Browse all our stories on Vice President Kamala Harris, including archive coverage of her accomplishments — and controversies — during her time in Bay Area and California politics before 2020.
The Oakland-born, Berkeley-raised Harris was San Francisco district attorney from 2004–10, California attorney general from 2011–17 and United States senator for California from 2017–21. In 2020, she became the first woman, the first Black woman and the first South Asian woman to be elected to vice president.
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"content": "\u003cp>Corinthian Colleges, the for-profit college operator from Orange County, is collapsing under the weight of a crackdown by federal and state regulators, as well as private lawsuits. Last week, Corinthian announced a deal to sell off its U.S. schools outside California. That leaves an uncertain future for roughly 20,000 students in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the U.S. Education Department temporarily suspended Corinthian's access to federal student aid in June, the company was forced to \u003ca href=\"http://newsroom.cci.edu/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=884129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">start selling off its three chains\u003c/a>: Heald, Everest and Wyotech. Corinthian had no choice: in 2013, the Santa Ana-based company made 84 percent of its $1.6 billion in revenue from federal student aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corinthian is still looking for someone to take on its Canadian schools and 22 campuses in California. Most are located in the Bay Area and Southern California. Why were the California schools the only ones in the U.S. left out of the deal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Corinthian says that's because Attorney General Kamala Harris’ office refused to sign off. The AG launched a suit last year, accusing Corinthian of advertising programs it doesn’t offer, and placing some graduates in temp jobs to boost the statistics it then reported to the federal government, investors and prospective students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0exvrM8AFFs&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris' office refused to release the buyer, ECMC Group, from liability for Corinthian's alleged sins. The office has several concerns, including that the sale of the colleges didn't include any clarity about whether current and former students would get any debt relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corinthian is still shopping for a buyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corinthian isn’t the only chain accused of operating like a taxpayer-subsidized student loan mill. But the company believes it's the biggest to go down at the hands of the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mark Takano of Riverside is pushing legislation to \u003ca href=\"http://takano.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-mark-takano-announces-legislation-to-protect-students-from-for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tighten the rules\u003c/a> governing for-profit colleges. \"Far too many of these for-profit colleges are taking advantage of students -- students who are already vulnerable,\" the Democrat says. When he taught high school English years ago, Takano says he saw for-profits target the students he knew were the least able to succeed in college or to fight back after realizing they’d made a mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They tend to be single mothers, low income, who very often are minorities, veterans. I’m really concerned that if we don’t do something soon, more and more people who are looking to improve their lives are going to be left with mountains of debt and meaningless degrees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40 million Americans now have some form of student loan debt, according to the credit bureau \u003ca href=\"http://press.experian.com/United-States/Press-Release/experian-analysis-finds-student-loans-increased-by-84-percent-since-the-recession-40-millio.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Experian\u003c/a>. Nationwide, student loan debt is at an all-time high of $1.2 trillion, an 84 percent jump since the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Heald Success Story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For-profit schools are notorious for doing a hard sell on prospective students. But Josh Gomez walked into the \u003ca href=\"http://www.heald.edu/locations/san-jose-milipitas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heald campus in Milpitas\u003c/a> sold. He'd seen an ad, not unlike this one, that inspired him to change his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3WHcsLFxhc&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warm, outgoing 27-year-old admits he \u003cem>hated\u003c/em> high school. \"I was barely passing in high school. I got D's and F's.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he hated his $18.25-an-hour job assembling medical devices even more than high school and he wanted out and up -- even if that meant going back to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10352946\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10352946\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut-400x560.jpg\" alt=\"Heald College Graduate Josh Gomez. (Credit: Michael Barnes. )\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut-400x560.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heald College Graduate Josh Gomez. (Credit: Michael Barnes)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few years later, Gomez is in many ways the kind of success story Heald trumpets in its ads. He wanted an IT degree and he got one. He wanted a better-paying job and he got one, with help from several Heald career service advisors. He got hired to do desktop support for the drug maker Genentech, for $25.50 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did Gomez need a degree for that? \"I don’t even know if I’m actually putting it to use,\" Gomez says, \"because I don’t even know if the job description even requires it. At least I’m getting more money. That’s all I care [about], ‘cause you gotta pay the bills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez owes about $27,000. That's three times what it would have cost him to get an associate of applied science degree at a community college in California. Gomez says now he should have done some more research before he signed on for three loans with Corinthian's preferred private lender, \u003ca href=\"http://genesis-fs.