Claims extracted
17
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
6%
1 of 17 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
withheld
no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Politics
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Earlier this month, the state auditor found that the controller’s office had failed to recover overpayments to public employees, and that it failed to keep track of remote employees who were living out of state, in violation of the law.
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who → find → law
Now, as The California Post reported exclusively, a private lawsuit accuses the controller’s office of fudging addresses so that it can seize the assets of people abroad with no connection to California.
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it → report → California
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Report → start → news
Foreign investors were stunned to find their financial assets taken by the controller based on faulty addresses.
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assets → stun → addresses
In one case, the controller’s office appears to have listed the city of Cardiff, Wales, as Cardiff, Calif., a beach community in San Diego County.
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office → appear → County
California is notorious for considering almost anyone who has any contact with the state to be a “resident” for tax purposes, so it can force them to pay money into the state coffers.
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it → consider → coffers
No doubt some of the wealthy former Californians who are fleeing the potential “billionaire tax” have a tough fight ahead.
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who → flee → fight
But that’s peanuts compared with allegedly faking local addresses.
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that → ’ → addresses
And for a state that touts itself as the startup capital of the world, it’s a bad look to treat investors — foreign or domestic — as targets for manipulation, abuse and theft.
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it → tout → manipulation
Cohen has pushed back against the idea that there is a major fraud problem in California.
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Cohen → push → California
She wants voters to trust her with a second term, while reports come out seemingly every week about the latest fraud scandal in the state.
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reports → want → state
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The state controller should not be trying to put a brave face on government failure, but rather leading the fight.
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controller → download → fight
Instead, Cohen has left the job of enforcing accountability to the federal government — and to citizen journalists like Nick Shirley.
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Cohen → leave → Shirley
Cohen’s Republican opponent in the November election, Herb Morgan, says that Cohen is incompetent, and lacks the judgment to be the state’s most important financial official.
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Cohen → say → judgment
Whether that is true or not will be up to the voters to decide.
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is → decide → voters
Regardless, Cohen’s failures aren’t some kind of political “October surprise,” hyped by her political opponent.
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failures → hype → opponent
The problems are coming out because they are impossible to suppress any longer.
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they → come → ?
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