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
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criminal conduct occurring within Salinas. McMillin's long term landlord was Robert Warren "Soxie" Silacci who has an extensive criminal record dating back to at least 1970 when, as a young Chico State Student, Silacci was arrested and convicted of importing hash in a camel
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saddle imported from Morocco.

Later, in Santa Cruz circa 1985, Silacci's close associate was raided by the @DEAHQ for selling chemicals that could be used to convert cocaine base into a usable form.

That associate was Todd Loomis and a year after his Santa Cruz chemical
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shop was raided - Loomis went missing and later was found dead in a remote portion of Boulder Creek CA.

In the small world of insider baseball the current police chief of @MontereyPolice has a connection to Santa Cruz. His dad was a DA (after a long career with SJP) in SC
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around the time Soxie Silacci and his associate chemist were living in Boulder Creek.

... when the public wonders (as the public frequently does) why it takes so long to hold the rich and powerful, well connected accountable? It's these sorts of dynamics that influence
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decisions on who to reign over with the long arm of the law.

We have seen a lot of this in the last decade in particular.

#EnoughIsEnough

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To the best of my knowledge it was never fully investigated by the @FBISanFrancisco - but should have been.

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The data holds up. Why did the federal officials fail to investigate the fraud that occurred then?

9/11 had just happened, diverting resources to terror.

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"He said officers are aware of people who are “involved in crime,” namely those on probation and parole.
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Los Angeles County where Lee Baca is in prison until 2022.
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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.

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