With thanks to Hieronymous Bosch — and apologies to many underserved OC patients.
You need to read this story in today’s Voice of OC. I can only give you a taste of it, but it’s the sort of development that we may be referring back to years from now — including next year, when every member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors except for Shawn Nelson is expected to be making a play for higher (or at least other) office. This could affect a lot of races.
The FBI, Internal Revenue Service, 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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The FBI typically supplies agents who are experts in investigating corruption by public officials, such as solicitation of bribes, deprivation of services, election fraud and foreign corrupt practices. Former Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona was convicted of witness tampering in 2008 and sentenced to federal prison after an FBI investigation.
That the Feds are targeting corruption in the county — and, ahem, not leaving it to DA Tony Rackauckas to do it on his own — does not mean that corruption exists. The Supes deny it. Yet, the Grand Jury seems to think that something foul is afoot.
Sadly, it is the Grand Jury’s hypothesis that untoward behavior continues and is actively festering in today’s political environment. In point of fact, this and several other studies conducted by the 2012-2013 Grand Jury address the fact that corruption has permeated all levels of the organization, and does not apply only to elected officials positioned visibly in the public eye.
That’s not comforting.
(Why is Janet Nguyen suffering in a Hieronymous Boschian Hell in the graphic? Good question. Start your reading here.)
Just the tip of a very disgusting iceberg Greg.
No doubt cronyism is rampant in OC – but illegal? – I doubt it. IMO a waste of time and resources. No worse here than anywhere else – which is not an excuse – but a sad fact. Sounds like a BHO Admin witch hunt against conservative OC.
That is incorrect on two counts. It isn’t a witch hunt and OC isn’t conservative.
Go Feds!
Greg you are quite the artist man. Is that your work?
Is that Janet Nguyen in Purgatory or Hell?
She as her head in her own crotch! Hahhahhha.
Those are arms, not legs, sir, ergo not a crotch.
Yes, I produced this one a little over 500 years ago under my pen name (brush name?) Hieronymus Bosch. Found it again on the Internet yesterday and photoshopped it a little. Janet Nguyen’s face is surprisingly hard to render in Boschian style. (So eventually I gave up.)
Shes flipping the bird too.
Take it up with Bosch, not me.
An interesting take on this subject by former OC Treasurer Chriss Street.
“As America’s Most Republican County, it is not surprising that a Democrat Attorney General under a Democrat Administration would put powerful Republican politicians in their cross-hairs.”
rumor has it that bates and nguyen have retained the guy who got them elected in the first place. with greer on their side you know two things: first, they are guilty as hell, second, they will get off scott free
Has Greer gone up against the Feds before? Really?
apparently he took the fdic and a couple of banks to task last year in federal court for something like twenty million
and he has, again according to rumor, taken care of a couple of congressmen over the last couple of years
so who really knows
Don’t forget to visit Santa Ana……..I am pretty sure Michelle Martinez and Miguel Pulido have nothing to hide….