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==Legal problems==
==Legal problems==
===Felony Accusations -Agricultural Energy Resources ===
===Felony Violations Accusations===
In 1981 Reagan was accused of violating California securities laws. He was accused by a Los Angeles County district attorney's investigator of soliciting investors in a fraudulent stock scheme and of receiving a commission for the sale of stock when he was not registered as a securities salesman, as required by law.
In 1981 Reagan was accused of violating California securities laws. He was accused by a Los Angeles County district attorney's investigator of soliciting investors in a fraudulent stock scheme and of receiving a commission for the sale of stock when he was not registered as a securities salesman, as required by law.


Revision as of 20:36, 2 May 2015

For other people named Michael Reagan, see Michael Reagan (disambiguation).
Michael Reagan
Born
John Flaugher

(1945-03-18) March 18, 1945 (age 79)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma materArizona State University
(first semester drop-out)
OccupationRadio talk show host
Spouse(s)
Pamela Gail Putnam
​
​
(m. 1970⁠–⁠1971)​

Colleen Sterns
​
(m. 1975)​
ChildrenCameron[1] and Ashley Reagan[2]
Parent(s)Irene Flaugher Lange (1916-1986) John Bourgholtzer (d. 1993) (adoptive)
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004)
Jane Wyman (1917–2007)

Michael Reagan (born John Flaugher; March 18, 1945[3]) Is the adopted son of Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman.

Early life

He was born in Los Angeles, California, to Irene Flaugher (born 1916[4]- died December 26, 1985[5]), an unmarried woman from Kentucky[6] who became pregnant through a relationship with U.S. Army corporal John Bourgholtzer (d. 1993). He was adopted by Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman shortly after his birth.[3]

He was expelled from Loyola High School after a short period of time at the school [3] and in 1964 he graduated from the Judson School, a boarding school outside of Scottsdale, Arizona.[7] At his high school graduation, Ronald Reagan introduced himself to his son by saying, "My name is Ronald Reagan. What's yours?" He replied, "I'm your son Mike." "Oh," said Ronald Reagan. "I didn't recognize you."[7][8] He attended Arizona State University for less than one semester and Los Angeles Valley College.[9][10] but never graduated.

Careers

Salesman

Sometime prior to September 1970, Reagan was working as a salesman for the clothing company Hart, Schaffner & Marx. He then became a director of special events catering at Michaelson Food Service Company in Los Angeles.[9]

Actor

Reagan has had small roles in movies and television shows since 1985, including Falcon Crest.[11]

Radio

In the mid-1970s Reagan began his radio career with "On Energy." His big break in talk radio started in the Southern California local market as a guest host for radio commentator Michael Jackson's talk radio show slot on KABC in Los Angeles. After this beginning, he landed a talk show spot on KSDO radio in San Diego, California. Reagan's rating success in the San Diego market gave him the opportunity to take his talk show nationwide in 1992 with the Premiere Radio Networks, later being dropped from the network after Ronald Reagan's death.[citation needed] He then went to the Radio America Network where he was once again dropped.[12] His show was then picked-up by the American Family Radio Network for about 2 months and then discontinued.[citation needed]

Since that time Michael has focused on public speaking about Ronald Reagan, charging up to $12,500 for an engagement.[13]

Author

In 1988, he wrote, with Joe Hyams, an autobiographical book Michael Reagan: On The Outside Looking In.[14] In 2005 he wrote Twice Adopted about his feelings of rejection being adopted, parents divorcing and becoming a born again Christian.[3]

Felony Violations Accusations

In 1981 Reagan was accused of violating California securities laws. He was accused by a Los Angeles County district attorney's investigator of soliciting investors in a fraudulent stock scheme and of receiving a commission for the sale of stock when he was not registered as a securities salesman, as required by law.

The district attorney's office also investigated allegations that Reagan improperly spent money invested by others in a company, Agricultural Energy Resources, he operated out of his house in a venture to develop the potential of gasohol, a combination of alcohol and gasoline. Investigators said they were also checking whether he had spent up to $17,500 of investors' money for his living expenses. Reagan's lawyer, said that the company "was a sole proprietorship." The lawyer added that the money that the District Attorney's office alleged was paid to him as shares was in fact loaned to Reagan by four friends. "They were lending him money as friends because he couldn't support himself after he quit his job."[15] The district attorney's office cleared Reagan of both charges in 1981. At that time Ronald Reagan was President of the United States.[16]

Found liable of fraud, conversion, breach of fiduciary duty - Reagan.com email service -

On September 20, 2012 Reagan was sued by the founder of the @Reagan.com email service.[17] Reagan and his company, the Reagan Group, along with Tim Kelly and Jay Hoffman, were sued for fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, conversion, breach of partnership agreement, breach of fiduciary duty, promissory estoppel and unjust enrichment, for dealings related to the Reagan.com Email service.[18] According to the filings on the case[17] the email service attracted thousands of subscribers and turned large profits. [18] Reagan and Kelly then sold the email business to Chicago trader Anthony Saliba.[18] [19]

