What would that mean? Bradley Zeve runs the @mcweekly for a profit. If the weekly isn't
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buying its tickets like everyone else would - then the Panettas' provide access to the Weekly, so Zeve profits - creates the "appearance" of impropriety and undo influence.
Now how often has Bradley Zeve reported on Jimmy Panetta's FBI problem?
Zero.
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EPILOGUE
Tomorrow morning @RepJimmyPanetta's cop cousin will have a hearing on his gun possession (over 100 illegal guns), bombs, bomb making supplies and dope. Specifically meth. Crystal meth.
Will the Weekly cover it? Or do those Panetta Institute elbow rubbings change
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the way news is reported in Monterey County?
This is a developing issue, the likes of which Monterey County has never seen before.
"Callahan, the former president of World Jai Alai, was shot dead by John Martorano, one of Bulger’s hitmen.
Martorano testified he was working for Bulger when he killed Callahan, who was also a friend of his. Bulger wanted Callahan dead" bostonherald.com/2021/02/12/dis…
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"Movies from “The Departed” to “Black Mass” have dramatized Bulger’s brutality. But for Mary Callahan, the sadness remains on a loop. A victim-witness representative from Florida keeps her informed, but she has shared with the Herald that the loneliness is ..."
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"a fate that often feels like a sentence all its own, especially in her later years."
☝️☝️
Victims of Organized Crime pay real consequences.
In Monterey County we have a guy who has traded on that "joke" his entire career.
Isn't it interesting how we will be open to entire serial television shows portraying public corruption in places like Baltimore (@AoDespair)
Lotta corrupt "black" officials portrayed and we know there is a lot of corruption in big cities.
But an insular tourist / ag town
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run by the most powerful white dude in California - @LeonPanetta12 - and he doesn't even get asked about corruption in real life.
The best capture of Monterey County is when a lot of social justice warrior white women (mainly) have to deal with an abusive man and sex.
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But in reality we have it all - really.
A big public hospital - run by a good old boy white dude becomes the fiscal agent for up and comer UCLA educated, Latina attorney - becomes the laundry machine for a legal grant from the Packard Foundation, to fund a $90,000 a year
... this is @MCoSheriff Derrell Simpson. He is in charge of internal affairs.
Three months ago I had a conversation with Simpson about a probable violation of Penal Code section 115, causing a false document to be publicly filed.
@AdeleFrese asked the sheriff deputies to perform a welfare check on Salinas Police Officer Gabe Carvey. Carvey wasn't answering his phone and made some comments about his state.
County communications (so @WendyRootAskew's oversight responsibility) manipulated the document
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to read "Dana Carvey" so the public would not find this record and be alerted to a growing scandal within @SalinasPD.
It's called burying the clues.
Cmdr. Simpson assured me they were opening an investigation and would also provide me a copy of the record per my request.
Here is @SVMHS former CEO Sam Downing who gave all his friends and family high paying jobs with one of the largest employers in Monterey County.
Sam was in trouble and this was CYA. 2004 & 2005!
SVMH was getting looked at and political considerations kept Sam from prison IMO.
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That word salad between Sam Downing and Wylie Mitchell above is CYA for investigators so they could show Sam's hiring of Roger Duke was all above board. Duke is a self-described Real Estate Developer. The reality is Roger was a Sacramento failure. He once had an office at the
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top of Sacto's most iconic Capitol area skyscraper.
The building had just been built in 1985, in 1986 I met Duke in his Capitol Mall building to ask him some questions.
I was a real young guy,
just starting out and have to admit - I thought Duke was the picture of success.
This is former Monterey County sheriff Mike Kanalakis in a deposition when the topic of whether or not cops should hang out with convicted felons.
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Years earlier this was NEWLY ELECTED sheriff Mike Kanalakis giving permission to then @MCoSheriff Sgt. Mike Richards who was asking permission to hang out with David Drew, a truck broker and mutli-felon.
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