Film Noir, Newport Beach Style

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The Orange County Weekly has the best comment on the Mike Carona Indictment Fest, in the form of a photo: http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/crime-sex/oc-sheriff-carona-indicted-for/

Carona probably would have got away with lots more graft, incompetence, and poorly chosen drinking buddies if he hadn't tried to help out an old buddy with a small case of videotaped underage gang rape. People get fussy.

Their Sheriff Carona Corruption Archive and Haidl Rape Case Archive are worth a browse for fans of Chandleresque corruption.

I hope the new regime at the Weekly doesn't muzzle or drive out Moxley. Without him there wouldn't be investigative journalism of any use in this county.

Comments

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

It sounds like just the awesomest to have this guy as a sherrif. How Lucky You Are!

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

That's better than any of the Tammany stuff out of Low Life, which, by the way, is an excellent book.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

We had a city councilman who was almost indicted under the Trading with the Enemy Act for his machine-tool deals with Iraq.

a lot!

[threepunchstuff.livejournal.com]

“Do I still smell like you?”

The sheriff said, “A lot! A lot! A lot! A lot! A lot! A lot!”