Subject: Joe Cavallo

• Complete Haidl 3 Verdict Coverage

  Below is R. Scott Moxley's reporting on the verdict in the Haidl 3 rape case, as it appeared on The Blotter, with the most recent posts on top. For complete coverage of all aspects of the case, see the Weekly's Haidl Gang Rape Archive. March 19, 2006 LA Times v the Weekly on Haidl Rape Plea Filed under: Main — R. Scott Moxley @ 11:47 am If there ever was any doubt that LA Times columnist Dana Parsons is the laziest, most misinformed journalist in the Haidl

  March 12, 2006

• Haidl: The Art of Defending a Gang Rapist

  Last week, Orange County Register columnist Frank Mickadeit publicized Marge Miller's attack on my work in the Haidl gang-rape case. Miller, who lives in Minneapolis and claims she is Greg Haidl's great-aunt, knows exactly who to blame for the July 2002 rape: the victim, Jane Doe, who was 16 and unconscious when Haidl, Keith Spann and Kyle Nachreiner videotaped themselves sexually assaulting her, vaginally and rectally, with, among other things, a Snapple bottle, lit cigarette, apple juice can

  March 17, 2006

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Dana caught a wave!

  Where Do Broken Hearts Go? Orange County, it seems. This week singer Robert Barisford Brown—better known as Bobby Brown--filed suit against his wife, Whitney Houston, in OC Superior Court. His grievance? She won’t let him see his 14-year-old daughter. Why file in OC? Brown, 38, claims Houston, 44, moved here for her latest attempt at drug rehabilitation and is living large at his expense in some “posh” hotel. (Montage?!?!) Not sure how far the case will go. A judge has already given Hou

  August 30, 2007

• It's Saturday Night: Do You Know Who Our Sheriff Is Hugging?

  Flashback: Frederick J. Rizzolo, a Vegas titty bar owner, poses with Michael S. Carona, our self-proclaimed "Christian" sheriff, before Rizzolo was sent to federal prison this summer. Carona first told reporters he didn't know Rizzolo, who--according to the FBI--has connections to legendary mobsters in Chicago. Then this photograph appeared on our pages and the sheriff's story switched. Rizzolo, he said, is an honest businessman. FBI didn't agree. As a high-ranking law enforcement officer sai

  September 15, 2007

• Diocesan Lawyers All of a Sudden Uppity

  For decades, the Catholic Diocese of Orange has dealt with survivors of its pedo-priests in secrecy--sealed settlements, claimed ignorance, and always, always, away from a jury. In none of the civil settlements that the Orange diocese signed off on were there any admission of guilt by the priest or diocesan lay employee charged with molestation. That's what makes the current strategy by longtime diocesan lawyer Peter Callahan so bizarre. Callahan has represented the Orange diocese on almost all

  October 3, 2007

• Mike Carona Corruption Trial Quote of the Day!

  "He would be the fucking sheriff of Orange County. They'd be, uh, he'd be riding fat. All he had to do was be a white guy about it." --Then-Sheriff Mike Carona speaking to a confidante without knowing he's being recorded during an August 2007 meeting and bitching that George Jaramillo, his onetime best friend and second in command of the Orange County Sheriff's Department, could have taken over the agency if he'd obeyed Carona's wishes. All of Carona's inner circle--Jaramillo, Don Haidl and Joe

  November 14, 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

• The Accidental Humor of Mike Carona Corruption Lawyer Brian A. Sun

   Thursday's Mike Carona corruption trial pitted government witness Joe Cavallo, a lawyer who became infamous for his energetic defense of three gang rapists, and Brian A. Sun, a Jones Day lawyer representing indicted ex-Sheriff Mike Carona, a long-time Cavallo pal. How effective was Sun, who has a national reputation after defending accused communist Chinese spy Wen Ho Lee? He scored some points for Carona and others for federal prosecutors, but consider these two exchanges:Repeating a stateme

  December 4, 2008

• [Moxley Confidential] Top 16 Witnesses for the Prosecution In the Mike Carona Corruption Trial

  December 11, 2008

• [Moxley Confidential] Indicted Ex-OC Sheriff Banking on Jury Finding Him an Angel Among Thieves

  November 6, 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

• Justice Takes a Pool Cue

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

  July 1, 2004

• Haidl Your Daughters

  May 6, 2004

• Department of Homeland Stupidity

  May 11, 2006

• 'Dirty, Stupid or Both'

  April 27, 2006

• 'People Would Go Crazy'

  March 9, 2006

• Sex, Bribes and Jailhouse Scams

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

  October 13, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  October 13, 2005

• Blood on the Water

  April 28, 2005

• TOC

  March 24, 2005

• The Envelopes, Please

  February 3, 2005

• Your Letters About Haidl, 2004

  December 30, 2004

• That Boy!

  November 11, 2004

• How to Ruin a Woman

  November 11, 2004

• Justice Takes a Pool Cue

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

  July 8, 2004

• Unreasonable Doubts?

  July 1, 2004

• Bottoms Up!

  June 24, 2004

• Hung Jury?

  June 24, 2004

• Two Plus Two Is Five

  June 17, 2004

• Letters

  June 17, 2004

• Bottoms Up!

  June 17, 2004

• Two Plus Two Is Five

  June 10, 2004

• Assclown

  June 3, 2004

• Feeling Slutty? Let Us Dress You Up as OC's Scariest People!

  October 29, 2009