Solid tip from solid citizen of #MontereyCounty@mcgreevy99 - this case is now in your neck of the woods. Alleged torts and other bad acts in a civil case that started in MoCo and was ordered transferred to Los Angeles by Judge Marla Anderson.
Monterey County is desperate to keep #CannabisCommunity cases out of the news.
In part because the @FBILosAngeles AND @FBISanFrancisco are looking into public corruption allegedly taking place here, with very well known public figures.
(1) John Phillips
(2) Luis Alejo
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(3) Plasha Will
(4) Jimmy Panetta
These are just a handful of public officials caught up in an increasingly strident campaign to get. them. out. of. trouble.
Monterey County has a long history of public corruption, illegal drug trafficking with foreign nation states
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and gun running.
County Supervisor John Phillips was at the tip of one such investigation over 30 years ago when marijuana kingpin Bruce Perlowin and Monterey Fisherman Phil DiGerolamo ran dope from areas like Panama and Nicaragua + other Central American dope manufacturers.
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That maiden voyage led to federal prison for both Perlowin and DiGirolamo and later a pardon for the latter - by @BillClinton .
John Phillips was a young District Attorney at the time with a fondness for boat captains of the Taylor Day.
(One of the Taylor Day fleet was
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seized by the Nicaraguan government)
Fast forward to 2020 and a facade built with a lot of payola is crumbling as the country deals with movements that are speaking out about rampant corruption within our own local government.
What’s the battle like?
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This stack of papers cost $103.00 at .50 cents per page. A ridiculous fee as the @FACoalition knows all to well.
One hundred and three dollars for access that amounts to a small blade of light in an already closed door.
For a marijuana case, alleging corruption.
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Not unlike teachers having to buy their own supplies OUR government charges fees which REDUCES the public’s access. Reduces transparency & accountability.
And people like our local elected officials seem just fine with that.
Let's not kid ourselves, @FelixKSBW - we both know, and we both can prove that the City of Salinas City Attorney is acting as a defacto "board member" of the city council via his advice that is above their competency and while breaching duties to remain counsel for the entity.
And the same can be said for Les Girard, and prior to that Charles McKee, because of the manner in which they insert themselves in decision making while hiding behind attorney-client privilege, illegally, attempting to claim public record memorandums they issue our elected are
advices. Their advice, when they breach the (Entity Client >< Attorney ) bubble and give advise illegally, thereby making the work product a public record.
The records will show that Les Girard knew of the Conflict @AdamsSupervisor had by employing Det. Archie Warren's sister
Here is an @latimes article that was Public Relations driven. Mike Kanalakis was sheriff (and a corrupt one at that) and he was in the election fight of his life. Or as Kano saw it, life and death, because Kano LOVED glad-handing and freebies.
I had just put Scott Miller into
the 2010 @MCoSheriff's race and Kano, as Sheriff Kanalakis was called, was punishing everyone. Kano was afraid of my truths and what I knew about his past conduct so he largely kept his Miller attacks to political ads making Miller look bizarre. (notice I do that here on Twitter
now as an Ode to Brandon "Thailand" Gesicki's style of politicking. (The one thing Joe Livernois over at @VoicesofBay got wrong is, its Gesicki and Plasha Fielding Will who don't want their names mentioned ever - and Livernois and others cater to them, I don't give a shit)
@B1968Big@TajhaLanier@stevemcshane@kimbleycraig@reym12 Jim Pia is scared. He told me so. We met at the sign installation with all the politicos wanted to take credit. Pretty sure this was long before Kelly McMillin was sued twice for sexual thuggery. We walked back to city hall together and I told him, it’s bad and I told him I had
@B1968Big@TajhaLanier@stevemcshane@kimbleycraig@reym12 gone to the FBI in 2021 after a host of people who were credible in the past, came to me to ask for help in laying out some details. One of them being award winning journalist Royal Calkins.
Jim just said “oh man, I’m a short timer” - meaning he is retiring in a few years. He
@B1968Big@TajhaLanier@stevemcshane@kimbleycraig@reym12 doesn’t want to hear that level of bad news because he is so close to being done. Gunter was corrupt. There is no 1/4 corrupt or 1/2 corrupt. Gunter was provably corrupt. And I liked Joe. We always got along but in his last two years he grew more secretive - then dies on me.
It’s shocking the lack of ethics that exists within @SalinasPD.
When I say this I’m talking about leadership and that begins and ends with a Chief.
Kim Craig, @CityofSalinas’ right wing Mayor is outted by her neighbor (quite innocently) as residing in “her” home with
Bobby Richardson, who fits the textbook definition of common law partner under California and federal law on Willow Street in South Salinas.
Craig was so alarmed that this truth was revealed she sent me a threatening letter on City letterhead to no longer speak about her South
Salinas residence. The panic of Craig was inspired by the fact that Craig had just run for Supervisor against Glenn Church and Regina Gage and lost spectacularly BUT Craig used her North Salinas condo to qualify as her domicile for legal purposes even though she was living on