Former Orange County Sheriff Michael
S. Carona this morning faced a pool of prospective jurors who could ultimately decide whether he illegally accepted tens of thousands of dollars in cash and gifts during the nine years he led the Sheriff’s Department.
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Nearly one year after the indictment of former Orange County Sheriff Michael
S. Carona, some 650 prospective jurors are expected to file into the Santa Ana federal courthouse today in the first step in choosing a jury for his upcoming corruption trial.
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The owner of an Orange County Nissan dealership and three employees have been arrested and charged with engaging in a conspiracy to steal customers’ identities and defraud banks into approving loans for overpriced cars, authorities said Thursday.
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A civilian employee with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department who allegedly had ties to a white supremacist gang has been indicted on charges of soliciting someone to commit a violent crime and providing confidential police records to unauthorized people, a sheriff’s spokesman said today.
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In yet another sign of tension between Orange County’s most powerful law enforcement branches, Dist.
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The 650 people who are called as possible jurors in the federal corruption trial of former Orange County Sheriff Michael
S. Carona will be asked everything from their reading habits to their feelings about politicians and people who have extramarital affairs.
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A third Orange County sheriff’s deputy has left the department amid allegations related to a grand jury investigation into the 2006 beating death of an inmate in the county’s largest jail, a department official said today.
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Lawyers for former Orange County Sheriff Michael
S. Carona asked a judge Friday to disqualify one of the main prosecutors from the ex-lawman’s corruption trial, saying they intend to call the prosecutor as a witness.
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The Capistrano Unified School District board violated state law by awarding a pay raise to its superintendent at a meeting closed to the public, the Orange County district attorney’s office has concluded.
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An Orange County sheriff’s internal-affairs investigator left the department Friday amid an investigation into allegations that he pressured a deputy to reveal her confidential testimony before a grand jury investigating the beating death of a jail inmate.
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