MORE NEW ALLEGATIONS OF HARASSMENT AGAINST SHERIFF MIKE CARONA

MEDIA ACCOUNT OF THE EXPANDING SHERIFF'S SCANDAL AND INVESTIGATIONS, THE PLAYERS, TIMElINE & ARCHIVES

by Michael Webster: Investigative Reporter

Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona has been indicted

Sheriff Michael S. Carona has been indicted on federal corruption charges According to high level US federal Task force as reported in the Journal some years ago!

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Lt. Bill Hunt

The district attorney is investigating sheriff's candidate Lt. Bill Hunt; Hunt calls probe "abuse of power." Report faults Carona rival Candidate Hunt

erica hill

Booking photos: George Henry
Jaramillo and Erika Lynne Hill. Photo's Orange County Weekly

Connecting the Dots

Amb. George Argyros Orange County Register says a face-off between Assemblyman Ken Maddox and Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez for Orange County Sheriff would make a good contest

Ambassador George Argyros, a billionaire Newport Beach real estate developer

Its alleged during a major fraud investigation where Mr. Argyros was the target, Mr. Rackauckas in his official capacity as Orange County's District Attorney hampered the case against Argyros, the billionaire Newport Beach real estate developer, Rackauckas contributor and former U.S. Ambassador to Spain. According to sources close to the investigation said the California Attorney General’s office was so suspicious of Rackauckas’ conduct that they had one of the DA’s own staff secretly record internal private conversations.

Orange County Register says a face-off between Assemblyman Ken Maddox and Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez for Orange County Sheriff would make a good contest

Michael J. Schroeder

Attorney General Accuses Political Zar Michael Schroeder of allegedly trying to conceal illegal solicitations

Schroeder is key. His reach is seemingly universal. His wife, Susan, works as Rackauckas’ top media strategist. His best friend, Jon Fleischman, serves as Carona’s top media/political consultant in the sheriff’s department.

District Attorney Tony Rackauckas

Lt. Bill Hunt, who is running against Carona, charges that the DA's investigation is a 'misuse of authority" and the filing of a complaint against the DA is expected.

Shirley Grindle's crusade to get district attorney Tony Rackauckas to simply enforce the law.

One Good Bribery Charge Deserves Another
After grand jury indicts Jaramillo, ex-top cop accuses DA of similar crime. By R. Scott Moxley (July 25, 2005)

DA Rackauckas and his investigators allegedly

• disregarded blatant campaign fund-raising crimes involving contributions to Carona, who recently announced his 2006 re-election bid;

• uncovered evidence of an apparent quid pro quo in which the sheriff offered Gabbard county jail inmates as free labor;

• ignored the actions of several other local cops who had financial relationships with Gabbard;

• launched the case based on Gabbard, a onetime violent career criminal with deep personal animosity against Jaramillo and with no compunction about lying repeatedly during FBI and DA interviews;

• focused on Jaramillo, despite uncovering exonerating evidence, and explored at least five different legal theories for an arrest before settling on less serious conflict-of-interest and misappropriation-of-public-resources charges.

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher

Producer Joseph Medawar

'Producer Gets Access,' by Dana Rohrabacher

By Greg Krikorian and Christine Hanley

U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) used his influence to open doors in Washington for a Hollywood producer pitching a television show after the producer paid him a $23,000 option on a screenplay, records and interviews show.

Chairman Scott Baugh

Scott Baugh

Former Assemblyman, and Orange County Republican Party Chairman

According to the OC Weekly on a Saturday morning in Dec. 1995, investigators raided the Huntington Beach home of then-freshman Assemblyman Scott Baugh. Republican Mike Capizzi, then the county DA, wanted evidence of the GOP’s illegal plot to ensure Baugh’s victory by placing a fake Democrat on the ballot.

When investigators entered Baugh’s home at 7 a.m., they found the assemblyman had an overnight guest: a handsome youth pastor from a local church. Baugh denied any romantic relationship with the man, and later married. A woman. Rumors swirled nevertheless. It didn’t help that one of Baugh’s closest pals at the time was Jeffrey Nielsen, a Republican activist/attorney now facing numerous felony charges that he repeatedly molested a 14-year-old Westminster boy and possessed gay child pornography.

Capizzi’s raid on Baugh’s home sparked an immediate firestorm. Within hours, Baugh friends Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Republican businessman Michael J. Schroeder held a press conference to denounce Capizzi. The DA’s office wanted to use private sex lives as a weapon in its criminal investigation of voter fraud, the men told the Weekly. They described the DA’s tactics as an “un-American . . . home-invasion assault” by “Gestapo . . . thugs.” Joined by Baugh, they described their own personal epiphanies: civil libertarians were right to worry about government abuse of its awesome police powers.

