Subject: Christine Hanley

• DA's office: Use "Extreme Caution" with LA Times reporter

  The on again, off again war between the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County District Attorney's media affairs office is on again. Today, DA spokeswoman Susan Kang Schroeder sent an agencywide email "warning" staff about Times investigative reporter Christine Hanley. Schroeder claims that Hanley is "unethical," "reckless," "harasses people and their families," and wastes taxpayers dollars by filing "frivolous" public records requests. She advised prosecutors to use "extreme caution" with the

  September 26, 2006

• LA Times Defends Slammed Reporter; DA Fires Back

  Here's the background: On Tuesday, Orange County DA spokeswoman Susan Kang Schroeder took the extraordinary step of sending an agencywide email that not only challenged the ethics of LA Times reporter Christine Hanley, but also urged county prosecutors to use "extreme caution" when dealing with her. Schroeder's Sept. 26 email is available here. Today, Steve Marble, editor of the Orange County edition of the Times, defended Hanley, who has spent several months investigating Schroeder and her husb

  September 27, 2006

• Like Argyros President, Like Argyros Son

  Hats off to the Times' Christine Hanley for scooping the world on the latest controversy involving (pick one):a) Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona giving deputy badges to someone with no police experience who goes on to make an ass of himself; b) Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona and a campaign donor who goes on to make an ass of himself; c) Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona . . . ass. The quick rundown on the latest dart, which comes courtesy of the Times' inside Sheriff's sources who request

  May 10, 2006

• Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises: Poor Mike Carona

  OC's Embarrassing Buford T. Justice: Law-enforcement helicopters and ground crews normally — blatantly — tail me. You should have seen them after I revealed that local cops had planted a handgun on a DUI suspect, after I wrote about a cop who ejaculated on a female motorist in Laguna Beach, and when I published photos of Sheriff Mike Carona warmly embracing a female Russian, uh, “interpreter” in his Moscow hotel room. Anyway, the cop harassment has increased recently, and I'd wondered w

  July 17, 2007

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: An OC Blog Coward

  What did the OC billionaire do when the wife was away? Computer-chip magnate Henry T. Nicholas III won big in a 1998 public stock offering for his Broadcom Corp., and to celebrate, he built an extravagant $30 million underground “personal brothel” at his Laguna Hills estate. That's according to the latest allegations discovered by E. Scott Reckard and Kim Christensen, two Los Angeles Times reporters who dug up court documents containing the dirt. Last week, newspapers disclosed FBI interes

  July 18, 2007

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Register Slams Sheriff

  A broken clock is right more often than Rohrabacher: Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher recently uttered that President George W. Bush deserves another six months to turn things around in Iraq. But the Huntington Beach/Long Beach representative has a shameful history on the subject. More than 1,120 days ago, Rohrabacher complained bitterly about “nit-picking” Americans who were then questioning the brilliance of Bush's Iraq War strategy. “I say, thank God that we have a preside

  July 19, 2007

• Friday's Headlines & Surprises: Excessive Force?

  Shoot 15 times, ask softball questions later: The parents of Ashley MacDonald, the 18-year-old Huntington Beach girl killed by two police officers, filed an excessive force lawsuit yesterday in U.S. District Court, according to Christine Hanley at the Times. According to their suit, Kenneth MacDonald and Lisa Marie Guy claim that the officers didn't need to shoot Ashley 15 times--apparently, even as she was on the ground--for their own safety last August. Of course, Ashley hadn't been an angel.

  July 27, 2007

• Friday's Headlines & Surprises: Stale Marijuana?

