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Less Than a Year Since She Was Appointed Sheriff, Sandra Hutchens Has Made Some Powerful Enemies
March 26, 2009Can 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, 2008Carona Corruption Trial Quote Of The Day
"A 'hubcap deal' was in regards to [then Sheriff Mike Carona's appointed assistant sheriff and best friend] George Jaramillo. A standing joke going way, way back [to 1998] while I was trying to control Jaramillo and Carona. George could be told that he would get a new car tomorrow and he'd steal it's hubcaps today. Meaning he was a short-term thinker." --Former Orange County Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl testifying today in the federal trial of indicted ex-Sheriff Mike Carona, who the FBI says st
November 6, 2008Doozy Of The Day At The Sheriff Mike Carona Corruption Trial
"[Public access to audio of Sheriff Mike Carona's incriminating statement's that led to his arrest on bribery charges] could taint the jury." --Brian A. Sun, one of the numerous Jones Day law firm bodies who represent indicted ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona (allegedly) for free, arguing today that the FBI audio surveillance evidence admitted in the trial should be withheld from the public. One big problem. How could public knowledge of evidence the jury has already heard taint the panel's
November 6, 2008If You're Going To Be A Crook, It's Nice To Be Polite, No?
"He thanked me very much." --Newport Beach businessman Don Haidl in testimony today about indicted Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona's reaction to 48 secret monthly $1,000 cash bribes that won the untrained Haidl full California police powers as assistant sheriff of the nation's fifth largest sheriff's agency. (R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly)
November 6, 2008Mike Carona Corruption Trial Quote of the Day!
"Loyalty, people who'd promote Mike Carona." --Former Orange County Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl testifying today in the federal bribery trial of ex-Sheriff Mike Carona and explaining that the "primary" qualification to be named a reserve deputy had nothing to do with law enforcement skills, ethics or training. (R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly)
November 7, 2008Mike 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, 2008Look! 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, 2008The Billboard on Mike Carona's Sizable Forehead
"In plain terms, you have to do a little dance with politicians to get them to do what you want later. These two guys came in with 'For Sale' signs on them." --Don Haidl, a used car business owner and eventual assistant sheriff who admits to a long history of trying to buy influence from politicians, testifying today in Mike Carona's federal corruption trial and outlining his first impressions of meeting Orange County sheriff's candidate Carona and his "sidekick," George Jaramillo, in March 199
November 12, 2008Mike 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, 2008Drunk Driving Pass Given By Sheriff Mike Carona?
"Nobody's going to pop an assistant sheriff for a deuce. In other words, I wouldn't be arrested for drunk driving." --Don Haidl, a businessman who'd been named assistant sheriff by Mike Carona after he'd illegally funded Carona's first campaign for Orange County sheriff, testifying today about what Carona promised him as a perk for his support. (R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly)
November 12, 2008Sheriff Mike Carona Loved Don Haidl
"I'm tired of being scared. I'm tired of, you know, you know, like, like this. I'm tired of, you know, being embarrassed to hang out with my friends. You know, fuck it. I love you man and you, like, you know, if it weren't for you I wouldn't be the Sheriff of Orange County." --Knowing of federal prosecutor Brett Sagel's investigation of his activities, Sheriff Mike Carona--a man President George W. Bush appointed to a powerful national security position--talking in a secretly recorded July 15,
November 12, 2008Carona Ordered "Back Door" Treatment for Gang Rapist's Father
"They took me in the back door. They were good guys." --Millionaire Don Haidl explaining today in Sheriff Mike Carona's federal corruption trial that Carona had ordered the Dignitary Protection Unit of the Orange County Sheriff's Department to give him special, taxpayer-funded courthouse escorts during the early stages of the gang rape case against his son. Gregory Haidl and two other young men were eventually convicted of raping an unconscious 16-year-old girl during a Newport Beach high schoo
November 12, 2008Is OC GOP Shill Jon Fleischman Goofy, a Moron and a Shakedown Artist too?
