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	sacbee Special Report: Quackenbush Probe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Quackenbush was responding to the onslaught of criticism that has rained down upon her husband for almost two months concerning his role in controversial settlements of enforcement cases against insurance companies.
		Quackenbush said she does not relish the prospect of four upcoming legislative committee hearings focusing on the scandal, but she said her husband is not considering resigning.
		Chuck Quackenbush has testified that he had no knowledge of or influence on the foundation, which was established with $11.6 million from insurance companies accused of mishandling claims after the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
	www.sacbee.com /static/archive/news/special/quackenbush/052000_plot.html (1211 words)

	Cindy Ossias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In return, Quackenbush agreed not to fine the companies or to finalize the reports, allowing the firms to donate $12.8 million to private foundations in lieu of fines of up to $3 billion.
		Quackenbush routinely neutralized staff members who were effective in prosecuting insurer misconduct by moving them out of enforcement positions.
		Quackenbush was once considered the most promising Republican candidate for the next Governor’s race, before Ossias came forward to reveal DOI corruption.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cindy_Ossias (698 words)

	The Law Offices of Mike Jansen - Northern California Personal Injury Attorney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Chuck Quackenbush, the insurance companies' man in California State Government, has been an excellent investment for the companies he was voted into office to watch.
		Quackenbush's first act as Insurance Commissioner was to rebate millions of dollars in penalties and interest from the insurance companies' failures to abide by the laws initiated by the voters in 1986.
		Quackenbush successfully lobbied and pushed through an earthquake relief authority that shifts the financial responsibility for major earthquake catastrophe from insurance companies to us, the taxpayers.
	www.mikejansen.com /d_chuck.asp (491 words)

	Quackenbush Brushes Off Growing Scandal / He defends letting insurance firms choose donations over huge fines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Quackenbush, a Republican who was first elected in 1994, said legislative criticism of his actions is politically motivated and that he has done nothing different from other state officeholders.
		Quackenbush said yesterday that the memo was a rough calculation of the maximum exposure each company could face, assuming there was a problem with 100 percent of the claims.
		Quackenbush said he knew nothing of the contribution, even though the idea for it came from one of Quackenbush's deputy commissioners, the urban league said.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/04/12/MN82641.DTL (1322 words)

	Hall of shame - Charles Quakenbush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Quackenbush was served with a Notice of Intention to Recall on May 21 in accordance with the California Elections Code.
		SACRAMENTO – Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush announced today that the Department of Insurance has levied monetary penalties on lawbreaking insurance companies totaling $56.3 million since he was first elected to office.
		Commissioner Quackenbush adds the HEMC membership to his agenda to fight on several fronts to ensure that justice is provided to Holocaust victims and their heirs.
	www.concentric.net /~Gonzoid/Chuckq.htm (2786 words)

	Quack Quits - CBS News
		Chuck Quackenbush, one of only two statewide-elected Republican officials in California, contended that the charges against him were a Democratic witch hunt.
		Quackenbush's problems stem from his handling of settlements from six major insurance companies after the Northridge earthquake that struck the Los Angeles area in 1994.
		The 46-year-old Quackenbush, a former Army helicopter pilot, was re-elected to a second four-year term in 1998.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/06/28/politics/main210406.shtml (668 words)

	sacbee Special Report: Quackenbush Probe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Former state Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush is packing up his family and leaving the continental United States to take up residence on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
		Quackenbush's attorney, Don Heller, said his client is cooperating fully with the investigation, and will travel back and forth when necessary.
		According to neighbors, Chuck Quackenbush and at least one of his two sons already are in Hawaii.
	www.sacbee.com /static/archive/news/special/quackenbush/090600aloha.html (839 words)

