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Mike Carona

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2008

    Want 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 t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2008

    Is 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 probab ... More >>

  • News

    November 13, 2008

    [Moxley Confidential] The Crooked Sheriff Chuckled: Plot to Thwart Feds' Bribery Probe Amused Carona

    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 probab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 ga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    The 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 politician ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Drunk 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Sheriff 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 pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Carona 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 du ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2008

    Mike 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2008

    Carona 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' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2008

    Doozy 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2008

    If 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 sheri ... More >>

  • News

    November 6, 2008

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

    "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 sheri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2008

    Can 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 ... More >>

  • News

    August 28, 2008

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

    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 ... More >>

  • News

    August 7, 2008

    [Moxley Confidential] We Don't Need No Stinking Badges

    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 ... More >>

  • News

    July 24, 2008

    [Moxley Confidential] Ron Cedillos Hasn't Told the Whole Story of His Falling-Out With Mike Carona

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 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--e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2008

    The Fleecing of OC Taxpayers, Part 692

    So far, best local story of the month goes to The Orange County Register's Norberto Santana Jr. and Natalya Shulyakovskaya, who wrote a June 13 article that further underscores the gross incompetence of ex-Sheriff Mike Carona. Based on interviews and public-records act requests, the duo found: -$-Mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2008

    Smile, You're On Carona Camera!

    There's certainly one sheriff-busting investigative reporter here who probably isn't shocked by the revelation that Mike Carona maintained a secret, tax-payer funded, hidden video camera and password-protected computer system stashed in his office. Apparently our trusty former-and-now-indicted sh ... More >>

  • News

    May 15, 2008

    The Weekly's Head Count of the 48 New Faces Who Want to Be Your Next Sheriff

    There's certainly one sheriff-busting investigative reporter here who probably isn't shocked by the revelation that Mike Carona maintained a secret, tax-payer funded, hidden video camera and password-protected computer system stashed in his office. Apparently our trusty former-and-now-indicted sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2008

    Resentencing for another Sheriff Carona felon/pal

    In May 2006, OC Weekly broke the news that then-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona had allowed fellow con man Joseph M. Medawar to film the county's top secret anti-terrorism training procedures three years earlier. (See "Department of Homeland Stupidity.") A native of Lebanon, Medawar used the foota ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2008

    Ex-Sheriff's Dept. Officials Create Bold, New Firm!

    Over at the Orange County Register, ace reporter Peggy Lowe writes tonight on Orange County Sheriff's Department blog news that two of indicted ex-Sheriff Mike Carona's Yes Folks (YF) quit today: assistant sheriffs Jo Ann Galisky and Steve Bishop. Somehow the third and final major YFer embarrassme ... More >>

  • News

    February 21, 2008

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

    Over at the Orange County Register, ace reporter Peggy Lowe writes tonight on Orange County Sheriff's Department blog news that two of indicted ex-Sheriff Mike Carona's Yes Folks (YF) quit today: assistant sheriffs Jo Ann Galisky and Steve Bishop. Somehow the third and final major YFer embarrassme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2008

    The Littlest Victim of the Carona Case

    Wednesday night's meeting of the Orange County Press Club at Jason's in Santa Ana, which featured a panel discussion of ex-Sheriff Mike Carona's indictment and the media's role in chronicling his messy reign as the county's top cop, was a hoot and a half. One highlight was my predecessor, Will Swaim ... More >>

  • News

    February 14, 2008

    [Moxley Confidential] The stupidity of indicted ex-Sheriff Mike Carona caught on tape

    Wednesday night's meeting of the Orange County Press Club at Jason's in Santa Ana, which featured a panel discussion of ex-Sheriff Mike Carona's indictment and the media's role in chronicling his messy reign as the county's top cop, was a hoot and a half. One highlight was my predecessor, Will Swaim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2008

    One more nail in the Carona coffin

    The Associated Press reports that the Feds filed a partial transcript in court today with snippets of a wiretapped conversation between former OC Sheriff Mike Carona former assistant sheriff Don Haidl: In the partial transcript, Haidl and Carona discuss cash and gifts Carona received from Haidl and ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 7, 2008

    Letters

    'Don't be such a dick!'

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2008

    The Ballad of Mike Carona

    The tragic tale of the former sheriff inspired retired L.A. Times feature writer Roy Rivenburg and former Press Enterprise police reporter Lisa O'Neill Hill to combine their powers and slap some new lyrics on an old 80's favorite. Click here for a MIDI clip if you want to sing along. The Ballad o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2008

    Los Angeles Times: "Recall Mike Carona"

    Orange County is a recall election-happy place (See Gustavo Arellano's "Recall Madness" from last August). So why not recall our indicted top cop? The LA Times isn't wasting time hounding Sheriff Carona to step down. An editorial in today's edition asks voters to start up the recall process: "Mike ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2008

    Top Ten Kicks In The Sack

    "Just how many people did OC Weekly kick in the balls last year?"