Don Haidl: Is somebody paying that goofy bastard [Jon Fleischman]? Mike Carona: Big bucks. Big bucks. You and I had a difference of opinion on him. I just think he was a moron on his best day, but . . . Well, apparently . . . (Laughs) They're willing to pay morons a lot of money because I was probably paying him when he left $90,000 a year. He made four times what I was paying him in a year, he made it in six months. And, uh, it's all through that silly ass Flash Report. He was doing consulting
November 14, 2008Want to Know How the Mike Carona Corruption Trial is Going?
While Jeffrey Rawitz—a high-powered Jones Day defense lawyer for indicted ex-Sheriff Mike Carona—spent the day repeatedly asking already (repeatedly) asked and answered questions of Don Haidl, the government's resilient key witness, a back-row juror I've nicknamed "Sam Drucker" (a character on the 1960s TV show Petticoat Junction) fell asleep. For nearly 15 minutes, Drucker's eyes shut tight, his mouth hung opened wide, and his head leaned and bobbed toward his right shoulder. I'd considered
November 19, 2008Mike Carona Corruption Trial Question of the Day!
In March 2004, what caused then-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona to finally reveal his secret, three-year-old personal financial interest in a company tied to one of his wealthy Newport Beach contributors? Answer: Days before Carona had fired Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo, who knew the secret about the sheriff's Entrade, Inc. holdings. Carona feared that Jaramillo might share the information with the FBI. He did. The revelation came during federal prosecutor Ken J
November 25, 2008Mike Carona Corruption Trial Quote of the Day!
"Your honor, he should stop right there." --Brian A. Sun, a Jones Day defense lawyer for indicted ex-Sheriff Mike Carona, barked in today's federal court trial after Assistant United States Attorney Brett Sagel called Sun's boneheaded bluff about an alleged sexual relationship between ex-Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo and his sister-in-law Erica Hill. Despite a judge's prohibition, Sun was attempting to smear Jaramillo's morals, but apparently forgot that his own client, Carona--the self-de
December 3, 2008The 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, 2008Quote of the Day in the Mike Carona Corruption Trial
"I'm sure it's memorable." --Sassy defense lawyer Jeffrey Rawitz on a Newport Beach cop's recollections today about Orange County Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo wearing a "Hawaiian shirt" over his uniform while trying to block a 2002 police investigation into the videotaped gang rape of an unconscious minor during a high school party at the home of Don Haidl, another of Mike Carona's assistant sheriff's. Carona, who is close to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, is on trial for a s
December 5, 2008Sheriff Mike Carona Corruption Trial Quote of the Day! Part One
"When are you going to write a positive story about Mike Carona?" --Brian A. Sun, Jones Day defense lawyer for the indicted ex-Orange County sheriff, to me in the hallway at the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana, California this morning prior to my response: "When I wouldn't have to lie." Thanks to an FBI and IRS investigation, Carona--OC's sheriff from 1999 to January 2008--is on trial for abusing his public office by accepting bribes and attempting to get a witness to lie
December 9, 2008Sheriff Mike Carona Corruption Trial Quote of the Day! Part Two
"The cover story was that he wasn't there to obtain a blowjob. It was to sign [legal] documents." --Prosecution witness and current Orange County Sheriff's Department employee Sandy Murphy testifying today how Mike Carona and his mistress Debra Hoffman helped devise a lie to mask the assertion that Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo had been found getting a blowjob in a county vehicle. Later, Carona and Hoffman--who are co-defendants with Carona's wife in a public corruption case--soured on
December 9, 2008Quotes of the Day in the Mike Carona Corruption Trial
"The reason Mike Carona says he sleeps real well at night up to then is because he's lied and he's cheated and he's gotten away with it. No consequences."--Federal prosecutor Ken Julian in closing argument today remarking on a secret 2007 FBI recording that captured then-Sheriff Carona gloating because he believed his chief co-conspirator, businessman Don Haidl, would keep mum about crimes they'd committed to take control of the Orange County Sheriff's Department in 1999. Haidl recorded the con
January 6, 2009Saint Mike Carona?
