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November 7, 2006
Who Stole the Election from the Stealers?
As Gustavo's recent post on Hugh Hewitt suggests, even Republican diehards are beginning to surrender. That raises an important question: how will conspiracy theorists explain the stolen election that wasn't? Many on the left had warned that the GOP had everything wired--from electronic voting machi ... More >>
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May 12, 2006
Sampling Dana
Over at Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall catches the ex-CIA bigwig at the center of one of Washington's more intriguing ongoing scandals (the one with the hookers), Dusty Foggo, trying to pass off as his own a memorable bit of nonsense first used by everyone's favorite Surfin' Congressman, D. Rohr ... More >>
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November 4, 2006
What Could Go Wrong
Here in Orange County we've got every reason to fear voter fraud. There's that time back in 1988 when Tom Fuentes, then head of the OC Republican Party, authorized the use of poll guards to scare off Latinos. There's the 1996 election when Loretta Sanchez won from nut-bar Bob Dornan (now with extra ... More >>
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April 24, 2007
Va Tech Murders Give OC Sheriff Pal Excuse
At the insistence of John Barnett, OC 's legendary defense lawyer, a San Bernardino County judge refused to allow opening statements Monday in the jury trial of Raymond K. Yi, a former OC reserve deputy who faces six felony charges for a 2005 gun-related temper tantrum on a golf course. Barnett, fa ... More >>
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July 11, 2007
OC Lawyer Tossed From CA Republican Bribery Case
A federal judge in San Diego removed Mark Geragos from a sensational bribery case yesterday because the (in)famous Orange County-based defense lawyer refused to agree to a federal background check before receiving classified national-security-related data. Geragos—who worked for convicted wife-a ... More >>
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October 5, 2007
Sheriff Loses Battle To End Federal Case
A U.S. District Court in Los Angeles has refused Sheriff Michael S. Carona’s demand to dismiss a First Amendment complaint filed by former Carona challenger, ex-sheriff’s Lt. William Hunt, according to a press release issued this morning by Silver, Hadden, Silver, Wexler & Levine. Hunt attorne ... More >>
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October 29, 2007
OC Sheriff Carona Indicted For Corruption After FBI Probe
Christine Hanley at the Los Angeles Times is reporting late night that Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona (pictured in a Newport Beach bar with convicted felon Rick Rizzolo, a Chicago Mafia associate) "has been indicted on federal corruption charges stemming from a lengthy investigation into al ... More >>
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October 30, 2007
Tuesday's Headlines. No Surprises: Moxley called it
Moxley called it: Last night, the Los Angeles Times reported that OC Sheriff Mike Carona had been indicted on federal corruption charges. If you haven't already, read R.Scott Moxley's post on the subject, with links to his ballsy coverage of the official over the years. Note: The indictment is unde ... More >>
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November 5, 2007
To Do Tonight - 11/05
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January 17, 2008
Nguyen vs. Nguyen: Janet Wins!
Ok, so the timing sort of sucks for us, since we'd have liked to include the information in our story, but it's good news for Janet Nguyen: the California Court of Appeals ruled today, the same day our cover story hit the streets, that Janet did win her election, and therefore does get to stay in of ... More >>
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June 3, 2008
And Now There Are Two
Five months after indicted Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona resigned to prepare for his corruption trial, the county's board of supervisors (BOS) today narrowed the prospective replacement list from nine candidates to just two: Santa Ana Police Chief Paul Walters and ex-Los Angeles County Sheriff's ... More >>
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January 7, 1999
The Year in Oval Office Bootie Calls
Five months after indicted Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona resigned to prepare for his corruption trial, the county's board of supervisors (BOS) today narrowed the prospective replacement list from nine candidates to just two: Santa Ana Police Chief Paul Walters and ex-Los Angeles County Sheriff's ... More >>
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November 6, 2008
The Wire: Haidl and Carona Caught on Tape
Today at ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona's federal corruption trial, prosecutor Brett Sagel introduced the following inflammatory excerpt of a secretly recorded July 7, 2007, conversation between then-Sheriff Carona and Don Haidl, who had served as assistant sheriff. At the time of the conver ... More >>
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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 >>
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November 6, 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. Car ... More >>
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November 7, 2008
Crime Made Sheriff Mike Carona Hungry
"Crab cakes sounds good. How about that French brie too?" --Then-Sheriff Mike Carona pausing temporarily in August 2007 from plotting how to foil a federal grand jury corruption probe during a meeting at a Newport Beach restaurant with Don Haidl, his onetime assistant sheriff who is secretly wearin ... More >>
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November 12, 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 ... More >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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November 12, 2008
Perhaps Mike Carona Only Meant to Order More Crab Cakes
"Okay." --Inside a Newport Beach restaurant in August 2007, then-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona's secretly recorded response to a co-conspirator's plan to "burn" a document concerning a federal grand jury's corruption probe. (R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly)