“This is reminiscent of the way Nazis and gangsters act,” said a seething Rohrabacher, who, with the help of Schroeder and Baugh, began orchestrating Rackauckas’ successful 1998 campaign to replace Capizzi.

The same alliance backed the next sheriff: Michael S. Carona.

Assemblyman Todd Spitzer

OC Law Enforcement "Poisoned"
Assemblyman Todd Spitzer takes aim at DA. What about the sheriff's office? By R. Scott Moxley (Oct. 8, 2004)

Photo: Mayor Oscar B. Goodman

Oscar Goodman Mayor Of Las Vegas Nevada. Goodman rumored to having been approached to represent current and future defendants. Including a bail bondsmen and perhaps others. Goodman is considered one of the best practicing criminal trial lawyers around representing alleged high profile mobsters and other criminal defendants. Bail Bondsmen Alejandro de Jesus Cruz has been charged with allegedly operating an illegal kickback scheme involving attorneys, jail inmates and other bail bondsmen. Alejandro De Jesus Cruz, has been missing since October and believed to be in Mexico and/or Florda. There is an outstanding warrant for his arrest. A source has informed the Journal that Goodman may have been contacted by Cruz to try and cut a deal for him with Orange County authorities, where by Cruz would surrender and testify against bigger fish if he could be assured of no jail time. The Journal contacted Mr. Goodman's Law offices a lady identified only as Judy said, " that Mr. Goodman was not practicing law anymore" when pressed office manager Carmen came on the line and said, the same thing and that the reason was "that the mayor can not practice law at the same time he is mayor." It is therefore unlikely that Mr. Cruz or anyone else contacted mayor Goodman. In that regard.

Cavallo (pictured with Sheriff Carona and his wife.

Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo & Sheriff Michael Carona

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Fired Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo

the highest ranking Orange County Sheriff ever charged with corruption.

Orange County Register says a face-off between Assemblyman Ken Maddox and Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez for Orange County Sheriff would make a good contest

Former Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl

Don Haidl, Assistant Sheriff of Orange Country, in violation of California's rape shield law, led a smear campaign against the child his son poisoned and then violently gang-raped on videotape, adding up to 24 felony counts. He said that his son "acted accordingly" because the child was a "slut". The full gruesome story, with many newspaper articles.

Orange County Register says a face-off between Assemblyman Ken Maddox and Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez for Orange County Sheriff would make a good contest

Sheriff Capt. Christine Murray

OC REGISTER: Campaign charges filed
Sheriff`s Capt. Christine Murray is accused of illegally asking colleagues for contributions to Sheriff Mike Carona`s re-election bid. She denies wrongdoing.

Newport Beach Businessman Charles Gabbard has felony Convictions and gave tainted contributions to Carona's war chest. Gabbard a convicted felon arrested for murder, several armed robberies, embezzlement and illegal drug possession) is a star prosecution witness against Jaramillo.

Gabbard’s story involves dirty cops, slick lobbyists, extortion, murder, state legislation, the unlawful dissemination of the Haidl gang-rape video, tainted contributions to Sheriff Mike Carona, a midnight theft tied to a proposed laser device for ending police pursuits and, I’m not making this up, Shaquille O’Neal.Who Shot the Sheriff?

Attorney Joseph G. Cavallo

Haidl attorney Cavallo indicted
Controversial attorney Joseph Cavallo, who defended Gregory Haidl against sexual-assault charges, has been indicted by the Orange County grand jury on conspiracy charges involving bail bondsmen. Cavallo said, “I know the Schroeders had a hand in my indictment, this is the work of ‘The Triangle’—Mike Carona, Mike Schroeder and Tony Rackauckas

Orange County Register says a face-off between Assemblyman Ken Maddox and Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez for Orange County Sheriff would make a good contest

Rick Rizzolo Vegas topless nite club owner

Rizzolo Contribution to Sheriff Carona under probe.

Mike Carona's campaign donors. That list includes at least four Las Vegas entrepreneurs whose businesses have had brushes with the law. Each has contributed the maximum $1,500 to Carona's re-election bid.

Earlier this month, the Register and the Journal wrote about Rick Rizzolo, owner of the Crazy Horse Too strip club. The club is under federal investigation for racketeering. In 1985, Rizzolo pleaded guilty to attacking a patron with a baseball bat. Carona adviser Mike Schroeder tells us that the sheriff is returning that donation.

The others:

Frank Fertitta Jr. is founder and former chairman of Station Casinos. Federal investigations linked him to a money-skimming operation in 1985, but he was never charged or sanctioned. Nonetheless, Missouri gaming officials in 1992 refused to issue a gambling permit to Station unless the company guaranteed Fertitta would have no part in its management, according to published reports.

