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When Simon’s wife of 43 years passed away, it felt a bit like he’d died too. In his overwhelming grief, Simon sought companionship online, like so many other lonely widows and widowers. Almost immediately he met Emily. But over the next few months, Emily, who Simon realized too late was a fake, stole $800,000 from him. And that was just the beginning.
losses for Americans. But the U.S. still lags behind some other countries in tackling the problem, holding financial connect him with the Secret Service to and social media companies responsirecoup his losses in exchange for even ble and regulating the cryptocurrency more money. scammers rely on, an investigation by Like Simon, virtually every Ameri- The Associated Press and FRONTcan has been targeted by scammers in LINE found. And although both the some way, exclusive new polling data Trump administration and Congress shows. Scams in the U.S. have surged are pursuing new options, victims still to a record high, causing billions in [See SCAMS, page 22]
Some lose more than money Simon was stuck paying back $185,000 he had borrowed, and tens of thousands of dollars in additional taxes on money he had withdrawn and lost. He tried to report the crime to his local police and the FBI, he said, but nothing came of it. Instead, he was contacted by yet another scammer — offering to
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CINEMARK is closing its Mountain View theater, with the final flicks showing on Sept. 24. Post photo by Dave Price.
The Cinemark Century movie theater in Mountain View is closing down, leaving only three theaters on the Mid-Peninsula that show new movies. Developer Joseph Syufy has applied to build 1,914 apartments, a gym and stores on the 16-acre property at 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd, according to the city. The last day for movies is Sept. 24, a theater employee confirmed yesterday. The theater is one of two in Mountain View, along with Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at 2585 California St. That theater closed from June to December 2024 to transition to new ownership. The next closest theaters are Palo Alto’s Landmark Aquarius Theater at 430 Emerson St. and another Cinemark in Redwood City at 825 Middlefield Road. Palo Alto [See THEATER, page 22]
Family devastated by man’s death
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The man has been identified as Henriquez said in a GoFundMe Andres Alberto Henriquez Gomez, post, translated from Spanish. Daily Post Staff Writer Shortly before he died, Hern52, according to the San Mateo riquez Gomez identified his atThe family of a Menlo Park man County Coroner. “My father, Andres—widely tacker as Angel Lopez Ibarra who died after being assaulted in East Palo Alto are devastated and strug- known as ‘El Bicho’—tragically Jr., 53, of East Palo Alto, Police gling with funeral expenses, accord- lost his life after being the victim Chief Jeff Liu said in a statement of a physical assault,” Brizeida ing to a fundraiser on GoFundMe. [See DEATH, page 22] BY NORAH SHEPPARDHUTCHINS
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Valley Water is hiring an insider to replace its CEO who retired after an investigation found he sexually harassed employees. Chief Operating Officer Aaron Baker has worked for Valley Water for more than 25 years and will lead the agency starting on Jan. 4, with a salary of $506,789 plus benefits. BAKER “He knows our infrastructure, our communities and the importance of delivering these critical investments responsibly for the nearly 2 million people who rely on Valley Water,” board member Tony Estremera said yesterday.
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said employees are looking forward to working with Baker, who came to Valley Water as a unionized employee. Union will work with him “We will work together with him to rebuild trust at Valley Water. We know that together we can make significant progress on healing once Rick’s special assignment is officially over in March,” Baqleh said in an email. Valley Water collects property taxes in northern Santa Clara County for flood control but doesn’t sell water in the area. The agency has an $811 million annual operating budget. Incumbent Rebecca Eisenberg, 58, of Palo Alto, is facing a challenge from Los Altos Councilman Pete Dailey, 57, to represent Palo Alto, Los Altos and Mountain View.