	Truth About Lloyds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Accompanying Quackenbush on the trips, taken in the months before he resigned amid scandal last summer, was James Woods, a San Francisco lawyer whose insurance industry clients picked up the tab for the commissioner's air fare, luxury hotels, sightseeing and entertainment.
		Quackenbush went to Amsterdam three months after he signed an agreement with the companies calling for them to contribute to the survivors fund, but the deal left it to the commissioner to decide when those payments would be made.
		Three days after Quackenbush returned from Beijing with Woods, he ordered his deputies to reach a settlement with title companies on "all outstanding issues." The company that stood to benefit most from that directive was Fidelity, which couldn't get its merger approved until it resolved a lawsuit with Quackenbush's department.
	www.lliarsoflondon.com /news/news_lat_022001.htm (1819 words)

	CNN.com - US - Earthquake scandal shakes California insurance chief - May 17, 2000
		A petition drive supported by many victims of the January 17, 1994, earthquake seeks the removal of Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, who has denied any misdeeds and vows not to be driven from office by what he calls a political vendetta mounted by his Democratic foes.
		Quackenbush, a Republican, set up a foundation to which six insurers contributed $11.6 million and thus avoided possible fines of up to $3 billion for mishandling claims from the 6.7-magnitude quake.
		Quackenbush, who says he has no plans to resign, calls such accusations the work of "a typical group of special interests and trial lawyers" who have distorted his record.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/US/05/17/calif.quake.scandal (693 words)

	Quackenbushes are in denial - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Chris Quackenbush claims her husband was the victim of a "smear campaign" by California's "political machine" and head-hunting journalists.
		In another controversy, Quackenbush moved $565,000 of his political contributions to his wife's account to cover loans she made to her losing 1998 California Senate race.
		Quackenbush has every right to move on with his life, but he can't expect to resume a political career — whether as an elected official, a public advocate or a behind-the-scenes operative — as though nothing happened in California.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2003/Apr/23/op/op05adavid.html (617 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Chuck Hagel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel (born October 4, 1946) is the senior United States Senator from Nebraska.
		In 1996, Chuck Hagel ran for the US Senate against Ben Nelson, who was the governor of Nebraska at the time.
		Although many people believed he had no chance of winning at all, he won a stunning upset in the election, receiving 54% of the votes (Nelson was later elected to Nebraska's other Senate seat, in 2000).
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Chuck_Hagel (491 words)

	"Hubris Strikes Again: Lessons From the Quackenbush Affair"
		As the disgraced former California Insurance Commissioner Charles W. "Chuck" Quackenbush sits in self-imposed exile on a distant Pacific isle, the preposterously photogenic Notre Dame alumnus must occasionally wonder whether his next "photo shoot" will involve posing for a mug-shot.
		It was perhaps bad enough that Quackenbush did not hold insurance carriers more accountable in providing prompt and adequate relief to thousands of Northridge victims.
		In one case, Quackenbush arranged for CRAF to give $500,000 to the Sacramento Urban League, a community action group located some 400 miles away from the Northridge quake's epicenter.
	jockoconnell.tripod.com /quackenbush.html (1071 words)

	Chuck Quackenbush: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Chuck Quackenbush, 40, was first elected to the State Assembly in 1986.
		Chuck's candidacy is endorsed by the Southern California Fraud Investigators' Association, Crime Victims United and the Peace Officers' Research Association of California (PORAC), representing over 38,000 peace officers.
		A respected fiscal conservative and independent legislator, Chuck is Vice Chairman of the Revenue and Taxation Committee and a member of the Governmental Organization Committee.
	www.calvoter.org /archive/94general/cand/ins/quac/bio.html (515 words)

	Suck
		Republican hotshot Chuck Quackenbush — who according to the script was supposed to become governor eventually — was first elected as the state's insurance commissioner in 1994, the year of the Northridge earthquake.
		Quackenbush was only the second person elected to the office, which was made an elective rather than appointed position in 1991 in order to guarantee more publically accountable regulation of the insurance industry.
		And the money went to some very important charitable causes — television commercials that let voters know what a great guy Chuck Quackenbush was, for example, and some political polling, and a football camp attended by the insurance commissioner's sons.
	www.suck.com /daily/2000/07/18/daily.html (866 words)

