Ben Swig owned Cannery Row before "selling it" to Ted Balestreri and Company. Brown was part owner
Ted Balestreri was implicated with his partner Burt Curtino of moving 20 to 40 pounds of cocaine "per delivery" in a huge 1988 Monterey County cocaine trafficking bust by @DEAHQ.
You see @cmarinucci & @Elex_Michaelson, THIS is what it looks like when you know California politics and refuse to bullshit the people - or cover for name brand pols who pull this level of corrupt crap without any pushback.
Jerry Brown, his parents partnership with Swig to Drew
So there I was getting a rapid COVID test (sold out) and who do I see? The guy who dumped #Salinas for #Marijuana.
Now I've known this sick puppy since 1988 when he was hired by SPD. He tries to
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shake my hand after calling me by name, the old pleasantries, and I told him to take his hand back, I'm not shaking it and he immediately blows up. Gets in my face and flips me off, comes up nose to nose with me like he wants to punch me and I ask him what's going on with
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the marijuana business and he is still yelling fuck you's and calling me an asshole. (This is a complete change from the 32 years I've know the scumbag) and he is still throwing F bombs, crying out "why don't you go back to your basement and get on Twitter". 😂
FLRish Inc. The company is backed by investors from Silicon Valley, and its board members include Willie Brown, the former San Francisco mayor and speaker of the California Assembly.
Californians have a right to expect you to do your job as Attorney General. Louie Alejo is suspected of taking bribes from a cocaine trafficker named Mike Hackett in exchange for information and support for his @RiverviewFarms_. Mike Hackett bragged about this.
Also, where there is smoke there is fire. The @CityofSalinas ran a PONZI Scheme out of the finance depT. They handed out bogus loans using rigged appraisals or other data to back their play - which was giving big money loans to political insiders and DONORS TO @CASenCaballero
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Californians deserve more than a bunch of political insiders covering for each-other while some are committing serious felonies as public officials.
It is incumbent upon you to take a strong stand against public corruption.
... Imagine if Madoff had been running a PONZI Scheme and he tried to send out a letter to investors that said - "hey, the real estate market is really bad so we have reduced the value of your assets 20% and it might get worse but we are doing a good job."
And it was all lies
And fmr. District Attorney Dean Flippo helped cover it up. The FBI never heard about this so the federal government wasn't informed about this serious criminal matter that took place at the @CityofSalinas.