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Dear Editor: My suggestion to solve the affordable housing problem is that people should buy top of the line RVs ($600,000 - $2 million) and then pull onto any street in Old Palo Alto. The City Clowncil thinks that everyone is owed a place to park their RV so why build any permanent buildings? Just fill all the streets with RVs. Marc Fleischmann Palo Alto
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Dear Editor: What are the City’s goals for managing the parking plazas? • Provide sufficient public parking for downtown businesses. • Enhance downtown as an attractive destination for businesses and residents. • Satisfy state mandates on housing to avoid permanently worse outcomes. Why should the parking plazas be managed by representative government? • A small group of elected officials working in public with professional help is the best process for managing public lands. • Initiatives are easy to initiate by special interests, are not a public process, are not well researched, and the voters do not have the time to make well-informed permanent decisions. • Destructive initiatives serving special interests have passed here
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Dear Editor: Regarding the Sept. 2 article “State flags impact of ballot measure.” To clarify, Los Altos has a state approved housing element that can be amended at any time. Period. For example, Eureka amended their already-certified Housing Element in 2022. The amendment changed the list of housing sites, including adding and deleting sites on publicly owned property. Further, I am flabbergasted by the disinformation that is being presented, as well as the tens of thousands of dollars that is being spent to confuse and obfuscate the citizens’ initiative, Measure D. One wonders who is paying for the slick professionally produced website filled with untruths and what-ifs; who is stealing Yes on Measure D signs? It seems like if this continues, our town might be treated to that mystery blimp reported on Sept. 3 floating over Los Altos with a loudspeaker decrying the initiative. Who’s got what to gain? We residents have a lot to lose, namely the character of our hometown. What do the opponents have to gain? Let’s follow the money! Our hometown is a gem. Let the people of Los Altos vote on major projects that change our public
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Dear Editor: I am deeply frustrated and angry the Menlo Park City Council is keeping the 600 block of Santa Cruz Avenue closed to eastbound traffic. Enough is enough. We have been told for years that the city wants to create a vibrant and successful downtown. But how can downtown businesses succeed when the city makes it harder for customers to discover us, and conveniently get to us? The city has acknowledged some business have asked for the street be reopened because the closure affects traffic and visits to downtown businesses. I support having a lively downtown with pedestrians and events to make Santa Cruz a destination, but not at the expense of the businesses that are already here. There needs to be a balance and city council should listen to business owners who pay rent, employ locals, pay taxes and invest in their properties. We should not have to beg our own city government for the basic visibility and access businesses need to survive. Ali El-Safy Bistro Vida
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Space center plan YOUR MEMORIES stirs housing fears PRESERVE FOR YOUR GRANDKIDS! BY NATANYA FRIEDHEIM Daily Post Correspondent
A proposed UC-Berkeley space center at Moffett Field in Mountain View may have a jobs-to-housing ratio of 41to-1, rankling a former mayor. Plans for the sprawling 36-acre campus include 2.3 million square feet of offices, laboratories, and other areas for research and development, according to an environmental impact report released last month. With just 145 homes slated for construction on the site, some
locals worry the influx could worsen the area’s already tight housing market. Developers project the site, called the Berkeley Air and Space Center, will bring 5,955 new employees to the site where 42 people currently work. No one currently lives there. “I’m not against the space center,” said Lenny Siegel of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight, an environmentalist group. “What I’m against is adding all these jobs and not [See SPACE, page 27]
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A Palo Alto man who was a coach at a now-closed school in North Fair Oaks was sentenced yesterday to two years and eight months in prison for having sexual relationships with two students, a prosecutor said. Anthony Gutierrez MOLINA Molina, 32, must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and cannot contact the victims for 10 years, after pleading no contest to five felonies in May, District Attorney Second victim discovered Steve Wagstaffe said. He was immediDuring the investigation, police ately taken into custody after his senfound another student who had a relatencing yesterday. tionship with Molina from April 2023 to May 2024, Baum said. March arrest They had sex in Molina’s home Molina, a former soccer coach and coordinator of community engagement three times, and the relationship ended at Summit Everest in North Fair Oaks, after she graduated and left for college, was arrested on March 5 after a student Baum said.
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Even before Covid, the agency had long failed to hit its congressionally mandated targets for international inspections. And recent staffing cuts, reorganizations and other upheavals under President Trump could mean even fewer inspections in the years ahead, according to former FDA officials. “When you look at the numbers of inspections balanced against the responsibility of the FDA — in terms of all the firms domestically and internationally under its oversight — the agency just can’t achieve what is required,” said Michael Rogers, who spent nearly 35 years withthe agency. He added that FDA continues to do many things “very well with limited resources.”
