BREAKING: Guillory Guilty on Two Counts in Election Fraud Case

By
Greg Diamond
– November 18, 2015Posted in: "The OC", Fresh Juice

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Guillory and the Fateful FormsOJB has learned (as of 11:40 a.m.) that former Assessor Webster Guillory has been found guilty of two counts in his election fraud case.  The case arose from a complaint by his former opponent and former employee Jorge Lopez.

We’ll have more details as they come up, including (hopefully) the date of sentencing.

Meanwhile, here are some OJB links you can read for background:

Vote Lopez for Assessor, Because Whether by Guilt or Guile, Guillory’s Goose is Cooked  (May 29, 2014)

JORGE LOPEZ Complaint on Guillory Sigs: the Final Pre-Election Word from the DA is … Silence! (June 3, 2014)

Jorge Lopez’s Accusations Lead OCDA to Charge Webster Guillory with Three Felonies. Now Vote for Guillory. (Sept. 9, 2014)

Who Diverted Webster Guillory from the Road to Retirement to the Pathway to Prison? (Sept. 10, 2014)

Judge Throws Out Felony Charges Against Webster Guillory, Because We Live in Orange County, So of Course (March 25, 2015)

For the record: despite the title of that Sept. 10 story, the prospect of prison for Guillory — who could be sentenced to two years plus a whopping $2000 fine — seems remote.  If we want to stick with the letter “P,” we could rewrite that as “the Pathway to Probation … or Parole … or Pardon … and in any event to Pretty Prodigious Pension.”  Or it could be the “Wroad to Wristslap.”  Still, the jury has determined that the law specifically written for this sort of situation does mean exactly what it says it does — which is good.

About Greg Diamond

Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)