Former District Attorney John Phillips, now county supervisor, was in the MoCo DA's office when a narco-trafficker was implicating the Saunders/Brass Rail/Dave Drew/Gordy Legault/ Cannery Row trafficking ring in the county. He had his buddy in the DA investigator office interview
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the cooperator, the informant, the trafficker. That investigator was Richard Lee who had been recently rejected by @DEAHQ for a job as an agent, who sat down with the informant then later devised a statement that said in his "expert opinion" the informant was unreliable.
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That investigator is now a MoCo private investigator with a lucrative contract with the MoCo courts. The investigators daughter works with him on PI jobs.

Richard Lee's daughter is married to the Bull & Bear (@MontereyPolice) Bar's former owner and son of a GM dealer out of
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Hollister CA who was implicated in a stolen car ring which allegedly included on of the (Ricky) Cabrera brothers.

Yet @RepJimmyPanetta knows nothing about this history? The history of his dad's confidants?

Nah.

It's rigged folks.

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It's stunning that in my area, our local leaders in journalism at @salnews, @MontereyHerald, @mcweekly have never reported on or looked into the sort of influence being peddled when the local Congressman (@RepJimmyPanetta) has a consultant (Plasha Will) who financially benefitted
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Did you have any knowledge of Mike Bitar's felony fraud case that was prosecuted by the Monterey Co. District Attorney's Office where you worked?

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District 1: @SupervisorAlejo
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