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Genesis Financial Solutions\u003c/a>. But he also says nobody at Heald told him what the loans would add up to in the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some Debt Relief\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp id=\"MNGiSection\">Is there some hope of debt relief for students? U.S. Education Department officials stipulated some student debt relief as part of Corinthian's \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/11/21/guaranty-agency-buys-most-crumbling-profit-corinthian-colleges-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">purchase agreement with that loan servicer\u003c/a> announced last week. Corinthian has agreed to forgive all of the estimated $4 million in private debt still on its books, as soon as the sale closes, possibly in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does that mean Josh Gomez is off the hook? It depends. Only if his loans haven’t been resold yet. Debt, including student debt, is a commodity. The $4 million is a small fraction of loans racked up by Corinthian students. While the company argues the ECMC deal spares students disruption and allows those still in school to finish their degrees, there are others who argue it would be better for Corinthian schools to collapse completely. That way, students could apply for what's called a \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/closed-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">closed school discharge\u003c/a>. But then the federal government might be on the hook for more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/files/Corinthian%20filing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion\u003c/a> in discharged student loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">In the meantime, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which signed off on the ECMC deal, \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201409_cfpb_complaint_corinthian.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is still suing\u003c/a> Corinthian \u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">to wipe away $569 million in outstanding private debt held by tens of thousands of current and former students. A Corinthian spokesman says the company is contesting the suit and will continue to do so while it still stands.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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When he taught high school English years ago, Takano says he saw for-profits target the students he knew were the least able to succeed in college or to fight back after realizing they’d made a mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They tend to be single mothers, low income, who very often are minorities, veterans. I’m really concerned that if we don’t do something soon, more and more people who are looking to improve their lives are going to be left with mountains of debt and meaningless degrees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40 million Americans now have some form of student loan debt, according to the credit bureau \u003ca href=\"http://press.experian.com/United-States/Press-Release/experian-analysis-finds-student-loans-increased-by-84-percent-since-the-recession-40-millio.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Experian\u003c/a>. Nationwide, student loan debt is at an all-time high of $1.2 trillion, an 84 percent jump since the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Heald Success Story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For-profit schools are notorious for doing a hard sell on prospective students. But Josh Gomez walked into the \u003ca href=\"http://www.heald.edu/locations/san-jose-milipitas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heald campus in Milpitas\u003c/a> sold. He'd seen an ad, not unlike this one, that inspired him to change his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/C3WHcsLFxhc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/C3WHcsLFxhc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warm, outgoing 27-year-old admits he \u003cem>hated\u003c/em> high school. \"I was barely passing in high school. I got D's and F's.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he hated his $18.25-an-hour job assembling medical devices even more than high school and he wanted out and up -- even if that meant going back to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10352946\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10352946\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut-400x560.jpg\" alt=\"Heald College Graduate Josh Gomez. (Credit: Michael Barnes. )\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut-400x560.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/RS13217_IMG_0628-qut.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heald College Graduate Josh Gomez. (Credit: Michael Barnes)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few years later, Gomez is in many ways the kind of success story Heald trumpets in its ads. He wanted an IT degree and he got one. He wanted a better-paying job and he got one, with help from several Heald career service advisors. He got hired to do desktop support for the drug maker Genentech, for $25.50 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did Gomez need a degree for that? \"I don’t even know if I’m actually putting it to use,\" Gomez says, \"because I don’t even know if the job description even requires it. At least I’m getting more money. That’s all I care [about], ‘cause you gotta pay the bills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez owes about $27,000. That's three times what it would have cost him to get an associate of applied science degree at a community college in California. Gomez says now he should have done some more research before he signed on for three loans with Corinthian's preferred private lender, \u003ca href=\"http://genesis-fs.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Genesis Financial Solutions\u003c/a>. 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While the company argues the ECMC deal spares students disruption and allows those still in school to finish their degrees, there are others who argue it would be better for Corinthian schools to collapse completely. That way, students could apply for what's called a \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/closed-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">closed school discharge\u003c/a>. But then the federal government might be on the hook for more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/files/Corinthian%20filing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion\u003c/a> in discharged student loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">In the meantime, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which signed off on the ECMC deal, \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201409_cfpb_complaint_corinthian.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is still suing\u003c/a> Corinthian \u003cspan id=\"mn_Global\">\u003cspan id=\"MNGiSection\">to wipe away $569 million in outstanding private debt held by tens of thousands of current and former students. 