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PALO ALTO AUG. 25 11:09 a.m. — Burglary, 100 block of Charles Marx Way. AUG. 26 2:42 p.m. — Grand theft, El Camino. AUG. 30 6:51 p.m. — Grand theft, Stanford Shopping Center. 6:56 p.m. — Grand theft, Stanford Shopping Center. AUG. 31 1:34 p.m. — Theft from a vehicle, 2300 block of Park Blvd. SEPT. 1 12:20 a.m. — Samuel Hernandez, 30, of San Jose, arrested on warrants, Highway 101 and Rengstorff Ave. 1:42 a.m. — Grand theft, 2100 block of W. Bayshore Road. 9:57 p.m. — Rona Hu, 62, of Palo Alto, arrested for domestic violence, Somerset Place. 10:58 p.m. — Wolfrano Rodriguez, 23, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 400 block of Bryant St. SEPT. 2 12:19 a.m. — Battery at 7-Eleven, 401 Waverley St. 12:38 p.m. — Grand theft from an elderly or dependent adult, McKellar Lane.
MENLO PARK FRIDAY 5:42 a.m. — Two-vehicle collision causes injuries, Bayfront Expressway and Willow Road. 2:03 p.m. — AirPods stolen, 100 block of Constitution Drive. 3:26 p.m. — Sexual battery, 100 block of Jefferson Drive. SATURDAY 1:26 p.m. — Burglary, 100 block of Hedge Road. 8:09 p.m. — Burglary, 500 block of Willow Road. SUNDAY 4:32 a.m. — Vehicle stolen, 500 block of Pierce Road. 3:27 p.m. — Travis T. Osborn, 50, of San Francisco, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia, 800 block of Alma St.
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MONDAY 12:53 a.m. — Person detained for public drunkenness, 1100 block of Alma St. 1:01 a.m. — Samuel Elder Arellano, 24, of Hayward, arrested for DUI, Menlo Ave. and Doyle St. Arrest made by Atherton police. 3:13 a.m. — Francisco Garcia Mejia, 24, of Oakland, cited for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, 2000 block of Bayfront Expressway. 4:02 p.m. — Gerardo Esteban Valdizno Jr., 51, of Milpitas, cited on a warrant, 800 block of Hamilton Ave. 8:07 p.m. — Petty theft, 700 block of El Camino. 8:23 p.m. — Vandalism, 1900 block of Menalto Ave. 10:35 p.m. — Enmanuel de Jesus Perez Batres, 35, of East Palo Alto, arrested for DUI, 1300 block of El Camino. 10:46 p.m. — Pita Matalave Tonga, 26, of Menlo Park, arrested for possession of stolen property and carrying a concealed and loaded gun in a vehicle, Ravenswood Pier.
5:30 p.m. — Auto burglary, 600 block of Rainbow Drive. 5:30 p.m. — Vandalism, 1000 block of Space Park Way. 9 p.m. — Auto burglary, 200 block of E. Dana St. 10:24 p.m. — Carlos Alberto Gonzalez, 50, arrested for domestic violence, assault likely to produce great injury and false imprisonment, 1900 block of California St.
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FRIDAY 11:45 a.m. — Catalytic converter stolen from a vehicle, El Camino. SATURDAY 1:40 p.m. — Bicycle stolen, Middlefield Road. 4:14 p.m. — Jami Lorraine Speegle, 48, of Florida, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, Middlefield Road and Placitas Ave. SUNDAY 10 a.m. — Luis Guzman Hernandez, 30, of Redwood City, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, Oak Grove Ave. and Rebecca Lane. 1:01 p.m. — Home burglary, Coghlan Lane. 9:40 p.m. — Stolen vehicle recovered, Selby Lane.
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SEPT. 2 10:21 p.m. — Victor Manuel Canas Ramos, 35, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, Middlefield Road and Fifth Ave.