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November 12, 2008
Sheriff Mike Carona Gave A Badge to His Favorite Restaurant Owner
"Nobody was going to admit anything." --Ex-Assistant Sheriff Don Haild testifying today in the federal corruption trial of indicted Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, who allegedly ordered silence about the department giving badges, guns, concealed weapon permits and police powers to unqualified i ... More >>
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November 14, 2008
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 ... More >>
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December 2, 2008
6 Observations about Ex-Sheriff Mike Carona's corruption trial
1. If it's his decision to make, indicted ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, who is a superbly confident man with rare charisma, will testify in his public corruption trial. 2. Although the FBI and IRS appear to have nailed Debra V. Hoffman, Carona's top mistress, on bankruptcy fra ... More >>
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December 5, 2008
Quote 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 unc ... More >>
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December 9, 2008
Sheriff 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 ... More >>
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December 19, 2008
Deep Throat Dies
The famed and enigmatic anonymous source credited with grinding Richard Nixon's perfidious presidency to a halt, died yesterday in northern California. A career FBI director, W. Mark Felt Sr. confessed to being "Deep Throat" in 2005, after 30 years of denial. He was the man, he admitted, who walked ... More >>
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January 7, 2009
Saint 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 h ... More >>
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January 15, 2009
Mike Carona Struts After Learning Jury Still Deadlocked
Thirty long hours. That's how much time the 11 men and lone woman of the jury have deliberated the federal corruption charges against ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona without reaching verdicts. Meanwhile, boredom has driven reporters to gossip, play poker, gossip, plan vacations, ... More >>
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October 20, 2005
Punchin' Judy
NY Times First Amendment 'martyr' Miller comes to town
Columns
January 11, 2007
Hey, You!
Rosy Outlook
News
January 12, 2006
Lou Sheldon's Movin' On Up
OC reverend played the gay card to aid FBI corruption target
News
September 15, 2005
Gracious
Your DA declines to prosecute his friends
Columns
September 8, 2005
A Clockwork Orange
Your DA declines to prosecute his friends
Columns
July 21, 2005
The Spy Who Loved Me
Why does George W. Bush want the terrorists to win?
News
July 29, 2004
Slammer Time!
Huntington Beach councilwoman faces federal case
Columns
April 17, 2003
Letters
Huntington Beach councilwoman faces federal case
News
March 4, 1999
Unmentionables
Reg allows conservatives to blast foes-anonymously
News
February 25, 1999
Constitutional Cuisinart
OC congressmen try to chop U.S. birthright out of the 14th Amendment
Columns
August 20, 1998
Letters
OC congressmen try to chop U.S. birthright out of the 14th Amendment
News
May 1, 1997
Jerque Du Soleil
Bob Dornan's Circus Comes to SoCal and Leaves Once More Without Making Its Case
News
January 23, 1997
The Sore-Losers Club
A Bitter Ex-Congressman Secretly Feeds Voter Probe
Blogs
June 26, 2009
Friday Film Funnies: Larry "Nativo" Lopez
My email and Facebook in-box have been invaded with the news that longtime Latino activist/racialist Larry "Nativo" Lopez was arrested on felony counts of voter fraud this Wednesday. We'll see whether the charges (that he voted in Boyle Heights but lives in OC), but my only comment at this point is ... More >>
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July 22, 2009
The Other F-Me Pump Drops for Sarah Palin
Right after her stunning loss to Loretta Sanchez in the Great Navel Gazing Fashion-off, the other pump dropped for former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Apparently, The Associated Press got ahold of a report about an ethics complaint involving Alaska's departing governor and the ... More >>
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November 5, 2009
Wattergate: The Final Chapter
Chapman University
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November 1, 2010
Election Monitor Named for People's Republic of Orange County
An election monitor has been appointed for the People's Republic of Orange County. No, Jimmy Carter isn't coming Tuesday. Assistant United States Attorney Dennis Mitchell, as he has done before, will serve as the District Election Officer for the Central District of California, which includ ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Fantasy Voter Fraud
Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was dissed by Russell Pearce over Arizona's Prop. 200 dismissal
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January 26, 2011
Rep. John Campbell Skates in House Ethics Report
This morning, an independent ethics office recommended the further investigation of Representative John Campbell (R-Newport Beach) and two other congressmen for possible wrongdoing because they raised funds from financial lobbyists around the time in December 2009 the House voted on a sweeping ov ... More >>
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April 14, 2011
Remembering Watergate: A Conversation
Nixon Library
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May 3, 2011
NBFF Midway: Reflexoes de um Liquidificador, High Road Premiere, Aaron Sorkin, California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown
Searching the High Road.Checking in on the Newport Beach Film Festival at its halfway mark, viewers have been treated in this 12th year to the option of sticking to one genre of presentations--say, only shorts or comedies or Spanish-language movies--or creating their own cultural bouillabai ... More >>
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