Subject: Don Haidl

• Thursday's Headlines. No Surprises: Little Saigon - NYC Style?

  "Cruel" to the Caronas: Yesterday, federal prosecutors produced a list of two dozen friends and associates they believe the Caronas should stay away from - including former Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl, Mrs. Carona's best friend, two friends from Florida and their tax accountant. Not an odd request since our dear sheriff is being accused of witness tampering, but the couple's lawyers called it "unnecessary and almost cruel." Little Saigon - NYC style? After studying Little Saigon in October, exp

  November 15, 2007

• Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: Are There Snapple Bottles in Jail?

  Sheriff's Lawyer Pal Going to the Slammer: Somehow defense attorney Joe Cavallo—indicted Sheriff Michael S. Carona’s longtime drinking buddy—was able to operate a bail bonds scheme inside Carona’s jail. Hmmm. Wonder how that happened. Any ideas Mikey? Anyhow, yesterday Cavallo (pictured) became the latest in a series of Carona associates to win incarceration. Superior Court Judge Carla M. Singer ordered him to serve six months in jail, which—given his creativity—could prove profitab

  December 15, 2007

• Wake Up And Suck The Orange 1.28.08

  One one hand, yes it's a bit same-y. On the OTHER hand - how often does the former sheriff of (let's be honest) one of the most important counties in America get in so much hot fudge and creamery butter FBI-style? Not often, sir. And/or madam. Not often at all. HOW TO REPRESENT CARONA: LA Times - A good look at how former Sheriff Michael Carona, while earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for not working, somehow managed to retain a firm pro bono - "Though not unheard of, the case --

  January 28, 2008

• FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. ROHRABACHER

  December 25, 2003

• Carona Corruption Trial Quote Of The Day

  "He had no problem being corrupt. He just didn't want to be stupid about it." --Former Orange County Sheriff's Department Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl testifying this afternoon in Santa Ana about FBI indicted ex-Sheriff Mike Carona's private views on taking bribes, lying to the public and illegally financing campaigns. (R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly)

  November 5, 2008

• Why Would The Sheriff of OC Be "Scared Shitless"?

  "Yeah, me too." --Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona said in July 2007 to his onetime Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl who'd just described himself as "scared shitless" that another alleged co-conspirator, Debra V. Hoffman--Carona's chief mistress, had talked at length to FBI agents in Newport Beach. Carona, who is on trial on public corruption and bribery charges, was unaware that his words were being recorded. (R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly)

  November 6, 2008

• But Mike Carona Cried on Robert Schuller's Hour of Power. . .

  “Cocksucker . . . He can suck my dick . . . Bob McDonell’s a lying cocksucker. Uh, most of what he’s done is illegal and my guess is that at some point in time, um, he’ll either get the shit sued out of him or he’s gonna get indicted on something, so you can tell him I said that.” --In July 2007, before his FBI indictment on corruption charges, then-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, a self-described "Christian conservative," blasting the Newport Beach police chief for refusing to

  November 12, 2008

• Mike Carona Says Millionaire Giving Bribes Bought Nothing

  "Uniforms, jackets, badges, guns, cuffs, belt, ammo, car--a black Crown Victoria with lights and siren . . . [and] three stars on my collar which means I'm second command to the sheriff." --Ex-Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl testifying today about some of the things Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona gave him for illegally funding his rise to sheriff in 1998. Carona, who resigned in January after his arrest, is on trial in a federal corruption case. (R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly)

  November 12, 2008

• Look! Up in the Sky! It's Bad News for Mike Carona?

  "He looks up in the sky and says, 'From here on out we've got to be real careful and be concerned about [FBI] surveillance.'" --Ex-Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl testifying today about Mike Carona's 2002 private reaction to speculation in the Orange County Sheriff's Department that federal agents had begun a corruption investigation into their activities. Carona now says he's innocent of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from Haidl. (R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly)

  November 12, 2008

• Mike Carona CAT Scan Finds No Integrity Cells?