  Doesn't marijuana go stale? I dunno, but Jim Spray, 51, and Felix Cha (the person, not the tea), 22, want the government to return the pot police officers confiscated two years ago, according to Christine Hanley at the Times. Lawyers for both men told the Santa Ana-based Court of Appeal yesterday the narcotic was legally possessed for medicinal reasons. In separate cases, judges have previously tossed out their arrests but bureaucrats in the cities of Garden Grove and Huntington Beach refuse to

  August 24, 2007

• Diocese of Fresno Lies to OC Weekly, Spins for Brown

  September 14, 2007

• Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: One Down in Murder at Sea Case

  Inaction Action! In their hunt for additional pay and perks, Orange County sheriff’s deputies flexed their muscles again Friday by delaying the transfer of incustody folks to court for criminal hearings. The, if you will, inaction action is designed to frightened county supervisors at the negotiating table with union officials who represent the deputies. Union boss John Nichols tells Reg reporter Peggy Lowe that the protest demonstrates “frustration.” In the past, the union has won wildly

  October 6, 2007

• OC Sheriff Carona Indicted For Corruption After FBI Probe

  Christine Hanley at the Los Angeles Times is reporting late night that Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona (pictured in a Newport Beach bar with convicted felon Rick Rizzolo, a Chicago Mafia associate) "has been indicted on federal corruption charges stemming from a lengthy investigation into allegations that he misused his office for financial gain." Larry Welborn and Peggy Lowe at the Orange County Register report tonight that George Jaramillo, Carona's handpicked ex-No. 2 at the departme

  October 29, 2007

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: Exclusive Carona Wiretap Transcript!

  Carona Should Resign? Absolutely not. There is no telling which clown would takeover from the cesspool that contains Carona’s upper management. Besides, as an investigative journalist, I’d mourn the loss of a character like Mike Carona sitting atop the sheriff’s department. Sure, he’s dirty. Yes, yes, he routinely tries to use the powers of his office to frighten me. But Carona’s a guaranteed scandal maker. Last year, I dubbed him “Calamity Mike” after we obtained an audio recordi

  October 31, 2007

• Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises: KFI Nailing Carona?

  Chivalry at its Finest! Federal prosecutors gave Michael S. Carona, 52, multiple chances to save his wife and one of his mistresses from aggressive federal prosecution if he agreed to plead guilty on corruption and obstruction of justice charges. But the self-styled Christian conservative sheriff resisted. Carona wanted to save his own ass, a source told Gil Reza and Christine Hanley for a story today in the LA Times. The sheriff offered to resign if the feds would let him escape all charges. P

  November 6, 2007

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: OCSD's Bubbling Cesspool

  L Word? The board of supervisors is exploring whether indicted Sheriff Michael S. Carona can legally name his temporary replacement while he takes the next two months off (with full pay!) to fight “baseless” charges by the FBI. Jo Ann Galisky, 47, played Al Haig yesterday. She told told reporters that she’s the boss now and (as part of the cesspool that Carona surrounded himself with at the Orange County Sheriff’s Department) she said she will continue to serve his “program” pleasur

  November 7, 2007

• Wednesday's Headlines. No Surprises: Disney wins

  More dirt on Debbie? Yesterday we noted that Debbie Carona was doing her darndest to wriggle her way out of a case that's mainly against her husband. Wait a second, missy. Today, Christine Hanley and Garrett Therolf at the Times report that the sheriff's wife urged Orange County Fair Board directors to support a swap meet operator who donated thousands to her husband's political campaigns despite a proposal from rival firm. Hanley and Therolf are having tons of fun poking around the Costa Mesa

  November 28, 2007

• Monday's Headlines. No Surprises.

  Need a Carona/Haidl primer? Paul Pringle and Christine Hanley provide one in today's Times. Or you could just skim the Moxley archives. Flying (and crashing) solo: An OC sheriff's deputy crashed his cruiser into a tree on an on-ramp to the I-405 in Seal Beach early this morning. The Register reports that the deputy was not responding to a call at the time of the accident, and no other cars were involved. A CHP investigation is underway. On OCWeekly.com: Weekly photog. Christopher Victorio board

  December 3, 2007

• Headlines & Suprises: Jailhouse Shocker!

