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  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    El Balazo Owners Sentenced to Prison for Hiring Illegal Immigrants

    The Mexican food competition in this city is fierce. There are great burrito joints and margarita offerings in every direction. Perhaps Marino and Nicole Sandoval, owners of the El Balazo chain, were just wanting a little boost when they stiffed the feds on taxes and hired undocumented immigrants fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Oaksterdam University Goes Volunteer-Only, Future Uncertain

    The federal Justice Department does not yet have Richard Lee's head. But in the wake of a multi-agency raid on Oaksterdam University, they have his business.The "cannabis college," Oakland's best known institution of higher learning -- sorry, Mills, but you don't teach people to grow weed -- is now ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Stay Open Despite Federal Deadline

    On the day the federal government wished HopeNet to close, the operators of San Francisco's oldest licensed and taxpaying medical marijuana dispensary prepared accordingly: They grilled hot dogs."We made about 220," said Catherine Smith, whose Ninth Street medical cannabis dispensary is one of the n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    Fune Ya Japanese's IRS Problems, Why Criolla Kitchen Closed, and La Barca Shutters

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Fune Ya Japanese Restaurant is in hot water in with the IRS -- marking the third Richmond District restaurant in recent months to head to court. SFGate reports cash receipts in boxes marked "seasoned octo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Tea Party Warrior: Report Medical Marijuana Clubs to the IRS and Get Rich

    ​For Paul Chabot, the War on Drugs is personal indeed: Before he became a Navy man, a campus cop, and a former National Drug Control Policy staffer, he was in drug rehab for alcohol and marijuana addiction himself -- at the young age of 12, according to his online bio.In his latest tactical maneuv ... More >>

  • News

    December 21, 2011

    Bowling For Chumps: How the Bowl System Robs U.S. Schools

    ​For Paul Chabot, the War on Drugs is personal indeed: Before he became a Navy man, a campus cop, and a former National Drug Control Policy staffer, he was in drug rehab for alcohol and marijuana addiction himself -- at the young age of 12, according to his online bio.In his latest tactical maneuv ... More >>

  • News

    October 26, 2011

    Feds Try to Handcuff Bay Area Dispensaries

    ​For Paul Chabot, the War on Drugs is personal indeed: Before he became a Navy man, a campus cop, and a former National Drug Control Policy staffer, he was in drug rehab for alcohol and marijuana addiction himself -- at the young age of 12, according to his online bio.In his latest tactical maneuv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    Campus California's Links to International Fugitive Amdi Petersen

    IJamie SojaClothing is collected in Campus California's Bay Area dropoff boxes.​n this week's SF Weekly cover story I explore apparent links between clothes donation boxes sprouting throughout the Bay Area and a business empire reputedly run by a Danish fugitive. The story cites credible evidence ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Here Are San Francisco's Biggest Tax Debtors

    Tax delinquency: an American tradition​Nobody likes paying taxes. Granted, not all of us are "angry" enough about them to don a tricorne hat and start ranting about the Nafta Superhighway and the Federal Reserve. But the chunk of money Uncle Sam takes out of your paycheck every two weeks -- not to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Congressman Pete Stark Aims to Save Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Big Bucks

    You've got a friend in high places​As if raids from gun-toting Drug Enforcement Agency agents weren't enough to make stoners paranoid, California's medical marijuana clubs can also be shut down real fast by the IRS. That's because the Internal Revenue Service has declared that California's legal m ... More >>

  • News

    April 6, 2011

    Blowing Smoke: Obama Promises One Thing, Does Another on Medical Marijuana

    You've got a friend in high places​As if raids from gun-toting Drug Enforcement Agency agents weren't enough to make stoners paranoid, California's medical marijuana clubs can also be shut down real fast by the IRS. That's because the Internal Revenue Service has declared that California's legal m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    Bay Area Pot Clubs Audited as State Goes on Fiscal 'Witch Hunt'

    Balancing the state budget with marijuana​It was big news for taxpayers and medical cannabis advocates alike when the Board of Equalization informed mega-dispensary Berkeley Patients Group that it owed some $6.4 million in back taxes. And now it appears that BPG's run-in with the taxman is not an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2010

    Symphony Charges S.F. Library $480 Yearly, Despite $2.6M Annual Taxpayer Subsidy

    Thanks for placing your overdue-book fines in my pocket​The San Francisco Symphony will receive $2.6 million in taxpayer subsidies during the current fiscal year. Nonetheless, it charges the San Francisco Public Library an additional $480 per year for dropping off old programs, the San Francisco c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    Wesley Snipes Tax Evasion Sentence Outrages Libertarian Party

    Wesley Snipes: Tax protester and vampire hunter​The leader of the nation's Libertarian Party said today he's outraged that Wesley Snipes has been sentenced to three years in prison, citing it as an example of the IRS' unfair "selective enforcement," and of the fact evaders evade because "THE TAX I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    Two More Suspects Arrested in San Francisco IRS Shooting

    Don't mess with the IRS...​Two more alleged muggers are under arrest in the unusual case of an armed IRS agent shooting down her purported attackers. In addition to the alleged robber hospitalized Thursday morning after taking a bullet to the torso, San Francisco Police announce they've now arrest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    IRS Agent Audits Mugger -- With Bullets

    A mugger's got to know his limitations...​An alleged mugger learned the hard way that you don't mess with the IRS. At around midnight, an on-duty agent with the Internal Revenue Service's criminal investigation division was walking through the 100 block of Marlin Court. The agent was accosted by a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    How was IRS Agent Who Shot Alleged Mugger 'On Duty'?

