watchpaul: Item 12 What's this?

Monday, January 05, 2009

Item 12 What's this?

Tuesday's Board of Supervisor's Meeting
District Attorney
12. Donation of District Attorney Department Vehicle to the County Motor Pool for Capitalization, Maintenance, and Insurance.

RECOMMENDATION: That the Board of Supervisors approve the donation of one District Attorney's Investigate Unit 2008 Vehicle (No. 04546) to the County Motor Pool for capitalization, maintenance, and insurance.

The County Office of the District Attorney Investigative Unit requested the purchase of one vehicle to meet the needs of the Unit's mandates under the newly established Worker's Compensation Fraud Unit. Purchase of this vehicle was included in an approved Supplemental Budget request dated September 23, 2008.

For the purpose of capitalization and maintenance, the office of the District Attorney would like to donate this vehicle to the County Motor Pool. this will also include the insurance for this vehicle.

Financial Impact:

Expenditure Appropriation for County Motor Pool costs are included in approved fiscal year 2008-09 Budget for the District Attorney Program budget unit 1100-205. there is no anticipated County General Fund impact.

No impact.

Back in September - item 11
District Attorney
11. Allocate one Full-Time Investigator (District Attorney) Fund 1100, Budget Unit 205, District Attorney, Workers Compensation Fraud Program Grant
RECOMMENDATION: That the Board of Supervisors approve the allocation of one full-time investigator (District Attorney) (salary range 399, class 0412) position in Budget unit 205 effective immediately; Adopt the attached supplemental to provide funding for the position.

What is that? Workers Compensation Fraud Program Grant? Why, it appears to be another vertical prosecution grant - a full -time one at that. One full-time investigator (District attorney) (salary range 399, class 0412) position in Budget unit 205) ($4,022 a month at A step, $48, 264 per year.) Funding for this position will be met through the Worker's Compensation Insurance Fund Grants...

The grant request was for $264,499 for July 1/08-June 30/09 - It's more of Gallegos realizing the need to investigate fraudulent business practices - wasn't that Tim Stoen's job that he never did?

So - who is the FULL TIME (Vertical) Prosecutor for Worker's Compensation Fraud? Who is working exclusively on Worker's Compensation Fraud cases?
Who is the Vertical Child Abuse Prosecutor? Who is working exclusively on Child Abuse cases? It's not Jeff Schwartz anymore is it.
Who is the Vertical Domestic Violence Prosecutor? Who is working exclusively on DV cases?

'Cause if you are taking grant money saying you are using for the required vertical prosecutor, and you don't have one, it will have an impact on the General Fund, because "Fraud is not a victimless crime." But it won't be Gallegos who will have to pay.

Back in May - "Our program investigator will be actively involved in local civil organizations and business meetings (Rotary Club, professional organizations, CDIA, main Street Groups) to discuss trends in fraud and disseminate information.....

I can't believe he got the grant with the sketchy details on there. "Describe the county's efforts and the District Attorney's plan to obtain restitution and fines imposed by the court to the Worker's Compensation Fraud Account as the legislative intent specifies.

Answer. None. - FY2007-08

And bought a vehicle with the money. $22,500 for a 2008 Vehicle - Equipped with Law Enforcement radio: $30,000 @ 75% of vehicle costs=$22,500)

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Anonymous1/06/2009 8:39 AM
Actually these grants are starting to get audited, at least by the feds. SF is having to refund several million dollars, because the DA "reallocated" grant funds to other areas. Other cities as well. It would come as quite a surprise to persons familiar with the DA's office to learn that anyone there is spending all there time on worker's comp. And since PVG made himself the CAST deputy, there is no way the CAST deputy is 100% dedicated to CAST cases. So, look out for the folks with the green eyeshades.
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Anonymous1/06/2009 8:13 PM
oy you just can't make up shit like this. Are gags supporters to stoned to get this?
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Rose1/06/2009 8:28 PM
You gotta read the grant app.

What are your plans? - none, we're just getting started.

Til it gets to the part where he's talking about revenue recovery, he seems to like that asset forfeiture kind of stuff.

So, now, you SUPPOSEDLY have a FULL-TIME person investigating Worker's Compensation Fraud.

What do you have investigating child abuse? Spousal abuse?

Who is YOUR vertical (as in EXCLUSIVELY assigned) prosecutor for Child Abuse? DV?

