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Courtesy of the U.S. House of RepresentativesPAC money gladly accepted: MC****@******LY.COM Posted Oct. 5, 5:41 p.m. DIRTY MONEY Ever wonder how much of Tom DeLay's PAC money has made it to Orange County's congressional delegation? Or vice versa? According to the nonprofit campaign finance reform group Public Campaign Action Fund, which provides a state-by-state tracking …
Wednesday, Sept. 14 Local entrepreneur the Walt Disney Company announces its film unit has lost up to $300 million for the current quarter. Chief financial officer Thomas Staggs said the studio's performance is “considerably worse than we anticipated,” which is saying something, since people have been anticipating the worst from Disney films since it released …
Courtesy pool photographer/ Orange County RegisterAfter three years of emotional innocent pleas, two ugly jury trials, glowing national TV profiles and a multimillion dollar defense effort to smear the rape victim, an incarcerated Gregory Scott Haidl has finally expressed remorse for the crime, according to courthouse sources. Prosecutor Chuck Middleton won convictions in March against …
Spanky me … HARDER! MC****@******LY.COM Posted Sept. 21, 6:42 p.m. WEB OF SIGHS So Gustavo just popped into the office a little while ago and said we've got to post something about the Orange County Register's hideous new website. So Clockwork plops it open and, yeah, it's lame–EXCEPT CHECK OUT THE RACK ON ERICA HILL!!! …
The Minute Rice Man: MC****@******LY.COM Posted Aug. 30, 6:15 p.m. NO MINUTEMAN, NO HOW Jim Gilchrist would like to be your 48th District U.S. Congressman–think Chris Cox's Newport Beach-based seat, without Cox in it–but he's getting no help from the California Secretary of State's office. Following complaints from other candidates, most noticeably Demo Bea Foster, …
Be there in a Minute, man: MC****@******LY.COM Posted Aug. 25, 6:01 p.m. 15 MINUTEMANS OF FAME If your ears burn when someone, somewhere talks shit about you, what happens when you're treated to gobs of free press? Guess we'll have to ask Mission Viejo retired CPA-turned-co-founder of the immigrant chasing Minutemen-turned 48th congressional district indie …
Posted Aug. 22. I guess I have to start noting the time now that Gustavo set the precedent in my absence: 3:40 p.m. 2ish enough for you? WELCOME BACK ME! So I let that Arellano kid take this virtual bird-cage liner over for a week and what does he do: he shows me the hell …
Clockwork Coker is back! The Mexican is about to get deported. So buy me a pinche driver's license, for chrissakes!: GA*******@******LY.COM Posted Monday, August 22, 10ish ORANGE COUNTY BUREAUCRATS TO VILLA PARK: DIE A couple of weeks back, we were driving through east Orange on the way to a party hosted by hot Orange County …
Wake me: MC****@******LY.COM Posted Aug. 10 ORANGE COUNTY CHOPPERS The sirens grew louder around o'dark:30, spurring the mass of canine next door to correspondingly increase the volume of his losing attempts to harmonize. That I could take. That I could eventually tune out and return to deep, blissful slumber. But then came the buzz of …
Courtesy pool photographer Michael Goulding/The Orange County RegisterThe son of a millionaire assistant sheriff when he and two buddies filmed themselves raping an unconscious minor during a 2002 Newport Beach party, Greg Haidl has blamed cops, prosecutors, reporters, and the victim and her parents for his subsequent legal troubles, while Haidl's defense team argued it …
After the Orange County Grand Jury ended weeks of speculation about the fate of George Jaramillo July 25 by announcing his indictment on multiple bribery counts, the ex-assistant sheriff fired back with a charge of his own. “I have never been offered or taken a bribe, which is more than I can say about Tony …
Dressed in orange jail jumpsuits and shackled with chains, the three Haidl gang rapists—donning pale, blotchy and mostly expressionless faces—watched as Superior Court Judge Francisco Briseo rejected their demand for a new trial today. Defendants Greg Haidl, Keith Spann and Kyle Nachreiner, all 20, wanted Briseo to declare they'd been wronged by a jury's guilty …