L.A. WEEKLY EARLY EDITION "NO GUNS, CONT.", "SHERIFF BACA, VINDICTIVE TO CHALLENGERS"
It is a simple fact that to read "THOUGHTFUL, DEEP PROBING JOURNALISM", then you have to wait till the "WEEKLY OF RECORD" hits the streets on Thursdays. But on the LA Weekly Web Page, some stories are re least a day or two early. That the case this week.
Jeffery Anderson continues his series of articles on the discredited anti gang program "NO GUNS" and its founder Hector Marroquin.
This week, he highlights how Marroquin committed an "HOME INVASION ROBBERY WHILE ON CITY OF L.A. PAYROLL !!". If this doesn't "SHAME" Controller Luara Chick into auditing the L.A. Bridges Program. then she should resign.
The other article highlights the "SNARLEY, VINDICTIVE" side of "SHERIFF TO THE STARS", Lee Baca.
Baca and Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona must of been "TWINS SEPARATED AT BIRTH", seeing how they treat political opponents.
Read away and just maybe there will be another article of interest on Thursday.
Jeffery Anderson continues his series of articles on the discredited anti gang program "NO GUNS" and its founder Hector Marroquin.
This week, he highlights how Marroquin committed an "HOME INVASION ROBBERY WHILE ON CITY OF L.A. PAYROLL !!". If this doesn't "SHAME" Controller Luara Chick into auditing the L.A. Bridges Program. then she should resign.
The other article highlights the "SNARLEY, VINDICTIVE" side of "SHERIFF TO THE STARS", Lee Baca.
Baca and Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona must of been "TWINS SEPARATED AT BIRTH", seeing how they treat political opponents.
Read away and just maybe there will be another article of interest on Thursday.
Labels: mike carona, sheriff lee baca
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 6/19/2007 08:36:00 PM
12 Comments:
Laura Chic should resign!
She's aiding and abetting local terrorists.
Aiding & Abetting
AIDING AND ABETTING (AGENCY) - The guilt of a person in a criminal case may be proved without evidence that he personally did every act involved in the commission of the crime charged. The law recognizes that, ordinarily, anything a person can do for himself may also be accomplished through direction of another person as an agent, or by acting together with, or under the direction of, another person or persons in a joint effort.
So, if the acts or conduct of an agent, employee or other associate of the person are willfully directed or authorized by the person, or if the person aids and abets another person by willfully joining together with that person in the commission of a crime, then the law holds the person responsible for the conduct of that other person just as though the person had engaged in such conduct himself.x Notice, however, that before any person can be held criminally responsible for the conduct of others it is necessary that the person willfully associate himself in some way with the crime, and willfully participate in it. Mere presence at the scene of a crime and even knowledge that a crime is being committed are not sufficient to establish that a person either directed or aided and abetted the crime.
FRONT PAGE LA TIMES:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rocky20jun20,0,4932455.story?coll=la-home-center
Delgadillo's wife named in 1998 arrest warrant
The L.A. city attorney's spouse allegedly failed to appear in a Santa Monica court for a variety of driver-related charges.
By Matt Lait
Times Staff Writer
June 19, 2007
Los Angeles City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo's wife has an out-standing warrant for her arrest for failing to appear in court nearly nine years ago on charges of driving without insurance, with a suspended license and in an unregistered car, court records and officials confirmed Tuesday.
In addition, documents obtained by The Times show that in the last three years the Delgadillos were chronically late in paying fines for at least five parking tickets. One violation for parking in a red zone in December 2006 was not paid until The Times inquired about the tickets last month. By then, the $70 infraction had become a $174 fine with penalties.
A spokesman for Delgadillo said the city attorney's wife was responsible for all the parking tickets and the delinquent payments.
Michelle Delgadillo's scofflaw status was yet another embarrassing development for the city's top prosecutor who Monday disclosed that he had periodically allowed his wife to drive his city-owned vehicle on a suspended license for personal errands.
In 2004, she had an accident while driving her husband's city-assigned GMC Yukon, which was repaired at taxpayer expense.
After ducking the issue for days, Delgadillo — who presides over the nation's third-largest municipal law office — held a news conference Monday to say that he was reimbursing the city for the $1,222 repair. He also acknowledged that he did not realize that he himself had driven as an uninsured motorist for about a year, while his wife has driven without insurance for more than two years.
Delgadillo told reporters at his news conference that he was sorry about the situation involving his wife and acknowledged that he should have stepped forward immediately with information about the accident. He also apologized for his "lapse in personal insurance coverage."