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After two gay couples sued to overturn Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage in California, the attorney general (like her predecessor Jerry Brown) refused to defend it in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, along with Harris's argument that Prop. 8's proponents didn't have legal standing to defend it either, infuriated conservative groups, including the Pacific Legal Foundation and its attorney, Harold Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's more than troubling,\" Johnson says. \"It's actually shocking. 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And Thursday, Gov. Jerry Brown joined Harris and legislative leaders \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18658\" target=\"_blank\">to announce a bill\u003c/a> that would provide $3 million to nonprofit legal services to help handle cases for young immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centro Legal were stretched to capacity before the child migrant crisis. Now they are overwhelmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this night at Centro Legal, Wolfe-Roubatis met with a 9-year-old girl from Guatemala who made the journey across two borders alone. She also spoke with a mother named Araceli from Honduras and her two children. (We agreed to not to use her last name out of safety concerns.) Araceli said her family fled vicious gang attacks in San Pedro Sula, the city with\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/world/americas/honduras-murder-capital/\" target=\"_blank\"> the highest murder rate in the world\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Without increased capacity, we are not going to be able to represent that person and ... and get the protection the law provides for them.'\u003ccite>— Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis,\u003cbr>\nCentro Legal de la Raza\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Many of my family members, my brothers, have been killed,\" she said in Spanish. \"At my son’s school, they started to charge a 'tax', and if a kid didn’t pay, they wanted him to sell drugs, and if he didn’t, they threatened to kill him and his whole family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys across the Bay Area are hearing stories like this again and again. Between January and June, more than 850 children detained at the border have been released to guardians in the Bay Area as they wait for their day in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still others came with a parent, like Araceli’s children. Centro Legal will represent Araceli and her family, but Wolfe-Roubatis said she has to turn away about 40 percent of the people who come through their doors, many of them with what she says are valid claims for protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is emotionally exhausting is hearing the story and knowing that, without increased capacity, we are not going to be able to represent that person and help them explain their story and get the protection the law provides for them,” Wolfe-Roubatis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rise of the Rocket Dockets\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because of the new fast pace of hearings. Kids who crossed the border alone now get court dates within three weeks of their release from government custody. Children and parents detained together have to appear within four weeks of release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, that means two new courtrooms just for children’s first hearings. Attorneys call them the \"rocket dockets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one weekday morning, a box with picture books in English and Spanish, coloring books and colored pencils sat on the back bench of one courtroom. Thirteen out of 15 families with children showed up without a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had children as young as 2 walk in,” said Wolfe-Roubatis. “And that child is supposed to explain somehow to the judge what they want to do with their case, while there’s an adverse party who is advocating that that child should be deported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That adverse party is an attorney paid for by the federal government. The government doesn’t pay for counsel for immigrants fighting their deportations, regardless of age. According to case records analyzed by \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/359/\">Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC),\u003c/a> without lawyers, children lose their claims nine times out of 10. With lawyers, half of them win their cases to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After their initial hearings, children on the rocket docket are given about two months to find an attorney. In normal circumstances, adults in deportation proceedings get four to six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican strategist Alfonso Aguilar, who directs the \u003ca href=\"http://americanprinciplesproject.org/latino-partnership/issue-brief-unaccompanied-minors-at-the-border/\">American Principles Project’s Latino Partnership\u003c/a>, says the time frame should be even shorter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems to me that some people like that the system takes so long to consider a case,” said Aguilar, chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship under President George W. 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So, legal aid groups in the Bay Area are having to get creative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now it’s both a challenging but kind of exciting time, where there’s a lot of interest and conversations going on,” said Carole Conn, director of public service programs at the Lawyer Referral and Information Service of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbar.org\" target=\"_blank\">Bar Association of San Francisco.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conn said a network of Bay Area lawyers is coming together to try to meet the need, and many are answering Harris’ call. Advocates are training attorneys on how to handle immigration cases and the special needs of children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response in San Francisco has been remarkable, especially in the attorney-of-the-day program. Lawyers are dropping their regular work to show up for children and families in their initial court hearings. The program already existed in San Francisco immigration court, but it jumped to a new level with the rocket dockets. 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Araceli said her family fled vicious gang attacks in San Pedro Sula, the city with\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/world/americas/honduras-murder-capital/\" target=\"_blank\"> the highest murder rate in the world\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Without increased capacity, we are not going to be able to represent that person and ... and get the protection the law provides for them.'