Posts Tagged ‘ Carona Indictment ’

Peggy Lowe at Total Buzz reports that the Jury in the federal corruption trial for indicted/disgraced/resigned former Sheriff Mike Carona will hear the infamous tapes of conversations between the Sherif and Team Forever member Don Haidl. (the tool to add the link is disabled right now, but we’ll link soon Buzz crew!) Given what we’ve heard...
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Yesterday, OC Assistant Sheriff Steve Bishop abruptly resigned. Later in the day, Assistant Sheriff Jo Ann Galisky was fired. An OCRegister report today explains that the departure of these two members of the command staff is related to the Grand Jury probe “that questioned the department’s actions following the beating death of jail inmate...
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And here’s the PDF: HT to Scott Moxley at OC Weekly and the LA Times.  Before you clikc on the transcript, please note that there are more F-bombs in here than in a typical scene from The Sopranos. Some highlights from the transcripts as the Feds show a peak at their hand: Haidl secretly recorded three...
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I had a dream that one day Orange County would be free of the corruption and caronyism that has gripped the Sheriff’s department for years. I had a dream that our next Sheriff would be a person of honor and virtue. I had a dream that the choice of our next Sheriff would be based upon...
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The President doesn’t read newspapers, why should you? Only nerdy intellectuals waste their time with facts and news stories. Curt is a very curt fellow. He sums up all of the political news that is going on in Orange County in just one word. I could have sworn that I had written this word before,...
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“Why not ask him if he intends to resign?” –October 30, 2007, Jon Flieschman to reporters interviewing indicted ex-OC sheriff Mike Carona. (that one kind of backfired, didn’t it?) “…I have no knowledge whatsoever of the Sheriff doing anything illegal. I say this knowing him for fifteen years, and working as Deputy Director for Media Relations...
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Well Â… I am different from Mike Carona. Maybe we had some of the same qualities. He certainly has some qualities I benefited from in watching him be the sheriff. But I think I will bring my own qualities to the office, and somewhere in between I will try to make the best sheriff...
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