicial District TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner Kristin Marie Williams filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a. OF Kristin Marie Williams to Proposed name Kristin Williams Englezos 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reason for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 03/10/2023 Time: 8:30AM Dept: T. Room:600 The address of the court is same as noted above. 3. a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the day set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper

LA residents sue OC company over recall of oil used in IVF treatments

By City News Service

ALos Angeles couple filed a lawsuit Thursday in Orange County Superior Court alleging that a Santa Ana-based company used toxic oil during in vitro fertilization, or IVF, treatments that destroyed their embryos.

The plaintiffs, who were not named in the lawsuit, sued Fujifilm Irvine Scientific Inc. alleging manufacturing defect, design defect, failing to warn, negligence and negligent failure to recall.

The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The oil developed by the company is used to protect fertilized eggs when they are stored. The company issued a recall in January when it received complaints of the deaths of human embryos when coming into contact with the substance, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit alleges that “after receiving these reports of defective oil” the

company tested “the reported lots and found oil toxicity for many of its oil lots.”

The lawsuit adds that the plaintiffs “learned from their fertility clinic that their embryos were killed upon coming into contact with oil. Those embryos were viable prior to coming into contact with defendant’s oil, and then were killed by defendant’s oil. ... (The plaintiffs) are devastated. They may no longer be able to have children with their genetic material as a result of defendant’s conduct.”

Attorney Adam Wolf, who represents the couple, said his firm represents “approximately a dozen people so far” affected by the recall.

“I’d say our outreach is not just national but international,” Wolf said in a news conference Thursday. “There are affected clients in South America, the EU and in the United States. We have clients in California ... and, really, around the

world.”

Fujifilm is “one of the country’s largest oil producers for IV clinics,” Wolf said. But, “It’s not the exclusive manufacturer of the oil.”

The oil protects embryos against drying out before they are frozen, Wolf said.

Attorney Ashlie Sletvold, who also represents the couple, said the oil was found to be toxic “according to (Fujifilm’s) own testing.”

She criticized the company for not publicly releasing information about the recall.

It is unclear how many people have been affected by the recall.

“We don’t know if it’s thousands or tens of thousands,” Sletvold said. “We, unfortunately, expect the worst. ... The company should have publicly posted this urgent recall notice to alert all affected patients.”

Wolf added, “It’s outrageous that Fujifilm Irvine Scientific hasn’t been more transparent about the scale

of this disaster.”

The lawsuit faults the company for failing “to properly inspect and/or test its oil, including the recalled oil lots. Defendant knowingly put its oil into the market when it knew or should have

known that the recalled oil lots posed a substantial and unacceptable risk to human embryos, including plaintiffs’ embryos.”

The lawsuit called the company’s conduct “despicable and was carried on

by defendant with a willful and conscious disregard of the rights and/or safety of others. Defendant’s conduct subjected plaintiffs to cruel and unjust hardship in conscious disregard of plaintiffs’ rights.”

Convicted OC killer to be released after almost 40 years in prison

By City News Service

cancer.

Thomas F. Maniscalco 78, was serving a 46-year to life sentence after he was convicted in 1994 of three counts of second-degree murder for the shooting deaths of Hessian Richard “Rabbit” Rizzone, 36, Thomas Monahan, 28, who served as Rizzone’s bodyguard.

Maniscalco was also convicted of raping and torturing Rena Miley, who was murdered in Rizzone’s Westminster home. Miley was Rizzone’s girlfriend and the 19-year-old daughter of a Los Alamitos Police Department officer.

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer criticized the anticipated release of Maniscalco, who has been incarcerated for 39 years.

the murdered and their loved ones.

“Maniscalco didn’t care about the pain and suffering of his victims as they took their last breaths and yet we are supposed to unleash a violent sociopath back into society so he can live out his final days out of custody.

“State law handcuffs judges from exercising their discretion to keep sadistic murders like him behind bars where he belongs and that has to change.”

The compassionate release law prohibits judges from considering the heinousness of the crime for which the prisoner is serving time and limit judges to considering only the prisoner’s current mental and physical condition.

path.”

“Since he is successful in getting others to do his dirty work, I do not believe he will ever cease to present a danger to society if he is released at an advance age,” the judge said.

Another Hessian, Daniel “Shame” Duffy of Long Beach, was convicted of special circumstances murders in 1992 and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Another biker, Phil Warren, would have also been charged with the three murders, but he was killed by Oklahoma police in 1982 while the case was still being investigated.

began in 1990 and ended a year later with a hung jury. A second trial lasted nearly one year and a half, which resulted in his conviction.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation did not inform the family of the victims of the upcoming hearing and potential release of their loved ones’ killer, according to Kimberly Edds, Spitzer’s spokeswoman. Family members did participate in the hearing this week after they were contacted by Spitzer’s office.

Aformer Westminster attorney and co-founder of the Hessian Motorcycle Club who has been incarcerated for nearly 40 years for the

killings of a fellow Hessian and his bodyguard will be released within 48 hours due to California’s compassionate release laws after he was diagnosed with terminal

“Where is the compassion for the victims?” Spitzer said. “He has taken no responsibility for the lives he destroyed and soon he will be a free man with nothing to lose. At every turn, the California state Legislature and Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has continued to show sympathy and concern for the murderer, but turned a blind eye to

In order to prevent the prisoner’s compassionate release, prosecutors are required to persuade a judge that the prisoner will likely commit a super strike, the most serious strikes under California law, including murder, mayhem and any sexually violent offense.