  Last year, I sat in a booth at Original Mike's in Santa Ana and listened to Assistant Sheriff Jo Ann Galisky explain--quite logically, in her mind--that jail deputies in Orange County have never used excessive force because jail deputies always behave. Why? Because, Galisky assured me, deputies are the good guys, and folks in custody are bad guys. The expression on her face revealed a frustration that I didn't buy from her cookie-cutter position. After all, I'd seen gory pictures of what groups

  January 23, 2008

• The Tonys!

  July 3, 2003

• Can Joe The Juror Help Mike Carona in Corruption Trial?

  Brian Sun, the Los Angles-based lawyer representing indicted ex-Orange County sheriff Mike Carona, emerged from U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Guilford's Santa Ana courtroom this afternoon all smiles. Minutes before, Sun and federal prosecutor Ken Julian had selected a panel of 12 citizens to hear USA vs. Carona. "It's ironic . . . ," Sun began to say enthusiastically to gathered Jones Day lemmings. But he spied me nearby, holding a pen on notepad. He hushed his voice and continued his asses

  October 28, 2008

• Too Much Mike Carona on the Mind at LA Times

  Poor Los Angeles Times, Orange County Edition. Not only has it been operating with reduced numbers for years, not only did it suffer layoffs and buyouts this year, not only are its alumni preparing to destroy parts of it, not only is it commonly playing catchup to the also-suffering Orange County Register, but it apparently doesn't have enough copy editors on hand to catch easy mistakes--or, those copy editors are reading too many of Christine Hanley's dispatches from the Mike Carona corruption

  December 10, 2008

• It's a Quick Read 7

  Orange County Register: Danger on Mexican streets will force captains and crews in the annual Newport Beach to Ensenada yacht race to remain on their ships. But who'll get ripped off by the Hussong's mariachis? . . . I went to a Laguna Woods Village board meeting and a UFC Smackdown broke out. . . . Sounds like a certain granny needs to put down the water bottle and grab a certain medicinal herb. While you can draw sanctions for traveling 20 mph the wrong direction

  March 5, 2009

• [Moxley Confidential] OC Media Asked to Ignore Still-Emerging Dirt on Mike Carona's PSR Mess

  August 28, 2008

• Meet the New Sheriff . . .

  Taking a wait-and-see stance toward OC’s new top cop

  June 19, 2008

• She's The (Under) Sheriff

  Indicted by the Feds, Carona slides his most loyal soldier into temporary command at the Sheriff’s Department

  November 8, 2007

• Were All Rooting for You!

  August 15, 2002

• Commie Girl

  Sex on a school desk, the Governors health care plan and Susan Kang Schroeders actual age (38!)

  January 11, 2007

• The Reporter vs. the Republican Power Couple

  Will an upcoming LA Times profile unravel or bolster Mike Schroeders empire?

  December 14, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  Sept. 20 - Sept. 26

  September 28, 2006

• Department of Homeland Stupidity

  May 11, 2006

• Sex, Bribes and Jailhouse Scams

  Sheriff Carona working overtime to stop reports he's a serial adulterer

  October 13, 2005

• SEX!

  April 28, 2005

• Whiskey Night

  July 24, 2003

• Danas Follies

  February 27, 2003

• Flashes of Lunacy

  September 5, 2002

• Los Angeles Times in OC Loses Key Investigative Reporter

  I just learned that Christine Hanley, one of the last investigative journalists remaining at the already decimated Orange County bureau of the Los Angeles Times, has resigned.For several years, Hanley was the lone daily reporter who joined me in determined pursuit of Sheriff Mike Carona's corruption at the Orange County Sheriff's Department. She broke key Carona stories, got reluctant witnesses to talk, found smoking-gun documents and withstood the intimidation that comes with challenging a twis

  June 8, 2009

• Meet Orly Taitz, Queen Bee of People Obsessed With Barack Obama's Birth Certificate

  June 18, 2009

• [Moxley Confidential] Dana Rohrabacher Backs Tax Dollars for Ronald Reagan Birthday-Party Commission

  June 11, 2009