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2012 Stories by R. SCOTT MOXLEY

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  13 Questions For Orange County In 2013

  published Dec 31, 2012

  13. Will local citizens be gullible enough to allow government officials to convert portions of the 405 freeway in Orange County into a privatized toll road under the laughable ruse of easing traffic ... More >>

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  Bad Decembers For Orange County Drug Addict/Identity Thief

  published Dec 31, 2012

  For Orange County's Savannah Rose Wofford, December apparently is not a good month.In Dec. 2010, she was arrested following a federal grand jury indictment for illegally possessing approximately 40 so... More >>

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  Federal Grand Jury in Orange County Indicts Three For Stealing $185,000 In Stamps

  published Dec 28, 2012

  A federal grand jury in Southern California has indicted three individuals who allegedly conducted a brazen, two-year conspiracy that stole more than $185,000 in postage stamps from U.S. Post Offices ... More >>

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  Did 18YR Delay in Arrest Violate Speedy Trial Rights of Accused Child Molesterr

  published Dec 28, 2012

  Anin Sen, 30, was naked and on top of an 11-year-old Santa Ana girl on Nov. 17, 1992, when the girl's mother walked into her home, saw the sex crime in action and screamed. Sen, who was on probat... More >>

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  Santa Ana Gangster Isn't Happy With 10-Year Gang Enhancement For Attempted Murder

  published Dec 27, 2012

  Martin Perez joined the Lyon Street criminal street gang at the age of 14 and enjoyed four relatively fun years in freedom using the moniker "Chino."Perez recruited people for the gang, tagged his Ora... More >>

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  Orange County Woman Is Guilty Of Passport Photo Scheme For Vietnamese

  published Dec 27, 2012

  Orange County's Kathleen Luong must have thought she'd outwitted federal immigration officials with a 2009 passport photo fraud scheme to help Vietnamese nationals illegally enter the United States.Bu... More >>

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  Don Haidl, The Man Who Ratted Out Dirty OC Sheriff Mike Carona, Is Dead

  published Dec 19, 2012

  Don Haidl--a wealthy car auction owner and corrupt Orange County assistant sheriff--loved to drink booze, chain smoke cigarettes, hurl nasty cuss words, surround himself with obedient thugs and wear t... More >>

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  Ex-Orange County Cop Who Headed U.S. Embassy Security in Libya Resigns

  published Dec 19, 2012

  A former Orange County police officer who became an acclaimed, high-ranking officer in the U.S. Department of State is one of three senior government officials to resign today in the wake of an unflat... More >>

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  Orange County Chiropractor Gets Lengthy Prison Trip For Fraud Scheme

  published Dec 19, 2012

  Christian Eunsung Chung, a chiropractor in Orange and Los Angeles counties, was the co-mastermind of a massage parlor scheme that stole more than $1.7 million from the U.S. Treasury through false Medi... More >>

• Tom Fuentes: Secret Agent Man?

  published December 20, 2012

  It was common knowledge during his lifetime that Tom Fuentes, longtime, legendary boss of the Orange County Republican Party, held numerous... More >>

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  Orange County Jail Deputies Cleared In Inmate Abuse Lawsuit

  published Dec 18, 2012

  Four years ago, an inmate in the Orange County Jail filed a lawsuit alleging that from 2004 to 2006 a group of deputies denied him clean clothes, clean bedding, rooftop exercise, mail, messages, toile... More >>

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  In Echoes of Todd Akin, OC Judge Admonished For "Technical Rape" Comments by Judicial Board After OC Weekly Report

  published Dec 14, 2012

  One of my Moxley Confidential columns resulted this week in a unanimous decision by the California Commission on Judicial Ethics to publicly admonish Orange County Superior Co... More >>

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  Rep. Loretta Sanchez, A Future Secretary of Defenser

  published Dec 13, 2012

  What do Robert McNamara, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates and Leon Panetta have in common with Orange County Congresswoman Loretta SanchezrAlmost nothing, but just wait.It's highly unlikely ... More >>

