California’s Governor Schwarzenegger has said that he does not take money from “special interests.” Yet, as noted here (at page 22), his controlled ballot measure committee last election took over $1 million from Ameriquest Capital, a mortgage company. Today, the Los Angeles Times reports in a front-page story that the company “said it had agreed to pay up to $50 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleges it defrauded thousands of borrowers in four states, including California.”