Shockingly, when the government gives away billions of dollars to people who fill out a form, fraudsters quickly figure out how to collect billions of dollars by filling out a form.
If this revelation has knocked you off your chair, you must be an elected official in California. Anyone else would have seen it coming, or would have heeded the warnings from people who did.
In 2019 Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 218, reckless legislation authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, who is currently president of the politically powerful California Federation of Labor. In her statement to the legislature in support of the bill, Gonzalez said AB 218 “would expand access to justice for victims of childhood sexual assault by removing the arbitrary time limits upon victims to pursue a case.