One of the numerous reasons California is failing as a functioning state is due to their elected leadership. Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis was the previous governor who got fired for essentially/Fundamentally irresponsible and having a large budget when the Internet bubble burst. So the Californians decided that Gov. Davis was bad because of his handling of the Rolling blackouts which lead to Enron raising their energy fees. Even though he initiated over 10 new power plants to be built. The best person to replace him is a Austrian bodybuilder/Movie Star with 0 experience but people sure love him. A say that to illuminate the hilarity of the situation with Sheriff Mike Corana who was just convicted to 6 years in prison.
Former Orange County sheriff Michael Carona, who was charged with a 10-count indictment but convicted of only one count of witness tampering this year, was sentenced on Monday to five and a half years in prison.
Carona had been elected three times as the county's top law enforcer and dubbed "America's Sheriff" in 2002 after his agency's quick arrest of the murderer of five-year-old Samantha Runnion. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had also appointed him in 2004 as one of three members to the state Athletic Commission.
But in 2007, he was indicted along with his wife Deborah, and attorney Debra Victoria Hoffman and two other associates. Prosecutors said they had conspired to "use the office of the sheriff to enrich themselves." Among the allegations, Carona was said to have received $1,000 every month from one of his associates in the indictment, in return for full access to the resources of the sheriff's office and a "get out of jail free" card. The particular associate, businessman Donald Haidl, had a son who had been arrested twice while Carona was sheriff.(AHN)
But Wait it gets better, because not only did he get caught doing something unethical, discriminatory, and illegal. He people give the judge a bunch of great excuses for why he should not be prosecuted here are a couple from the site Orange County.(OC Weekly)
"Sheriff Carona helped my husband remove the front end of a van that had hit a water valve cement barrier near the back of the event tent." -Margit Aaron
I thought that is his job to PROTECT and SERVE he already gets paid for that
"I am an executive with long hair and a goat tee, but he highly regarded me formy work and positive leadership, thus recommending me to be on the Sheriff
Advisory Council." -Vance Lommen
"[Matthew] has learned things about his father that have been difficult forhim." -Susan ChallenDammit don't lock him up he might run for Governor
"He is a natural at speaking to crowds and, when asked
to speak, draws many more people to a function." - Brian Hews
"As his pastor, I have spent time with Mike in dialogue and prayer." -Timothy M.
Klinkenberg
The old dont lock him up because he is a Christian!
Leave it to rich pompous assholes to defend him, these are the same ones that recalled the previous Governor and elected this guy. If they think he deserved this money why didn't they give him a raise? Hopefully they send him to prison where he can get to know the other world outside of OC, thinking San Quentin State Prison. Don't drop the soap!
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I'll bet the boys can't wait till Convicted Felon Ex-Sheriff Michael Carona's friend Jim Gilchrist is convicted for his serious and numerous crimes.
Carona has a lot of criminal friends, like his pal Jim Gilchrist. Gilchrist gave 12 pages of space in his book to Convicted Felon Michael Carona. Then Gilchrist claims he did not know Carona, then Gilchrist shows up at Carona's trial and publicly says Convicted Felon Ex-Sheriff should walk free from his crimes. Well from the following OC Register artical we know Gilchrist has committed perjury himself, among other more serious State and Federal Crimes.
Jim Gilchrist sues illegal immigrant activists again The Minuteman Project founder said he wants to make a group of former fellow activists "as miserable as possible."
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/gilchrist-project-courtney-2377719-stewart-minuteman
BY CINDY CARCAMO
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist has filed another lawsuit against fellow activists, about two years after he dropped the first saying he wanted to refocus on immigration enforcement.
"We dropped it and thought they would just go on their way and they didn't," said Gilchrist of Aliso Viejo. "They pulled the shenanigans of suing me under my own corporate name."
Gilchrist's suit, filed in March under Minuteman Project Inc., names several former fellow activists, Barbara Coe, founder of California Coalition for Immigration Reform, Marvin Stewart, and Paul Sielski. Anti-illegal immigrant activist Deborah Courtney is for now excluded from the suit because she has filed for bankruptcy, but could later be included if a bankruptcy court permits her to be named as a defendant, court documents state.
The suit alleges that the group stole a donor database, about 20,000 of the organization's letterhead with Gilchrist's signature, and funds from corporate bank accounts, among other accusations.
Coe wouldn't comment for this story. Sielski, Stewart and Courtney, who have accused Gilchrist of embezzlement and fraud, said the suit is meant to be a smoke screen to confuse the public.
The lawsuit is just the latest maneuver in a string of back-and-forth suits that started in early 2007 between two groups that were once united and among the most vocal and powerful voices against illegal immigration. The infighting has left the Minuteman Project fractured, with both sides claiming they run the organization.
The trouble began in late 2006 when some group officials expressed concerns over fundraising and suspected irregular bookkeeping. Stewart and Courtney said Gilchrist couldn't address the suspected discrepancies so they and others voted him off the board of directors.
The major source of contention stems from whether Courtney, Coe, Stewart and others were executive board members as they've claimed or advisory members without the power to oust Gilchrist, as he contends. That's why Gilchrist claims that he is the rightful owner of the Minuteman Project and not them.
"They knew that all the time and they decided they would be governing board members and stole the bank accounts," Gilchrist said.
Courtney, Stewart, and Sielski contend they are the true Minuteman Project and that Stewart is the current president of the organization.
Courtney provided the Register with documents of registration of charitable organizations for the Minuteman Project Inc. in several states -- such as Oregon, Alabama and Michigan -- listing her as a "Secretary-Board Member."
"He has sworn under penalty of perjury that I am a member of the board of directors," Courtney said about Gilchrist. "He was legally terminated. He should never have been allowed to file these lawsuits under the Minuteman Project."
Courtney claims that Gilchrist has been embezzling money from the organization, spending donors' money to file lawsuits against the group.
She claims Gilchrist dropped his first lawsuit against the group because he knew he was going to lose.
Stewart said he laments what's happened, stating that all he wanted was an audit of the Minuteman Project and transparency from Gilchrist.
"We never wanted it to get to this point right here," Stewart said. "It has truly been a black eye to those involved in the movement."
Contact the writer: ccarcamo@ocregister.com or 949-553-2906
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