.@MCoSheriff has the same problem x10.

Run by a crooked Deputy turned Sheriff in 2015, @SheriffBernal should be deported. 😂
2/

"The state Fair Political Practices Commission this month agreed to open investigations into two complaints filed by Schneider. One accuses the Monterey County Counsel’s Office of improper partisanship. We’ll get to that one in a bit."

voicesofmontereybay.org/2020/12/12/sta…
3/

"Over the past year, his research has revealed an apparent pattern of campaign law violations throughout Monterey County and an unwillingness by local authorities to take action"

voicesofmontereybay.org/2020/06/14/on-…
4/

'They liked it best when the resulting stories could be labeled with a headline or voiceover declaring something simple like “Charges Fly in Sheriff’s Race.”'

voicesofmontereybay.org/2020/06/14/why…
5/

"Caldwell denies he had a still but acknowledges that a SWAT team sergeant passed out after drinking too much of something and had to be taken away by ambulance."

voicesofmontereybay.org/2020/03/19/swa…
6/

'“A threat that a suspect may die if he does not cooperate is a clear due process violation . . . ,” Ed Hazel, who was then Monterey County’s managing deputy district attorney, wrote at the time'

voicesofmontereybay.org/2020/05/01/she…
7/

"Pickens approached prosecutor Rick Storms and asked how he might be able to arrange for an unnamed informant to avoid jail time."

voicesofmontereybay.org/2020/05/01/the…
8/

Some deputies miss seeing what's up and how bad it was but I wonder how candid the commentary is when I think - you had to be living in a box.
9/

"One deputy who worked a couple of shifts as a driver says his supervisor told him to turn in his time as overtime on the jail budget though he didn’t work in the jail."

voicesofmontereybay.org/2020/01/23/are…
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"Apparently in response to a Voices article last month, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office has been questioning Sheriff’s Department employees about overtime payments to several sheriff’s deputies"

voicesofmontereybay.org/2020/02/20/roy…
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[The rape case that turned into a federal @FBI corruption probe]

'“I don’t want anyone doing a Google search and finding Fickas and me in the same article,” one of the officials said to explain why he declined to be identified.'

voicesofmontereybay.org/2019/07/25/sal…
12/

"The members of the Deputy Sheriffs’ Association have No-Confidence in Sheriff Miller’s ability to effectively lead the Sheriff’s Office. We are in dire need of a leader."

voicesofmontereybay.org/2018/05/08/the…
13/

"Brandon Gesicki used every trick in the scoundrel playbook to convince voters that Miller was a bad guy and that the terribly unqualified Bernal was the better choice."

voicesofmontereybay.org/2018/08/02/the…
14/

A master work of fantastic #journalism by former @MontereyHerald editor @Calkins_Royal ... hard to ignore.

Unless you are the Monterey County District Attorney or any one of the MoCo Board of Supervisors.

Like:

@PhillipsForSup

@SupervisorAlejo

@SupervisorLopez
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26 Dec
Sounds like Steve Bernal.

"Kerik had affairs with not only his publisher, but also with a Department of Corrections employee. A day earlier, the News had run hard-hitting Kerik coverage, much of it discussing the undisclosed gifts from friends." villagevoice.com/2004/12/13/tha…
For reference Kerik was a mediocre tough guy NYPD street cop who suddenly sailed ahead in the dept. when someone picked him out, politically.

@SheriffBernal was a deputy until the MoCo right-wing (With the help of Democrats like @RepJimmyPanetta

2/

voicesofmontereybay.org/2020/11/13/mon…
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and his consultant Plasha Will) spent up to and over $750,000 installing as sheriff in the nastiest campaign in the @MCoSheriff history.

It was coordinated, it had a purpose and it was successful.

