The guy on the left is being sentenced to 28 yrs, 8 months in prison for raping multiple women after drugging them. Some he met after @SUHSDofficial gave John Fickas access to children through the sports programs as a "coach".

No one has explained how that happened and how
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it became a thing.

John Fickas sexually assaulted a victim at former @CityofSalinas councilmember Sergio Sanchez's house. Sergio Sanchez is married to Lupe Sanchez. Lupe Sanchez is on the Board of the @MCOE_Now Board of Education.

There has been no coverage of Lupe's
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roll in the Fickas case other than to say when Fickas was in the bathroom with the drugged minor - she told her husband, Sergio Sanchez, Fickas had to leave.

And then the cover-up.

Why?

POLITICS.
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The Panetta's are right in the middle of this case but have been mentioned zero times in local coverage of this major political hot potato.

WHY?

They stack our school boards with these people because they are politically useful - then the schools try to distance themselves.

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Another great report from ⁦@Calkins_Royal⁩. Fact about Brannon, he loaned $20,000 to the DA for her ..

"Assistant DA Berkley Brannon declined to respond to questions from Voices about the investigation Thursday except to say it was being withheld." voicesofmontereybay.org/2021/04/01/sec…
maiden voyage into the world of politics in 2018. The DA ran unopposed to replace a troubled Dean Flippo.

Berk Brannon is married to Santa Cruz judged Denine Guy. So it's a small universe in the world of politics.

Berk Brannon is the number two at the DA's office and was
the DA who worked on another overtime time sheet scandal and that involves a then sheriff's sgt. named Joey Banuelos.

Brannon was awoken to the Banuelos file (that was sitting on the shelf somewhere at the DA's office in 2011) by @MontereyHerald reporter @grlreporter, who asked
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... when under federal investigation the best thing a subject of the investigation can do is remain silent.

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So what has @RepJimmyPanetta said about the federal investigation into John Fickas' campaign consulting he performed with his boss Plasha Will?

What has Jimmy Panetta said about the federal probe into his relationship with marijuana kingpin Mike Hackett & Mike Bitar?
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What has Jimmy Panetta said about his involvement in the bogus Monterey County pardon of criminal Dave Drew by @JerryBrownGov?

Nada.

Why?

Because he has a good advisor. The most powerful pol in the state of California - @LeonPanetta12.

@cmarinucci @johnrothmann

this:
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"I care about that wiretap more than I care about humiliating Hackett"

~ @maryrduan
@mcweekly managing editor
(who should be fired).

So tell us @bradleyzeve - since you're a news guy - going on four years later - who was on the Mike Hackett wiretap?
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Why the coverup?

... who is funding the @mcweekly?

@cmarinucci
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... they go on a legally treacherous path of trying to undermine others in the community - that's a problem for @bradleyzeve as their employer.

tick tock.
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#FakeNews

"The maximum penalty it could have imposed was $10,000; they declined to do it in this case, the decision states, is because they didn't find any evidence the SVLG or Wayland intended to conceal, deceive or mislead the public." montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/fppc-din…
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Yesterday I spoke with Jenna Rinehart, commission counsel at the FPPC in the enforcement division.

The entry on the legal brief regarding Wayland's prior history of violations was not accurate.

Wayland failed to disclose the accurate source of loaned funds 2003-2004 and
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a 2008 investigation led to a $7,000 fine for Wayland.

(the total "loan" was from Don Chapin of Don Chapin Concrete and Scott Scheid of Scheid Wineries in the amount of $70,000).

That said, under FPPC rules prior violations do not necessarily mean a higher punishment.
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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.

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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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Sal Jimenez is partners with his Uncle Hector Campos in Bankers Casino a card room in #Salinas.

The card room was a long term desire for the boys
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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.

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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.

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