	Politician looks for new life, new career in Hawai'i - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		As he turned the stick into splinters, Quackenbush tried to explain the dilemma of a career politician who says he now wants to be a private citizen, but just can't stay away from the action.
		Now, the Quackenbushes' growing presence in local Republican circles has some wondering if Chuck Quackenbush is trying to revive his derailed political career in a place where Mainland political scandals go largely unnoticed.
		Quackenbush said he didn't do anything wrong and that his resignation was the result of betrayal by people in his administration amid a poisonous political climate.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2003/Apr/15/bz/bz01a.html (1432 words)

	Western reg news 4/98
		According to Quackenbush, this "prototype" policy could result in decreases of 20% to 50% in addition to rate cuts consumers already are seeing.
		Quackenbush said that his prototype could be purchased for as little as $290 a year.
		The crux of Quackenbush's proposal is a series of restrictions to which policyholders must agree in order to receive the low rate-and the coverage promised.
	www.roughnotes.com /rnmagazine/1998/april98/04reg5.htm (779 words)

	Duke, Gerstel & Shearer, LLP - Duke Digest
		Quackenbush, however, rejected his staff's proposals for fines, and caused to be set up a private foundation to which the insurers were allowed to make contributions of a few million dollars, rather than pay the proposed billions of dollars in fines.
		Quackenbush and his accomplices in the Commissioner's office, are clearly public servants who betrayed the trust placed in them by the people.
		The sad fact is that these insurance companies will probably evade any retribution for their part in the Quackenbush "settlement" scheme, even though these companies were responsible for the improprieties in their own claims handling, and the beneficiaries of the device by which they escaped billions of dollars in fines.
	www.dgsllp.com /newsletter?issueID=34&ArticleID=80 (856 words)

	Orange County Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In reality, Quackenbush was so menacing to State Farm (which, according to state records, screwed consumers in 50 percent of the cases investigated) that he penalized the company by just one-tenth of 1 percent of the potential fines.
		On May 4 and 5—with the clamor over Quackenbush’s conflicts of interest peaking—Weintraub broke ranks with the rest of the press corps and wildly proposed that there was nothing unusual about the commissioner’s insurance-industry-funded foundations.
		According to Weintraub, Quackenbush and Rosenfield have insurance-industry-funded private foundations and are, therefore, moral equivalents.
	www.ocweekly.com /ink/00/38/press-moxley.php (855 words)

	Public Advocates, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Chuck Quackenbush, the groups are asking the court to strike down a regulation approved by the California Department of Insurance under former Insurance Commissioner Quackenbush.
		Quackenbush’s regulations, however, allow insurers to average the weights of the optional factors, and compare the average to the mandatory factors, rather than comparing the individual numerical weights for each optional factor to the mandatory factors.
		Chuck Quackenbush, the court will consider whether a policy allowing insurers to base their auto rates primarily on a driver’s ZIP code, gender and other factors violates California’s Proposition 103.
	www.publicadvocates.org /pressauto.html (5055 words)

	Lloyds-Quackenbush Link (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He has become a government witness in a separate investigation of Quackenbush's activities being conducted by a task force that includes the Sacramento office of the FBI, the U.S. attorney's office and the California attorney general.
		That investigation was launched shortly after Quackenbush was forced to resign, following disclosures that he had allowed insurance companies to donate to foundations he created rather than face fines for mishandling Northridge earthquake claims.
		Quackenbush hired a prominent law firm to file petitions for him to intervene on Lloyd's behalf in the corporations case and in several other private lawsuits.
	www.lliarsoflondon.com /news/news_lat_031401.htm (578 words)

	If it Quacks like a crook, it must be Chuck Quackenbush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Currently, their highest-ranking officials are Secretary of State Bill Jones and Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush—the only two statewide elected Republicans.
		Quackenbush was a top-contender for the GOP nomination in 2002.
		Quackenbush had allegedly taken money from insurance audits that was supposed to go to earthquake victims and had laundered it into his wife’s state legislative campaign and his own political think-tank.
	www.newu.uci.edu /archive/1999-2000/spring/000515/o-000515-quack.html (988 words)

