“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)
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.