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SANDY — A Utah couple is being accused of money laundering and smuggling oil into the U.S. alongside Mexican cartels, after they were arrested during a multi-state raid by U.S. Marshals, according to court documents. James Lael Jensen and his wife, Kelly Anne Jensen, were booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Wednesday. The couple and two of his sons are being federally indicted for allegedly conspiring to smuggle 2,881 shipments of oil from Mexico that they knew were illegal. The family is accused of moving at least $300 million from Mexico to the U.S. The couple was arrested...

Federal agents have arrested Utah oil magnate James Lael Jensen, his wife Kelly Anne Jensen, and two of their sons, Maxwell Sterling Jensen (aka “Max”) and Zachary Golden Jensen, in connection with a sprawling $300 MILLION smuggling and money laundering conspiracy tied to Mexican criminal organizations. Court records reveal that all four members of the Jensen family were arrested on Wednesday, April 23 — with sons Max and Zachary taken into custody in the Rio Grande Valley, while James and Kelly Jensen were apprehended at their 26,893-square-foot mansion in Sandy, Utah, reportedly worth over $9.1 million. The arrest was carried...

Things have gotten so ugly in Los Angeles County in the fight over Measure R - The Rio Hondo Tax - that today the newspapers in the region that are the sister papers of The Los Angeles Daily News re-editorialized in favor of the Measure in hopes of saving the massive tax increase and secret trash station deal. . This is Our Chance! Defeat Higher Property Taxes - CLICK HERE for Website!! California FReepers - keep your fingers crossed! This would be a huge blow to the recent movement to both lower the threshold for passage of school bonds that...

Hey Los Angeles FReepers! Many of you will see the ballot Measure "R" on your November 5th ballot. It is VERY BAD news masked as a "for the children" schools bond. It's really a massive property tax increase to pay for a secret deal for Los Angeles County to place a giant trash docking and shipping station on property that the college would obtain if Measure "R" is approved. Dirty local politics at its worst. Fortunately it has caught the attention of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and the National Tax Limitation Committee which are now on board with the...