	Lingering Double Standards for Women in Leadership (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Chuck Quackenbush was elected as state insurance commissioner in 1994 and again in 1998.
		Quackenbush resigned under threat of impeachment and the governor appointed a retired judge to replace him.
		Quackenbush with the treatment accorded Delaine Eastin, California's former State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
	www.pacificresearch.org /pub/con/2003/con_03-01.html (673 words)

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		The document--which revealed secret settlements Quackenbush had reached with six insurance companies after the Northridge earthquake--became crucial evidence in the scandal that ultimately crippled Quackenbush and forced him to resign from his post.
		Though Ossias was put on "administrative leave" by Quackenbush while he still held office, she was reinstated to her job once he resigned.
		Quackenbush's team made threats of libel against the SN&R (these were later dropped) and subpoenaed SN&R reporter Nick Budnick in a related court case, seeking to force him to reveal the whistleblower sources he'd used in his story.
	www.newsreview.com /sacramento/PrintFriendly?oid=oid:3610 (516 words)

	Managed News 59 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In California, the Insurance Commissioner of the state was Chuck Quackenbush, who was first elected to that office in the Republican sweep of 1994.
		Quackenbush was viewed by the Republican Establishment in the state as a rising Repubican star being groomed for higher office, and it would not do for the Republican-owned Media to criticize "their" boy.
		Quackenbush has resigned as Insurance Commissioner to avoid being impeached, the editorial department has another reason not to trust the national or state "news" coverage of the Mercury News.
	www.kings.edu /twsawyer/news/mn59.html (1401 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Federal judge declares partial mistrial in insurance case
		SACRAMENTO – A federal jury deadlocked on three counts against a man on trial for his involvement in the scandal that led to former insurance commissioner Chuck Quackenbush's resignation.
		Thompson was found guilty of obstruction of justice in connection with documents he submitted to a federal grand jury investigating the Insurance Department under Quackenbush.
		Thompson, Grays and Ron Weekley, the treasurer of a fund created by Quackenbush, were the only ones ever charged in the state Department of Insurance scandal three years ago.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20030919-1437-ca-quackenbush-thompson.html (346 words)

	Ex-Quackenbush consultants hop aboard Arnold the Barbarian's campaign for Governor : LA IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		One Quackenbush consultant hired by Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign, Jeff Randle, co-wrote a memo outlining how Quackenbush could enhance his image with money from insurance firms that mishandled Northridge earthquake claims.
		A fourth, Quackenbush political consultant Joe Shumate -- who a legislative report said played a "central role" in the plan -- is discussing a position with the Schwarzenegger campaign.
		Quackenbush to enter into a scheme that ultimately led to his resignation as a constitutional officer would not be the people that I would want to surround myself with if I was seeking a state constitutional office," said Keeley.
	la.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=77257 (1169 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Defendant testifies that Quackenbush knew about kickbacks
		SACRAMENTO – A former top aide to Chuck Quackenbush, the California insurance commissioner who resigned in scandal in 2000, testified in federal court that Quackenbush knew about the illegal transfer of insurance settlement money to a nonprofit group.
		Quackenbush testified this week that he didn't know about the payments until the spring of 2000, when he asked his chief deputy, Michael Kelley, "to see where all the money had gone."
		CRAF was a nonprofit created to collect millions of dollars in settlements Quackenbush made with insurance companies that had mishandled 1994 Northridge earthquake claims.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20040305-1402-ca-quackenbushfraud.html (346 words)

	AEGiS-BAR: Quackenbush backs policyholder with AIDS
		California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush filed an amicus brief with the California Supreme Court Monday, March 29, in support of an insurance policyholder with AIDS.
		In December 1995, Quackenbush had intervened in the case by issuing an order to show cause to the insurance company, alleging that it had passed the time period within which they could have denied Galanty's claim for an illness that existed prior to the date the policy was issued.
		Quackenbush is joined by AIDS Project Los Angeles, California Women's Law Center, Western Law Center for Disabled Rights, Protection and Advocacy Inc. and the ACLU of Southern California.
	www.aegis.com /news/bar/1999/BR990401.html (669 words)

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