Laurie Smith, Santa Clara's long term Sheriff is under continued investigation by @SantaClaraDA for corruption.
Monterey County's @SheriffBernal who was a deputy, backed by $1,000,000 of partially #DarkMoney to become sheriff so @MCoSheriff could continue enabling
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large criminal operations in insular MoCo - is under @FBI investigation for corruption and it goes all the to @FBIWFO@TheJusticeDept review.
In hiring @cmtimestwo, predecessor at the City of Seaside the @CityofSalinas used a consulting firm Murray & Associates. The council was split in hiring Corpuz because Corpuz had significant baggage from Seaside and Tacoma Washington where he allegedly helped a murderous Police
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Chief cover up an insurance fraud - according to reports published at the time.
After the City of Salinas hired Corpuz he balked on paying back a $250,000 loan Seaside's council enriched Corpuz with,
when they hired him after Tacoma Washington.
Salinas then paid Murray &
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Associates $17,500 to advise on the selecting of a new police chief to replace the last scumbag they hired, Louis Fetherolf.
What did that $17,500 get the community? An insider in the form of @Kelly_McMillin who befriended narco traffickers and looked the other way at major
This is misleading. @CityofMonterey is an organized crime hub crucial to several large interests.
"Although Monterey is a low-crime city, Hober said issues such as thefts can be major issues to residents. He said there is at least one bike stolen a week." montereyherald.com/general-news/2…
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"He said officers are aware of people who are “involved in crime,” namely those on probation and parole.
“So, when we start having crime we can look in those areas,” he said."
That means @MontereyPolice are focused on Black & Brown when performing law enforcement duties.
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'McCarthy said. “I am confident Chief Hober’s experience, work ethic and education will continue to ensure Monterey remains a safe and outstanding community.”'
The CM that hired Hober was fired after lurid allegations of misconduct - a group of real winners. @HaffaAlan
Missing and declared dead since 1992 - Brian Montes got involved with Monterey County's drug dealing and money laundering crowd.
@SalinasPD's Joe Gunter was the Detective who just couldn't seem to figure out who murdered and disappeared the 1987 Salinas High School
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graduate - turned produce broker - turned truck broker.
The @salnews piece describes a drug dealer who was living in #Salinas when arrested in December of 1993 - after being tried in absentia in Yuma Arizona and convicted May 14, 1992. Montes wore a wire.
Montes got
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people on tape.
The @salnews piece also describes a Brian Montes as someone who worked for a Truck Broker in Hollister CA - what the piece doesn't say is Montes had set up his own Truck Brokerage in Salinas prior to his disappearance and presumed murder.
In 2002, Mike Hackett (convicted cocaine trafficker) was pushing to have his own @CityofSalinas Airport Hanger - just like Tanimura & Antle, and D'Arrigo Farms
Word on the street back then was Hackett was storing a Ferrari in a hanger at the airport and routinely made trips to
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Vegas in a plane that was made available to him - one question is whose plane was it and what hanger did Hackett park his Ferrari?
On or around the same year, 2002, Hackett was forced out of Valley Pallet (a business his father and mother created) for "unknown reasons".
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Just 8 years later (2010) as Marijuana legalization is on the table and coming to California, Hackett is well positioned to become MoCo's #Marijuana kingpin - he used money to buy greenhouses when the flower growers were going bankrupt from increased competition.
... and Salinas Mayor @kimbleycraig took over $40,000 in campaign cash from @SalinasPolice and Joe Gunter the former Mayor of @CityofSalinas (and supporter of narco-traffickers)
a nearly limitless budget for @MontereyPolice (though MPD seems unable to address real and serious crime like narco-trafficking and money laundering by the who's who in that city.
And here is Joe Gunter, ret. cop, writing a love letter to a drug dealer:
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and here is a corrupt former @MCoSheriff commander Mike Richards asking permission to hang out with a multiple times convicted narco-trafficker "friend" of his in 2003.
This is long term and wide spread police misconduct that has rarely been addressed (but for 2011-2014)
Here is the problem, @GavinNewsom - California is awash in corruption.
You have said absolutely nothing about the corruption - the recall may have begun as a right-wing zero campaign but, like the last recall, which put in @Schwarzenegger, your recall is about more now.
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and it will grow to become more than just a farce. Once qualified it's a real issue - for you.
@TomSteyer will jump in and then it's an entirely different thing.
Here is something no one wants to talk about openly, including @cmarinucci.
The entire pardon was rigged and involved some of the biggest players in California politics - including right-wing county supervisor "Judge" John Phillips.
... also you just appointed a 43 year old white woman to a judgeship in MoCo.