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2011 Stories by R. SCOTT MOXLEY

• Seatedr Dana Rohrabacher Gets One Right!

  published Mar 25, 2011

  Okay, sure. Perennially goofy Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher occasionally makes a good point.This week in Washington, Rohrabacher and other Republican politicians questioned planned U.S. a... More >>

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  Last Comic Standing Contestant Sues Tustin, Lennar Homes for Anti-Asian Discrimination

  published Mar 24, 2011

  Nick Dao--a former, losing contestant on NBC's Last Comic Standing--isn't laughing.One of the last kids to escape Saigon via U.S. military airlift in the hours before the collapse of South Vietnam in ... More >>

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  The Stinky Irvine Day Worker, His Meth, the Pickax & His Dead Boss

  published Mar 24, 2011

  Irvine police officer John Sanders arrived at the active residential crime scene in January 2007 and took a defensive position behind a concrete wall. What Sanders saw is the stuff of a horr... More >>

• Gay Porn Career Costs Dance Teacher His Job

  published March 24, 2011

  The key figure in a fascinating civil case involving a minor and gay pornography is neither the plaintiff nor the defendant, but a witness:... More >>

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  OC Deputy Accuses His Union of Colluding With Management to Rig Promotions

  published Mar 23, 2011

  A veteran Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) deputy--the brother of a California state assemblyman from Costa Mesa--is suing his department and employees' union for deceitful conduct and workin... More >>

• Lou Correa, The Inquisitorr

  published Mar 23, 2011

  There are probably several descriptions you could give Orange County state Senator Lou Correa, but who knew one would be watchdogrAccording to a Sacramento Bee article today, at a Tuesday hearing, Co... More >>

• Mixed Jury Results In Dana Point Deputy Force Case

  published Mar 22, 2011

  A federal jury this afternoon issued mixed results for a group of South County residents--including a male supermodel and world-champion athlete--who sued Orange County Sheriff's Department deputies i... More >>

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  Oliver Stone Bases Film on Laguna Beach Crime Thriller

  published Mar 22, 2011

  It seems Hollywood can't get enough of Laguna Beach, our county's best seaside town.Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone is building a cast for a crime thriller film based Don Winslow's Savages, a nove... More >>

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  High School Grade-Altering Scam Nets Ex-Student Jail Sentence

  published Mar 21, 2011

  South Orange County's Tesoro High School encourages its students to be "independent learners," and so you could argue that Omar Shahid Khan's scholarship exceeded all his classmates.In 2008, Khan... More >>

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  Will Crying Save Killer Stephenson Choi Kim From Death Rowr

  published Mar 21, 2011

  You can tell from a photograph shown at his murder trial that Stephenson Choi Kim desperately wanted to think of himself as a tough guy.In the picture, Kim is wearing that unmistakable hoodlum gl... More >>

• Jury Deliberates Dana Point Deputy Excessive Force Case

  published Mar 18, 2011

  The lawyer for a group of South Orange County residents--including a famous athlete and a successful Laguna Beach actor/model--told a federal jury today that sheriff's deputies lied on the witness sta... More >>

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  Todd Spitzer's Latest Flip-Flop

  published Mar 18, 2011

  Five months ago, an angry Todd Spitzer took control of a public employees' local union hall in Santa Ana; called print, radio and television reporters to a press conference; and made a historic a... More >>

• John M. Shanahan: Hooked on Sexual Harassment

  published March 17, 2011

  Fate has undoubtedly blessed John M. Shanahan—no more evidence is needed than what happened on Sept. 10, 2001. That day, the colorful... More >>

• Ex-Newport Beach Firefighter Sues Over Alleged Anti-Latino Bias

  published Mar 11, 2011

  Based on his resume, it's difficult to imagine that Christian Benard is lazy. He graduated from the University of Southern California and served as an officer in the U.S. Navy before deciding on a car... More >>

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  Todd Spitzer Versus Chuck DeVore for OC Supervisorr

  published Mar 10, 2011

  This is not a trick question: If almost all of our county's supervisors have been conservative Republicans dating back to the Paleozoic Era, what difference does it make which conservative Republ... More >>

• Jim Righeimer Has Earned the Hate of the Unions

  published March 10, 2011

  California union leaders' opinion of James Martin Righeimer, a wealthy, 52-year-old, Newport Beach real-estate developer and one of the state's... More >>

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  The Illogic of Dana Rohrabacher's Martian Logic

  published Mar 03, 2011

  I understand why Cameron Scott at the San Francisco Chronicle recently labeled Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher as a Republican representing "Riverside."Rohrabacher would be a better fi... More >>

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  Web Extra: The REAL Donald Bren, With Commentary

  published Feb 24, 2011

  The hard copy of this week's cover story--a media criticism on a recent Los Angeles Times profile of Southern California's richest man, Donald Bren--contains a two-page spread that dissects the puff p... More >>

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  The Odd, Deadly Case of the Dueling Dads

  published Feb 24, 2011

  The brown Buick Skylark parked in the ally contained a gruesome scene that seemed to indicate somebody had a beef with Rafael Brito, who was in the back seat with his pants pulled to his ankles.But Br... More >>

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  Donald Bren: The Real Legacy

  published February 24, 2011

  Billionaire Donald Bren isn't just Orange County's wealthiest man. Over the decades, the Newport Beach real-estate developer has also proved to... More >>

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  Dan Wagner Named To Head OCDA's Homicide Unit

  published Feb 18, 2011

  Other than Tony Rackauckas' top slot, there's probably no more prominent job in the Orange County District Attorney's office than chief of the homicide unit. Indeed, there's a long list of notable peo... More >>

• Paper Further Exposes More Dirt On Larry Agran's Political Machine in Irvine

  published Feb 17, 2011

  Is there more evidence that slimy Irvine political boss Larry Agran is a criminalrAccording to an online column published tonight by Orange County Register columnist Frank Mickadeit, that scenari... More >>

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  California Pervert Guilty For Cyber Sex "Touching" of Fake 13-year-old Girl

  published Feb 17, 2011

  Can you imagine the shock on Jeffrey Andrew Stillittano's face when he learned that he'd jacked off three times in two days on his webcam for Jamie, a 13-year-old girl who was, in fact, a fictitious c... More >>

• The Mother, Her Teen Lover and Their Baby

  published February 17, 2011

  Here's a dilemma: A 38-year-old married woman starts an illegal sexual affair with a neighbor, a 14-year-old Orange County boy with, as one... More >>

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  Is Mike Harrah Cheating at One Broadway Plaza in Santa Anar

  published Feb 16, 2011

  You may recall the last time I addressed the issue of real-estate developer Mike Harrah's contentious efforts to build Orange County's largest commercial building, the proposed 37-story One Broadway P... More >>