Installment 10 - Cookin' The Books, Alexander-Style

A Recipe For Success That Will Curl Your Toes!

Hello, THUG Readers -- your THUG Team is back. And, at our shoulders are investigative authorities from several States and several Federal agencies. The ride is getting wilder all the time. Stay tuned!

Today's Installment is quite interactive. Our Readers have been so good about posting comments and dialogue (and sending us documents privately), we cannot wait to read your responses and interpretations for this Installment 10.

In order to aid our Readers, we will be publishing an entire document for your perusal and analysis, which you will get via a link below. We want to make sure you have access to every delicious entry on those pages, coming from Mrs. King Alexander herself.

Here's the deal: nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Unless you are an Alexander.

While we've previously shown that the Alexanders seem to have a habit of failing to file tax returns for their businesses, we always imagined that they do indeed file their personal tax returns... and, wouldn't you know it, one of those returns has fallen rather directly into our hot little hands.

Of course, the first thing you should ask is did we get this return legally?  And, why is the return not signed?

Here is the answer: Mrs. Alexander produced the tax return during a deposition in a judicial proceeding, and, under oath, she testified to its contents and authenticity.

Here is the transmittal letter from the legal custodian of this document:

Upon request of a party to the legal proceeding, the document was forwarded by the attorney's office, through the party and then to us. The name of that party has been redacted. THUG therefore believes that this is a "public" document which we may post, and our lawyers agree.

Hopefully your questions are now answered, and we shall proceed.

In order to review the tax return, it is important to know its context in the lives of Shenette and King Alexander. Through testimony, research, documents, and personal interaction/communication with the Alexanders, we conclude the following:

1. After physically transitioning from Kentucky to Long Beach in December 2005, The King's CSULB Presidency formally began as of January 2006.

2. The King moved into CSULB's Presidential "Miller House" in time to begin his Presidency. He was accompanied by daughters Maddy and Savannah, and housekeeper/nanny Linda Allbritten.

3. The King was quickly joined in Long Beach by longtime mistress/girlfriend* Shenette and her daughter Kylie. (*mistress when he was married, girlfriend once his wife passed away)

4. King and Shenette required immediate substantial expansion of the 5100 square foot Presidential residence -- at a cost of $68,000, paid for by CSULB. However, in 2006 King and Shenette would contribute $15,000 towards these new construction costs as a tax deductible donation.

5. Shenette was then (and now) the Head Honcho Coordinator for the Alexander family's Oxford Round Table business (ORT), from which she draws a substantial salary and vast living/traveling expenses. Moving from Kentucky to Long Beach in 2006, she transferred the ORT "headquarters", the business address, and the banking, all to her new "home" town.

6.  In the Summer of 2006, King and Shenette trothed and she took on the name "Alexander".

7. Through 2006, Shenette held onto her previous house in La Grange, Kentucky, even though she did not reside or work there.

8. From 2006 to the present, Shenette has resided in Long Beach. Until recently, her times away from Long Beach were trips to England for ORT. Recently, she has also made trips to Baton Rouge, as King is now President/Chancellor for LSU. However, since King left for LSU, Shenette maintains an apartment in Long Beach and has primary residence there for herself and Kylie.

9. Presently, Savannah lives with King in Baton Rouge. The youngest child -- Maddy -- moved away from King and Shenette in approximately 2011 (at the age of 11), living since then with nanny Linda at the latter's home in Kentucky.

Okay, now it's time for you to see Mrs. Alexander's tax return.

Click here to view the complete tax return

While we want you -- our THUG Readers -- to vet this tax return based on your own experience and knowledge, we have had it audited by forensic fraud accountants, and they note a few important specific items for you to find as you spin through the pages:

(A.) This return was on extension and finally filed in October of 2007.

(B.) THUG has redacted Mrs. Alexander's social security number from each page of the return.

(C.) The El Mirador Avenue address is the "Miller House" residence provided free by CSULB to its Presidents.

(D.) Yes, the married Shennette (Mrs. King) Alexander filed as an individual and Head of Household. (No, she was not legally allowed to do this, according to our fraud audit accountants.) And Mrs. Alexander qualified herself for this by declaring that daughter Kylie was her dependent but not her daughter. (Let's not forget that, when daughter Kylie was 5 years old, Shenette unlawfully listed her as Vice President of Shenette's Kentucky corporation. Go back to the Alexander Family Corporate Chart in THUG Installment 7. So, apparently Kylie has served many and various income-related and tax-saving purposes for Shenette and King.) Perhaps you -- Dear Reader -- can help us better understand all this.