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SEPT. 1 9:43 p.m. — Man steals items from a store and fights with a cashier before leaving, El Camino. 9:45 p.m. — Lucien Roblin, 52, of San Carlos, arrested for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, 1200 block of Broadway. Arrest made by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies. 10:14 p.m. — Roberto Esquivel Jr., 26, arrested on a warrant, Veterans Blvd. and Hansen Way. Arrest made by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies. 10:25 p.m. — Angel Adriel Noriega, 24, of Hayward, cited for possession of more than an ounce of
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SAN CARLOS SEPT. 1 5:45 p.m. — Credit cards and $200 in cash are stolen at 24 Hour Fitness, 1650 Industrial Road. Two fraudulent credit card transactions are attempted but are declined. 10:53 p.m. — Walter Donaldo Lopez Cux, 36, of Redwood City, cited for possession of meth, Old County Road and Commercial St. SEPT. 2 5:15 p.m. — Cash and credit cards are stolen at 24 Hour Fitness, 1650 Industrial Road. The thief uses the credit cards to make purchases worth $3,416.80.
BELMONT SEPT. 2 8:20 a.m. — Stanley Curtis Friday, 57, cited for public drunkenness, 900 block of El Camino. THURSDAY 6:18 a.m. — Cristian Henry Jimenez, 28, arrested for public drunkenness and resisting police, 1100 block of Village Drive. FRIDAY 12:19 a.m. — Jon Paul Rishworth, 55, arrested for DUI, 1500 block of Ralston Ave.
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PALO ALTO 101 Alma St. #907, 94301, 2 bedrooms, 1216 square feet, built in 1960, Brightway Future S LLC to Sun Alma LLC for $2,152,500, closed Aug. 14 (last sale: $1,750,000, 05-29-24) 2725 Byron St., 94306, 1729 square feet, built in 1939, Ingrid Leblanc to Udaiveer Mathoda for $2,400,000, closed Aug. 10 702 Ellsworth Place, 94306, 3 bedrooms, 1695 square feet, built in 2026, 702Epa LLC to Rachana and Shrenil Sharma for $2,880,000, closed Aug. 10 (last sale: $1,400,000, 03-05-25)
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EAST PALO ALTO 1982 West Bayshore Road #310, 94303, 1 bedroom, 821 square feet, built in 2002, Knapp Trust to Meliza Sandoval for $560,000, closed July 28 (last sale: $535,000, 0921-15) 1982 West Bayshore Road #223, 94303, 1 bedroom, 776 square feet, built in 2002, Patten Trust to Fatemeh Abdollahi for $580,000, closed July 29
LOS ALTOS 1575 Truman Ave., 94024, 3 bedrooms, 2032 square feet, built in 1953, Reed Living Trust to Joyce and Kevin Liang for $4,375,000, closed Aug. 14
MENLO PARK 1280 Sharon Park Drive, 94025, 2 bedrooms, 1844 square feet, built in 1978, Young and Byung Ahn to Zerui and Hongwen Chen for $1,300,000, closed July
1 Edge Road, 94027, 4 bedrooms, 3130 square feet, built in 1969, Falcon Aaa Investment LLC to Kellogg and Kay LLC for $8,000,000, closed July 29 (last sale: $6,500,000, 11-15-21) 199 Hardwick Road, 94062, 4 bedrooms, 4800 square feet, built in 1988, Kutay Living Trust to Rui and Chongyu Wang for $6,550,000, closed July 31 (last sale: $3,055,000, 03-03-04)
REDWOOD CITY 860 Boardwalk Place, 94065, 2 bedrooms, 850 square feet, built in 1987, Wailun and Yi Chan to Mariana Manrique for $775,000, closed July 28 (last sale: $940,000, 06-24-24) 1833 Redwood Ave., 94061, 6 bedrooms, 2438 square feet, built in 1957, Mildreds Survivors to Lion Share Investments LLC for $1,270,000, closed July 30 500 Baltic Circle #536, 94065, 2 bedrooms, 1729 square feet, built in 1997, Katherine and Ray Park to Sevastyanova-Nirmal Trust for $1,490,000, closed July 30 (last sale: $1,450,000, 10-26-17)
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cant” facial injuries. He told police he had been as- hundreds of pages of conversations he thought were saulted by Ibarra. encrypted. Ibarra struck Henriquez Gomez with his hand and “What a fool I was,” he said. Square’s theater at 3001 El Camino Real closed in no weapons were involved, Kunkel previously told Today, much of the Myanmar compound where March 2020 because of the pandemic. the Post. his scam originated lies in rubble, destroyed by local The Guild Theatre in Menlo Park stopped showing authorities. Yet many of the illicit operations simply movies in September 2019. The building at 949 El Looking for help moved, new sites opened immediately, and Simon is Camino Real was then remodeled for live music. Henriquez Gomez was taken to Stanford Hospital no closer to getting his money back. where he died around 5 p.m., police said. He asked not to be identified by his full name beMovies to apartments As of yesterday, the GoFundMe has reached al- cause he is too ashamed to tell most of his family Syufy Enterprises previously closed a movie the- most $2,000 in