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Mike CARONA

dubbed "America's Sheriff" by Larry King.

Was the sheriff for Orange County California

preliminary dig indicates Carona was enforcing immigration laws

after being assigned to an advisory committee for Homeland Security by George Bush

All of a sudden there's a very public indictment by federal prosecutors. after Local and state law enforcement and CA AG didn't file a case. Then the feds stepped in.

Considering the Blago pardon and the Impeachment scam.I'm thinking

'''Caronavirus Mike Carona '''

https://www.fulldisclosure.net/series/sheriff-carona-who-pushed-feds-to-prosecute/

Sheriff Carona: Who Pushed Feds to Prosecute? #VB52

12/05/2007

Los Angeles, CA. Why did the Orange County District Attorney and the California Attorney General decline to prosecute Sheriff Mike Carona? And, after declining to prosecute the Sheriff, who is a State Constitutional office holder, what prompted the Feds to pursue an indictment on alleged political corruption charges? The FULL DISCLOSURE NETWORK® presents an eight minute Video News Blog featuring clips from exclusive post arraignment interviews with the Sheriff, spokesman from the U. S. Attorney’s office, Special Assistant District Attorney, and Chairman of the Orange County Republican Party.

Here is a sampling of some of the questions raised:

Why is this a Federal Case?

Who is involved and why?

How high up did approval go?

Was it President Bush?

Was Carona’s policy to enforce immigration laws locally a conflict for the Feds?

Why did the Feds indict Carona’s wife?

Was the purpose to force him to resign?

Did local politicians want to select his replacement?

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/carona_corruption_trial_begins/1843338/

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona tarnished his office by accepting bribes, gifts and other payments, a prosecutor told a federal court jury Wednesday, but a defense attorney said the former lawman was a victim of a vicious vendetta by a fired member of his command circle.

Defense attorney Brian Sun said Carona took office in 1998 and gained support and popularity with ideas to take the Sheriff's Department into the 21st century. But he earned the wrath of George Jaramillo when he fired the assistant sheriff in 2004 for misconduct, Sun said.

"He fired a guy and invited retaliation," Sun said. "George Jaramillo goes crazy. He decides he's going to go after Mike Carona."

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Laguna left out of immigration talks

By BARBARA DIAMOND

MARCH 31, 2006 12 AM

If Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona uses sheriff’s deputies to enforce federal immigration laws, as proposed, Laguna Beach may be left out of the enforcement loop.

Laguna Beach is the only South County city with its own police department, unlike neighboring communities that contract with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office for law enforcement.

The local department has not been included in discussions of the proposal by Sheriff Mike Carona to train deputies to work with federal officials to identify, arrest and deport illegal immigrant felons and gang members.

“I have heard about the sheriff’s proposed training, but no one has talked to me,” Laguna Beach Police Chief Michael Sellers said.

Laguna has been targeted for protests by anti-illegal immigrant activists who see the city as a haven for undocumented workers.

Fifth District Supervisorial candidate Cathryn De Young, Mayor of Laguna Niguel and a former deputy district attorney favors Corona’s proposal.

“He has refined it to give Orange County Deputies investigators of felony crimes or those stationed at the jail the cross designation as federal immigration agents,” De Young said. “They would have the ability to access the federal data base.”

Corona has been tapped as a speaker at a meeting of the South County Working Group for Immigration Reform, organized by former Assemblywoman Pat Bates, also a candidate for the Fifth District seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors.

Funding for enforcement is one of the major issues.

“Local agencies can’t afford it,” said Mayor Elizabeth PearsonSchneider.

Immigration reform group organizer Bates said training deputies cost $10,000 each.

A priority of the group, which includes volunteer, not appointed, representatives from all of the South County cities that contract with the sheriff’s office and Laguna Beach, will be to work with the federal government to find ways for local law enforcement agencies to be reimbursed for enforcing federal immigration law.

“We want the federal government to pay, not the county and not local revenue,” Bates said.

Sellers said he knows of no local agency that has anything on the books about local enforcement of immigration laws and has heard of only Costa Mesa even looking into the issue.

No law that he knows of requires anyone to carry identification.

“And there is no law that I know of that requires anyone to produce identification,” Sellers said.

“First amendment rights extend to everyone in this country. They don’t have to be citizens.

“We can always ask, but we have to have reasonable cause.”

QUESTION

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