    Don't mess with the IRS...​The news that an on-duty IRS special agent shot an alleged mugger at around midnight this morning in Hunters Point was something of a head-scratcher. Sure, armed IRS special agents investigate money-laundering, fraud cases, and ponzi schemes. But how many ponzi schemes a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    Your E-Filed Taxes Saved IRS $195M (and Counting). But Post Office Not Thrilled.

    ​Yesterday we reported that nearly eight of every 10 tax forms received by the IRS by early April was sent electronically. This put members of the United States Postal Service in the position of another blue-uniformed figure with little to do: The Maytag repairman. With the late-evening Tax Night ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    Warning, Procrastinator: Almost No Post Offices Open Until Midnight on Tax Day

    He can't save you now, tax procrastinator...​IRS statistics reveal 80 percent of returns have been e-filed this year. In the good old days, folks who'd left their taxes until on or about April 15 could count on hordes of postal workers swarming the streets to grab the tax forms out of their hands ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Vile Poetry Hardly Worst Unwanted Detritus Stuffed in SF Weekly Box

    Click on photo for a larger version​Those of you who read our print edition may have stumbled across the above poetry stuffed into SF Weekly's boxes of late. It turns out this was the "News Poem" of the day via a Web site called toylit.blogspot.com. On this site, one Khakjaan Wessington forbids an ... More >>

  • News

    December 9, 2009

    Charitable Front

    Mysterious organizations in the Bay Area profess to be advocating for liberal causes. In truth, they appear to be part of a secretive group with a bizarre radical past.

  • Culture

    June 24, 2009

    Fun Times from Uncle Sugar

    Fifteen fabulous ways to stimulate the local economy.

  • News

    November 19, 2008

    Business Conductor

    The city needs to stop subsidizing the S.F. Symphony and other snobby arts organizations that cater to the rich.

  • News

    September 3, 2008

    Double Bogey

    Muni's bogus tax shelter and theGuardian's bogus lawsuit.

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2008

    IRS Goes After Examiner Owner

    Muni's bogus tax shelter and theGuardian's bogus lawsuit.

  • News

    April 23, 2008

    Fall Into the Cash

    Let's hope the Fishers use it to clean up the messes they've created.

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2008

    How to Make Student Loans Your Bitch- By Laser-Guided Awesome, The SF Weekly Utility Blog

    Let's hope the Fishers use it to clean up the messes they've created.

  • News

    January 23, 2008

    Care Not Cash Volunteer Recommends Work, Ass-Kicking to Homeless in SF Weekly Letters

    Let's hope the Fishers use it to clean up the messes they've created.

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2008

    Your accountant can no longer sell your social security number to Russian hackers

    Let's hope the Fishers use it to clean up the messes they've created.

  • News

    November 7, 2007

    Armenian Genocide Resolution Blog Posting at SFWeekly.com Draws Armenian Ire

    Let's hope the Fishers use it to clean up the messes they've created.

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2007

    Bonds’ Record Homer Ball Worth $500K

    Let's hope the Fishers use it to clean up the messes they've created.

  • News

    April 19, 2006

    No $$ for Blood

    Let's hope the Fishers use it to clean up the messes they've created.

  • Music

    January 18, 2006

    Anthrax and Willie Nelson in the same week? How will fans of both decide?

    Let's hope the Fishers use it to clean up the messes they've created.

  • News

    July 14, 2004

    Follow the Money

    Why does Gavin Newsom need a backer like the California Urban Issues Project?

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Chronicle Tag-Team

    Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams

  • News

    May 5, 2004

    'Roid Ragers

    Two macho men and the bitchy bodybuilding world that surrounds -- and, perhaps, spawned -- the BALCO steroids case

  • News

    February 11, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, February 11, 2004

  • News

    January 21, 2004

    The Tax Man Cometh

    The federal government looks to eliminate abusive tax shelters, and it may cost San Francisco tens of millions of dollars

  • Culture

    July 9, 2003

    Accounted For

    Josh Kornbluth leaves us helpless with laughter and pleasantly lost

  • Dining

    July 9, 2003

    Baby Talk

    Friendly obfuscations, tipping obligations, and jerks who calls themselves "friend"

  • News

    May 22, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of May 22, 2002

  • News

    April 17, 2002

    The Ghost of Scandals Past

    Previous "creative financing" debacles should haunt city officials who've approved a risky $1 billion lease of Muni streetcars

  • News

    April 10, 2002

    Runaway Train

    Why is Muni in such a hurry to win approval for a blindingly complex, potentially risky, $1 billion plan to privatize the city's rail fleet?

  • News

    November 14, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Cleaning Up the Cash; A Group Hug; Burning Bush; Correction

  • News

    February 7, 2001

    Dog Bites

    Hoochie Nation; Dot-Commers and Taxes

  • News

    May 24, 2000

    South to the Future

    Community or Crime Syndicate? Feds bust online trading scheme

  • Calendar

    July 15, 1998

    Night + Day

    Community or Crime Syndicate? Feds bust online trading scheme

  • News

    July 1, 1998

    From Russia With Diamonds

    In 1995, Golden ADA Inc., a San Francisco diamond-importing firm, collapsed, unveiling an international trail of theft and betrayal that embarrassed San Francisco luminaries involved with the company. Now, newly unsealed court files show that high-level m

  • News

    March 27, 1996

    Randy Shaw's Power Plays

    Sixteen years ago, Randy Shaw started a housing clinic with $50 and a good idea: educating tenants. Now he's got more than $900,000 a year to spend -- and clout to match.

  • Calendar

    May 24, 1995

    Paper Trails

    Sixteen years ago, Randy Shaw started a housing clinic with $50 and a good idea: educating tenants. Now he's got more than $900,000 a year to spend -- and clout to match.

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