"He worked hard for you. He was a tireless worker. He worked all the time. He did great things. He helped at-risk kids and he did so much for the vulnerable people in our community." --Exasperated, red-faced lawyer Jeffrey Rawitz (pictured) wrapping up an eight hour closing argument today in his defense of Mike Carona, who faces a series of public corruption charges including bribery and witness tampering after an extensive IRS and FBI investigation into the indicted ex-Orange County sheri
January 7, 2009Mike Carona is Hoping There's a Moron on his Jury
For more than a year, Mike Carona's legal defense team and its sycophants aimed a portion of their wrath at Brett Sagel, the assistant United States attorney and driving force behind the prosecution of the indicted, ex-Orange County sheriff. They've impugned his motives, belittled his experience and mocked his skills. When he examined witnesses, they'd groan or snort. They even fired off personal shots you'd hear in a high school locker room. But here's the irony of today's long
January 8, 2009Mike Carona, the Unrepentant Dirty Ex-Sheriff and Now Elated Convicted Felon!
Should a convicted felon's public refusal to accept responsibility for criminal conduct be a major factor in what punishment a judge ultimately issues? Mike Carona (pictured, momentarily pausing between gloating sessions with the media) should hope not. Why? Today, after a jury found him not guilty on five counts but guilty of coaching a potential federal grand jury witness how to lie under oath, the ex-Orange County sheriff acted as if he'd won a Super Lotto jackpot or a Hank As
January 16, 2009Reporter's Radio Roundtable on Mike Carona Trial Today
Along with Orange County Register columnist Frank Mickadeit, I'm appearing today on The OC Show With Cameron Jackson for an hour-long discussion about ex-sheriff Mike Carona, his disgraceful conduct in office, the just-completed trial, crazy jurors and the lapdog local media.You can hear the 5 p.m. broadcast at KUCI-FM 88.9 if you're within about 8 miles of Irvine, or, if not, the station has a "listen now" button on its website at www.kuci.org.The show also can be found here.Neither Frank nor C
January 23, 2009This Week in the OC Weekly
In "Cry-Baby" R. Scott Moxley relays how ex-Sheriff Mike Carona used all the weapons in his arsenal to trick the jury in his federal trial, and still lost.And Spencer Kornhaber takes a look at the problems of the Capistrano Unified School Board in "Political Animals." Have they been solved after the recall/reform movement won? Plus... The Weekly's standing columns, ¡Ask a Mexican!, Hey, You! and Savage Love.Restaurant reviews of Andrea in Pelican Hill and BC Broiler in Costa Mesa.Cul
January 26, 2009OC Register Scoop Paints Ex-Newport Beach Cop Boss As Neanderthal
You know it's painful for me to admit when ex-Sheriff Mike Carona was probably right, but here's one of those moments. While sheriff (and a year before his conviction for attempting to sabotage a federal grand jury investigating police corruption in Orange County), Carona privately described then-Newport Beach Police Bob McDonell (pictured) as a "motherfucker."I'd resisted that opinion for years, in part, because of the outstanding police work I'd seen by members of the Newport Beach PD staff in
March 7, 2009Feds: Mike Carona Qualifies for Lengthy Taxpayer-Funded Trip After Miracle!
