This is a reference article.
Orange County, California, has a system of registering “Fictitious” businesses. According to the County:
What is a Fictitious Business Name (FBN)?
For an individual, it is a name that does not include the surname of the individual or a name that suggests the existence of additional owners.
- For partnerships, it is a name that does not include the surname of any general partner or suggests the existence of additional owners.
- For a corporation, it is a name not stated in the Articles of Incorporation.
Defend Our Freedoms Foundation is such a fictitious business, owned by Orly Taitz, as shown in the county registration of the name. The Foundation claimed to be a non-profit organization and that it had obtained an EIN (US Federal Tax Reporting ID) that was once posted on the Foundation web site (this web site is no longer under control of Orly Taitz and the EIN has been removed). The EIN (26-4328440) was located from an old article in WorldNetDaily and corroborated by other sources including the Liberi v Taitz lawsuit filings. In a March 2009 article, I discussed the difference between a charity and a non-profit organization. DOFF is not a charity recognized by the IRS.
DOFF has a pending registration with the State of California as a charity, and a registration as a corporation. (Thanks to Politijab.com for the links to the California registrations.) The state filing address (also the address of Orly Taitz’s dental practice) is:
26302 La Paz
Ste 211
Mission Viejo, CA 92691
I searched for DOFF under its published zip codes of 92688 and 92691 at Melissadata.com’s Non-profit organization lookup, but didn’t find anything, nor did its EIN search return results. I also searched in the largest private database of EINs, EINFinder.com, for 26-4328440 and any California company beginning with “Defend our f”: no results were found. Various comments are found on the Internet that others have tried to verify this number with no success. The IRS itself doesn’t confirm EINs. While no one seems to be able to verify the number, I do not think that there is sufficient information to conclude that the number is bogus.
Caution: Orly’s web site is still on the malware warning list.
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