Smith didn’t following the law in Murrieta (mail fraud and identity theft), and doesn’t follow the law now with her illegal vacation rental.
Anyse Smith has Only Lived in Palm Desert since January of 2024
- Ms. Smith only became a resident of The City of Palm Desert in 01/2024. Her previous addresses are in the unincorporated areas of Riverside County.
- Ms. Smith is currently renting an apartment in order to run for District 3. Meanwhile, she owns a $2 million McMansion in an unincorporated area of Riverside County, only 6 miles from her rent-to-run apartment.
Legal Issues
- She is linked with criminal case SWF1207172 for possession of a controlled substance from an arrest date November 6, 2012.
- Another case SWF1302783 appears around the time of the dozen community mailbox break-ins across Murrieta. She failed to appear as cited in a Lexis report. Those records have been recently expunged. “[…] The series of thefts, in which someone was forcing open the boxes in the night, began Aug. 3, Murrieta police said. The mail is presumed to have been stolen for identity theft purposes, police said.”
940. 18 U.S.C. Section 1341—Elements of Mail Fraud.
Identity Theft. - All of her past indiscretions have occurred in roughly the last ten years.
- She currently operates an illegal vacation rental in unincorporated Riverside County. She has been operating the illegal rental for an unknown period.
- She now “now teaches others how to expunge [their records].”
Anyse Smith was Wrongly Appointed to Palm Desert’s Civic Engagement Committee
May 3, 2022 – 71730 JAGUAR RD PALM DESERT CA 92260 was put only in Smith’s name
January 19, 2023 – Smith is appointed to Civic Engagement Committee for Palm Desert
August 24, 2023 – Smith resigns from Civic Engagement Committee after staff discovers she doesn’t live in the City Limits of Palm Desert.