In a statement released by Delgadillo's office Tuesday, 36-year-old Michelle Delgadillo — who once was an aide to former City Councilman Joel Wachs — said she was "very embarrassed to find myself in this situation today."
She said she was working to resolve the issue with the warrant "as quickly as possible."
"I will do whatever the court instructs me to do. I apologize for any embarrassment this has caused my husband and family," she said. "It is completely my mistake."
Delgadillo also released a statement about the bench warrant still pending from his wife's traffic violations, which occurred in Santa Monica.
"I was unaware that there was any outstanding warrant," he said. "As soon as I learned about this today, I immediately urged my wife to remedy the situation, and she is working to resolve this. My wife is embarrassed about this, and I am embarrassed as well."
According to documents obtained by The Times, Michelle Delgadillo was cited by a California Highway Patrol officer on Aug. 1, 1998, in Santa Monica for allegedly driving with an expired Montana driver's license. The offense occurred two weeks before she married Delgadillo and the ticket was written under her maiden name, Namen.
The citation also said that the tan BMW 325 she was driving had expired tags and that she had no proof of insurance. The Santa Monica city attorney's office filed a three-count criminal case against her.
When Michelle Delgadillo did not appear in court a month later for her arraignment, the judge in the case issued a $2,000 bench warrant, records show. That warrant remains active, according to officials with the Santa Monica city attorney's office and court records reviewed by The Times.
Under that warrant, Michelle Delgadillo is subject to arrest. Because of jail overcrowding in Los Angeles County, it is not uncommon for police to give defendants a citation to appear in court rather than arrest them, particularly if the offense is relatively minor, experts said.
After the 1998 citation, Michelle Delgadillo applied for, and was given, a California driver's license. That license was suspended in July 2004 when she failed to provide proof of insurance at the scene of an accident earlier that same year. Delgadillo's staff Monday confirmed that she did not have insurance at the time. Her license was not renewed until earlier this year, yet for nearly three years she continued to drive the family's SUV and, at times, the city-owned Yukon assigned to her husband.
Shortly after her license was suspended in 2004, Michelle Delgadillo was involved in the accident with her husband's Yukon. She damaged the vehicle when she backed into a pole in a parking lot near her doctor's office.
California Department of Motor Vehicle records also show that she was cited in 2005 for failing to obey a right-turn-only sign. She was not cited for driving with a suspended license, although it remains unclear why.
While an existing warrant should have barred Michelle Delgadillo from receiving a new California driver's license when she first applied, a DMV official said, there were a number of ways it could have slipped notice. Drivers sometimes do not provide accurate or complete information on an application, and records from other states are sometimes inaccessible.
A spokesman for Delgadillo's office also said the warrant from Santa Monica misspelled her first name as "Michele," an error that may have caused it to escape the DMV's attention.
The DMV official said he did not how Michelle Delgadillo was able to receive her California license and later renew it.
matt.lait@latimes.com
Times staff writers Steve Hymon and Patrick McGreevy contributed to this report.
ok anon. I give credit to you on the fact Delgadillo messed up and should resign.
Not far from the door should follow the resignation of Laura Chick for funding enormous amounts to known drug dealers. She continues to fund the mafia.
Where is the DEA, FBI, CIA, Intel please.,
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
That is what Luara Chick is guilty of if she does not audit "LA Bridges Program".
Can't anyone spell on this blog?
Marroquin Jr. was on the payroll too?!
9:52 No. Can't spell, but I post the truth.
Viraigosa is a f'n liar.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez20jun20,0,5718889.column?page=2&coll=la-home-local
From the Los Angeles Times
Steve Lopez / Points West
Ready to steer you right, Mrs. Delgadillo
Steve Lopez
9:14 PM PDT, June 19, 2007
In the interest of public safety, I'd like to volunteer to serve as driver for the wife of L.A. City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo.
Let's say Michelle Delgadillo needs to go to the store or pick up the kids.
Let's say she gets hauled into court on a warrant, things don't work out too well, and she needs a ride to the Lynwood hoosegow to bunk with Paris Hilton for a few days.
I'm her guy.
I'm on 24-hour call, and I won't charge a penny. My reward will be the relief I get from knowing she's not behind the wheel.
As my colleague Matt Lait reports in today's paper, Michelle Delgadillo's driving problems go back to at least 1998, when Santa Monica issued a bench warrant for her arrest after she failed to appear in court for driving an unregistered vehicle with no proof of insurance and a suspended license — a scofflaw trifecta!
Sound familiar? That's right. She was also driving on a suspended license when she banged her husband's city-owned GMC Yukon into a pole in 2004.
As for Michelle's husband, it's not as if he's Mr. Responsible himself, which is all the more reason for me to be his wife's chauffeur.
