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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 March 2010 14:32:11 CST</pubDate>

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         <title>Why did OTC hide Weyerhaeuser used $54 million in tax credits for 2007?</title>

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<p>Weyerhaeuser's <span class="styleHM"><strong>$54 million in tax credits was the largest</strong> single use ever reported for one year;</span> but <span class="styleHM"><strong>according to Weyerhaeuser's own reports,</strong> it could not have qualified <strong>for more than $3.2 million,</strong></span> under the program reportedly used. It should come as no surprise OTC would withhold and/or reporting the use of $54 million in tax credits, it should not have authorized. </p> 
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Weyerhaeuser's $54 million was only part of the more than $235 million, in 2007 tax credits, OTC failed to report. 
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         <title>Fraudocalypse - one case reveals all. Fraud, official involvement, concealment, failure to act.</title>

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                        Deja vu 2006, all over again. When tax credit fraud was first exposed in early 2006, state officials were quick to claim unidentified tax attorneys had discovered a loophole that made receiving $2 in tax credits for each $1 invested "not illegal". That was the lame justification for not investigating or making any effort to recover ill-gotten public funds. 
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                        2010: State officials are again, ignoring new evidence of the same tax credit fraud, officials' were allowed to cover up, in 2006. We now know what was occurring in 2006. Altus Ventures was using counterfeit loans, and not a loophole, as state officials claimed, to inflated the amounts invested to receive $2 in tax credits for each $1 invested. We now know that lawmakers' 2006 claim, an amendment closed a loophole that would prevent further abuses, did no such thing, rather more than double the amount of fraud.
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         <title>Porkocalypse - a program state lawmakers created to earn their own 200% instant profits!</title>

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                                             Oklahoma officials are finding it harder to ignore the mounting evidence of more than $500 million fraudulently obtained public funds. Fraud operates using tax credit programs that allow state officials to benefit personally, by skimming investments intended for, and needed by businesses, causing those businesses to fail and lose jobs, for lack of funds. 
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                                              Now facing evidence that will expose their own involvement state official first tried ignoring; and are now dismissing evidence, as not credible; the hallmark of the guilty.
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         <title>City funds used to pay construction contractor diverted to obtain tax credits.</title>

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                                                         A city's payments out of a TIF (tax increment Fund) to a construction contractor where channeled through a Capco to obtain tax credits. In an attempt to disguise the act, the tax credits were mislabeled, as "Metro Credits," a nonexistent credit. A scheme similar to the recently report Tax-exempt state agency supplying investments funds for others to receive tax credits?
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         <title>Who receives $31 million tax credits, when only $5.4 million goes to investments?</title>

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                                                                                 A fraud pulled off by investing $9 million, then added a $81 million Bureau of Indian Affairs loan. Then claimed the total $90 million was invested and received, $27 million, or 30% state tax credits. Then claimed another 39% in federal New Markets Tax Credits bringing the total amount of tax credtis received to $31 million in tax credits. 
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                                                                                                         "The holders of Fund common shares which will contribute $6,150,000 to the Fund will earn the entire 30% rural Venture capital formation credit of $13,845,000 ('Credits')." 

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         <title>$45 million fraudulent out of state tax credit claims, involving OTC!</title>

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                                                                                                         The evidence.  OTC letter LR-07-170, authorizing $13,845,000 in tax credits for an unqualified $45,400,000 investment claim in Lindmark Outdoor Advertising states: 
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                                                                                                         "The holders of Fund common shares which will contribute $6,150,000 to the Fund will earn the entire 30% rural Venture capital formation credit of $13,845,000 ('Credits')." 

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         <title>Oklahoma Tax Commission allows using nursing homes in tax credit fraud !</title>

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                                                                                                                                 Economic development tax credits were given for a financial shell game where a nursing home owner(s) 
                                                                                                                                 buy their own nursing a home from themselves.  A scheme that, amounted to no more than a financial paper game, creating no new economic growth or jobs, while allowing some hidden identities to reap unearned tax credits.  Oklahoma law allows state officials, including those creating the law, authorizing the shell games and turning their backs to be among those hidden identities.
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         <title>Tax credit fraud details found in recently uncovered Foxborough prospectus!</title>

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                                                                                                                                                                                             A new Foxborough prospectus reveals Foxborough teamed with Specialty Real Estate Service to solicit Oklahoma City's parking authority to sell Specialty Real Estate Service a parking garage that would provide the collateral needed to borrow 90% of the money that was claimed to have been invested in the garage. The Oklahoma Tax Commission then gave Foxborough tax credits amounting to 20% of the total of investor's investment plus the loan, so Foxborough could return the investor's $2 in tax credit for each $1 they invested. 
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         <title>How OK officials' can legally receive $2,000 in tax credits for each $1 invested, all in secrecy!</title>

