The FBI, IRS, District Attorney and U.S. Attorney’s Office have formed a task force to investigate reports of political corruption in Orange County, the FBI confirmed Wednesday.
The state’s Fair Political Practices Commission, which enforces campaign reporting laws and is investigating a majority of the Board of Supervisors, as well as the board of CalOptima, also is working closely with the task force, according to county sources.
No details were made public about individuals or specific areas of corruption being investigated by the task force, but Los Angeles FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said it was formally created in April….
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It's about time. Of course Carona was only the beginning...remember when he used to come around and everyone tried to be in the photo ops with him? Whatever happened to that IVC scholarship that was named for him? Don't you lose it how they just scrub away the past as if it never happened? Nobody ever fesses up or even expresses anger or regret. That why it is so F-ked up.
Carona was declared IVC's "Hometown Hero" by the Foundation. Perhaps that was connected with the scholarship.
Right you are about everything. I have photos of Roquemore happily accompanying Carona where he could pontificate about patriotism, family values, and whatnot.
And none of those people came out and distanced themselves from him during the trial, conviction or incarceration. Then they scrubbed him from the official history of the college and district. Psychologists have terms for this kind of behavior - and also detail the ramifications of it. This is how they are able to overlook continued misbehavior of others.
The county's problem with corruption are mirrored at IVC - and to a much lesser degree in the district as a whole (now that Mathur and Fuentes are history). But the corruption and mismanagement are rooted in cronyism, nepotism, with tinges of sexism and racism. The Board should take note.
Question: when does mismanagement become corruption? When it is tolerated and cultivated to benefit the few.
They've been getting away with it for YEARS in this county from the lowest to the highest. Whenever someone does get caught (e.g., Carona) they act like it never happened and keep on course. They protect each other until they can't anymore, then they just forget and smile for the cameras one more time. They aren't anymore real journalists asking real questions - that's how they survive. And the public would really like to not ever know.
And this federal investigation of our county relates to higher education how?
Looks to me like nothing more than a strategic, highly coodinated plan by those Dems in power to break the Republican monopoly in the OC for the upcoming midterm election.
8:46, for many years, the politics of the SOCCCD board were tried to the county party and thus to the Board of Supervisors. The FPPC is involved in this investigation; two years ago, I pursued an FPPC complaint against trustee Fuentes in connection with his lobbying activity that related to the BOS. As usual, you don't know what you're talking about.
8:46 What Dems in power? I assure you that neither the Obama nor the Brown administration have any interest in messing with OC politics. Roy's right -- you don't know what you're talking about.
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