As we established on Monday, Rocky and Michelle in fact tooled around in their Ford Expedition for more than a year while neither had car insurance.
Frightening thought, isn't it?
Two uninsured drivers barreling around Los Angeles in an SUV the size of Dodger Stadium.
Let's see, a Yukon GMC, a Ford Expedition. The Delgadillos are just a Hummer short of being able to blow their own hole through the ozone.
And what a great way to put money away for the college fund. As anyone with car insurance knows, the Delgadillos have saved a small fortune by driving without.
Whoops. Here I am, almost halfway through the column, and I forgot to mention that the Delgadillos ran up $251 in penalties over the last three years for late payment of parking tickets, including one that wasn't paid off until 18 months after it was issued.
It sure had to be embarrassing for the city attorney to admit on Tuesday that his wife Michelle collected those tickets, because that was yet more proof that she was driving without insurance or a license.
He's the city attorney, and yet his family photo could be used in a campaign against scofflaws. Given the way he manages his personal affairs, you have to wonder if he's competent to run a huge city department.
Imagine what must be going through Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's mind during this debacle. He's got to be sitting back and asking himself: "If a blockhead like Rocky could become a lawyer, what kind of dunce flunks the bar exam four times, the way I did?"
Meanwhile, speculation continues as to which agency would investigate the city attorney's office if there was any wrongdoing in the use of a city vehicle by a spouse who ran it into a pole.
The city attorney's office has a conflict because Rocky is the city attorney. The district attorney has a conflict because Rocky might run for district attorney. The state attorney general has a conflict because Rocky ran against Jerry Brown.
That leaves me, so I sent another round of questions to Rocky's office Tuesday, including:
"After discovering in 2006 that his wife had no insurance and no license, did Rocky prohibit her from driving, and if so, how did she and the kids get around?"
Delgadillo spokesman Nick Velasquez gave me this answer, if you can call it one: "When the city attorney learned of this, he strongly urged her to remedy the situation as soon as possible."
When I asked why she wasn't ticketed for having no license or insurance in 2005, when she was cited on a moving violation, Velasquez suggested I ask the LAPD.
I intend to. I don't mean to be nosy, but inquiring drivers would like to know how to catch the same kind of breaks.
And I'd like to know how Delgadillo could lead us on this adventure for more than a week without a single reprimand from the mayor or City Council members.
Actually, I already know the answer.
There's a polite culture at City Hall. People generally don't speak ill of each other, not publicly anyway, because they know it'll come back at them one day. The silence may also have something do with the fact that the mayor has 26 take-home vehicles assigned to his staff, and each council member — except Jack Weiss, who drives his own car — has seven or eight.
That's roughly 130 cars on the road just for the mayor and City Council, and I'd like to invite readers to contact me here at the Hack Hotline if they know of any inappropriate use of those vehicles, or any other city vehicles.
And I'll let you know when City Controller Laura Chick gets cracking on her audit of what the entire city fleet costs taxpayers and how much could be saved if employees used their own cars and were reimbursed for mileage, which is how it's done in the private sector.
In the meantime, I'm not kidding about my offer to be Michelle Delgadillo's driver. If Rocky thought it was OK for his wife to drive the city-owned Yukon, why not a columnist?
Call me, Michelle. I still had insurance last time I checked, I don't know of any outstanding bench warrants, and I haven't wrapped my car around a pole in months.
steve.lopez@latimes.com
Hilarious. Steve your da bomb! Who fed you the bone? 4th floor maggots?
Steve "SKID ROW" Lopez will forever be known as the driver in "DRIVIN MS. ROCKTARD". Coming to a Blog near you. This deserves its own post.
Why is the LA Slimes trying to divert attention into other issues by going after Rocky. Laura Chick N Shit hasn't audited the gang programs. $82 MILLION is being wasted and none of the idiot council members have said a damn thing. Then you have DWP who overcharged $200 MILLION and Chick N Sit and council still say nothing. THEN you have $98 MILLION that forgot to be collected and the same idiots say nothing. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THEM. We need to hold these assholes accountable. Where is the outrage on this? Zuma I sure hope you are reading this stuff.
Idiot Huizar was the only one to speak out against Bratton's reappointment. Of course he's one of the illegal supporters who do more for them then is own legal constituents. Dumb ass!!!
How much is this gang czar going to get paid? I thought the city budget was way over and everyone had to cut back that is except Antonio.
Anti-gang czar for L.A. is chosen
Jeff Carr, a minister with a liberal evangelical group, will oversee Villaraigosa's strategy of targeting eight zones across the city.
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