Bruce Becker owns Becker Gaming Inc., which donated to the sheriff. In 1995, Becker was charged with 18 misdemeanors for allegedly misleading regulators on an application for his gaming license, according to published reports. The charges were dismissed because the one-year statute of limitations had expired.

Blake Sartini is co-founder and former chief operating officer of Nevada-based Station Casinos. While he was with that business, Station lost its Missouri gambling license after other company executives ignored a subpoena to testify in a corruption probe. Sartini was not called to testify. Station later paid more than $1 million in fines for several offenses, including allowing juveniles to gamble.

Schroeder said that Carona knew none of these contributors and that they apparently had been invited to the same May fundraiser (at the Ritz) by a Carona supporter (Fred Glusman) who knew them.

Former Policemen & Deputy Bud Hood

Deputy Bud Hood was arrested in November of 2000 for soliciting the services of a prostitute during a sting operation outside a Las Vegas motel. Hood was one of the first deputies in the Sheriff’s Department to support Mike Carona in his bid for sheriff and has become a close personal friend of the sheriff and his family. He was rewarded by being assigned to the Dignitary Protection detail over the strenuous objections of the supervisor and other members of the team.
According to his own grand jury testimony, Hood who formerly worked on the sheriff’s auto-theft detail. He didn’t tell the grand jury he was once arrested during an encounter with a Las Vegas prostitute. According to grand jury records Jaramillo frequently gave Hood film to develop. The film contained nude pictures of dozens of women, including the assistant sheriff’s wife, sister-in-law, several secretaries and at least one county employee. Internal Affairs

Skippy’s Scandal Scorecard (A Baker’s Dozen)

Erica Hill

Sex Bomb
Erica Hill says OC's "Christian conservative" Sheriff Mike Carona traded sex for favors. By R. Scott Moxley (Sept. 19, 2005)

Porn Star Amanda Friedland

Internal Affairs

This is a story about a famous LA porn star, a suspicious detective and a frustrated Orange County sheriff.

Dean & Susan Holloway

O.C. Sheriff Is Accused a 2nd Time

State to Probe Sex Assault Allegation Against Sheriff

Lt. William Hunt DA probing into Hunt's campaign donations

The Ritz Orange County Register says a face-off between Assemblyman Ken Maddox and Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez for Orange County Sheriff would make a good contest

Fred Glusman

owns The Ritz in Newport Beach http://www.ritzrestaurant.com and Pieros in Las Vegas. Its rumored that Rick Rizzolo and some of his mobster friends frequent the restaurant and may be have hidden interests in the enterprise.

Patrick N. DiCarlo onetime, self-described mafia suspect

Don Blankenship

Bob Levy,

Lobbyist/fund-raiser, a former U.S. marshal with impressive ties to law-enforcement political-action committees as well as liberal and conservative political machines throughout California. In 2000, Sheriff Mike Carona offers the services of incarcerated inmates under his custody and control to notorious felon Charlie Gabbard. Lobbyist Mr. Levy wrote a handwritten memo to Gabbard indicating that Carona had offered the services of inmates for Gabbard’s personal business use.
Who Shot the Sheriff?

Irvine Police Dept. officers Denny Jenner and Phil Povey working for Gabbard plugging his device, they planed to help make millions of dollars selling the HALT System to police departments across the nation.
Who Shot the Sheriff?

Stephen Mensinger an O.C. sheriff's volunteer allegedly misrepresented himself and said he could have a baggage attendant fired.

Jan Jones

Kenny Guinn

Raymond Yi Orange County Register says a face-off between Assemblyman Ken Maddox and Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez for Orange County Sheriff would make a good contest

OC REGISTER: Golfers Feared He`d Put a Hole in One

OC REGISTER: Reserve deputy charged in gun incident Men say dispute on golf course led to threats against their lives.

Bail Bondsmen George Castro has been charged that he allegedly operated an illegal kickback scheme involving attorneys, jail inmates and other bail bondsmen. He pleaded not guilty A judge set a trial-setting hearing for Dec. 2.

Bail Bondsmen Alejandro de Jesus Cruz has also been charged that he allegedly operated an illegal kickback scheme involving attorneys, jail inmates and other bail bondsmen. Alejandro De Jesus Cruz, has been missing since October and believed to be in Mexico. There is an outstanding warrant for his arrest.

Deputy District Attorney Susan Kang Schroeder wife of Michael Schroeder spokesperson for the DA's office.

Ed Grech.

Carona did favors to another Orange County businessman, Ed Grech.
The Journal has learned that Carona granted Grech a concealed-weapon permit even though the businessman had been convicted of a concealed-weapon offense.