The trial started on January 12, 2015. In his opening statement in the lawsuit against Reagan, Kelly and Hoffman, plaintiff’s attorney Mark Chassman said the three defendants took his client’s share of the business generated from @Reagan.com for themselves and put their interests ahead of his. “They used greed, arrogance and strong-armed tactics … to enrich themselves,” Chassman told the 12-member Los Angeles Superior Court Jury.[20]

On January 27, 2015 a Los Angeles Superior Court jury found Reagan and Kelly liable for conversion and breach of fiduciary duty. Hoffman was also found liable for conversion. They were ordered to pay $662,500 to the plaintiff in damages.[21] Jay Hoffman, is a business associate of Michael Reagan's and is a director and partner of the Reagan.com email service, member of the board of directors of the Reagan Legacy Foundation[22] and a movie producer, [23] was also sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for fraud in 2002.[24] [25]

Political commentary

Gay marriage

In April 2013, in a syndicated column, Michael Reagan accused American churches of not fighting hard enough to block same-sex marriage. He also wrote that, in regards to arguments supporting gay marriage, similar arguments could be used to support polygamy, bestiality, and murder. As he wrote: “There is also a very slippery slope leading to other alternative relationships and the unconstitutionality of any law based on morality. Think about polygamy, bestiality, and perhaps even murder."[26] After Reagan wrote the piece, the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center disinvited him as the keynote speaker for a fundraising luncheon.[27]

Mark Foley statements

Reacting to the Mark Foley scandal in 2006, Reagan said, "Any member of Congress who was aware of the sexual emails and protected the congressman should resign effective immediately. I was sexually abused by a day camp counselor at age eight and also made to be part of child pornography."[28]

Mark Dice controversy

In June 2008, activist Mark Dice launched a campaign urging people to send letters and DVDs to troops stationed in Iraq which support the theory that the September 11 attacks were an "inside job". "Operation Inform the Soldiers", as Dice has called it, prompted Reagan to comment that Dice should be killed for treason.[29] Reagan said on June 10, 2008: "How about you take Mark Dice out and put him in the middle of a firing range. Tie him to a post, don't blindfold him, let it rip and have some fun with Mark Dice."[30] Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a liberal/progressive media criticism organization, asked Radio America at the time to explain whether it permits "its hosts to call for murder on the air."[31] Reagan filed a copyright infringement claim to prevent audio clip of him calling for the murder of Dice from circulating the Internet.[30] Dice explained that the use of the audio clip fell under fair use laws, and the clip was evidence of a crime.[30]

Racism allegations

In November 2014, as part of the lawsuit relating to Reagan.com email service, lawyers showed that Reagan sent emails containing statements that Latino partner, a former business partner, should be “put in his place.” And another email stated that “I [Michael Reagan] would rather die by the AIDS virus then be in business at all with ...partner.”[13] Another email contained disparaging remarks about his partner Latino heritage.[32] Reagan was called racist by Radar Online over the emails, in which he referred to his partner as a "Mexican a**hole."[13] The National Inquirer published a similar article highlighting what the magazine called his "racist rants."[33]

He also spoke out in support of racial profiling in October. In a piece called “Profile or Die,” he wrote, “If your boss suddenly changes his name from Bob to Mohammed and starts quoting from the Koran, it’s time to get a new job. … It’s going to be up to me and you to defend ourselves if ISIS or one of its crazy wannabes shows up at your local mall with rifles and bombs.”[34]

Personal life

In 1971 Reagan married Pamela Gail Putnam (born 1952). She was the daughter of Duane Putnam, who was then the Atlanta Falcons football line coach.[9] The couple divorced in 1972.[35]

He married Colleen Sterns, an interior decorator, in 1975 at the The Church On The Way.[10] They have two children. Reagan and his wife live in the Toluca Lake area of Los Angeles.[36]

Reagan's son has been arrested several times and charged with crimes including possession of drugs, violence and hitting a police officer.[37]

In January 2011, he called his half-brother Ron Reagan “an embarrassment” for speculating in a memoir that their father suffered from Alzheimer’s disease while president.[38]