Where's Jerry Brown? Heck, maybe Arnold ought to start here. If he can't cut programs, go after the abuse/fraud.
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Paul Gallegos

The Humboldt County Grand Jury found that "Weak leadership and poor managerial practices" have undermined the office... Implicit in all evidence gathered by the Grand Jury - including interviews with the D.A. (Paul Gallegos) - is the unfortunate truth that the D.A. (Paul Gallegos) exhibits a limited understanding of how things are done in the department" Gallegos "lacks the global perspective needed to keep the department operating efficiently," and quotes an unnamed staff member as saying, "The D.A. (Paul Gallegos) does not fully understand the functionality of many of the things we do here" - Years later, in his own words: "I’m not an administrator, they didn’t elect me to be an administrator, they elected me to make sure this office runs..."

Douglas & Zanotti

CASE TOSSED The district attorney misrepresented the law and failed to provide evidence of former Eureka Police Chief David Douglas' and Lt. Tony Zanotti's innocence during a criminal grand jury inquiry into the 2006 shooting death of Cheri Lyn Moore, defense attorneys argued in court documents filed Thursday... ”Our judicial system stands as a real and necessary check on the grand jury indictment process,” one of the documents states. “This court has the authority and the means by which to halt this prosecution, which is justified neither by the undisputed facts, nor by the law.”

Gallegos has taken what was "arguably the state's best small DA's office, with a cutting edge CAST program that "trained the trainers"... into a bunch of time serving bureaucratic wannabee brown nosers, lightly sprinkled with a couple of earnest learners who are sure to split as soon as possible.

One weeps for Max Cardoza who won Angellel, and for Maggie Fleming who won so many impossible victories. Mired in Humboldt for personal reasons, they have to suffer the ignominy of working for Paul, with Yougo, yes, yougo who has freed more people as a prosecutor than he did as a defense attorney. As has Paul. Anonymous comment

Gallegos has answers for everything. I’ve never met anyone whose answers came so quickly, with such polish - except about his law school(s). He likely sounded the same way when promising to get prosecutors off their anachronistic “at will” status and onto civil service status. It never happened. Indeed, he told them, “Disloyalty will not be tolerated” – a real morale builder.

He sounds great. What progressive doesn’t want to believe in him? But it’s a myth. He’s an intellectual lightweight and self-aggrandizer who tries to please everybody with glib answers. Jim Fahey for The Arcata Eye

The Humboldt County DA's office is one of the most exciting prosecutorial
offices in California.

Its District Attorney, Paul Gallegos, is willing to charge anyone who commits
wrongdoing--no matter how wealthy, sacrosanct, or ruthless. He believes in total equality before the law. He also plans to be innovative in promoting programs of prevention and treatment. He wants to make it the best prosecutorial office of its size in the nation.... Gallegos' Help Wanted ad

Gallegos' OWN Quotes

★ ...District Attorney Paul Gallegos said he believes the statute of limitations clock, even on misdemeanors, doesn't start running until law enforcement knows or reasonably should have known of the offense. In this case, Gallegos said, that means the statute of limitations would not run out at least until Feb. 8, 2009, or one year after Gundersen's arrest and the discovery of the photographs in question...

★ "...some people actually molest out of different feelings, some times out of feelings of love....” DA Gallegos explaining why Child Abuse prosecutions were down

★ “I never said that the information was not available under the Freedom of Information Act. Quite the contrary, I informed you that our use of force policy is not a public record.” Paul Gallegos to the Times Standard 5/25/07

★ ...“One is that I do everything to make people happy which means I don’t stand for anything except for just something,” he said. “The other is I stand for something and I try to be a leader and take some people, a group of people, a community someplace and I say guess what folks, this is who I am. I stand for your beliefs. We share these beliefs or we don’t. You get the option to judge that. This is who I am and I am committed to leading us this place, wherever it is...." Eureka Reporter Gallegos defends record, looks ahead 7/3/2005

★ Note the difference between what he SAID, and what he DOES..."...So what are these issues? Top on Gallegos' list is the proliferation of "garbage cases," small-time crimes and overcharged cases that he said are clogging up the court system.

Garbage cases, said Gallegos, come in two forms: Cases that would lose if actually brought to trial and cases that are overcharged for the crimes committed. The idea behind filing both kinds of garbage, he said, is to get the defendant to plead guilty, netting a conviction without having to go into court.

Again, the IRONY is astounding! Look at what he SAYS, and then think about what he DOES! "Probably 95 percent of the cases that are filed plead guilty. In fact, there are a lot of cases that are filed on the assumption they will plead guilty, because of the time and expense involved in defending them. But these cases shouldn't even be filed in the first place, because if they were challenged, they would lose," Gallegos said. Better yet: If they weren't filed at all, it would save the county time and money...." North Coast Journal 2/21/02 Too bad he didn't take his own advice.

★ “Tim’s a stud,” he said. “He really is; anyone would be stoked to have him.” Gallegos on his second in command right hand man Assistant District Attorney Tim Stoen. (Former second in command right hand man to Jim Jones/People's Temple.)

NOTE:

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Item 12 What's this?

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