A federal sentencing official has recommended that ex-Sheriff Mike Carona win an all-expenses-paid 78-month trip to the slammer for his unrepentant corruption while in control of California's second largest police agency.This should come as a surprise to Carona, his defense lawyers and other folks who are still pretending that our former top cop was, to use his own description, found innocent of abusing his powerful office. In January, a cheerfully weepy Carona stood outside the Ronald
March 24, 2009Carona's Attempt to Nullify Jury's Guilty Verdict Denied
Not a good day for CaronaU.S. District Court Judge Andrew J. Guilford today firmly rejected legal efforts by Mike Carona to overturn a jury's guilty verdict, noting that there was "ample evidence" that the ex-Orange County sheriff attempted to sabotage a federal grand jury investigating bribery and corruption at the top of the Orange County Sheriff's Department."Sufficient evidence exists to support a conviction if the district court concludes that a rational trier of fact 'could have found the
March 31, 2009Ex-Sheriff Mike Carona Used All the Weapons In His Arsenal to Trick a Jury. He Still Lost
January 22, 2009[Moxley Confidential] The New Math On How Many Mike Carona Campaign Contributors Got Badges
December 18, 2008[Moxley Confidential] Top 16 Witnesses for the Prosecution In the Mike Carona Corruption Trial
December 11, 2008[Moxley Confidential] Mike Carona's Defense Team Accidentally Produce a Rogue-Cop Hero: Don Haidl
November 27, 2008[Moxley Confidential] The Crooked Sheriff Chuckled: Plot to Thwart Feds' Bribery Probe Amused Carona
November 13, 2008[Moxley Confidential] Indicted Ex-OC Sheriff Banking on Jury Finding Him an Angel Among Thieves
November 6, 2008[Moxley Confidential] Mike Carona Maintained His Smug Mug During Sentencing
April 30, 2009It Could Be 5 to 6 Years in Prison, $125,000 Fine for Carona
UPDATED...R. Scott Moxley, reporting from the Santa Ana courthouse during an afternoon break, says the judge and lawyers for the defense and prosecution in Mike Carona's sentencing hearing on a felony corruption count, are talking about 63 to 78 months behind bars and a $125,000 fine for the man once dubbed "America's Sheriff."Prosecutors Brett Sagel and Ken Julian had sought 108 months or nine years in prison for attempting to sabotage a grand jury investigation into abuse of power and bribery
April 27, 2009Maybe This Will Wipe Smug Look Off Carona's Face: 5.5 Years, $125,000 Fine, The Shame of an Entire County
CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED . . . "Inexperienced" criminal defense attorney Rawitz (left) and Carona in January.Once dubbed "America's Sheriff," Mike Carona was sentenced this afternoon to 66 months--or 5 1/2 years--behind bars, two years probation after he serves the prison time and a $125,000 fine for attempting to sabotage a grand jury investigation into abuse of power and bribery at the Orange County Sheriff's Department.U.S. District Court Judge Andrew J. Guilford said during his sentencing that h
April 27, 2009Mike Carona Prison Rape Joke Quiz Time!
Which Orange County gadfly personality said the following to reporters about disgraced, felonious, wife-cheating ex-sheriff Mike Carona shortly before His Smugness walked out of the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse?"The boys in prison will give him a smile"First person to guess wins a copy of the historic OC Weekly issue with the above great illustration of Carona at the movies with his two Debbies! No one who was there when the priceless quote was uttered is eligible.
April 27, 200930 Actual Excuses To Shield Ex-Sheriff Mike Carona From Punishment
Sheriff Hugs Mafia Associate in Newport Beach BarYesterday, federal judge Andrew Guilford said he was disgusted by Mike Carona's willingness as Orange County sheriff to sabotage a grand jury's corruption investigation by convincing a potential key witness to lie about bribery and secret gifts. Guilford handed Carona a prison sentence of 5.5 years and ordered him to pay a $125,000 fine. But before that happened Carona's Alice in Wonderland fan club supplied written reasons the disgraced ex-sherif
April 28, 2009Another Mike Carona Food Quiz Time!
Gotta head off to another find, so I'll leave ustedes with this: in what restaurant was our convicted, felonious ex-sheriff Mike Carona recently spotted? The hint: it's just a couple of miles away from where he smugly met the world after getting sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison. First person to guess correctly doesn't win the above picture, but rather the infamous Weekly cover where Carona is between his little Debbies, wife Carona and mistress Hoffman. One guess per entry; Weekly em
May 7, 2009OC Dem Chair Frank Barbaro a Carona Apologist?!
