It's true Jimmy, your consultant Plasha Will was involved and associated with John Fickas, a man who nearly pled guilty to the rape and sexual assault of several minors.
Fickas is a political consultant. Fickas is a key figure and witness in a Monterey County public corruption
probe. Fickas, on Thursday, March 26, 2021 - while being prepared for sentencing at a predetermined 28 yrs 8 months suddenly fired his lawyer by requesting a Marsden hearing - which has its roots in Monterey County (1968).
Fickas is going to say that he had ineffective
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counsel and that the process was rigged.
The interesting twist? Fickas' attorney is/was Jennifer Davenport. Jennifer Davenport was just made a judge in MoCo by soon to be recalled governor @GavinNewsom.
It seems obvious to me that Fickas will claim that his own lawyer
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who, was just appointed to a judgeship, wasn't looking out of Fickas' best interests and steered him toward a settlement with the District Attorney in an effort to quiet a HUGE political hot potato.
This is going to be dicey and it touches on Gavin Newsom's involvement in
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MoCo politics.
(keep in mind @JerryBrownGov rigged up a pardon for a fmr. cocaine narco-trafficker Dave Drew in 2018 - Dave Drew and Cannery Row have overlap and Jerry Brown's own dad has deep connections to Cannery Row - it's a small world)
Guns, money and drugs - nothing good is coming from this and in this area, politics is upsetting the apple cart. The middle kid is @LULAC (Castroville) Chris Padilla's grandson.
Judge John Phillips and @LeonPanetta12's buddy - so much so Judge Tom Wills ...
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helped out.
.@PhillipsForSup "the kingmaker" steered Wills into judgeship. Wills is a former partner of cocaine lawyer Bill Bryan - the final iteration of that firm was Bryan, Ames, Wills & Benoit.
(Don Chapin, Sam Farr, Dennis Donohue, "Judge" John Phillips)
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Chapin, Farr, Donohue and Phillips all PAY @RepJimmyPanetta's consultant Plasha Will big money - and for that Plasha Will performs "political miracles".
There isn't anything miraculous about it - the entire system is rigged folks.
.@GavinNewsom surprised everyone by appointing this public defender a judge in corrupt MoCo.
Within hours there was a controversy. It turns out Jennifer Davenport (a product of Jesuit law school training - more on that later) was political consultant John Fickas' attorney
and he was about to receive a sentence of 28 yrs 8 months for rape and sexual assault.
Yesterday, one day after Jennifer Davenport was appointed a highly sought after judgeship - Fickas filed a Marsden Motion.
A Marsden Motion is where a judge, counsel and
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defendant meet without the DA.
Politicos had BREATHED A SIGH OF RELIEF because they thought they had their "fat toes in back rows" silence Fickas - because Fickas has evidence of public corruption.
The case continues. Davenport's appointment now looks suspect - as
Mary Duan begged me to be a source for her 2010-2014. In 2014 Duan approached me at a campaign function to commiserate about a guy named Jeff Woods who had harassed her minor son, at the time.
From 2014 - 2019 I had a working relationship with Duan until I cut her off in 2019.
The reason I cut her off is because I found her to be dishonest. She was covering up an appellate decision for her "friend" Mike Hackett a local cocaine trafficker and marijuana kingpin.
... in Dennis Donohue's problems, some of the roads lead to Bruce Taylor.
In 2012 Dennis Donohue put his personal residence solely in his wife's name. He said it was for "estate planning purposes" yet Donohue did it at the very moment he was under scrutiny from @TheJusticeDept.
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Vanessa Vallarta went out of her way to cover for Donohue - beyond what is required as the City Attorney. She was later. made a judge.. Vallarta is a close associate of former Salinas Mayor @CASenCaballero - who started Salinas down a corruption hole.
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Billionaire AG CEO Bruce Taylor of @YourTaylorFarms wrote an obnoxious letter to @salnews. In it he told publisher Paula Goudreau that he doesn't waste his time reading the news because he is busy doing more important things (like trying to rig a city to his favor?)
They didn't do any research into Dave Drew's continued criminal conduct or speak with any of the detractors of this process - who know what took place.
Governmental corruption OVERLOOKED.
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The message this sends criminals, and the reporters who have chosen to enable the criminals in our community is that Monterey County is for sale.
Trump was a symptom and @salnews hasn't been a newspaper for a very long time.
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The Californian reporters who wrote about Drew's 2018 "bogus criminal pardon" by @JerryBrownGov had access to much of the earlier reporting on Dave Drew and used none of it to perform a credible job of reporting the pardon Drew ultimately received.