Check out this dispatch from KOCE’s David Nazar on the controversy swirling around Orange County Public Administrator/Public Guardian John Williams.

Nazar interviews Wiliams and Ruth Hull-Richter, the woman who claims that Williams is trying to gain control of her 92-year-old mother’s estate in order to save his own budget.

— DAVID WASHBURN

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