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 According to Oklahoma officials there is "nothing illegal involved" in a program using public funds to pay two-hundred percent (200,000%) profits on investments. A program Oklahoma law allows these same state officials to participate and earn 200,000% profits. The scheme operates by issuing tax credits that can be sold for cash. Tax credits were intended to be given as incentives for investing funds in new business ventures. 
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 The FDIC seizure of First State Bank Altus revealed $643 million in fake loans were used to claim and receive $192 million in unearned tax credits.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 To add insulted to injury the law requires the identities of those involved and the amount of public funds they received to be kept secret. Now it has been learned the Oklahoma Tax Commission as being under reporting the cost of this program by as much as 95% to prevent the public from learning of the cost.
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         <title>Governor says repeal fraud riddled tax credit programs, and ignore $500 million in fraud?</title>

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                                                                                                                     According to Governor Henry's 2011 budget, the governor now believes the four Small Business Capital Tax Credit programs, "may or may not be economically viable" and should be repealed, saving $49 million? <span style="font-size: 105%; font-weight: bold;">And, just ignore the $500 million taken in fraud? </span>
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                                                                                                                             Not being able to identify one new jobs after doling out $500 million for false claims, it sounds like someone is setting up to 
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                                                                                                                     Or, is this another let's tell everyone that some unidentified tax attorney's found another loophole that allowed our cronies to steal another $500 million. We promise to try again for the third time to close another loophole.
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         <title>$3 billion or 30% of Oklahoma's annual expenditures have no tracking or accountability!</title>

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Oklahoma taxpayers are funding $10 Billion per year in expenditures. $7 Billion we are told about, that is agured over and there is never enough. There is another $3 Billion slush fund; state officials have kept in the closet. That $3 Billion is doled out through Tax Expenditures the same way other states and the federal government operate. The difference is the federal government and other states abide by their constitutional requirements and treat Tax Expenditures the same way the appropriations are treated: with a budget and the same standard of financial accountability.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     That has became the private slush fund elected officials keep to themselves and use to hand out political favors.
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         <title>Another missing $112 million in 2007 tax credits found, one week after uncovering $163 million!</title>

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Tony Mastin's world of fraud and cover up is starting to unravel at a faster pace, only a week after Oklahoma's Tax Commission, Administrator, was exposed for trying to cover up a previous attempted cover up to hide $163 million in tax credit fraud. Now an additional $112 Million has surfaced.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Mastin, defied the law by hiding $280 million of the $370 million in 2007 and 2008 tax credits, uncovered so far. With Mastin being the sole proprietor of Oklahoma tax credits, there is no convenient way for anyone other than Mastin, to know who is taking how much in unearned tax credits. This is another link in a long chain of evidence showing Mastin has allowed numerous groups, using false claims, to scam $100s million in unearned tax credits. Mastin in turn falsifies OTC reports to hide the fraud. 
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         <title>Head of Oklahoma Tax Commision caught attempting to cover up false reporting used to cover up fraud.</title>

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Since tax credit information went online in January ProwlingOwl.com has been reporting <strong>Oklahoma Tax Commission Administrator</strong>, Tony Mastin, was withholding information to protect and cover up massive <strong>tax credit fraud</strong> and those involved. Late last week after our latest and most direct accusations, Mastin attempted to slip the missing information on to Open Books in a way it would not be noticed. To be explained below. 
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  What was originally reported as approximately $64 million for 2007 jumped to nearly $260 million with the addition of 2008 tax credit info. What the site visitor would never know and could not see by being limited to viewing 25 of the 11,1000 lines, at a time, is 2008 tax credits accounted for less than $27 Million of the nearly $200 Million increase. The other $168 million is part and only part of the missing 2007 tax credits. For the record, the information is still incomplete and riddled with falseness. One example, the $30 million in tax credits Chaparral Energy took in 2007 and 2008 is still missing.  
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         <title>OTC tax credit cover up! It is the secrecy, stupid!</title>

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Oklahoma's Tax Commission Administrator position, held by Tony Mastin, had been morphed into an independent free standing, quasi-government, Mafia style Overlord. Here is an analogy to illustrate how this works.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             This Overlord position is located at the headwaters of the state's tax revenue stream, where the states incoming tax revenue can be diverted away into hidden underground tunnels to be channeled to unidentified recipients, before the flow is metered and measured. 
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         <title>Two key tax credit fraud players were issued $642 million in fake!</title>

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         <title>Chaparral Energy received $20-30 million in false claim tax credits. For a mere $15,000 investment</title>

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         <title>Another fraud from the Altus Gang's scheme machine. This'n, is a big'n!</title>

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             <p>We all know there are suppliers of false identification, passports, titles and the like. How many were aware there is far more money in fake loan documents. We are talking big fake loan documents! Potentially $1.4 Billion: maybe more, maybe less, but what is a few $100 million?</p> 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             <p>We had previously reported the Altus Gang's involvement in tax credit fraud and the Colorado land scam. Now we have uncovered a new element of the fraud that spewed from that scheme machine, the likes of "Wild Mary Sudik" when she blew in on March 26, 1930, near what is now the intersection of I-240 and S. Bryant in Oklahoma City.</p> 

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         <title>More evidence Oklahoma officials are profiting for protecting criminal enterprise!</title>

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         <title>Smoking bombshell! Discovered Altus Gang financials reveal a myriad of fraud on a monumental scale!</title>

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