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Supervisors Shawn Nelson and Todd Spitzer are both prominent local attorneys and report significant income from their legal careers, but their public disclosures reveal little about how it is generated.
The Garden Grove and Westminster City Councils voted this week to increase mandatory water restrictions, as cities around the state scramble to comply with Gov. Jerry Brown’s executive order.
The author and other adult children of Vietnamese refugees talk about how the fall of Saigon shaped the experiences and character of their generation.
Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido claimed the city attorney gave him the OK to vote on an issue important to someone who loaned him $5,000. Turns out that’s not what happened.
During her Vietnam War news assignment, the author saw up close how government corruption can ruin lives. Decades later, those lessons live on, as important for Orange County as elsewhere.
The drawn out and controversial process ends with the supervisors increasing Care Ambulance’s dominance of ambulance service in Orange County.
Corruption doesn’t happen by accident. Here’s a rundown of tools used worldwide by corrupt leaders.
Emails reveal that GardenWalk hotels developer Bill O’Connell bought dinner for former Councilwoman Gail Eastman and her family the night she stepped off the council. But the dinner doesn’t show up on her disclosure form.
Former state Assemblyman Chris Norby reflects on troubles that began with Fullerton Police visiting him home after reports of spousal abuse. Norby claims he’s been cleared questions how local police handled his case.
Legal scholars, including UCI Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, say conflicts prevent the attorney general’s office from adequately investigating prosecutorial misconduct in the case.
