Sheriff Carona to be indicted on Public Corruption Charges

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i'm amazed this guy has held on to his job as he has... just goes to show how apathetic oc residents can be. a guy like this in nyc or even LA wouldn't have lasted 6 months before public pressure booted him out the door.
 
<p>Now the question is. Does he quit or go on with a long drawn out court case? I will guess he folds his cards. </p>
 
<p>Yeah, right. How's Mayor V doing? Or maybe Assembly Speaker Nunez?</p>

<p>IMHO, it's good to see this come home to roost. OC is corrupt, not petty corrupt like some despot countries were you need a little bakeesh. But deep down, it's all pay for play and many things are stacked for minimum compliance to insure the advantage stays with insiders. Right down to the inept public information available online for RE.</p>
 
not to defend those other two, but they're involved in relatively recent controversies. in villaraigosa's case, the affair makes him guilty of douchebaggery, not corruption. but we have yet to see whether he'll get re-elected.





mike carona has been re-elected twice, once unopposed, even though sketchy details about him and his cronies surfaced as soon as he got the job. he's got a list of corruption charges longer than the rap sheet of anyone he's ever put behind bars and none of this is any surprise to people that have followed his decade-long term as sheriff. what's surprising is that no one in oc ever discusses it whereas local law enforcement is a huge topic in LA.
 
Heres the indictment: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/media/acrobat/2007-10/33557292.pdf">www.latimes.com/media/acrobat/2007-10/33557292.pdf</a>
 
<p>It is interesting, I have known a few officers in the Dept. and they've openenly admitted that things were not kosher there. Of course the blue wall is going to appear, its just a matter of how strong the wall is going to be.</p>

<p>-bix</p>
 
My next door neighbor is an OC sheriff and he is glad this is coming out. He thinks this guy and his cronies give OCS a bad name.
 
A few years ago, I remember a friend shared how Carona cell phone wasn't working in Sacramento. So he sent one of his men in to the wireless store. My friend felt bullied.
 
If your friend was one of his adjutants, that's part of his job. The head of any major police agency needs to have 24/7 communication capabilities.
 
I agree about the 24/7 capabilities. But back in those days when you have wireless services, it's mainly local. For example, if you're in LA county. Your coverage is mainly LA/OC areas. Beyond that you're at the mercy of the other local carriers. The phone doesn't switch over to another network "automatically" like nowaday. The phone user had to manually switch network on his phone from an A carrier to a B carrier.



So in his case, it wasn't that the phone was not working. It was him not knowing how to switch his phone over to another network. But one of his men came in and blamed that the phone is broken.
 
I suppose to put this in another context would be. He's issued a handgun but doesn't know how to take it off safety mode. Hence, the gun doesn't fire. Then complain that the gun is broken.
 
Looks like he is going to fold his cards afterall. Its on the wires. He is going to step down from "Day to Day" operations

so as to avoid the County Supervisors passing an ammendment to the charter to give him the boot. Sad situation. Its like its not a lot of money that changed hands. But its a perfect example of the "Good Ol Boys" network gone sour. Once you have high ranking officers willing to rat you out. The jig is up. He will plea it down to tax evasion and fade away without jail time. They have already offered him that from what I read today. He just did not take the deal on the first offer.
 
<p>Its no suprise to me. He maybe stupid, but he's smarter than trying to take on a system he used to work in. It surpises that all these guys try to think they can get away with it.</p>

<p>Oh well</p>

<p>-bix</p>
 
<p>Check with Trooper for verification, but I'm pretty sure all criminals go into things thinking they can get away with it. While there may be a few who think "I'm totally going to get caught" and proceed anyway, it must be a minute minority.</p>
 
Carona certainly had something not so figured out. I don't know what's more embarrassing, people knowing you were paid off or people knowing you were paid off for so little. He was a Mensa member or something, no stoop. But public service, not the place where you make so much, so every 10k here and there represented a big percentage of his salary. It seems like Haidl's son, and that whole thing really broke up the Carona, Haidl, Jaramillo trifecta-- or at least seemed to be the beginning of the end. They all had dirt on each other and now is all coming out. The tape where Carona tells Haidl to lie to the grand jury doesn't sound so good, I've heard. I think this will all lead to this decades house cleaning of OC higher-ups, as the 94 bankruptcy did.
 
The feds got Haidl on tax evasion. Read his plea agreement.





<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ocregister.com/newsimages/breaking_news/2007/10/haidl_info_plea.pdf">http://www.ocregister.com/newsimages/breaking_news/2007/10/haidl_info_plea.pdf</a>
 
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