This is a scumbag folks. Former Monterey County Sheriff Mike Kanalakis. An elected official so sleazy I once set up a meet with him in the back of Corral de Tierra in the parking lot of the Good Shepherd Church so he could tell me how much he would appreciate me not supporting
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one of his opponents. Then he told me he was going to have Fred Garcia arrested. Garcia was running against Kanalakis in 2010.
Mike Kanalakis one sued one of the #CanneryRow boys because he tripped and fell on their property while responding to an alarm call.
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Kanalakis liked to hang out at the gate house at Pebble Beach and an alarm call came in for Ted Balestreri's house. Kanalakis took the call - of course, and then his physically challenged self fell and broke his ankle.
Kanalakis sued and used Dean Flippo's law firm.
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Dean Flippo was Monterey County's bent DA for years after that private legal action.
Flippo was number two to then corrupt District Attorney Bill Curtis. Flippo's partner was John Phillips.
In 2014 @mcweekly's @maryrduan wrote about some of the Steve Bernal criminal overstepping that was taking place.
The 2020 rape convicted political consultant Fickas was coordinating kids in Salinas Union High School District and Alisal to get kids to do their dirty work.
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It was through these corrupt political operations, funded with Dark Money, coming from the usual suspects and working their way through to pay for child labor.
The person paying for this Op in part?
Plasha Will, @RepJimmyPanetta's paid consultant. Previously with Sam Farr.
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Plasha Will coordinated payments to this crew from Supervisor John Phillips (and others) campaign accounts.
Beyond @CA_FPPC violations that were never fully investigated - there are probably federal civil rights violations, this shit was pre-Trump but right outta
This is CA State Senator @CASenCaballero in 2001 when I confronted the @CityofSalinas regarding @SalinasPD promotional process that led to terrible promotions because the entire process was rigged & not on merit. They used this to promote people who looked the other way on
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clearly criminal conduct within the City of Salinas - where Caballero was just starting out as a new Mayor.
Ultimately @Kelly_McMillin was a beneficiary of this rigged promotional process, becoming chief in 2012 and retiring to work in in #marijuana in 2016/17.
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McMillin associated with known narco-traffickers as a police chief.
That was Anna Caballero's corrupt influence on Monterey County law enforcement. It wasn't the beginning and it isn't the end, but the unprecedented corruption experience in Monterey County - largely
But @supervisoraskew, in a stunning display of poor judgement, chose to sit down with the good old boys for a post election "getting to know you" chat.
There is no bottom folks.
On the call were Ricky & Rolando Cabrera. Their brother murdered a single mom, in an execution
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style killing. No one local cared because the woman was from the Fiji islands. Victor Cabrera then went on the run, fleeing to Guadalajara, only recently returned, tried and convicted.
Grade A community members under Don Chapin and Brian Finegan's group.
It has been 609 days since two @FBIWFO agents came down to Monterey County and Santa Cruz county to ask about bribery and public corruption from at least two individuals connected to politics and marijuana.
(once before killing any story connected to your problems)
While your father @LeonPanetta12 is the most powerful politician in California with worldwide credentials, and powerful friends - you're not.
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Is there a reason why you have failed to address this serious threat to Democracy, as some have called it, including the DC team in San Luis Obispo working corruption and marijuana?
Considering all the Oakland players in Cannabis working and conducting business in
.@SalinasPD is in a state of existential crisis. That should concern all of Monterey County - as well as the more powerful @MCoSheriff's dept. (@MontereyPolice)
Bernal was a deputy when $750,000 bought him a seat at the table. A deputy! With 12 years on the job. 12 uneventful years - Steve Bernal was never a barn burner, as my friends like to say. He was the dude who walked into