San Bernardino County Government Officials

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, 4TH DISTRICT (Run-off Election) 100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%) Larry Walker*: 14,647 (54%) Beecher Medlin: 12,313 (46%) BIG BEAR LAKE CITY COUNCIL 3 Elected 100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%) Bonnie J. Roberts: 1,129 (27%) Robert C. (Bob) Davies: 1,023 (24%) Norm Reinik*: 816 (20%) Bill Speyers*: 773 (18%) Donald F.

Continuing a campaign to recoup public funds lost to kickbacks and other corruption, San Bernardino County reached a $400,000 settlement Tuesday with a firm accused of providing gifts to officials in exchange for public contracts. Minneapolis-based Miller and Schroeder Financial Inc. agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a county lawsuit against the company and one of its executives, James R. Iverson. John R. Larson, an attorney who represented the company, agreed to pay $50,000.

Kenneth J. Walsh, a former landfill company executive convicted in a San Bernardino County government corruption case, was sentenced Friday to 18 months in federal prison--the stiffest sentence yet handed out in a series of scandals. In the mid-1990s, Walsh, 53, of Carlsbad, made his mark in San Bernardino County with what was the traditional way at the time--through bribes. He made payments to the county's then-chief executive while his company received $20 million in public business.

San Bernardino County Dist. Atty. Dennis Stout acknowledged Wednesday that he violated his own ethical standards and made "errors in judgment" when he secretly aided the political opponent of a county supervisor he was investigating. Consequently, Stout has stepped down from the prosecution of San Bernardino County Supervisor Jerry Eaves, one of several officials tangled in a pervasive corruption and bribery scandal. State Atty. Gen.

Four former high-ranking San Bernardino County officials and three businessmen have agreed to plead guilty in a bribery scandal involving the award of millions of dollars in county contracts, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. At the center of the scam is James J. Hlawek, the county's former chief administrative officer, who has admitted taking payoffs to secure contracts for a waste management company, a financial services firm and a personnel consultant.

Battered by a government corruption scandal that has brought seven guilty pleas, six legal settlements and five sentencings, San Bernardino County community leaders have been hoping for an end to it all. They aren't going to find it--not yet, anyway. This week brought new allegations, backed by transcripts of secretly recorded telephone calls, that San Bernardino County Dist. Atty.

The county tax collector-treasurer died of a heart attack just minutes after taking part in an exercise class sponsored to reduce stress and improve health among county executives, the coroner said. Joe Bell, 62, collapsed Wednesday in a locker room after the fitness class at the San Bernardino YMCA, Coroner Brian McCormick said. The class is intended to foster good health among county officials, he said. "In this case, it didn't," McCormick said.

Setting up a legal battle with Gov. Pete Wilson, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to block the proposed siting of a low-level nuclear waste dump in Ward Valley in the county's northeastern corner. The supervisors said the 5-0 vote mirrors broad public concern that radioactive waste from the dump could leak into adjacent drinking water sources, particularly the Colorado River about 20 miles away.

Officials in San Bernardino County said they've ended all trading with brokerage Salomon Smith Barney as they investigate some mutual-fund sales the firm made to the county. County Treasurer Dick Larsen said that Salomon charged San Bernardino, the largest county in the United States in area, commissions on its trades at the rate it would charge a retail customer. With $1.

San Bernardino County ended its relationship with brokerage Salomon Smith Barney on Thursday after the county treasurer concluded that the municipality paid as much as $308,000 in potentially avoidable commission fees as part of transactions overseen by his predecessor, who last week pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges involving the awarding of county contracts.

Battered by a government corruption scandal that has brought seven guilty pleas, six legal settlements and five sentencings, San Bernardino County community leaders have been hoping for an end to it all. They aren't going to find it--not yet, anyway. This week brought new allegations, backed by transcripts of secretly recorded telephone calls, that San Bernardino County Dist. Atty.

A financial consultant who emerged as a key figure in a corruption case that reached the highest levels of San Bernardino County government has been taken into custody at his North Carolina home after failing to appear for his sentencing hearing, officials said Monday. The FBI took Richard Tisdale, who bribed three officials in exchange for $372,000 in public projects, into custody Friday night, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.

Thomas O'Donnell, San Bernardino County treasurer-tax collector from 1987 to 1998, was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in federal prison for accepting bribes. O'Donnell, 67, of Carlsbad, is the latest defendant to be sentenced in a San Bernardino County corruption case involving four former top officials and three businessmen. U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson also fined O'Donnell $5,000 and ordered him to pay $7,158 in restitution.

Kenneth J. Walsh, a former landfill company executive convicted in a San Bernardino County government corruption case, was sentenced Friday to 18 months in federal prison--the stiffest sentence yet handed out in a series of scandals. In the mid-1990s, Walsh, 53, of Carlsbad, made his mark in San Bernardino County with what was the traditional way at the time--through bribes. He made payments to the county's then-chief executive while his company received $20 million in public business.

A judge sent a well-known local gadfly to jail Wednesday for disrupting meetings of the Board of Supervisors. Superior Court Judge Christopher Warner sentenced Bob Nelson to a 30-day term--along with three years' probation, community service and a fine of $110--after rejecting a plea that he be spared time in jail. San Bernardino lawyer Allen Bartleman argued that any jail time would have a chilling effect on free speech in the county.

It's never much fun paying a visit to the tax man. But when 66-year-old Ellen Scruggs ambled into the collector's office last week to fork over another $1,756.17 in property taxes, there was an added frustration. "That money is going into somebody's pocket," said the Fontana retiree. "It's making some people live good while the rest of us suffer. Where is the money?"

San Bernardino County Dist. Atty. Dennis Stout acknowledged Wednesday that he violated his own ethical standards and made "errors in judgment" when he secretly aided the political opponent of a county supervisor he was investigating. Consequently, Stout has stepped down from the prosecution of San Bernardino County Supervisor Jerry Eaves, one of several officials tangled in a pervasive corruption and bribery scandal. State Atty. Gen.

Continuing a campaign to recoup public funds lost to kickbacks and other corruption, San Bernardino County reached a $400,000 settlement Tuesday with a firm accused of providing gifts to officials in exchange for public contracts. Minneapolis-based Miller and Schroeder Financial Inc. agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a county lawsuit against the company and one of its executives, James R. Iverson. John R. Larson, an attorney who represented the company, agreed to pay $50,000.

San Bernardino County has sued a sitting county supervisor and 21 other defendants in an effort to recoup millions of dollars lost in the county's unfolding bribery scandal. The lawsuit, filed Thursday, accuses county Supervisor Gerald R. Eaves of breaching his fiduciary trust by accepting gifts of trips to Canada, Mexico, England and Hawaii from a company that sought contracts with the county.

Officials in San Bernardino County said they've ended all trading with brokerage Salomon Smith Barney as they investigate some mutual-fund sales the firm made to the county. County Treasurer Dick Larsen said that Salomon charged San Bernardino, the largest county in the United States in area, commissions on its trades at the rate it would charge a retail customer. With $1.