CA Ricardo Lara’s Insurance Commissioner used a false fake box to help pay the luxury dinner

In the wake of the horrific forest fires in California in January, homeowners not only lost their property, but their insurance policies were directly canceled, or were subjected to enormous increases in their insurance premiums, or they pushed the fair plan, which is the government insurance exchange that forced homeowners to accept lower coverage of their required houses. While all this was declining, Insurance Commissioner Richard Lara was very busy traveling around the world on the taxpayer for care.

According to the investigation “7 on your side” from ABC7, they got hundreds of public records, and revealed the details of at least 46 flights across the country and international. Lara traveled to 15 different countries, which were paid by taxpayers in California, 11 of those trips funded by taxpayers to places such as Bogota, Paris and Toronto. More terrible: Lara employees were unable to determine the commercial purpose of the majority of these trips.

As my colleague Ward Clark stated, “There is no reason for the Government Insurance Commissioner to visit Hawaii, Singapore, Cape Town, Dublin or Tokyo.” Despite Lara El -Malahi’s failure to ensure coverage and protection of California’s life citizens, Lara is still in the job, and his employees can continue their hybrid model of not attending the office while state employees and other capitol must come to work.

Lara himself does not seem to appear to work, and this is not surprising. It has not yet appeared in front of any sessions or committees investigating the state insurance crisis, such as the state farm insurance session on Tuesday, which Lara called for himself. In March, Lara moved to Bermuda at the Bermuda Risk Summit, a conference held by executive officials in insurance and reinsurance agencies, despite the California Legislative Authority to sit with them to ignore how he dropped the ball.

When it comes to corruption and incompetence in California, it is always a massive burning. IAn exclusive investigation from San Francisco standardThey pull the cap from more violations and fraud by Lara. Standard reports that Lara created the Shell Campaign account two years ago in order to install the Lieutenant California Governor. With the exception of all indicators and reporting, he has never done due care to present it to the Foreign Minister to run for the office, or do anything to install an actual campaign. The only thing Lara did is to have dinner in this chance – literally.

Now, the investigation conducted by the standard found that Lara, with less than two years remaining in his final term, uses what appears to be the Shell Campaign Committee to pay nearly $ 30,000 in meals and drinks in some restaurants and bars in the country. Nearly a third of these fees were listed as campaigns meetings, and it is not clear that Lara was superior and eating during meals cost hundreds, or in at least one, more than $ 1,000.

Exclusive normative reports,

Lara has never announced his intention to run for the position of lieutenant, nor does it seem mentioned in news reports. He did not complete almost any of the steps to install a dangerous campaign and did not talk about plans to run for the second highest elected office in California, according to state policy sources.

Through the receipts obtained, the standard is rebuilding one of the expensive Lara dinner meetings with Raul Vargas, CEO of Farmers Insurance and the second largest insurance company in California.

The sun had already started on the skyscraper in Frank Jerry in the center of Los Angeles, where Ricardo Lara sat for dinner in Saint Laurel, a major restaurant of famous chef Jose Andres, who provides brilliant views of the city.

Lara and a guest with Americano and coal began, according to receiving from the California Insurance Commissioner on January 15, 2024. For two and a half hours, Lara and his partners continued to request delicious foods such as Jamón iberico, Sea Zavs, Grapefruit, and Moss chocolate.

This $ 700 adventure was lubricated by two bottles of Larana Albario, a white wine from the Ria Paxas region in Spain.

This might seem somewhat degenerate, but Lara was not personally on the hook. He charged $ 234 from the tab to an unknown campaign committee that he created two years ago to run for the position of Lieutenant. He chose his own guest balance.

Lara has been accused in the past of being very comfortable with insurance providers and executives who are supposed to have control. In his 2022 campaign for his re -election, he received huge contributions to the campaigns from the insurance industry, to the extent that San Diego Tribune had informed that Lara intervened personally in “at least four procedures related to a company with links with insurance executives and their husbands who donated tens of thousands of dollars in his campaign to re -elect him.”

Unfortunately, this is the California method. Just like the French laundry disaster for the Governor Gavin during the Covid’s pandemic, where he was dealing with and consumed senior health officials and executives while the rest of the state closed it and outside the work, following your own rules, and works to maintain the confidence of citizens, and do the work that was actually elected to do, if that happens, it happens. Ricardo Lara, along with the mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass and Newsom, has become a non -efficient children when there is an urgent need for efficiency and matter.

Lara, who came in the Los Angeles political machine and previously served in the State Council and the Senate, said that the Insurance Commissioner Post was a step to the highest position when he was elected for the first time in 2018, according to the sources. He became the first open person LGBTQ+ to be elected in a state level in California. However, the job turned into a political predicament, as angering anger, abolishing insurance companies and fleeing from the state.

A democratic political advisor said: “There is no means of hell that Ricardo can be elected to a state level at the present time,” said a democratic political advisor.

seriously?! No one outside Sacramento, not to mention California, will know the name Ricardo Lara if it were not for this corruption and incompetence. The only reason Lara has achieved anything in politics is that he examined the correct clips boxes. This is the horrific political game in California. Litmus test for an elected role is not your qualifications, but rather social and political alignment.

As more of Lara’s charming life, which is paid by taxpayers in California, is exposed to the fact that the residents of California may finally be on the point they demand their candidates and their elected leaders who are not only eligible, but are accountable.