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  Meet California's Luckiest IRS Tax Cheat: Dennis O. Brown

  published Dec 13, 2012

  At least in two respects, Dennis O. Brown is a lucky Californian.Brown wanted to steal $492,142 from the federal treasury and has a younger brother, Edmund, who was dumb enough to file a fraudulent 20... More >>

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  FBI Busts Alleged California Home Loan Mortgage Kickback Scam With Arrests

  published Dec 12, 2012

  FBI agents have arrested two Southern California men, Tony Phan of Little Saigon and Troy Chattariyangkul of Los Angeles County, for their alleged involvement in a mortgage loan fraud kickback scheme,... More >>

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  Alleged Orange County Alley Boys Gangster: I'm Being Railroaded!

  published Dec 12, 2012

  Orange County's Alain Cruz is immensely frustrated that nobody in California's judicial system is listening to cries that he's been railroaded.Cruz was involved in the January 2005 shooting death of a... More >>

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  Indicted OC-LA Pot Shop Owner Wins Federal Detention Argument

  published Dec 12, 2012

  John Wesley Walker, the alleged mastermind behind what a federal prosecutor claims was a massive and illegal medical marijuana operation in Southern California, won a victory of sorts this month.Assis... More >>

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  Bombshell Court Ruling: OC Deputy Unfairly Demoted For Telling Truth About Corruption Under Mike Carona

  published Dec 10, 2012

  A California judge has ruled that Sheriff Mike Carona violated state law by committing "egregious and despicable" retaliation inside the Orange County Sheriff's Department against one of his 2006 elec... More >>

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  Richard Crawford, OC-raised NFL Rookie, Makes Huge Play For Washington Redskins

  published Dec 10, 2012

  Most of the people Orange County sends to the nation's capital are prone to empty, partisan rhetoric, but on Sunday Mission Viejo's Richard Crawford showed that the way to win a genuine standing ovati... More >>

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  Dana Rohrabacher Fans Claim "Conniving, Wily Latinos" Who Stole 2012 Election For Barack Obama Were Too Smart To Get Caught

  published Dec 09, 2012

  On Dec. 8, I reported that Congressman Dana Rohrabacher claimed Democratic operatives paid poor people and "illegals" to steal the 2012 presidential election for Barack Obama.Rohrabacher offered ... More >>

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  Dana Rohrabacher: "Illegals" Were Paid To Steal 2012 Presidential Election For Barack Obama

  published Dec 08, 2012

  Cheap tequila on the Kookville Express must have been free flowing as tipsy conductor Dana Rohrabacher pulled into the Costa Mesa train station on Dec. 6 to pen another wild, late night Twitter r... More >>

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  DA Adviser Mike Schroeder Pleads Guilty To Halloween DUI & Issues Apology

  published Dec 07, 2012

  Michael J. Schroeder--former chairman of the California Republican Party, a close adviser to Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and the co-owner of a chiropractic insurance company--plead... More >>

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  Federal Judge Dismisses Inmate's Libel Lawsuit Against OC Weekly As Frivolous

  published Dec 07, 2012

  A federal judge has dismissed a convicted felon's $75 million libel lawsuit against OC Weekly and a veteran staff writer after concluding the accusations had no merit.In his Nov. 6 ruling, Judge Georg... More >>

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  OC Professor Blames Occupy Wall Street and President Obama For Causing California Gun Buying Spree

  published Dec 06, 2012

  The nation was safe and harmonious until the Occupy Wall Street movement and Barack Obama's re-election campaign brought discord that prompted financially secure Californians to fear a violent revolut... More >>

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  GHB Party Drug Sales Earns CA Chiropractor Tepid Federal Punishment

  published Dec 05, 2012

  A California chiropractor caught in a Newport Beach Police Department (NBPD) sting operation involving illegal sales of the popular party drug GHB must be relieved today that a federal judge in O... More >>