Thursday, January 6, 2011

Irvine Valley College "Hometown Hero" Mike Carona heads to prison

So much promise, but then....
O.C. ex-Sheriff Carona headed to prison (OC Reg)
Former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona is headed to prison, after a federal appeals court on Thursday upheld his witness-tampering conviction.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that U.S. District Judge Andrew Guilford did not abuse his discretion when he declined to grant a defense motion to suppress evidence based on alleged prosecutorial misconduct…..
     On the 4th of April, 2003, the Irvine Valley College Foundation issued this press release:
...The Board of Governors of the Irvine Valley College Foundation announced today that Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona will be the guest of honor at the annual IVC Foundation Awards Dinner, to be held at the Irvine Marriott Hotel … The theme of this year’s dinner will be “Securing the Future.” “We are proud to announce that Sheriff Carona will receive our Hometown Hero Award and will be acknowledged for his contribution to the community” ….
At IVC: treated like a rock star
     That Carona was corrupt was already evident in the late 90s: see. In the new millennium, the sense of corruption surrounding Carona only grew, though it was overwhelmed for a time when, in the course of the Samantha Runnion kidnapping case, Larry King dubbed the camera-friendly Carona "America's Sheriff." His (meretricious, engineered) celebrity was such that President Bush felt compelled to name Carona as a member of his Emergency Response Senior Advisory Committee on Homeland Security in 2003. We all felt much safer, I'm sure.
     You can thank TOM FUENTES for the "hometown hero" business and for so many other things that have tarnished the reputation of the SOCCCD and its colleges.
     That's why Tom is DtB's SOCCCD "creep of the decade"!
     I believe that Carona's last "heroic" (and pious and patriotic) appearance at IVC occurred three years ago, just six weeks before his federal indictment on charges of corruption. (See.)

At IVC, three years ago: 9-11? Sure. But also: a fine photo op. Behold the piety, the patriotism, the abject goodness on display. The Lord must have been pleased.
Pictured: John Williams, Raghu Mathur, Dave Lang, Mike Carona, Don Wagner, unidentified official, student trustee, Glenn Roquemore

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Justice!

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