donations. about the crime. Local police and the FBI declined to ater at 557 E. Bayshore Road in Redwood City. The “Any support, no matter how small, would mean comment on the case. property will be redeveloped with 480 apartments the world to us during this time of grief,” Henriquez “(The police) told me right away that, you know, and a parking garage. said. ‘You have to kiss that money goodbye,’” he said, The redevelopment project in Mountain View is fighting back tears. “Already I experienced somecurrently undergoing environmental review, accordthing very bad and now I have to pay for the conseing to the city. quences on top of it, and see my money evaporate all have little recourse and sometimes end up losing over again. You lose two ways.” even more. As scams surge, fees and taxes pile on Victims faced ridicule The size of the global scam industry is staggering. yesterday. Ibarra was booked into Maguire Jail on In interviews with almost five dozen victims, AP Americans reported a record $15.9 billion in losssuspicion of involuntary manslaughter, assault with and FRONTLINE found that many faced ridicule and es last year to the Federal Trade Commission, a 25% a deadly weapon with great bodily injury and causing stigma from friends and family, mounting pressure increase from 2024. And such estimates are likely a great bodily injury in the commission of a felony, Liu from banks and lenders, additional taxes, dismissive massive undercount because most scam victims are said. law enforcement and neglect from a government they too embarrassed to report their crimes. Ibarra is expected to appear in court today, said believed would protect them. The FTC estimates that real losses in 2024 were District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. “What happens after the scam might even be worse close to $200 billion; that’s $550 million every day than the scam itself,” said Erin West, a former pros- just in the U.S. Familiar face ecutor and founder of the nonprofit Operation ShamThe ballooning costs are fueled by huge advances Ibarra has been prosecuted multiple times in the rock that provides support for victims of online scams. in artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency. AI alpast and is on parole, Wagstaffe said. “It’s a travesty.” lows scammers to work at a previously unimaginable Police initially received reports at 2:07 p.m. of a While victims say they seldom get any answers scale and level of sophistication, and cryptocurrency, man acting erratically and disrobing himself at the from authorities, AP/FRONTLINE found these often used in investment scams, is a form of digital 2300 block of University Avenue. The man was later crimes can be traceable. With the help of leaked cash that can be hard to trace to its real owners. identified as Ibarra. documents and cryptowallet addresses, AP/FRONTPolice then found Henriquez Gomez at 2:21 p.m. LINE tracked Emily and Simon’s stolen funds to a Everyone get scammed near Taqueria el Jarocho at 2395 University Ave., notorious scam compound halfway around the world No one is immune, the AP/FRONTLINE investiCapt. Paul Kunkel told the Post. When police found in Myanmar with thousands of victims. gation found. Ninety-eight percent of Americans sushim, Henriquez Gomez was suffering from “signifiSimon was stunned to see Emily’s fake profile and pect they have been targeted by scammers, many ev-
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Lin had been targeted by a sophisticated criminal network that ran dozens of different scams and took in at least $800 million from January 2022 to September 2024, blockchain analysis TRM Labs did for AP/FRONTLINE showed. This industrialization of scams makes it even harder for victims to get their money back, said Ari Redford, global head of policy at TRM Labs. Lin said the grief and embarrassment made her think about taking her Getting her money back own life. But she was infuriated by a Alice Lin, now 83, was the only vic- question her scammer asked her long tim AP/FRONTLINE interviewed to after she’d stopped responding. get some money back, after she sued “Are you still alive?” said the mesher bank, citing this law. sage. Lin shuddered as she read it again. Over their lifetimes, Lin and her hus“I told myself, ‘I’m alive and I’m goband had put aside a nest egg of about ing to fight back.’” $720,000. After he died, she struck up Looking for answers what she thought was an online friendThe U.S. is taking steps to improve ship with a man who’d also lost a spouse. Her new friend Justin convinced her to cooperation with the private sector on Congress could help A law before Congress, the Tax Re- take out money from her bank and in- fighting scams but — unlike a