Subject: Ebrahim Baytieh

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises

  Build It & Hope They Come: The Register reports that Irvine has approved a 5-mile, $280 million street car/bus plan that will link the future Great Park to the Irvine Spectrum and a train station by 2012. City officials, untrustworthy in the past, claim that each day 5,000 people will abandon their cars to use the system. Larry Agran's political machine asserts that the daily cost for taxpayers will be $19,000. Any bets that number will significiantly rise when reality arrives? Gunfight at the

  July 11, 2007

• OC White Supremacist Killer Avoids Death Penalty

  Just before lunch today, the jury in the Michael Allan Lamb murder case announced itself "hopelessly deadlocked" on whether the Public Enemy Number One (PENI) Death Squad member deserved the death penalty. The vote was nearly tied after almost three days of deliberating. Six jurors wanted death; five wanted life in prison without the possibility of parole; and one person remained undecided. Lamb kept silent, but studied his fingernails after the decision. Throughout the three-month proceedin

  July 31, 2007

• DA Determined to Send White Supremacist Killer to Death Row

  Prosecutor Ebrahim Baytieh announced this morning he will try a second time to send convicted killer Michael Alan Lamb, 33, to San Quentin State Prison's notorious Death Row. An Orange County jury convicted the Public Enemy Number One (PENI) Death Squad hit man in July for the execution-style murder of a fellow gang member and the attempted murder of an undercover Anaheim police officer. After the penalty phase of the trial, the panel heard testimony about Lamb's vicious adult personality (fro

  August 21, 2007

• How Many Public Enemy Number One Death Squaders Can You Squeeze Onto Death Row?

  Billy Joe Johnson, Orange County's most infamous white supremacist and killer, inched closer this week to San Quentin State Prison's Death Row. Deputy District Attorney Ebrahim Baytieh charged Johnson (pictured) with the lying-in-wait 2002 murder of a fellow Public Enemy Number One (PENI) Death Squad member in Anaheim. In July, a jury convicted Michael Alan Lamb and Jacob Anthony Rump for the killing. But during the trial Johnson tried to save his friends from convictions by claiming he alone

  August 24, 2007

• PENI Gangster Won't See Freedom Again

  This afternoon Superior Court Judge William Froeberg sentenced convicted killer Jacob Rump, a 30-year-old Orange County gangster, to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a 2002 ambush murder in Anaheim. Details about the case involving Rump (pictured), who is a member of Public Enemy Number One (PENI) Death Squad, can be found here, here and here. Deputy District Attorney Ebrahim Baytieh also won a conviction against Rump's white supremacist cohort, 32-year-old Michael Allen La

  October 5, 2007

• Fourth Sheriff Carona Pal Convicted of Crimes

  Joseph G. Cavallo grew up poor in tough New Jersey neighborhoods, graduated from law school, made himself nationally famous as a California criminal-defense lawyer who earned millions of dollars. He owns an Orange County mansion, a small Caribbean island and a fleet of luxury cars Mike Tyson would envy. But today, Cavallo—recognized for his passionate defense of gang rapist Gregory Scott Haidl—hit bottom again. During a 10-minute court hearing with 13 members of the news media present (incl

  October 12, 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

• Lamb Chopped: White Supremacist Gets Death

  White supremacist gangster and killer Michael Lamb (pictured) trotted into a heavily guarded Orange County courtroom this afternoon, chuckled with his lawyers and watched quietly as a court clerk announced the jury's verdict: death. But the proceedings, which took less than two minutes, nearly left Senior Deputy District Attorney Ebrahim Baytieh 0-2 in his attempts to give Lamb, a career criminal and member of Public Enemy Number One's (PEN1) Death Squad, the ultimate punishment. A lone, sobbi

  June 11, 2008

• Death Official for PEN1 White Supremacist Killer

  Dana Point's Michael Lamb ditched his menacing shaved head look and entered Judge William Froeberg's 10th floor Santa Ana courtroom this morning with a full, messy head of hair that still couldn't cover the white supremacist tattoos doting his scalp, face, throat and neck. It wasn't like Lamb, a vicious Public Enemy Number One (PEN1) Death Squad killer/drug addict/petty thief/bully, cared what anyone present--including Froeberg or homicide prosecutor Ebrahim Baytieh--thought. Well, in fairness

