Subject: Dave Lopez

• This is Dave Lopez Reporting

  Surely it pales in comparison to being named by the Weekly as Orange County's best television reporter , but KCBS veteran Dave Lopez, who has in particular raked from the same muck patch as our own R. Scott Moxley when it comes to covering the oh-so-corrupt OC Sheriff's Department, will be presented a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Press Club in June.

  May 16, 2006

• Hispanic Bar Association Hijinks!

  With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations from yesterday's Orange County Hispanic Bar Association annual fundraising dinner: *Greeting the well-dressed, well-coiffed crowd as they drove toward the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel were about eight anti-Mexican whackjobs--and we don't add the "anti-illegal immigrant" qualifier like other journalists because they told more than one cute attorney of Mexican descent to "go home." Spotted was

  March 2, 2008

• Lon Uso is a Luser

  We met San Juan Capistrano councilmember Lon Uso a couple of months ago at the Friday morning coffee klatches organized by Capistrano Dispatch editor Jonathan Volzke and thought him a swell guy for daring to speak good about Mexicans in a room full of elderly, crotchety gabachos who didn't believe Mexicans assimilate. But as my mentors at the Weekly always teach me, never like a politician too much, 'cause they'll always do something to prove themselves a fool. That's exactly what Uso did today

  June 20, 2008

• Sheriff Sandra Hutchens' Green Dream Team

  The last time Orange County's sheriff announced the department's new management team, Bill Clinton was president, gasoline cost less than a buck fifty, people could afford their mortgages, and you didn't have to remove your shoes to enter buildings or airport terminals. Everything was better then--except at the OCSD. Mike Carona, our cry-on-cue glorified bailiff turned womanizer/pompous ass/N-word-tossing/federal indictee in a gold-star-studded uniform, had surrounded himself with future convict

  July 23, 2008

• Spoiled Little Debbies? In the Mike Carona Case, Anything is Possible

  Give Mike Carona, our convicted-felon ex-sheriff, credit for one thing: He has supernatural powers that philandering men around the world must admire. He's repeatedly cheated on his wife, his mistress, another mistress, another mistress, another mistress--well, you get the picture. And yet his two top women, longtime wife Debbie and mistress Debbie, get along famously in public. They've even hugged!Who needs Dr. Phil?Today, of course, the Debbies were summoned one last time to the Ronald Reagan

  January 29, 2009

• No Juvie for Haidl 3

  October 20, 2005

• Sheriff Con

  Carona lied about his complicity in pot-bust scandal

  February 24, 2005

• Shocking Development

  December 9, 2004

• Etheridgicity!

  April 1, 2004

• The Tank Workers

  As scandal engulfs the Sheriffs Department, Carona fires his high-profile assistant

  March 25, 2004

• Mr. Big Mouth

  March 11, 2004

• Bye, George?

  February 19, 2004

• 'Our Little Secret'

  December 4, 2003

• Reefer Badness

  November 20, 2003

• Why is the City of Orange Taking a Little Old Lady to Criminal Court?

  Look like a criminal to you? **Update: Aranda reluctantly pleads guilty, gets probation. Click here for the story.**Does the city of Orange not have better things to do than to take little old ladies to criminal court? Genoveva Aranda, a small, fragile grandmother who lives in historic Orange, is going to criminal court today with her public defender to begin the proceedings for her criminal jury trial. Several months ago, the city of Orange promised it would not seek jail time for Aranda, but i

  May 12, 2009

• OC Assemblyman In Bed With Lobbyist . . . No, Literally In Bed

  Duvall ran from reporters today in the capitol​SACRAMENTO--Freshmen legislators arriving in Sacramento receive advice from veteran
 politicians about the intricacies of working in California's capital. One of those tips is to remember that microphones broadcasting legislative debates can also capture embarrassing, career-ending personal admissions if a politician isn't careful. Michael D. Duvall, Orange County's 72nd Assembly
District representative, must have forgotten the warning.In Ju