References

  1. ^ Mehta, Seema (January 7, 2010). "Reagan grandson arrested in Van Nuys". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
  2. ^ Edwards, Anne The Reagans: Portrait of a Marriage. St. Martin's Griffin (2004) ISBN 0312331177.
  3. ^ a b c d Reagan, Michael Twice Adopted: An Important Social Commentator Speaks to the Cultural Ailments Threatening America Today. B&H Books (2005) ISBN 0805431446.
  4. ^ Genealogy of Campbell Rice (includes Irene Flaugher) Accessed 7/4/2009.
  5. ^ Dougherty, Margot and Lois Armstrong. "Binding Up the Wounds." People Magazine, 29, 11 (1988-03-21).
  6. ^ Archived 2009-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. Kentucky Historical Society (2005)
  7. ^ a b Lavin, Cheryl (April 17, 1988). "Family Outcast: A Reagan Son Sadly Remembers Years Of Neglect". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
  8. ^ Reagan, Michael; Hyams, Joe (1988). On the Outside Looking In. New York: Zebra. p. 96. ISBN 0821723928.
  9. ^ a b c "Michael Reagan, Governor's Son, to Marry Miss Pamela Putnam". New York Times. Sep 22, 1970. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
  10. ^ a b Barrett, Laurence I.; Wallis, Claudia (1981-01-05). "Four Reagans Used to Going Their Own Ways". Time. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
  11. ^ "Michael Reagan". IMDb. Retrieved Jan 23, 2015.
  12. ^ "Roger Hedgecock Goes Daily with Radio America" (Press release). Lubbock, TX: KCBD. October 28, 2008. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  13. ^ a b c Cronin, Melissa (Nov 19, 2014). "Racist Reagan! Son Of Former President Caught In Scandal Over Hateful Rants About 'Mexican A**holes' & Muslims". Radar. Retrieved Nov 30, 2014.
  14. ^ Reagan, Michael; Hyams, Joe. Michael Reagan: On the Outside Looking In. Kensington Publishing Corporation, 1988 ISBN 0821723928.
  15. ^ Lindsey, Robert (Feb 11, 1981). "Reagan's Elder Son Being Investigated". New York Times. Retrieved Nov 10, 2014.
  16. ^ Lindsey, Robert (Nov 21, 1981). "Michael Reagan Cleared of Stock Fraud Charge". New York Times. Retrieved Dec 14, 2014.
  17. ^ a b Elias C vs. Michael Reagan, Case Number: BC492373 (Los Angeles Superior Court 2014).
  18. ^ a b c Reynolds, Matt (September 20, 2012). "Ousted by Reagan's Son, Entrepreneur Says". Courthouse News Service. Retrieved 2013-01-15.
  19. ^ "Executive Profile: Anthony J. Saliba". Businessweek. Dec 14, 2014. Retrieved Dec 14, 2014.
  20. ^ Schreiber, John (Jan 15, 2015). "Ronald Reagan's son allegedly cheated businessman out of $4 million". MyNewsLA. Retrieved Jan 18, 2015.
  21. ^ Alfonso, Mirna (Jan 31, 2015). "Late President's Son to Pay $600K to Businessman Forced Out of @Reagan.com". Patch. Retrieved Feb 28, 2015.
  22. ^ http://www.reaganlegacyfoundation.org/board
  23. ^ "Jay Hoffman". IMDb. Retrieved Dec 16, 2014.
  24. ^ "27-Month Sentence in Real Estate Fraud". Los Angeles Times. Dec 18, 2001. Retrieved Jan 4, 2015.
  25. ^ https://michaelnotreagan.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/jay-hoffman-judgment-and-commitment1.pdf
  26. ^ Reagan, Michael (April 2, 2013). "Churches: Time to fight back". Ironton Tribune. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
  27. ^ Theiss, Evelyn (Apr 5, 2013). "Michael Reagan out as Cleveland Rape Crisis Center speaker after gay marriage comments". Cleveland Plain Dealer. Retrieved Nov 13, 2014.
  28. ^ Beutler, Brian (October 2, 2006). "Conservatives also seek Hastert's resignation". The Raw Story.
  29. ^ "Alex Jones interviews Mark Dice over Mike Reagan death threat constroversy". The Alex Jones Show. Jun 13, 2008. Retrieved Aug 30, 2014. {{cite episode}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |episodelink= (help)
  30. ^ a b c "Reagan Files Copyright Claim in Attempt to Get Mark Dice Death Threat Removed". Infowars. Jun 19, 2008. Retrieved Aug 30, 2014.
  31. ^ "Talk Show Host Calls for Murder". FAIR. Jun 24, 2008. Retrieved Aug 30, 2014.
  32. ^ Schreiber, John (Nov 5, 2014). "Lawsuit alleges Ronald Reagan's adopted son cheated businessman out of $4 million". MyNewsLA. Retrieved Nov 30, 2014.
  33. ^ Jaccarino, Michael (Nov 24, 2014). "Ronald Reagan Son Racist Rants". National Enquirer. Retrieved Dec 23, 2014.
  34. ^ Reagan, Michael (Oct 24, 2014). "Profile, or Die". Townhall. Retrieved Jan 18, 2015.
  35. ^ Boyle, Louise (December 31, 2012). "'You'll never get in trouble if you say I love you once a day': Ronald Reagan's touching letter to son on eve of his wedding". Daily Mail. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  36. ^ "Motivational Speakers/Michael Reagan". Premier Speakers Bureau. 2010. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
  37. ^ "LA Police: Cameron Reagan, Ronald Reagan's Grandson, Arrested". Huffington Post. January 7, 2010. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
  38. ^ Hohmann, James (Jan 15, 2011). "Mike Reagan calls brother, Ron Reagan, an 'embarrassment'". Politico. Retrieved Oct 15, 2014.


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