  • Blogs

    January 1, 2008

    NEWS FLASH: Mechanics are crooked

    As dutifully chronicled by the unoverestimatable R. Scott Moxley (A Tale of Two Tapes), 2007 saw a nail driven into the coffin of Sheriff Michael Carona's political career, not to mention his testicles. When the LA Times is publishing pictures of your wife and your mistress, calling them the Two Deb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2007

    BUC BUC BUC: Weekend chickenshit

    So my weekly "Didja do anything cool I can throw into that Monday morning post?" note to the OCW staff was meet with *crickets* and Zzzzs. Everyone's in holiday hibernation mode and your regular "What You Missed" programming will resume next week. What I hope you didn't miss was this blog entry fro ... More >>

  • Features

    December 27, 2007

    A Tale of Two Tapes

    2007: A year to remember

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2007

    Wednesday's Headlines. No Surprises: Carona Giuliani?

    What do Mike Carona and Rudy Giuliani have in common? Ties to former cocaine smuggler Florida billionaire Hank Asher, reports ABC News: Asher, aka H.A. in the indictment, allegedly gave Carona's wife (and former Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo's wife) a $15,000 diamond-studded gold Cartier watch ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 22, 2007

    Letters

    “Why can’t polygamists be more like Mike Carona? He only has one wife (and a mistress and a couple of girlfriends)”

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2007

    Friday's Headlines. No Surprises: Carona stripped of more powers

    Stripping Carona: Sheriff Mike Carona is no longer on the Homeland Security Advisory Council. He says he resigned. The feds say he was forced out. Yet another deputy behaving badly? Richard Rodriguez, 43, a sheriff's deputy assigned to OCTA, has been charged with the false imprisonment of 12 prosti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2007

    Friday's Headlines. No Surprises.

    Stained: The deeper the LA Times reads into Sheriff Mike Carona's indictment, the more ugliness they find. Today's tidbit: the sheriff and his wife allegedly received $25,000 from a paintball firm for getting primo placement at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa. Note that Mrs. Carona is p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2007

    Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Carona Camp Says FBI Case "Trash"

    Hookers take cash too, Mikey: Dana Parsons writes today that “the good news for [indicted OC Sheriff Mike] Carona is that the government doesn’t always win.” But Parsons says the “bad news” for Calamity Mike is that the feds take their “sweet time putting public corruption cases togethe ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 8, 2007

    Letters

    "Go ahead and gloat."

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2007

    Sheriff Carona Takes Two-Month Vacation

    Halfway through today's intensely dull OC Board of Supervisors meeting, during which the supes hemmed and hawed about whether to allow county voters to demand elected officials under indictment take a paid leave of absence, board chairman Chris Norby paused to read a letter from Sheriff Mike Carona, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2007

    Courthouse Vigil Will Call on Sheriff Carona to Repent

    Orange County Pastor Wiley Drake announced today that his church will conduct a prayer vigil at the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse beginning Monday at 5 a.m. in hopes of getting indicted Sheriff Mike Carona to "repent" for his sins. Good luck, Wiley. You're going to need divine intervention. Dr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2007

    Friday's Headlines. No Surprises: Carona resign? Please, no!

    Should Sheriff Carona Resign? Some 84 percent of the Reg's readers who responded to an online poll say yes. (9:08 a.m. By the way, they seem kind of confused over there. The poll reads 84 percent, but the accompanying article says 83 percent. The pro-Carona vote's at 16 percent, so let's stick with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2007

    Thursday's Headlines. No Surprises: Carona Free (For Now)

    Carona free (for now): Yesterday, Sheriff Mike Carona walked out of the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse with his wife, Debbie, after being cuffed and held in a cell for hours. They'll be back to enter their pleas Monday. Bail was set at $20,000 for each Carona and $10,000 for the sheriff's mistres ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2007

    Carona Scandal: The archives

    Those of you itching to read R.Scott Moxley's relentless coverage of Sheriff Mike Carona over the years can find his past stories over here. Damning stuff. Enjoy. Newer posts on the indictment are over here. And photos: here.

  • Features

    November 1, 2007

    They Got the Sheriff

    OC Sheriff Michael S. Carona’s reign has been equal parts tragedy and comedy. With his indictment, it enters its final act.

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2007

    Heard outside the courthouse

    "He's just lucky that both his wife and his mistress are named Debbie. Keeps it simple for the guy. Harder to mess up." - One dude in a suit to another outside the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse this morning, on Sheriff Mike Carona. His Indictedness eluded the media again this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2007

    Carona in Cuffs!

    Sheriff Mike Carona, facing federal criminal corruption charges, turned himself in early this morning at the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in downtown Santa Ana. Later in the afternoon, Carona, along with his wife Debbie and mistress Debra Hoffman, appeared in the courtroom of Judge Robert Block ... More >>

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