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 violated California's Peace Officer Bill of Rights by firing him after leaks of the onetime top cop's propensity for cheating.
Carona, once ridiculously hailed by CNN as “America's sheriff,” awaits punishment on April 27 for sabotaging a federal grand jury investigating corruption at the the top of the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
Jaramillo's civil trial is set to begin this week.
–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.
