John FICKAS is a political consultant who just plead out to rape (multiple counts). Fickas' case was initially buried (while @Kelly_McMillin was chief of @SalinasPD) and only came to light a little over two years ago.

And then the @FBI came to #Salinas to interview connected Image
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people about campaign finance money laundering (A VERY BIG DEAL) after decades of abuse, behind the scenes deal making and bribery.

Fickas was funded, in part, by Mike Hackett - a Salinas based pizza maker and cocaine trafficker who is a major player in the local marijuana
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a multi-billion dollar market in Monterey County's #Salinas Valley.

Mike Hackett isn't supposed to be in the weed business because he is now a convicted felon but MoCo never ceases to amaze in its lawlessness and corruption.

Mike Hackett runs around with
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.@SalinasPD's close personal friend Ricky Cabrera. A labor contractor who has familial connections to an illegal stolen car ring, a man on the run and hiding in Mexico, a brother who murdered a single mother for the insurance money - yet the local cops and politicos continue
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their improper relationship with all these men -

AT THE EXPENSE OF THE COMMUNITY.

@RepJimmyPanetta is silent on this matter because he is involved.
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And these are just some of the details @bradleyzeve's managing editor left out of this half-assed piece on a major change in the Fickas ongoing ordeal which threatens to bring down many MoCo elite.

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The man on the left is David Armanasco. He has been doing free public relations for @MCoSheriff Steve Bernal. 🤔

He is best buds with Leon Panetta.

The @mcweekly met with Armanasco as Steve Bernal was poised to enter office (from deputy to sheriff) and agreed to go easy. Image
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And they have. six years later the sherif stories have a soft touch. They round off the edges

The rigging of American politics is happening in plain sight. We need to pay attention or we will be right back at another Trump.

Armanasco is in the above photo with the sommelier Image
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from the Sardine Factory. One of his "paying clients".

So is Steve Bernal's public relations really free? @CA_FPPC.

No. It isn't. Steve Bernal's PR is paid for by the same well connected and questionable business men that steered a deputy into the corrupt sheriff slot. Image
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What if the shoe was on the other foot?

Question: If the violent mob that attacked & took control of the Capitol on January 6th to interfere with congress' constitutional duty of counting & certifying the electoral votes from November's election

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were non-white & protesting against Trump, would they be charged, tried, convicted & sentenced to long prison terms for their crimes?

Answer: No

Why:

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This is NOT A PROTEST

This is a #coup. I don't care what the lame stream media people are calling it this is a coup, encouraged by Trump.

These are also the bulk of your DONORS Congressman.

* Panetta takes a lot of money from rich, right-wing autocrats who helped install
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A 12 year deputy as Sheriff of Monterey County. Why?

#CORRUPTION

Here are two of @RepJimmyPanetta's close associates and major funders of @AdeleFrese's @SalinasPD - Don Chapin's buddies and Jimmy Panetta doers. #MontereyCounty
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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

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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
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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)
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And this wasn't some dime bag weed dealer. Phil and a guy named Bruce Perlowin (Google it) ran $985,000,000 through
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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
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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
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.@MCoSheriff has the same problem x10.

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

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