.@MCoSheriff has the same problem x10.

Run by a crooked Deputy turned Sheriff in 2015, @SheriffBernal should be deported. 😂 https://t.co/WxnRl6otrB

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"The state Fair Political Practices Commission this month agreed to open investigations into two complaints filed by Schneider. One accuses the Monterey County Counsel’s Office of improper partisanship. We’ll get to that one in a bit."

https://t.co/nTD9VwDRaK
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"Over the past year, his research has revealed an apparent pattern of campaign law violations throughout Monterey County and an unwillingness by local authorities to take action"

https://t.co/d8aZupmwBP
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'They liked it best when the resulting stories could be labeled with a headline or voiceover declaring something simple like “Charges Fly in Sheriff’s Race.”'

https://t.co/WBQQ1T648d
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"Caldwell denies he had a still but acknowledges that a SWAT team sergeant passed out after drinking too much of something and had to be taken away by ambulance."

https://t.co/Ekh8y2lQq8
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'“A threat that a suspect may die if he does not cooperate is a clear due process violation . . . ,” Ed Hazel, who was then Monterey County’s managing deputy district attorney, wrote at the time'

https://t.co/vJyphnQY79
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"Pickens approached prosecutor Rick Storms and asked how he might be able to arrange for an unnamed informant to avoid jail time."

https://t.co/0eqUD5wn5i
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Some deputies miss seeing what's up and how bad it was but I wonder how candid the commentary is when I think - you had to be living in a box.
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"One deputy who worked a couple of shifts as a driver says his supervisor told him to turn in his time as overtime on the jail budget though he didn’t work in the jail."

https://t.co/msSN0bQ5fK
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"Apparently in response to a Voices article last month, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office has been questioning Sheriff’s Department employees about overtime payments to several sheriff’s deputies"

https://t.co/FrGG7icSFD
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[The rape case that turned into a federal @FBI corruption probe]

'“I don’t want anyone doing a Google search and finding Fickas and me in the same article,” one of the officials said to explain why he declined to be identified.'

https://t.co/mtAiccshSw
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"The members of the Deputy Sheriffs’ Association have No-Confidence in Sheriff Miller’s ability to effectively lead the Sheriff’s Office. We are in dire need of a leader."

https://t.co/vdLq0YdbKd
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"Brandon Gesicki used every trick in the scoundrel playbook to convince voters that Miller was a bad guy and that the terribly unqualified Bernal was the better choice."

https://t.co/yJZ6Hon7v0
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A master work of fantastic #journalism by former @MontereyHerald editor @Calkins_Royal ... hard to ignore.

Unless you are the Monterey County District Attorney or any one of the MoCo Board of Supervisors.

Like:

@PhillipsForSup

@SupervisorAlejo

@SupervisorLopez
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.@WendyRootAskew

and

@AdamsSupervisor

Something stinks. And it smells like money and civil rights violations.

#ICE #salinas #montereycounty #lovingsalinas #basta

@KTVU @DarwinBondGraha @OakMorr @mercnews @OaklandInsider @SFGate @cmarinucci @mcgreevy99 @latimes
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More from home 🏡 🌊

Phillip Vito DiGirolamo
N. D. Cal. 1984

Conspiracy to import #marijuana, 21 U.S.C. § 963; willfully subscribing to a false tax return, 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1)
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And this wasn't some dime bag weed dealer. Phil and a guy named Bruce Perlowin (Google it) ran $985,000,000 through


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a money laundering entity called First Cabin LLC - located at? #CanneryRow

Isn't that right @MontereyPolice? <~ proud moment for MPD. All under their nose 😉

A bunch of cops wives worked for First Cabin LLC - which is odd.

These people ran boats Phil and his homeboys

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purchased for $11,000,000.00

They named their boats various versions of 'Taylor Day'

THE Taylor Day was seized by the Nicaraguan government.

What exactly were we doing in Nicaragua in the 1980s❓

Running dope, guns and money for an illegal war

Strange that Leon Panetta's

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buddies would be involved with dope and Nicaragua / Central America and not that long after @BillClinton made Leon his COS - then Leon Panetta becomes the CIA Director? With his background?

Strange.

Now tie in Cannery Row, the bizarre history of the Cannery Row partners

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and their very bizarre relationship with Leon Panetta and where are we?

Back to a silver spooner like @RepJimmyPanetta talking about @realDonaldTrump's pardon being "beneath the dignity of the office of the President".

The statement is true but coming from Jimmy -

More from Government

Which metric is a better predictor of the severity of the fall surge in US states?

1) Margin of Democrat victory in Nov 2020 election
or
2) % infected through Sep 1, 2020

Can you guess which plot is which?


The left plot is based on the % infected through Sep 1, 2020. You can see that there is very little correlation with the % infected since Sep 1.

However, there is a *strong* correlation when using the margin of Biden's victory (right).

Infections % from
https://t.co/WcXlfxv3Ah.


This is the strongest single variable I've seen in being able to explain the severity of this most recent wave in each state.

Not past infections / existing immunity, population density, racial makeup, latitude / weather / humidity, etc.

But political lean.

One can argue that states that lean Democrat are more likely to implement restrictions/mandates.

This is valid, so we test this by using the Government Stringency Index made by @UniofOxford.

We also see a correlation, but it's weaker (R^2=0.36 vs 0.50).

https://t.co/BxBBKwW6ta


To avoid look-ahead bias/confounding variables, here is the same analysis but using 2016 margin of victory as the predictor. Similar results.

This basically says that 2016 election results is a better predictor of the severity of the fall wave than intervention levels in 2020!

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