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.
Monterey County is just an example of
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Trumpism across this country. People are growing tired of the rigging and they should be.
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But let's go back to the very fine people on both sides. Judge Tom Wills gave @CRLAinc former "investigator", LULAC Chris Padilla's grandson an easy bit for a guy in possession of GUNS and drugs and cash.
Why?
Because he is LULAC Chris's grandson.
Idolizing El Chapo.
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... @SalinasPD is in the bag for John Phillips and company - rough edges are smoothed over and justice is a disparate state in MoCo.
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The lobbying group with overlap and some history with Padilla. The MCCIA, huge surprise. Sal Palma Jr. is the grandson of Salvatore Palma, (Monterey) - Sal Palma was partners in the development of the Sheraton in Monterey (fmr. the San Carlos) which would become the Marriott.
John Fickas has a Marsden Hearing today where he will claim he had ineffective counsel following a plea deal that got him 28 years 8 months for multiple rape cases.
The twist? Fickas is a key figure in a MoCo bribery probe involving many public officials. His counsel? A 43 year
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old @GavinNewsom appointed to the local judicial bench.
Gavin Newsom made John Fickas' public defender a judge.
That smacks of a pat on the back for a job well done - putting out a huge dumpster fire.
Fickas sued Mike Hackett and Sal Jimenez (and others) on a PI claim.
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The story was NEVER reported on by @bradleyzeve's managing editor @maryrduan - who considers Hackett a WYSIWYG sort of "buddy".
Sal Jimenez is partners with his Uncle Hector Campos in Bankers Casino a card room in #Salinas.
"Endorsement Flap costs Bernal" read the headline.
That wasn't remotely accurate. The endorsement flap cost Miller - as intended.
There is a lot to this article - Chris Marohn worked on this and other issues. Chris Marohn was paid by John Phillips' campaign manager Plasha Will
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it was an effort to install a sheriff who would look the other way on the Monterey County organized crime syndicate - of sorts - with INTERNATIONAL ties.
* think Panama Papers.
Sheriff Miller wasn't able to be bought, wasn't a "team player" and after winning office in an
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unlikely upset in 2010 - Miller went on to quickly fire sheriff employees / COPS who were breaking the law. Not the patrol cops but high ranking mgmt officers.
The narcs of @MCoSheriff then targeted one of Miller's drug addicted sons - as an opening salvo into a 4 year
.@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
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
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.