Mark Hood become a Judge in 2008 via a rare, competitive election process. The winner of that, was said to likely hold the position for life. Seem odd? It should. Hood's advertising on youtube said he as known for "integrity, fairness, and knowledge". Let's check his integrity shall we?
From 2016 to 2024 Hood filed SEI 700 forms for 9 years and he had to make 5 amendments. here are a lot of concerns with lack of transparency on Hood's filings.
The second year we have docs for him his 2017. He filed a 2 page return.
Then in 2018 he filed an amendment to 2017. On that return he seems to make a property disappear that appears as if it was separate, and he adjusts up rent that was low. This amendment should have affected 2016 as well but he didn't amend that (so the key takeaway is the removal of a property from reporting that looks like it should have been reported ).
Then in 2022 he files an amendment for 2017, 2018 , 2019, 2020 to tell everyone he simply "forgot" to report stock trades in 2017 for Eli Lilly, Pepsi, Exxon and Sempra that he made in 2017 and a collection of other stocks the other years.
Forgetting to report stock trades is PERJURY and he did it twice in 2017 (original filing and amendment) , 2018, 2019 , and 2020. One doesn't accidentally forget stock trades on a form that explicitly asks for them.
Just from these acts of Perjury alone, Hood has proven he can not be trusted and he should be removed from the bench -- but there's more!
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Hood introduces so much confusion it's almost impossible to tell if he's getting stock as a benefit from others. He also seems to be playing with reporting on rental properties in a non-sincere manner and then for a few years he engaged in AirBnb. AirBnB is one of the top methods for money laundering.
We'd need to go back in time and look at Pelosi's stock picker or comparable, to see if he was possibly getting insider tips from a DC or CA politician or other and any SEI 700 filer could be getting stock as payoffs. Impossible to know without seeing a brokerage statement. Some were not noted properly on acquisition and disposition but even if they were that doesn't mean he was buying them.
There's no proof Hood engaged in money laundering via any of various methods available, but one must ask, is the benefits of being a Judge for life not enough to be honest on stock trade reporting and stay away from anything other than very long term and stable real estate that you can report without all the confusion?
Given Hood wants to be wheeling and dealing in Stock, Rentals and AirBnB, he should NOT be a Judge, especially considering every buy and sale he's made with any standard CAR contracts would require him to acknowledge the Brokerage contracts are fraudulent due to fraud in CIV 1102.
Since he's real estate literate we'll have to ask him about the Brokerage Contracts in use and how a contract is formed. That could get awkward if he's used one of the three standard state contracts. (And that's assuming he's not just let go for forgetting about his stock trades 5 times over for 4 years). Hood failed the integrity check.
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Why is he having to make so many ammendments?
Without rental addresses we can NOT check anything related to purchase, sale, assessment benefits, permitting benefits etc.
Emails sent to most fppc.ca.gov email addresses are bouncing. It's impossible now to know if unredacted emails could be obtained if desired.
On a future form you will see they redacted AirBnB's corporte HQ address....
that redaced the airbnb corporate address?? that's irrelevant and suggests randomized redacting...
An AirBnb is ripe for money laundering. See 2018 Vacation Rental Maestro reporting for examples and concerns.