  September 8, 2009

• UPDATED: Mike Duvall Resigns From State Assembly

  Assemblyman Mike Duvall apparently heeded a powerful call for his resignation.​Several media outlets are reporting that Assemblyman Michael D. Duvall (R-Yorba Linda) has resigned amid the scandal uncovered last night by OC Weekly and KCBS/KCAL about his inadvertent admissions of adultery with a utility lobbyist.Duvall--vice chairman of the powerful Committee on Utilities & Commerce--trotted onto the state Assembly floor this morning with his game face on. It was the look of a man trying to

  September 9, 2009

• [Moxley Confidential] Assemblyman Michael Duvall Resigns In Wake of Sex and Ethics Scandal

  September 10, 2009

• Neighbor Recalls Seeing Blonde at Duvall's Sacramento Home, Says She's Woman in Photo of Lobbyist: TV News Report

  California Secretary of State's OfficeHeidi De Jong Barsuglia​A neighbor who lives two doors down from the Sacramento-area home owned by disgraced, now ex-Assemblyman Mike Duvall says on a local television station's website today that he saw a younger, blonde woman there at least six times and, when asked if she's the woman in a photograph of energy lobbyist Heidi De Jong Barsuglia, answered, "I would say, pretty much."Duvall resigned from the Assembly last week after the Weekly's R. Scott Mo

  September 14, 2009

• Mike Duvall Avoids One Probe But Possibly Not a Far More Serious One

  Mike Duvall before . . . you know.​"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."Al Pacino famously said that in Godfather III, but former Assemblyman Mike Duvall (R-Yorba Linda) could just as easily be muttering that to himself now.That's because the Orange County Register's Total Buzz politics blog reports that Legislative Counsel, the attorneys for the State Legislature, issued an opinion today saying that the Assembly Ethics Committee doesn't have jurisdiction to investigate Duvall

  October 2, 2009

• Another Day, Another Dropped Mike Duvall Investigation

  "Open Mike" Duvall​A day after the Assembly Ethics Committee and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass announced they will not go after disgraced former Assemblyman Mike Duvall, California Attorney General Jerry Brown revealed today he doesn't plan to investigate the Yorba Linda Republican either.In other Duvall news, five candidates have reportedly qualified to run in a November special election for the Assembly seat he vacated.

  October 6, 2009

• KCBS: Another Woman Caught in "Compromising Position" with Disgraced OC Pol

  Mike Duvall spread more than the word of God​Until recently, Irvine-based Republican fundraiser Desiree Mouzoon prominently listed a testimonial on her business website from Mike Duvall. Why not? Until recently, Duvall had been an Orange County state assemblyman who served as vice chairman of a powerful legislative utilities committee and worked in the California GOP's leadership. But in September a joint KCBS/OC Weekly probe uncovered that Duvall--a married, self-described Christian conserva

  October 21, 2009

• Diane Harkey Stink Smeared on Linda Ackerman, Who Seeks "Dripper" Duvall's Vacated Assembly Seat

  Harkey's ethical challenges produced recall calls. Assemblywoman Diane Harkey (R-Dana Point) has endorsed Linda Ackerman to fill the vacancy left by ex-Assemblyman Mike Duvall, who resigned in disgrace quickly after the Weekly's R. Scott Moxley and KCAL/KCBS reporter Dave Lopez exposed the Yorba Linda Republican morality cop and married father of two bragging about banging female lobbyists.Not only did at least one lobbyist have business before Duvall's panels, he sat on the Assembly

  October 21, 2009

• OC Political Fundraiser Tied To Mike Duvall Hires Lawyers To Threaten News Outlets

  Probolsky: Let's blame OC Weekly!​Desiree Mouzoon, the Orange County Republican fundraiser salaciously tied to disgraced ex-state assemblyman Mike Duvall in a Wednesday KCBS-KCAL report, has finally spoken. Well, not exactly. Mouzoon apparently has hired Jones Day--the law firm that unsuccessfully defended dirty ex-Sheriff Mike Carona for his crimes in office--to threaten local news outlets which mention the report that the woman had been caught in a "compromising position" with Duvall.In a le

  October 22, 2009