  "Mike Carona would get the Orange County deputies and other Orange County employees on board and work all the other agencies." --Ex-Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl testifying today about the role Carona, the indicted ex-sheriff, wanted to play in an unsuccessful scheme to get government employees in California to use a health care benefit through a company that would secretly kickback fees to the sheriff. (R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly)

  November 12, 2008

• Mike Carona Corruption Trial Exchange of the Day!

  Jeff Rawitz: Why did you say Joe Cavallo is a women hater [during an FBI secretly recorded conversation]? Don Haidl: Joe Cavallo has been in my presence when he's been short and rude to women . . . I don't know if he hates all women in the world. Rawitz: [Nods] Haidl: He's been rude to men too. Rawitz, smiling: So we can say he's just rude? Haidl: Yes sir. --Rawitz, defense counsel for indicted ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, today questioning ex-Assistant Sheriff Haidl, who hired feis

  November 20, 2008

• Carona Guilty of Witness Tampering

   "America's Sheriff" is a convicted felon.Ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona was found not guilty of multiple conspiracy counts and one witness tampering count in Santa Ana federal court today, but he was still found guilty of another witness tampering count. According to federal prosecutors, 53-year-old Carona faces a sentence of zero to 10 years in prison on that count after a yet-to-be scheduled sentencing hearing.First elected sheriff in 1998, Carona is the highest ranking law enforce

  January 16, 2009

• [Moxley Confidential] Dr. George Kooshian to Plead Guilty to Charging Big Bucks for Bogus Injections

  February 5, 2009

• [Moxley Confidential] Mike Carona's Defense Team Accidentally Produce a Rogue-Cop Hero: Don Haidl

  November 27, 2008

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

  August 28, 2008

• [Moxley Confidential] Why Did Wayne Gross Recuse Himself From the Mike Carona Investigation?

  February 21, 2008

• A Tale of Two Tapes

  2007: A year to remember

  December 27, 2007

• Teen Sex, Cash and Videotape

  January 8, 2004

• Haidl Claims Judge Screwed Him

  July 14, 2005

• Justice Takes a Pool Cue

  Assistant sheriff, OC dailies miss the irony as Haidl 3 elude conviction

  July 1, 2004

• Blind Spot

  For OC jail inmate John Chamberlain, jailhouse justice served as judge, juryand executioner

  March 29, 2007

• Department of Homeland Stupidity

  May 11, 2006

• Slammer Time

  October 27, 2005

• Haidl Claims Judge Screwed Him

  July 21, 2005

• One Good Bribery Charge Deserves Another

  July 21, 2005

• Jaramillo Confident as Bribery Charges Loom

  Ex-assistant sheriff says DA out to "destroy" him

  July 14, 2005

• Internal Affairs

  May 26, 2005

• Sheriff Con

  Carona lied about his complicity in pot-bust scandal

  February 24, 2005

• Orange County - The Quiz

  November 25, 2004

• Jaramillo Busted

  September 30, 2004

• Justice Takes a Pool Cue

  UPDATED: Assistant sheriff, OC dailies miss the irony as Haidl Three elude conviction

  July 8, 2004

• Cavallo wants to know

  May 27, 2004

• Cavallo wants to know

  May 20, 2004

• Faultless

  April 29, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  Diary of a Mad County

  April 8, 2004

• The Tank Workers

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

  March 25, 2004

• Raped Again?

  March 25, 2004

• Bye, George?

  February 19, 2004

• Dudes, It Cant Be My Dope!

  January 22, 2004

• 'Our Little Secret'

  December 4, 2003

• Reefer Badness

  November 20, 2003

• Letters

  November 20, 2003

• The Thin Boo Line!

  Orange Countys 31 scariest cops!

  November 6, 2003

• [Moxley Confidential] Mike Carona Maintained His Smug Mug During Sentencing

  April 30, 2009