Walker
Friday, December 14, 2012 – 09:00 a.m.
More entertainment is coming to San Bernardino County political circles courtesy of County Auditor-Controller-Treasurer-Tax Collector Larry Walker (D-Chino).
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BY IMRAN GHORI
STAFF WRITER
ighori@pe.com
Published: 06 January 2012 11:19 AM
Defense attorneys in the Colonies corruption case announced in court Friday morning they are seeking records from an influential union representing public safety employees.
Attorneys are also seeking additional records from the county flood control district concerning its four-year legal battle with Colonies Partners.
Filed under: County of San Bernardino, Courts, In the News, Jim Erwin, Legal, Mark Kirk, Matt Brown, Paul Biane, Politics, State Superior Court, Unions
Joe Nelson and Mike Cruz, Staff Writers
Posted: 01/06/2012 01:08:11 PM PST
SAN BERNARDINO – Defense attorneys in a San Bernardino County corruption case are requesting documents from a public safety labor union they believe will help refute allegations of blackmail against a Rancho Cucamonga developer and the union’s former president.
Filed under: County of San Bernardino, Courts, In the News, Jim Erwin, Legal, Mark Kirk, Matt Brown, Paul Biane, Politics, State Superior Court, Unions
By Mark Gutglueck
Friday, January 6, 2012
Questions continue to dog the second highest ranking member of the county auditor-controller/treasurer-tax collector’s office with regard to the role he and a political action committee he controlled played in illegally passing through and laundering money for those convicted of or charged with participation in a bribery and extortion conspiracy.
Filed under: Bill Emmerson, Bill Postmus, Board of Supervisors - San Bernardino County, County of San Bernardino, Courts, Dennis Hansberger, Gary Ovitt, In the News, Jim Erwin, Larry Walker, Law Enforcement, Legal, Mark Kirk, Matt Brown, Paul Biane, Politics, State Assembly, State Senate, State Superior Court
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 11/12/2011 06:12:51 AM PST
The ways money flowed to candidates and political action committees and alleged acts of blackmail are detailed in search warrants in San Bernardino County’s $102 million legal settlement with Rancho Cucamonga developer Colonies Partners LP in November 2006.
The warrants, released last week, also describe what led authorities to suspect a county supervisor’s former chief of staff of criminal activity before he became a witness for the prosecution.
BY IMRAN GHORI
STAFF WRITER
ighori@pe.com
Published: 08 November 2011 10:05 AM
Search warrants released as part of a San Bernardino County corruption case detail how the four-year investigation grew from reports of political gifts to allegations of a far-reaching conspiracy involving several top county officials and a prominent developer.
10:00 PM PDT on Sunday, July 31, 2011
By IMRAN GHORI
The Press-Enterprise
A 2006 measure to limit San Bernardino County supervisors’ terms in office was devised to sneak a huge pay increase past voters, according to some witnesses who testified before a criminal grand jury.
10:00 PM PDT on Saturday, July 30, 2011
By IMRAN GHORI and DUANE W. GANG
The Press-Enterprise
Over the course of San Bernardino County’s four-year legal battle with Colonies Partners, county officials say the company’s settlement demands escalated from an initial $25 million to a combination of cash and land that included a parcel potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Testimony says union middleman for cash
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 07/26/2011 08:12:12 PM PDT
As president of the San Bernardino County Safety Employees Benefit Association, Jim Erwin used the union’s political action committee to bolster his clout and launder campaign contributions from a powerful Rancho Cucamonga developer, according to Grand Jury testimony.