(E.) According to her deposition and other testimony from family, Mrs. Alexander's tax-declared consulting income of $165,375 comes from ORT. This is but a portion of what she and the Alexanders take home from ORT's multi-million dollar annual earnings, but the important thing is that, in this 2006 tax return, Mrs. Alexander did declare at least this much as coming into the King and Shenette household. In 2006, King Alexander was still listed as officer/director and 15% shareholder/owner of ORT (and liable for its failure to make corporate filings and tax filings), although Shenette and Kern tried to erase King from ORT's public records thereafter. 

(F.) In the tax return, Mrs. Alexander takes a home mortgage interest deduction for a home she does not live in. She then proceeds to take a home office deduction based on using 57.14% of the residence (the residence she doesn't reside in) for business on a 24/7 availability basis. (No, she's not legally allowed to do this. Duh.)

(G.) Mrs. Alexander deducts for a lot of newly purchased office furniture. Oddly, the purchases are in repetitive round numbers, and there is no sales tax paid. Regardless, Mrs. Alexander was the sole Coordinator of ORT, and she only briefly had a single assistant helping her to process paperwork. Perhaps you Readers have a theory on this. Perhaps voluminous elves were cobbling endless pairs of shoes on dozens of brand new tabletops in Mrs. Alexander's non-residence late into each night.

(H.) Mrs. Alexander claims 100% business use and 20,000 miles of driving her car for business use in 2006. Since she lived and worked in Long Beach, it's hard to envision her driving more than a few miles per day for any purpose. (Your THUG editor lives 50 miles from CSULB, drives to school several days a week, and has never come close to totaling 20,000 miles in any given year.) 20,000 miles requires a ton of high-speed long-distance highway driving, and we have no evidence that Mrs. Alexander drove from Long Beach to England for ORT. We also have no evidence that Mrs. Alexander drove home, left this car, and took another car whenever she had a personal errand to run, not that she'd have time for any personal errands if she was on the road 20,000 miles a year for business. (Also, in 2006 the Alexanders were only a two car family. There was no third car for Mrs. Alexander's personal errands. The Miller House expansion ordered by the Alexanders was partly to add garaging for their second car.)

(I.) Mrs. Alexander claims $41,318 for business travel expenses, $2,027 for business meals/entertainment, and $3,079 for other business expenses. Yet, per testimony from her and family, every single dollar of expense incurred by her for ORT over the many years of her work there has always been fully reimbursed or paid directly by ORT. Perhaps you Readers can posit a theory to support Mrs. Alexander's tax return as to this matter. Explain why the folks in charge of ORT finances (that is, Mrs. and Mr. Alexander and the other Alexanders) would rather pay salary than expenses. Frankly, this makes no tax sense to us at all. Paying salary costs more to a corporation than simply paying expenses. We are inclined to think that the tax return may be mistaken. Ahem.

(J.) Mrs. Alexander deducts a substantial amount for medical expenses. But, as a side note, 2006 was not a year she did much plastic surgery. That was the year before:

From: "Shenette Campbell"
To: [REDACTED]
Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2005 10:07 AM
Subject: RE: Easter Dress

King was upset about the ear thing but I didn't even tell him about the chin implant or the lipo under my neck. He never even noticed. It wasn't that badly bruised. He would freak if I had lipo but I probably wouldn't tell me that either. Like you said, it's our bodies. It's so great to be independent!

Shenette

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Shenette C. Campbell
Coordinator
Oxford Round Table
E mail: shenette@oxfordroundtable.com
Web Page: www.oxfordroundtable.com  

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(K.) In the 2006 tax return, Mrs. Alexander declares an $8,100 tuition program contribution for Kylie (the daughter who's become a non-daughter dependent for this tax return, as you recall). Family has testified that this contribution did not happen.

(L.) Mrs. Alexander declares a $15,000 charitable deduction to CSULB (to repay some of the costs of modifying the Miller House Presidential home for her and King). In fact, THUG has proven that this donation was made. Nonetheless, there is a problem, as you can read for yourself below:

THUG does not know if Mr. Alexander declared the same deduction on his return, but, based on Alexander history and habit, you know what we would guess. Also, please note that the bank account is a California account -- this will become relevant in the next point.

