... @PatThurston is talking about the EDD fraud that totals over $11 billion dollars. California needs to shore up fraud investigators and that will cost us $55 million dollars.
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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from a financial transaction with the sister of @juliepackard (Nancy Burnett) who gave a multi-million dollar Carmel Valley property to the consultant for a big break AND carried the note. The billion-heiress is Panetta's consultants "bank".
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
This means you @bradleyzeve and your white glove treatment of the Panettas.
"It’s impossible to look out on the current state of political discourse in this country and think that we are succeeding in our core mission of creating an informed electorate." presswatchers.org/2021/01/what-t…
"Both parties are corrupted by money, which has badly perverted the debate for a long time. But one party, you have certainly noticed, has over the last decade or two descended into a froth of racism, grievance and reality-denial."
"Defining our job as “not taking sides between the two parties” has also empowered bad-faith critics to accuse us of bias when we are simply calling out the truth. We will not take sides with one political party or the other, ever."
Who is Mike Bitar and what is his history in Monterey County politics?
Why is every sub-lease Bitar creates for his primary lease of Nader Agha's Moss Landing Marijuana Grow Facility requiring that tenants use your political consultant Plasha Will?
Is anyone on the Monterey County Board of Supervisors concerned that a cocaine trafficker has made a credible claim he was facilitating bribes to one (Alejo) or more (Phillips) supervisors and one of those supervisors (Phillips) has a long history of interfering
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with law enforcement investigations (Brass Rail, Cannery Row, First Cabin Ltd.) while maintaining they all know nothing about the @FBI coming to Salinas to interview at least two (more) people (@KSBW@amylarson25)
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who have knowledge about the Monterey County cannabis bribery racket here locally and across state lines?