\u003ccite>— Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis,\u003cbr>\nCentro Legal de la Raza\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Many of my family members, my brothers, have been killed,\" she said in Spanish. \"At my son’s school, they started to charge a 'tax', and if a kid didn’t pay, they wanted him to sell drugs, and if he didn’t, they threatened to kill him and his whole family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys across the Bay Area are hearing stories like this again and again. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126241\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/photo.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126241\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/photo-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"California Attorney General Kamala Harris files for re-election at San Francisco City Hall on Wednesday (Jack Detsch/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Kamala Harris files for re-election at San Francisco City Hall on Wednesday (Jack Detsch/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Attorney General Kamala Harris launched her re-election bid at San Francisco City Hall Wednesday with the prospect of an unusually comfortable race. So far, California’s first female top lawyer is running completely unopposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of enthusiasm about the campaign among Republicans and other potential challengers makes sense. Four years after defeating L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley by just eight-tenths of a percent to win the job, Harris is a formidable favorite, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/04/05/whats-next-for-kamala-harris/\">\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">increasingly seen as\u003c/span> \u003c/a>a heavyweight on the national stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, she received major plaudits for \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQSRrLBjTQI\">holding out to win an $18 billion in relief \u003c/a>to California homeowners in a national mortgage settlement against five major banks. The Democratic Party also gave her \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Kamala-Harris-gets-key-convention-slot-3840124.php\">a plum speaking slot at their 2012 convention\u003c/a> in Charlotte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ name recognition and fundraising power are significant factors in the race. The former San Francisco DA \u003ca href=\"http://www.electiontrack.com/lookup.php?committee=1336303\">has raised over three million dollars\u003c/a> for her campaign to date. Even law enforcement organizations that endorsed Cooley in 2010, such as the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association and the Peace Officers Research Association of California \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Kamala-Harris-wins-new-badges-of-respect-from-5158187.php\">have endorsed Harris this time around\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased coziness with the law enforcement community may come at some cost to Harris. Demonstrators demanding the prosecution of police officers implicated in civilian deaths \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/684595568258092/\">plan to protest\u003c/a> outside the Attorney General’s Oakland office this afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, any prospective G.O.P. candidate could face a prohibitive headwind. While Harmeet K. Dhillon, Vice Chairman of the California Republican Party, notes that the organization is actively recruiting people for the race, she acknowledges that the obstacles for prospective candidates are considerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The barriers to entry are really money and power of incumbency.” she said, adding that not having the Democratic Party endorsement “is a very significant hurdle” to running for any of California’s ten statewide elected offices at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no challenger on the horizon at the moment and a run for higher office not currently a viable option, Harris kept Wednesday’s announcement low-key. While Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Ed Lee \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/French-president-Francois-Hollande-visits-San-5229141.php\">\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">lunched with French President Francois Hollande\u003c/span>\u003c/a> upstairs, Harris jived with elections officials for nearly ten minutes, talking down her ambitions to a gaggle of a half-dozen reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what she would do if the Republicans fail to put up a candidate, Harris jested, “I’ll probably celebrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there will be no confetti – at least for now. Challengers have until March 7\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> to enter the race.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He was released on $50,000 bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/Complaint_3.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The state’s complaint \u003c/a>says that over nine months beginning last December, Bollaert and associates created a website called YouGotPosted (ugotposted.com) and put up more than 10,000 “private photographs containing nude and explicit images of individuals” along with the IDs of those pictured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press release, Harris said of Bollaert’s arrest:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“This website published intimate photos of unsuspecting victims and turned their public humiliation and betrayal into a commodity with the potential to devastate lives. Online predators that profit from the extortion of private photos will be investigated and prosecuted for this reprehensible and illegal internet activity.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bollaert could face prison time and fines if convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s charges are just the latest in a series of legal entanglements for Bollaert and YouGotPosted. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/dec/11/tp-revenge-porn-charges-are-filed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego Union-Tribune reports\u003c/a>: “In an unrelated federal case, he is charged with making false statements — giving a false home address — while acquiring 31 firearms from different gun dealers in San Diego. He entered a guilty plea in November and is to be sentenced Jan. 17.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the company was sued twice in federal court — once in \u003ca href=\"http://bv.1110.cds.contentcolo.net/uploads/files/McGibney-v-IsAnyoneUp.net-Eric-S-Chanson-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nevada\u003c/a>, once in \u003ca href=\"http://bv.1110.cds.contentcolo.net/uploads/files/Lindsay%20Middleton%20%20Complaint%20-%20Filed%20Version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan\u003c/a> — over \u003ca href=\"http://adamsteinbaugh.com/2013/04/05/revenge-porn-yougotposted-held-in-contempt-lose-case-to-bullyville/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trademark\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://adamsteinbaugh.com/2013/05/03/revenge-porn-site-yougotposted-sued-again/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">copyright\u003c/a> infringement claims. In the Nevada case, YouGotPosted failed to respond to trademark allegations, then was held in contempt and hit with a $300,000 default judgment. The suits named both Bollaert and Eric Chanson, a New Jersey man described as Bollaert’s partner in setting up the alleged YouGotPosted extortion scheme, and Chanson’s parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/Arrest%20warrant_0.