From left: Hear no Evil, See no Evil, Reported All the EvilEarlier this morning, I nearly spit out my quesadilla and beans-with-rice breakfast while watching Inside OC with Rick Reiff on KOCE-TV Channel 50. The subject was disgraced, felonious ex-sheriff Mike Carona, and the guests were Democratic Part of Orange County chair Frank Barbaro, former Carona spokeshole Jon Fleischman, and our own R. Scott Moxley. Barbaro actually said that "the media convicted Carona" long before federal judge Andrew
May 10, 2009Ex-Sheriff Carona Walks the Yard (Nervously)
Dream sequence: Mike Carona entertains his fellow inmates.Jack Grimshaw, the Weekly's eagle-eyed proofreader, just whipped up this diddy. Imagine disgraced, prison-bound, ex-Sheriff Mike Carona singing the following to his future minimum security federal pen inmates to the tune of Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line":I keep a close watch on my cellmate Spike,I know the kind of ass that he would like, He wants to ride me like a 10-speed bike,I need a guard, I walk the yard. I find it very, very d
April 28, 2009Register Exposes Backroom Dealings on Sheriff's Whistleblower Lawsuit
Thanks to ex-Sheriff Mike Carona, our infamous two-faced Master of Disasters, local taxpayers may have to give convicted felon George Jaramillo $750,000 to settle his lawsuit alleging that Carona, also a convicted felon, illegally fired him as assistant sheriff in 2004.Read all the details in a noteworthy report by Orange County Register sleuth Norberto Santana Jr., who obtained a confidential government legal memo suggesting the potential strength of Jaramillo's whistleblower claim that Carona
April 21, 2009Mike Carona Trying to Curry Goodwill from Mexican Students and their Supporters
Carona with a mob goonThe Orange County Hispanic Endowment Education Fund (HEEF) is a fine organization that gives out thousands of dollars in scholarships to deserving students every year and has done so for quite some time. Sometime this month, they will hold a reception for prospective recipients. Maybe some young scholar can ask this pertinent question to their elders: why does HEEF still allow disgraced, adulterous, felonious ex-sheriff Mike Carona to sully the group's name?Among the schola
June 15, 2009Federal Panel Gives Ex-Sheriff Mike Carona Leniency
Break out the vodka, boys!As Orange County's Republican sheriff, Mike Carona liked to talk tough about granting no mercy to convicted felons, but ever since the ex-top cop turned convicted felon himself earlier this year he's been begging for leniency.This afternoon, the Ninth Circuit--the nation's most liberal federal appeals court--granted Carona his wish. Unlike most felons, he'll be allowed to remain free from serving his 66-month federal prison sentence until the appellate court reviews
July 27, 2009Dirty Ex-Sheriff Loses Fight to Remain Out of Prison Pending Appeal
Carona's new executive suiteMike Carona's lawyers came to federal court this morning, claimed that federal prosecutors in the ex-sheriff's case are more of a threat to society and pleaded with a judge to give the top cop turned convicted felon a break: allow him to remain free pending an appeal of his conviction.But federal prosecutor Ken Julian said it would send the wrong message to society if "a guilty, corrupt public official" wasn't sent to prison in a timely manner. U.S. District Court Ju
May 15, 2009Convicted Ex-Sheriff Mike Carona Gets A New Identity
The sheriff partying with a Las Vegas felon before his FBI arrestIn anticipation for this month's arrival of ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, the federal Bureau of Prisons has issued a new identity for the convicted felon who abused his office by, among other things, attempting to sabotage a federal grand jury investigating OC law enforcement corruption: Inmate 45335-112No, no. I know what you're thinking. As far as we know, The Little Sheriff, Carona's nickname for his penis when trying
July 9, 2009America's Dumbest Sheriff* to Shill for Bill Hunt at Phoenix Club Thursday
Arpaio: Still not as much of a clown as Carona...Originally published Halloween, but moved up until Thursday because the comments left by Arpayaso supporters are some of the stupidest ever left in Navel Gazing history--and considering many Mater Dei grads write here, that's saying something...join in the fun!**Updated, with new info on the bottom...As we told you a couple of weeks ago, Orange County sheriff's candidate Bill Hunt, in an act of either delusion or desperation (care to weigh in,
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