growing number of other countries — has lief for Fraud Victims Act, would rein- vest it in cryptocurrency platforms. At first, her financial statements stopped short of requiring companies state an allowance for victims to deduct their losses. AARP fraud prevention showed big wins. But when Justin en- to do more to protect consumers or face lead Kathy Stokes urged Congress ear- couraged her to ask her daughter for a financial penalties. Eight in 10 Americans across politilier this year to help scam victims who loan to invest more, her family realized cal lines said the U.S. government isn’t are “stuck with a bill they don’t deserve it was a scam. Lin sued JPMorgan Chase for failing doing enough to protect them against and have no way to pay.” “Essentially they’re being revictimized to protect an elderly citizen and flag the scams, according to a new Gallup surextraordinarily large and unusual trans- vey. And more than half said financial by the U.S. government,” Stokes said. Banks also sometimes blame peo- fers. Earlier this year, they settled for institutions, social media and tech ple who are scammed instead of seeing an undisclosed amount, according to companies and the federal government should also share responsibility, new them as crime victims, or even accuse her lawyers. JPMorgan Chase said it has multiple AP-NORC polling shows. them of being complicit. Victims deSince late 2024, financial services scribed having their accounts abruptly layers of scam protection, from bankers frozen or canceled, along with demands who asked Lin about her transactions to companies in the United Kingdom written warnings. Settling the lawsuit have generally had to reimburse clients for repayment on loans and legal fees. Earlier this year, American Bankers “was a business decision weighed with tricked into sending money to scamAssociation Chair Kenneth Kelly said the cost of litigation on this matter,” mers, giving them an incentive to invest in prevention measures. banks spend “time, money and signif- said the bank in a written statement. Tricked into draining savings Retired nurse Susan Bivins said she was tricked into draining her retirement accounts and sending more than $200,000 to a scammer pretending to be a federal agent. The FBI and local police did not help, she said. Then her tax bill arrived. She owed the Internal Revenue Service $80,000. “I wanted to drive off a cliff,” she said. “I didn’t know how I was going to live.” Bivins sold her home and moved into a small one-bedroom apartment. She is still paying off her tax bill, selling handmade quilts. The FBI said in a statement that it takes scams and fraud seriously but cannot comment on individual cases to protect privacy. Local police did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
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ing units, according to the project’s website. The University of California a commensurate amount of hous- Regents must approve the plans for the project to move forward. ing.” Siegel, who served as Mountain No one from the public offered View mayor in 2018, pointed to comments at a May 13 public the area’s broader jobs-to-housing meeting on the project hosted by imbalance, which he said the space UC-Berkeley and NASA. The land is in unincorporatcenter would exacerbate. The space center would be built on fed- ed Santa Clara County, outside eral land owned by NASA between of Mountain View’s jurisdiction. Most of the existing buildings on Mountain View and Sunnyvale. the site are vacant, according to the environmental review. Project housing Two buildings will house facYears in the making ulty and students, according to The Berkeley Air and Space renderings featured on a website dedicated to the center. Another Center will bring academia, gov100 homes would accommodate ernment and industry together to people for short-term stays. foster collaboration and innovaThe university’s lease with tion, according to UC-Berkeley’s NASA allows for up to 300 hous- website for the center.
University officials began discussions on the project with NASA almost a decade ago. Commercial real estate property developer SKS Partners is developing the center. “There are consequences of a major project like this that increases the number of jobs around here,” said Bruce England of the Mountain View Coalition for Sustainable Planning, a community group interested in how development affects traffic, housing costs and the environment. The organization has not taken a stance on the UC-Berkeley project, but might in the future, England said. A proposal to build nearly 2,000 homes near Moffett Field in 2017 did not come to fruition, Siegel said.
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