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An affidavit\u003c/a> in support of today’s arrest warrant from state Department of Justice special agent Brian Cardwell describes how YouGotPosted works:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When a user (poster) of Ugotposted posts images to the site, the site requires the poster to add a link identifying the posted individual’s (victim’s) Facebook page along with the victim’s full name, location, and age. Ugotposted also allows for other types of social media links to be added, such as Twitter and Tumblr. Ugotposted allows Internet users to access the website, post comments about the victims, which most are degrading, and view the victims’ posted personal identifiable information.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And this, according to the warrant, is how the alleged extortion scheme operated:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Bollaert extorted money from victims that were posted on Ugotposted by directing the victims to the website changemyreputation.com and asking for money to removed the images from Ugotposted. There is evidence that shows Bollaert and Eric Chanson, a former business partner of Bollaert, created the websites. When a victim inquired about removing the images from Ugotposted, they would not receive a response; however, Ugotposted hosted a link to the webpage changemyreputation.com and for a fee, the images would be removed from Ugotposted.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cardwell’s affidavit also recounts a Sept. 18, 2013, interview with Bollaert held in the community of La Jolla, in northern San Diego:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He stated that he owned Ugotposted and that he had recently shut the site down. Bollaert stated he and his friend Eric Chanson started the site and Chanson has not had any action with the site since December. Bollaert stated, “At the beginning, it was fun and entertaining, but now it’s just like ruining my life.” … I asked Bollaert did he understand what it was doing to the people being posted on by requiring the full name, residing city, and link to the person’s Facebook page. Bollaert stated, “Yeah, I realize like this is not a good situation. I feel bad about the whole thing and like I just don’t want to do it anymore. I mean I know a lot of people are getting screwed over like on the site. Like their lives are getting ruined.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site’s impact can be judged from the experience of 14 “Jane Doe” victims listed in Cardwell’s affidavits. The victims, all women, all reportedly told investigators of nonstop harassment that followed their pictures appearing on YouGotPosted. The affidavit also includes emails to YouGotPosted from those begging, or demanding, to have images removed. Here’s one:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>… This website is an absolute disgrace. It makes me sick to my stomach you run this as your little family business. I had pictures posted as of last night … I demand that you delete them now. 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He entered a guilty plea in November and is to be sentenced Jan. 17.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the company was sued twice in federal court — once in \u003ca href=\"http://bv.1110.cds.contentcolo.net/uploads/files/McGibney-v-IsAnyoneUp.net-Eric-S-Chanson-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nevada\u003c/a>, once in \u003ca href=\"http://bv.1110.cds.contentcolo.net/uploads/files/Lindsay%20Middleton%20%20Complaint%20-%20Filed%20Version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan\u003c/a> — over \u003ca href=\"http://adamsteinbaugh.com/2013/04/05/revenge-porn-yougotposted-held-in-contempt-lose-case-to-bullyville/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trademark\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://adamsteinbaugh.com/2013/05/03/revenge-porn-site-yougotposted-sued-again/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">copyright\u003c/a> infringement claims. In the Nevada case, YouGotPosted failed to respond to trademark allegations, then was held in contempt and hit with a $300,000 default judgment. The suits named both Bollaert and Eric Chanson, a New Jersey man described as Bollaert’s partner in setting up the alleged YouGotPosted extortion scheme, and Chanson’s parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/Arrest%20warrant_0.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An affidavit\u003c/a> in support of today’s arrest warrant from state Department of Justice special agent Brian Cardwell describes how YouGotPosted works:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When a user (poster) of Ugotposted posts images to the site, the site requires the poster to add a link identifying the posted individual’s (victim’s) Facebook page along with the victim’s full name, location, and age. Ugotposted also allows for other types of social media links to be added, such as Twitter and Tumblr. 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Every CDO [credit default obligation] cited by the Department of Justice also independently received the same rating from another rating agency.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As evidence, Harris quoted emails from S&P executives in which they said their ratings were based on “magic numbers” and “guesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its statement, the ratings agency said the emails were not representative of the discussions it held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>There was robust internal debate within S&P about how a rapidly deteriorating housing market might affect the CDOs — and we applied the collective judgment of our committee-based system in good faith. The email excerpts cherry picked by DOJ have been taken out of context, are contradicted by other evidence, and do not reflect our culture, integrity or how we do business.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The complaint also says the company tried to suppress the development of new and more accurate ratings models.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In mid-2007, the housing bubble burst. After securities that S&P had deemed the least risky began defaulting, S&P downgraded many residential mortgage backed securities investments. 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