GPS accusation adds to a lawsuit filed against Upland law firm Lackie, Dammeier, McGill & Ethir over an alleged incident involving Costa Mesa’s mayor.
By Adolfo Flores and Paloma Esquivel
November 13, 2013, 9:35 p.m.
An Upland law firm accused of bullying civic leaders faced new accusations Wednesday of planting a GPS device on the car of a Costa Mesa official as a way to intimidate him.
In an amended lawsuit, Costa Mesa Councilman Steve Mensinger said the device was affixed to his car during the entire 2012 election season and came to his attention only when he was alerted by the Orange County district attorney’s office.
“Watergate, that’s when I last heard about something like this happening,” said Vince Finaldi, the Irvine attorney who filed the suit and amended complaint, which was first reported by the O.C. Weekly.
The firm has represented dozens of police unions in Southern California and has a reputation for its bare-knuckled tactics and attacks on city hall. At the time of the accusations, the firm was employed by the Costa Mesa Police Officers’ Assn.
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So what’s the problem?
Desperation
Scumbag lawfirm. Dirty cops. What else is new?
LMAO,
Another unsatisfied ass sucker or administrator you must be anonymous.
Let it go, you will be made a fool again when this ridiculous pony show is over
Dirty cops . Scumbag lawfirm run by former cops.Hmmmmm .
Ball is in your court, ACU.
LOL Steve. I am falling asleep on this one.
This case has had more news reports than most homicides, and still the Orange County DA is investigating? By now they haven’t figured out what crimes were committed and charged accordingly?
I wonder if they found the GPS tracker yesterday, last week, or a year ago. LMAO!!!
SAD!!!!
“Let it go, you will be made a fool again when this ridiculous pony show is over”
PONY SHOW?
-Pony show
-Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus; The Greatest Show On Earth
-Cirque Du Soleil:Around The world
-Six Flags Magic Mountain; with the fastest, tallest, wildest, heart-pumping rides in the country
-Disney California Adventure
-Disney World
-Knott’s Berry Farm
>>> INLANDPOLITICS REPORTS, YOU DECIDE; but you’d better think twice before getting cute and disrespecting Administrator again
I thought that there was some federal involvement in this. If laws were broken in an organized way involving two or more people, then that would by definition be organized crime and fall under the RICO statute. As this would involve the sanctity of the electoral process itself, it would be of highest priority of public integrity.
The public integrity unit’s modus operandi would be to take the initial complaints, find primary verification (normally through the turning of an invoved source, and obtaining warrants for all documentary evidence.
Then they work up and out from there. As the law firm represented 120 police departments, public integrity would screen each and every department for repetition of the proposed “infractions”. Each involved party would become a suspect to be interviewed and bargained with until each stone was turned and each involved person was cleared, plea bargained, or finally indicted. Two years would be a very short time for an investigation like this.
According to the PIU, they only investigate elected officials which would not apply in this case. If they do decide, or have decided to get involved it would just add to the malicious prosecution claim. I know this to be true since I hold a letter drafted to me by the PIU stating the same. I keep it close to me at night so I can break it off when they decide to break their own rules and policies in this case…
You hold onto those papers to for a rainy day? Good idea. Paper like that always comes in handy for the smack talkers who play both sides of the fence.