Scott Steiner, OC Judge Censured for Courtroom Sex, Already Fundraising for 2016 Reelection

Last time we heard about OC Superior Court Judge Scott Steiner, the California Commission on Judicial Performance censured him for banging ex-students of his inside the courtroom (a story our own Moxley broke in 2013). It was an embarrassing moment for the former prosecutor and son of former OC Supervisor Bill Steiner, especially given Scott …

Moxley Confidential: Irvine’s Beth Krom Shows Why She’s Not Cromulent

After the crushing defeat of three of her allies in last November’s Irvine elections, it’s understandable that Beth Krom would take the holidays to “rest, restore and re-focus,” as she declared to her Democratic Party supporters in a Jan. 3 email. For a dozen years, Krom served as the angry, robotic gunner in Larry Agran’s …

Moxley Confidential: Irvine’s Beth Krom Shows Why She’s Not Cromulent

After the crushing defeat of three of her allies in last November’s Irvine elections, it’s understandable that Beth Krom would take the holidays to “rest, restore and re-focus,” as she declared to her Democratic Party supporters in a Jan. 3 email. For a dozen years, Krom served as the angry, robotic gunner in Larry Agran’s …

Charles Keating Jr. Dies: 5 Weekly Pokes at the Disgraced Lincoln Savings Operator

Charles Keating Jr., who parlayed running Irvine-based Lincoln Savings & Loan into a starring role as poster boy of the savings and loan crisis of the late-1980s, has died, his family announced. He was 90. Keating died late Monday at a Phoenix hospital; the cause of death was not released. Keating was famously played by …

Accused Seal Beach Salon Killer Scott Dekraai Sued For Wrongful Death

The surviving daughter and son of the key target of an accused madman, who viciously murdered eight people at a Seal Beach salon in Oct. 2011, this week filed a wrongful death lawsuit against shooter Scott Evans Dekraai. According to the lawsuit filed in Orange County Superior Court, Chelsea Huff of Los Alamitos and her …

Scott Steiner, Judge in Middle of Sex Scandal, Escapes Charges from State Attorney General

The California Attorney General's Office will not pursue criminal charges against Orange County Superior Court Judge Scott Steiner, whose former law school student claimed to have been coerced into having sex with him, according to Steiner's attorney. “The Attorney (General's Office) made the right call,” veteran OC defense attorney Paul S. Meyer reportedly said. “Judge …

Scott M. Reid of the Register Brings Down Two More Coaches Who Got Too Close to Teen Girls

I don't know how the Orange County Register's Scott M. Reid got the beat, but no one's better at exposing adult coaches accused of sexually inappropriate relationships or behavior with their sports players who are teen girls, some of them minors. Indeed, if these were not coaches but politicians, Reid would be rivaling our own …

Scott Adrian Peterson, Orange High Teacher, Cops to Illegal Riverbed Sex with Student

Scott Peterson–no, not the creep on death row for dumping his pregnant wife's body into a bay but the Orange High School Spanish teacher-creeper–pleaded guilty Monday to having unlawful, riverbed sex with a 17-year-old female student. Under a court deal, Scott Adrian Peterson, 50, of Anaheim, is expected at his October sentencing to get 16 …

Scott Christopher Montoya, War Hero and Sex Creeper, Loses Bid to Win Back OC Deputy Job

A U.S. Marine Corps reserve sergeant lost his bid in court to get reinstated as an Orange County sheriff's deputy after being fired for routinely telling women he met while on duty he was a “Stallion” and they were “doable” and “fuckable,” enjoying questionable personal contact with a street prostitute, fabricating duty logs about his …

[UPDATE: Moxley Skeptical of Case] Did Officer Manuel Ramos Warm Up on a Disabled Man Before The Kelly Thomas Killing?

UPDATE, 2:37 P.M.: I can't vouch for this lawsuit. For 19 hours, Russell R. Arens–the 1988 University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law graduate who is the plaintiff's lawyer–knowingly ignored five calls to answer simple questions. That conduct makes me leery of the merits of the suit. After additional investigation, my prediction: The Fullerton …

Occupy OC Protesters Duped For Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s Orange County Event

About 50 liberal Orange County activists protested a Republican event here tonight for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, but rallied at the wrong location. The error wasn’t necessarily the activists’ fault. The Walker event was scheduled for the private, Newport Beach offices of Orange County Republican Party chairman Scott Baugh. But things changed. “No,” Baugh said …