“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)
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.