At Maniscalco’s 1994 sentencing, then-Orange County Superior Court Judge Kathleen O’Leary stated Maniscalco “is an extremely dangerous socio-

Duffy and Maniscalco shot the three victims multiple times at close range. Miley was found naked, laying on her back and there was evidence she had been raped.

Prosecutors said Maniscalco and Duffy carried out the killings because Maniscalco believed Rizzone was stealing from him in his counterfeiting and methamphetamines distribution ring. Miley and Monahan’s murders occurred because Maniscalco did not want to leave any witnesses to Rizzone’s murder.

Maniscalco’s first trial

Prosecutors had less than 10 days to prepare an argument against Maniscalco’s release after an innocuous letter informing the Orange County District Attorney’s Office of the upcoming compassionate release was mailed to its office, Edds said.

There was no follow-up from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to convey any sense of urgency of the looming release of a convicted triple-murderer who had been previously denied parole twice, including in 2020 because he posed a public safety risk, Edds said.

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Thomas F. Maniscalco. | Photo courtesy of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office

Ethics Commission fines former Los Angeles Councilman Koretz

By City News Service

Students throughout San Bernardino County receive free dental checkups during National Children’s Dental Health Month

By Staff

Former City Councilman Paul Koretz was fined $2,500 this week by the Ethics Commission for asking a city commissioner to host a fundraising event for him when he was running for city controller last year.

Koretz, who was termed out of the Los Angeles City Council and ended up losing the city controller race to Kenneth Mejia, sought in 2021 to hold a fundraiser at the home of Jill Banks Barad-Hopkins, a Board of Water and Power commissioner. City commissioners are not allowed to fundraise for candidates running for city office.

Barad-Hopkins had already been fined by the commission for the violation.

The fine, handed down on Wednesday, “demonstrates that the Ethics Commission is committed to upholding the laws that protect the integrity of the electoral process and help to foster public confidence in local government,” according to Jeffrey Daar, president of the Ethics Commission.

The Koretz campaign returned all contributions

for the fundraiser voluntarily after it was alerted to the violation, according to the commission.

Koretz ran for city controller after serving on the council for the maximum three terms.

Homelessness programs

February is National Children’s Dental Health Month, and First 5 San Bernardino and the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health’s Smile SBC local oral health program are teaming up to encourage parents and caregivers to make their children’s oral health a priority with their “Little Teeth, Big Responsibility” campaign.

Tooth decay is preventable but remains the most common chronic childhood disease. In fact, more than 60 percent of kindergartners in San Bernardino County have experienced dental decay. Further, children with poor oral health miss more school and are more likely to receive lower grades than their healthier counterparts.

This campaign aims to help parents of newborns and young children understand the importance of oral health by providing low-cost resources and accessible information to families with children under age five.

“The ‘Little Teeth, Big Responsibility’ campaign is very important because oral health habits begin at an early age,” shared First 5 San Bernardino Executive Director Karen Scott.

“Visiting a dentist when your baby’s first tooth appears or at their first birthday is the best way to ensure a lifetime of healthy smiles,” Scott concluded. To kick off National Children’s Dental Health Month, First 5 San Bernardino and Smile SBC hosted a pop-up dentist event on Feb. 2 at E. Neal Roberts Elementary School in San Bernardino, which was covered by other media outlets including NBC4 LA and The Sun newspaper.

Over 60 transitional and kindergarten (TK) students received dental health assessments, complete with oral health-related giveaways and a very teeth-friendly mascot, Potter the Otter.

“We were excited to partner with the San Bernardino City Unified School District this year to further extend the campaign message,” said Bonnie Flippin, program coordinator of San Bernardino County Department of Public Health’s Smile SBC.

“We applaud the district for working with dental professionals to bring oral health assessments directly to elementary schools in their district,” Flippin stated.

Visit smilesbc.org to find

free- and low-cost dentists near you, useful tips on how to take care of young teeth, and additional information about how to get help with enrollment or transportation.

For more information on the campaign and to access their Partner Toolkit, visit first5sanbernardino.org/oralhealth.

“We were excited to partner with the San Bernardino City Unified School District this year to further extend the campaign message,” said Bonnie Flippin, program coordinator of San Bernardino County Department of Public Health’s Smile SBC.

“We applaud the district for working with dental professionals to bring oral health assessments directly to elementary schools in their district,” Flippin stated. Visit smilesbc.org to find free- and low-cost dentists near you, useful tips on how to take care of young teeth, and additional information about how to get help with enrollment or transportation.

For more information on the campaign and to access their Partner Toolkit, visit first5sanbernardino.org/ oralhealth.

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Rep. Linda Sánchez and officials from San Gabriel Valley cities announce a $2 million federal grant to address homelessness. | Photo courtesy of Rep. Linda Sánchez/Twitter

Former Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz. | Photo courtesy of AliSimard/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

| Photo courtesy of screenshot from County of San Bernardino video