... I barely mention the owner of the Pine Cone. Possibly never. He runs a right leaning weekly for the nuanced Carmel crowd (mainly), has his own set of detractors and is largely irrelevant to Monterey Co. News.
Plus I was at a luncheon with one of his reporters
and she told me how much she didn't like @Calkins_Royal or his reporting.
It wasn't at that moment I knew, but it reaffirmed for me that the Carmel Pine Cone is not a serious paper. (somehow Paul Miller makes a lot of money).
DEAN FLIPPO was Monterey County's long term District Attorney after Bill Curtis (and a couple others). FLIPPO has been in charge of Monterey County's prosecution side of top law enforcement. @SheriffBernal, the @MCoSheriff is on the other 1/2 of "top tier".
FLIPPO has acted as
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as "legal advisor" for the Monterey County Peace Officers Association.
That position raises huge legal, ethical, and conflict of interest concerns. The conflict should be obvious to the ethical and knowing keepers of governmental ethics. Reg. agencies and others. The @FBI.
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Dean FLIPPO and John PHILLIPS were the two numbers twos to a corrupt former District Attorney - Bill CURTIS.
During FLIPPO'S tenure as District Attorney he prosecuted zero public corruption cases of significance.
Some public officials were prosecuted for crimes unrelated
.@SalinasPD chief @AdeleFrese hates #Salinas so much she tried to get hired in Texas for another job. Frese has done nothing to make Salinas a better city, a less corrupt city, a department with officers who are accountable to the public.
Case and point?
OFFICER GABE CARVEY
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.@SalinasPD OFFICER GABE CARVEY has an extremely unusual and close relationship with Rolando and Ricky Cabrera.
This is the Cabrera brothers scumbag brother who murdered a young, single mother from Fiji for insurance money so he could put more money into an organized auto
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theft ring that involved a number of prominent businessmen from MoCo and Castroville and a car dealer in Hollister CA.
That was over a decade ago.
And what's going on now?
It's worse, Monterey County is becoming more dangerous.
In Monterey County the voters elected a criminal to be top cop.
Steve didn't start out that way but he is a spoiled rich kid*, installed by hundred-millionaire oil and gas relatives AND Monterey County Agricultural giants like Bruce Taylor of @YourTaylorFarms and Dave Gil of
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Gil Onions and other massive, money making ventures. Dave Gil's son murdered someone in South County, all real hush-hush and all, being it's a local rich guy - and they kept the kid out of prison.
So you can understand what having the Sheriff in your back pocket means to
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them. Steve Bernal was also supported by the two big shots on #CanneryRow. Ted Balestreri and Burt Cutino.
Those two and their names have long been mentioned in many a whisper campaign about narcos, money laundering and organized crime.
Jimmy Panetta's sixty something year old cousin, John Panetta, is being ushered into *diversion* for 120 illegal guns, bomb making supplies (@MontereyPolice - John Panetta's brother Joe was Monterey Police too) and crystal meth - after a court process that dragged on
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secretly, and every so quietly since 2018.
There will be no condemnation from our local newspapers regarding this special treatment - they are all nearly deceased now, absorbed and dismantled by the hedge fund billionaires.
(Billionaire CEO of Oracle, Larry Ellison gave
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Leon a job - at 80, $425,000 per year and millions in stock)
So there will be no national uproar about what a joke our criminal justice system is, and how it's getting worse.
There will be no credible coverage of the Panetta's yet again - walking on the line of criminality
"Authorities believe that the ring was led by three men who were arrested Friday: Gordon Legault, 45, of King City; George Bernardasci, 50, of Hawaii, Richard Hurley, 25, of Prunedale.
"On Monday, officers at the East County Sheriff’s Station displayed one-pound bags of the marijuana. They also displayed other items confiscated in the case, including $25,000 in cash, a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol and an AK-47 rifle."
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"Pentis said 10 of the arrests came Friday when detectives stopped four cars on Parkway Calabasas in Los Angeles County on their way from Santa Ana to a drop-off point in Thousand Oaks."
CAO Charles McKee was allowed to send a claim to a secret office.
"According to multiple sources in county government, it was decided to turn that inquiry over to the county’s Office of Civil Rights because almost all of its work is deemed confidential." voicesofmontereybay.org/2021/02/26/ber…
Panetta's MOCO
"Because of family connections, Bernal is capable of collecting piles of campaign contributions from ag and South County oil interests. In past campaigns, he also has been helped by the Republican Party’s ability to tap into corporate political action committees."
Christian Schneider is telling the truth here. I know. I looked into every aspect of Steve Bernal. Then. Far deeper than anyone.
... someone should ask Brandon Gesicki what he knows. Someone like the @FBISanFrancisco.