Former Santa Ana City Councilman and Orange County executive Carlos Bustamante will turn himself in and begin serving a one-year jail sentence for various sexual crimes on Feb. 26.
Tag: Carlos Bustamante
Posted inCountywide, Investigative, Top Stories
Bustamante Pleads Guilty to Sex Crimes
Carlos Bustamante — a former Orange County Public Works executive and one-time rising star in the local GOP — pled guilty late Friday morning to sex crimes and grand theft of public funds. He is expected to serve jail time.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Top Stories
Watchdog Says Watered Down Ethics Commission Plan Is Still Progress
As county supervisors get set to approve a ballot proposal establishing a countywide ethics commission, a political watchdog acknowledges the final version differs from her first proposal but says she’s happy with “90 percent of the loaf.”
Posted inNews Briefs, Santa Ana
Heee’s Baaaack….
Three years ago, former Santa Ana Councilman Carlos Bustamante was arrested while en route to a city council meeting and charged with multiple felony sex crimes. This week, he was back in the council chambers.
Posted inCountywide, Investigative, Norberto Santana, Jr.
Santana: Meet the County Cleaner
Santana writes that county supervisors are set to reauthorize a murky program – set up to investigate top officials’ misdeeds. Except, no one’s ever heard much about how these are done, how much they cost. And the biggest probe in recent memory, involving the County COO, seems stalled.
Posted inCountywide, Investigative, Top Stories, Water, Power & Waste
County CEO Mike Giancola to Retire in September
Orange County government’s top executive plans to retire in September, less than two-and-a-half years after he was promoted to the high post.
Posted inNews Briefs
September Trial Date Set for Bustamante Sex Abuse Case
The jury trial of former Orange County Public Works executive Carlos Bustamante on sex abuse charges is set for Sept. 25 before Superior Court Judge John Conley.
Posted inCountywide, Top Stories
Judge Dismisses Multiple Felony Charges Against Bustamante in Sex Abuse Case
An OC Judge Friday dismissed five counts of felony false imprisonment against former OC Public Works executive Carlos Bustamante.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Investigative, Top Stories
OC Parks Exec Steered Nearly $1 Million in Contracts to Friend
Audit report slams top county executives for allowing contracts to go to a friend of a former OC Parks deputy director and be split up to avoid scrutiny from the Board of Supervisors.
Posted inGovernment, Top Stories
Judge Sets Date for Bustamante Trial
The trial, scheduled to begin in November, was supposed to go to judge in the jailhouse informants case but DA’s office objected.
