Rizzolo's sheriff indicted

I have been writing about Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona and his association with the Las Vegas underworld for several years.

It's long been suspected that Carona, a close friend of Rick Rizzolo and other Vegas luminaries, was providing Vegas and Orange County Mafia associates with classified information only available to law enforcement agencies.

Observed in Newport and Laguna freeloading on the above Vegas to OC transplants include former LV councilman Michael McDonald, ex-Clark Commissioners Lance Malone, Erin Kenny, and Dario Herrera in exchange for their granting of political favors.

Last year the Orange County Sheriff's Office was taken off the list of agencies linked to a national law enforcement information base because it was suspected that Carona was sharing confidential information with Rizzolo and his Vegas Mob friends.

Carona was the sheriff who gave LV restaurant owner Freddy Glusman a badge that he later had to revoke after Glusman tried using it to intimidate a Laguna Beach coffee shop owner.

With Carona's help, Orange County has become "Sin City Hall South," a safe haven and meeting place for Vegas politicians, mobsters, and movers and shakers to get together at Glusman's Ritz restaurant in Newport Beach and secretly decide the issues affecting the quality of life of average Las Vegas residents. - SM

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Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona has been indicted

ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF AND HIGH RANKING ELECTED OFFICIALS UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE FEDS AND THE CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL