Williams’ “proof” goes “poof”; Williams’ cred stays dead

     This morning, the OC Reg’s “Total Buzz” reported that John Williams’ guff about having a “transcript” of Todd Spitzer’s phone call with a PA/PG official was, well, way untrue:

Spitzer call transcript does not exist (OC Reg’s “Total Buzz”)

     When Public Administrator/Public Guardian John S. Williams broke his silence, accusing then-assistant district attorney Todd Spitzer of inserting himself into one of his office’s cases by fabricating a district attorney investigation and acting “in an irresponsible and reckless manner to further his own political/personal agenda,” he said he had proof.
     That proof, Williams told Total Buzz, was in the form of a telephone conversation transcript between the formerly high ranking assistant district attorney and a supervising deputy public administrator.
     In a Sept. 8 letter to the state Attorney General’s Office, Williams wrote that he included a copy of the Aug. 26 telephone conversation transcript between Spitzer and Williams’ supervising deputy public administrators.
     Total Buzz waited eagerly for the release of the transcript. But that transcript, as it turns out, simply does not exist.
     It turns out the document is not a transcript at all. Instead, it is notes scribbled down by Supervising Deputy Public Administrator Sheila Roberge following her Aug. 26 telephone conversation with Spitzer, Williams later told us.
     “We’re dealing with a matter of semantics,” said attorney Phil Greer, who is representing Williams. “There is a record of the phone conversation and it is an accurate representation of the conversation between the PA/PG’s office and Mr. Spitzer.”
     But according to Williams – and his attorney – Total Buzz can’t see the notes either. Without a transcript or even his supervisor’s notes we’ve seen no such proof of Williams’ claims.
     Spitzer, thought to be the heir apparent to the district attorney, was fired in late August after he began looking into allegations by a friend of the woman that the case was being mishandled by the Public Administrator/Public Guardian Office….

     OK, so you’ve got two choices. Either Williams is a big fat liar—or, he doesn’t know what the word “transcripts” means.
     I know John Williams. Either possibility is plausible.
     And, either way, the OC Public Administrator/Guardian is a jackass.

UPDATE: J. Frank Parnell of Red County/OC has added his two cents:

John Williams’ “Proof” goes “Poof!” – No Transcript Exists

...Just like in the old Sheriff Carona days, truth is the first casualty when politics are involved. District Attorney Tony Rackaukas’ girlfriend Peggi Buff is the second-in-command under John Williams. Michael Schroeder’s wife is T-Rack’s new second in command. Carona may have fallen, but the Schroeder-Rackauckas apparatchik remains in place. This nepotistic power structure within the DA and the PA/PG offices is more appropriate for La Cosa Nostra, not for the County’s halls of administration....