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John Morris Speaks Again To Employers' Fraud Task Force To Ask For Financial Support For His Campaign For L.A. County Assessor
By Lonce LaMon - February 6, 2014

John Morris, a veteran Los Angeles County prosecutor with extensive experience supervising the healthcare fraud division within the L.A. County District Attorney’s office, is running for Los Angeles County Assessor.  The elections are to be held on June 3rd 2014 and then again in November.
 
Morris is strongly endorsed by the Employers’ Fraud Task Force (EFTF) and Laura Clifford, the EFTF Executive Director. At last week’s luncheon held on January 28th at Steven’s Steakhouse in the City of Commerce, Laura described John Morris as one of EFTF’s “movie stars”.  For years Morris has supported the insurance industry against fraud and through his work has increased L.A County prosecutions against fraudsters fourfold.  He spoke to the lunch crowd audience describing his qualifications while he asked for their votes and support.
  
Now on the wake of the scandal involving fraud and more than 40 felony charges against current L.A. County Assessor, John Noguez, Morris is stepping forward as a qualified and determined candidate to bring integrity to the assessor’s office.  As a strong supporter of Proposition 13, he refers to it as the bedrock of the fair property value assessment system in California.
 

  
“Proposition 13 is what keeps property taxes down for us,” Morris told the audience.  “If the property value on my house goes up or it goes down, does it make any difference in my pocket book at the end of the year?  Do I get any more money when it goes up?  No.  So, why should the government get more money if it goes up?”  
 
Morris’s feeling that Proposition 13 needs to be defended is one of the reasons he’s running for County Assessor.   The other one is John Noguez. He feels a moral duty to clean up the fraud in that office, and he offered himself to the county supervisors in the interim to take over the position at no increase in pay. But his offer wasn’t embraced.
  
He cites about 9 bills he’s seen that were designed to erode Proposition 13. He believes these bills need to be fended off.   Senior citizens and people on fixed incomes should be protected against the possibility of losing their homes in times of appreciation. People could be taxed right out of their homes.
 
The estimated loss in revenue to Los Angeles County because of John Noguez's improprieties has been estimated at 10 million dollars in revenue.  
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s offices’ investigators, beginning around 2011, started to probe into secret, improper tax breaks granted to more than 100 wealthy Westside property owners since Noguez’s election.  They also started looking into complaints from assessor’s office employees who claimed they were under pressure to lower property taxes for clients of prominent Noguez contributors.
 
Under duress, Noguez put himself on a paid leave of absence in June of 2012. He was arrested and jailed in October of 2012.  These astonishing facts coupled with the reality that an elected official in California cannot be removed from office unless convicted of a crime or beaten by vote in a recall election, cuts into the hearts of those of us in the private sector who could never continue to receive pay even when earning far less under such circumstances. Noguez continues to receive his salary of $192,000 per year. He has not announced whether he will run for the office of assessor again, but hopefully he will not be so foolhardy or arrogant to try it. 
 
Noguez stayed in jail for several months while trying to raise his 1.16 million dollars bail.   He eventually made it with the help of friends and supporters.  Ramin Salari was also arrested but made his bail right away.  Noguez is accused of taking $185,000 in bribes to illegally reduce property tax bills for property owners represented by consultant Salari, who was a generous donor and fund-raiser for Noguez’s 2010 campaign.
   
Two other assessor’s office employees have been charged:  Mark McNeil and Scott Schenter.   60 felonies have been charged to Schenter.  He said there was a lot of pressure to pay off the campaign debt.  He tried by lowering the property taxes of certain individuals to inspire the recipients of the reductions to give money to pay off the campaign debt. 
 
The Los Angeles County Assessor is responsible for the assessments of values and taxes on approximately 2.5 million pieces of real estate.  The estimated loss in revenue to Los Angeles County because of John Noguez's improprieties has been estimated at 10 million dollars in revenue. 
 
"We've all been cheated terriby by what happened," John Morris concluded.
 
Morris is asking for monetary contributions from individuals, business entities, organizations, and PACs, with a maximum contribution of $1,500, to support his campaign. For contributions over $99.00 the law requires his committee to have the contributor’s occupation & employer information on file.  For the self-employed, the name of the contributor’s business is requested.
 
Send your contributions (and make checks payable) to:  Morris for Assessor 2014, c/o Crummitt & Associates, 525 E. Seaside Way, Suite 101-C, Long Beach, CA 90802.   Feel free to contact John at 310 761-5646 or via email at MorrisforAssessor@gmail.com
 
lonce@adjuster.com; journalist, Lonce LaMon; copyright adjustercom; all rights reserved  
 
 

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