(M.) We now arrive at Mrs. Alexander's State return. Beyond the oddity that she now says she's single, the incredible thing is that she files this return in Kentucky rather than California, despite living and earning and banking in California! Likely, you Readers will find other bits that are curiouser and curiouser -- do let us know.

In the meantime, should any of you Readers feel the urge to forward this to the California Franchise Tax Board, please, by all means, we will pay the postage. The California FTB is rather notorious for hunting down tax-dodgers no matter where they go. In this case, Mrs. Alexander continues to reside in California, so she is easily found, as are her and Mr. Alexander's tax returns for all the years since 2006.

And, should any of you also feel like forwarding this to Kentucky's Department of Revenue, in light of Mrs. Alexander's refund of $4,977 from Kentucky -- again, we'll buy you Forever stamps.

Finally, should any of you feel like saying hi (and whistleblowing) to the IRS, do it! And say hi for us as well. The IRS gives rewards once they collect lost revenue -- did you know that? 

Although the posted return is several years old, there is absolutely no reason to think that the Alexanders have not continued this sort of creative tax filing each and every year before and since.

11.4.13: And, thank you THUG Readers!  Since we first posted this installment yesterady, we have gotten word from some of Mrs. Alexander's former neighbors, which we have verified through city of La Grange records. Seems that the city served notice on Mrs. Alexander back in 2004-05 that it would be illegal for her to conduct any form of business from her home, so her ORT assistants actually did their ORT guest registration and money collection from their own computers at their own homes elsewhere. Meaning, even before Mrs. Alexander moved to Long Beach and took ORT with her in 2006, there was no actual or legal business use going on at her place in La Grange. THUG is also advised that the workspace she had originally tried to use there (before being ordered by the City to cease) contained a playroom for daughter Kylie. Thank you, Readers -- send us more!

Also, many of you previously reported THUG findings to certain State investigators, and we are here to tell you that you caused active investigations to be opened.

So, be active, be proactive -- read, comment, write, act! Your voices are heard.

THUG's conclusions as to all the above are pretty obvious: 

The Alexanders treat the tax laws as rules that don't apply to them, and they launder some ORT income through folks like Mrs. Alexander even as they hide the bulk of it. We see no other viable explanation for Mrs. Alexander's bogus status as Head of Household, her bogus deductions from top to bottom, and her failure to file in California. 

We also do not accept that Mr. King Alexander had no knowledge of this, since, in his own words and handwriting, it is clear he personally sought marital donation status and was personally involved in his marital tax status. 

And The King was legally aware of the ham-handed efforts of his wife and father to expunge his name from ORT public records once he became President at CSULB and he and the Mrs. actively solicited funding from all the CSU campuses to send professors to ORT so The King and Shenette and all the Alexanders could profit by it.

But, alas, if The King suddenly pleads ignorance to all this, we must ask: 

What sort of man is this? What sort of leader is this? 

His wife is bringing in income from his corporation at double the rate paid to CSULB's highest earning professors, and he and his wife are living rent-free, and he is aware of her checking account, so just how much denial can this "numbers guy" get away with? 

Lastly, we must also ask: standing in loco parentis for thousands of students, how is it that The King made choices that drove away his own child at a tender age? And why did he and his flacks cover it up, using every press and photo op to pretend that his wife's daughter was his youngest daughter and that his real daughter wasn't missing? (While his wife filed taxes pretending that her daughter wasn't her daughter.)

Seriously, is this the man you want to be responsible for your kids? 

And, is this non-taxpayer the man you want to be responsible for spending your hard-earned tax dollars? 

So many questions, and more answers to come.

Soon, in the next THUG Installment (11), you will finally get "The Curious Case of Dan Lavit", starring everyone from a noted Congressman to the Department of Homeland Security, and featuring F. King Alexander, Kern Alexander, Klint Alexander, and Donald M. Para.

THUG The Book Is designed so you can read the
Installments in any order you want.

Installment Eleven - If A Para Falls In The Forest, Does Anyone Care?
Installment Ten - Cookin' The Book Alexander Style
Installment Nine - The Riddle of The Stinks

Installment Eight - the King Who Must Not Be Named

Installment Seven B - The Biggest Academic Ponzi Scheme Ever

Installment Seven A - Indictment of The Alexander Family For Criminal Conspiracy

Installment Six - The Odor of Mendacity

Installment Five - The King's New Clothes

Installment Four - High Crimes and Pissy Demeanors

Installment Three - The Long Beach Studios Hoax

Installment Two - Spielberg Narrative

Installment Two - Spielberg Documents

Installment One 

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