Former Assistant Sheriff Pete Gannon

DA Investigator Dina Mauger

Former Newport Beach Mayor & Now Judge Steve Bromberg

Judge William Froeberg is the husband of a high-ranking deputy district attorney

Van Schultze

Don Mehr Santa Ana Bail Bondsmen Complainant

Un-named Sheriff's Deputies Orange County Register says a face-off between Assemblyman Ken Maddox and Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez for Orange County Sheriff would make a good contest

Yet to be named jail trustees

California Attorney General Lockyer

FBI Director Mueller Federal Bureau of Investigation

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL ALBERTO R. GONZALES U.S. Justice Dept.

TIME LINE

Under Sheriff Jo Ann Galisky will take Temporary Command

Its reported that Under Sheriff Jo Ann Galisky will take command of the Sheriff's Department while her boss, Michael Carona, fight against his corruption charges in court. Carona will be available on important policy decision but the day-to-day operation will be on the shoulder of Jo Ann Galisky who has been with the department since 1984. The Journal is investigating this matter and will report according. A message from Undersheriff Galisky

Sheriff,wife & mistress pleads not guilty: Carona faces corruption, other federal charges. Wife, woman described as mistress in indictment also plead not guilty. A trial date of Dec. 18 is set for the Orange County sheriff, his wife and former mistress.; SLIDE SHOW

Sheriff Carona, wife, alleged mistress plead not guilty to corruption charges

Sheriff back in court today

SHERIFF MICHAEL CARONA & CO-CONSPIRATORS CHARGES AT A GLANCE

Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona's Troubled History

Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona has been indicted Oct 29, 2007

Carona allegedly steered deputy's widow to co-conspirator
Six years ago, Brad Warner slipped into a coma after routine knee surgery for an old injury that the twice-decorated Orange County sheriff's deputy suffered subduing a suspect. Sheriff Michael S. carona joined the family at the hospital in a vigil that ended with Warner's shocking death at age 46.
LA Times   Fri, 2 Nov 2007

Handcuffed OC sheriff goes to court
Five years ago, Orange County Sheriff Michael S. carona became an overnight sensation when he looked into the cameras and told a 5-year- old's murderer, "Don't sleep. Don't eat. We're coming after you...
Los Angeles Herald   Thu, 1 Nov 2007

OC Sheriff appears in court on bribery charges
Orange County Sheriff Mike carona, his wife and alleged long-time mistress made their initial court appearances today on charges they accepted about $350,000 in cash and gifts from a wealthy businessm...
bignewsnetwork   Wed, 31 Oct 2007

Carona, in handcuffs, faces judge
Orange County sheriff, indicted on corruption charges, is ordered to surrender his passport. A federal magistrate sets bail at $20,000 each for the lawman and his wife, and $10,000 for his mistress. While wearing handcuffs in federal court this afternoon, indicted Orange County Sheriff Michael S. carona was ordered by Magistrate Robert Block to surrender his passport, to refrain from contacting witnesses in his corruption case, and to give the court 48 hours notice if he planned on leaving the state.
LA Times   Wed, 31 Oct 2007

O.C. sheriff and wife surrender
Orange County Sheriff Michael S. carona, his wife and his alleged former mistress surrendered today at the U.S. District Courthouse in Santa Ana, where they are facing federal corruption charges.
LA Times   Wed, 31 Oct 2007

O.C. sheriff charged with conspiracy
Not too long ago, Orange County Sheriff Michael S. carona was a media darling and a rising GOP star who hobnobbed with celebrities and politicians alike.Nowadays, the top cop in this county of 3 milli...
Los Angeles Herald   Wed, 31 Oct 2007

What hurts is an alleged betrayal right from the start
When Sheriff Michael S. carona came to office, he seemed trustworthy. If his indictment is accurate, he was bad from day one. What reverberates from the seven-count indictment against Orange County Sheriff Mike carona is that it depicts him as a fraud from the start. Gone is the notion that he was the family-values guy who came into office in 1999 as a wide-eyed innocent who looked you in the eye and told the truth -- only to be betrayed and corrupted by those who lurked in the dark forests of politics.
LA Times   Wed, 31 Oct 2007

Orange Co. Sheriff Indicted On Corruption Charges
(AP) SANTA ANA Orange County Sheriff Michael S. carona was charged with conspiracy, mail fraud and witness tampering in a wide-ranging indictment unsealed Tuesday that also implicates his wife, his ...
bignewsnetwork   Tue, 30 Oct 2007

California Sheriff Faces Federal Corruption Charges
Orange County Sheriff Mike carona has been indicted on federal corruption charges stemming from a lengthy investigation into allegations that he had misused his office for financial gain, law enforcem...
Los Angleles News   Tue, 30 Oct 2007

3/26/2006
LA Times: High Noon Is Near for Sheriff Candidates

3/26/2006
OCounty Register: Carona responds to his doubters
With scandals in the air, the man once dubbed `America`s sheriff` finds himself on the defense.

3/24/2006

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