  August 22, 2008

• More Details on Post-War Crime

  Various news agencies have identified the 25-year-old suspect in the beating death of his 19-year-old girlfriend and aspiring model as a distinguished U.S. Army Iraq war veteran who earned a Purple Heart, an Army Commendation Medal and a Combat Infantry Badge. Now, the retired infantryman sits in Orange County Men’s Jail. According to the District Attorney's office: John Wylie Needham, 25, San Clemente, is charged with one felony count of murder and faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to li

  September 2, 2008

• [Moxley Confidential] Billy Joe Johnson Tries to Save Pal From Death Row. Plus, Adieu, Buffalo Jim

  May 22, 2008

• OC Murderer Escapes Death Row--for Now

  Jury deadlocks on ‘ultimate’ punishment for Michael Lamb

  August 2, 2007

• The 'Good Seed'?

  Defense: Death penalty would be unfair to convicted murderer who loves baseball and his brothers

  July 19, 2007

• White Power With a Lisp

  In a sensational gang murder trial, Billy Joe Johnson talks about sex, drugs, guns, dirty cops and Jews but not his homeboys

  June 14, 2007

• White Meat, Please

  DA roasts Lamb and Rump, two seasoned white supremacists

  May 17, 2007

• Blind Spot

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

  March 29, 2007

• A Day in the Park With Hitler

  July 27, 2006

• Baby-faced Hoodlums

  August 3, 2006

• Lady Killer

  December 13, 2007

• Courthouse Shocker! Defense Admits DA Is Dead-Right About White Supremacist Client

  Who created Billy Joe Johnson?​There was something comical about defense attorney Michael Molfetta's opening performance today in the trial of legendary Costa Mesa serial killer/white supremacist Billy Joe Johnson. Molfetta, a former prosecutor with legendary oratory skills, represents Johnson--a vicious, lisping specimen for California crime annals. If convicted, the Public Enemy Number One Death Squad (PEN1) and former Nazi Low Rider (NLR) killer faces a one-way trip to San Quentin State Pri

  October 7, 2009

• White Supremacist OC Nazi Gets His Wish!

  Will Billy Joe's Suck Up to Prison Gang Work?​In what may have been acclaimed homicide prosecutor Ebrahim Baytieh's easiest conviction, a jury this afternoon found Billy Joe Johnson--the notorious, wide-eyed and lisping Costa Mesa white supremacist--guilty in the 2002 conspiracy to execute a fellow pro-Hitler gangster who committed an apparently unforgivable sin: talking to Fox News.Today's relatively rapid decision likely was not a surprise to Johnson, who previously took sole credit for kill

  October 14, 2009

• Will An OC Jury Send A Costa Mesa Serial Killer to Death Row?

  Costa Mesa serial killer say he has no remorse​Lisping serial killer Billy Joe Johnson (pictured) walked into Orange County Superior Court today in a seemingly relaxed mood despite the shackles, handcuffs and extra security. An animated, wide-eyed smile appeared on Johnson's prison pale face when he saw his defense lawyer, Michael Molfetta. In court, the 46-year-old white supremacist gang member, Nazi lover and career criminal from Costa Mesa often looks like the guest of honor at a backyard b

  October 28, 2009

• OC Serial Killer Gets His New Home Wish: Death Row

  Billy Joe Johnson says drugs blocked his dreams​On the day he didn't bother to spike his Mohawk (with jailhouse soap) or tuck in his white button down shirt, Costa Mesa serial killer Billy Joe Johnson received the death penalty recommendation from a somber jury of eight men and four women. Johnson accepted the outcome of the hearing, which took less than six minutes, with the same aplomb he's exhibited during the month-long proceedings. The white supremacist gang member of Public Enemy Number

  October 29, 2009

• [Moxley Confidential] Killer Billy Joe Johnson Makes His Case for Death Row

  October 29, 2009