Both Kerik and Bernal undermine the integrity of our top law enforcement
Read 6 tweets
25 Dec
Phillip Vito DiGirolamo
N. D. Cal. 1984

Conspiracy to import #marijuana, 21 U.S.C. § 963; willfully subscribing to a false tax return, 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1)
______

And this wasn't some dime bag weed dealer. Phil and a guy named Bruce Perlowin (Google it) ran $985,000,000 through
2/

a money laundering entity called First Cabin LLC - located at? #CanneryRow

Isn't that right @MontereyPolice? <~ proud moment for MPD. All under their nose 😉

A bunch of cops wives worked for First Cabin LLC - which is odd.

These people ran boats Phil and his homeboys
3/

purchased for $11,000,000.00

They named their boats various versions of 'Taylor Day'

THE Taylor Day was seized by the Nicaraguan government.

What exactly were we doing in Nicaragua in the 1980s❓

Running dope, guns and money for an illegal war

Strange that Leon Panetta's
Read 9 tweets
24 Dec
* 2003

#DefundThePolice

A @MCoSheriff Sgt. Mike Richards asks newly elected Sheriff Mike Kanalakis for permission to fraternize with a convicted drug trafficker. #Sheriff Kanalakis gave it to him.
* 2010

A group of #corrupt local officials attached letters to the court during a "Certificate of Rehabilitation" effort which is the first step in a #Pardon process.

It was scandalous and partly caused Mike Kanalakis' loss to Scott Miller in 2010.

Fmr. @SalinasPD cop Joe
* 2010

Gunter was on board. So was two term sheriff Mike Kanalakis and soon to be fired Commander Mike Richards of the @MCoSheriff Department.

As was Supervisor John Phillips (a former DA and Judge) along with another @SalinasPD copper Gary "the grey fox" Edwards.

#Salinas
Read 10 tweets
24 Dec
Yup. Royal Calkins is correct here. All the crap the local media dumped on Christian Schneider is because he was getting "home-town'd". Schneider is the consultant who is driving many of the #corruption probes, unlike anything I've seen before, in #MontereyCounty.
2/

Dan Miller is former Sheriff Scott Miller's brother. He is right about one thing, the Bernal - Miller campaign was the dirtiest campaign in MoCo in my memory. Outrageously so.

Brandon Gesicki and Plasha Will were the two moving heaven and earth to get a deputy elected.
3/ The Gesicki / Will combo is especially odd because Brandon Gesicki typically only works for Republicans.

Plasha Will, @RepJimmyPanetta's consultant will work with anyone who pays her.

The @mcweekly loves to jab Gesicki while leaving Plasha Will in a protective bubble.

Why?
Read 4 tweets
22 Dec
... this appt. and the appt. of @AGBecerra who looked the other way while @JerryBrownGov pardoned a "former cocaine trafficker".

Newsom is a show. He does some of the moves which make him seem progressive but ... he was married to Kimberly Trump Jr. now a billionaire's daughter
2/

Newsom just told Black people what he thinks of @SenKamalaHarris legacy.

This is exactly how Black people are frosted out of the process. The powerful do it with a smile on their face, and they wonder why African (Americans) brought here 400 years ago in chains are upset?
3/

Every crooked politicians up and down the State of California got on their high horse and told @GavinNewsom what should happen, OR ELSE. And he did it.

Guys like @SupervisorAlejo, who is @AGBecerra buddy, a guy I cannot get to open an investigation on Alejo for his bribe
Read 5 tweets
18 Dec
The state of #journalism in Monterey County.

Wine lobbyist tweets out mystery tweet.

Managing editor of @mcweekly, forever on the lookout for #breakingnews quickly responds.

Meanwhile MoCo is saturated with BRIBE taking politicians and dirty businessmen who are ...
Robbing the community while killing newspapers.

Does that sound extreme?

This is a town billionaire telling @Gannett Salinas Cal. @salnews, he doesn't much care for the news ... BUT when he does, it better be sweet to him.

(Bruce Taylor of @YourTaylorFarms)
@DarwinBondGraha
It was public relations. That's the key news that dominates the interests of MoCo intelligencia while Rome burned.
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