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Updated: Right, let’s do business with Caltrans

Posted on July 30, 2014 by John Fields Posted in Caltrans, OCTA, Orange County, Will Kempton 3 Comments

SR-91 Toll Lanes in an LA Times photo

One of the best reasons we can find for considering splitting California into six separate states is Orange County’s need to have its freeway work responsible to Caltrans. South California wouldn’t have a Sacramento.

Last Friday’s Caltrans document dump alerted us to their plans for two toll lanes they want built on the I-405 with our locally-collected Measure M money plus funds they admit they don’t have.

Let’s have a look at OCTA’s “partner’s” record. A simple Google search for ‘caltrans abuses’ found plenty of evidence of why these folks (and their friends at SCAG) ought to be run out of town: Continue reading→

Still No Justice…

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Joe Hill Posted in Fullerton, Orange County, Tony Rackauckas Leave a comment

We stumbled across this yesterday on Facebook (with the above photo): Three Years and Still No Justice for Kelly Thomas.

Cassandra Rules has a good point in that no one’s ever been punished for killing an innocent man on the streets of Fullerton. Jay Cicinelli and Manuel Ramos are no longer on the Fullerton police force, and the three others fingered in the crime, Kenton Hampton, James Blatney, and Sergeant Kevin Craig, are apparently back in their usual jobs as they were cleared by FBI and District Attorney despite being at the beating that killed Thomas and not interfering with their colleagues as they beat an innocent man to death on surveillance video. Continue reading→

Voice of OC Features T-Rack’s Follies

Posted on June 28, 2014 by Joe Hill Posted in OC District Attorney, Tony Rackauckas, Voice of OC 2 Comments

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Fully three separate stories are headlined today on the front page of the online Voice of OC reporting issues with the Orange County District Attorney’s office and its feckless leader, Tony Rackauckas — and not a one of them was found reported in the failing OC Register.

Thank you, Rex Dalton, for keeping an eye on these public servants. Continue reading→

OC DA’s Office finally bags a politician

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Joe Hill Posted in Curt Pringle, Janet Nguyen, Larry Agran, OCDA, Orange County, Tony Rackauckas 3 Comments

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Buena Park Mayor Sangjin Miller Oh Photo: OC Register

The Register reported yesterday that:

A jury found Buena Park Mayor Sangjin Miller Oh guilty Friday of five counts of perjury for falsifying Department of Motor Vehicles documents to avoid making child-support payments. The conviction effectively ends his four-year run on the City Council…Oh, 50, faces a maximum of six years, four months in state prison when he is sentenced Aug. 22. Continue reading→

ANOTHER T-Rack Shakedown

Posted on May 26, 2014 by Joe Hill Posted in Orange County, Tobacco, Tony Rackauckas Leave a comment

OCDA Tony Rackauckas at the Kelly Thomas Murder Trial Photo credit: OC Register

OCDA Tony Rackauckas was lead prosecutor and LOSER of the Kelly Thomas Murder Trial. Photo: OC Register

As he did to Toyota Motors in Torrance per our post earlier this month, Orange County’s District Attorney will now take on a collection of deep-pockets, perfectly legitimate American drug firms for their legal manufacture and “deceptive marketing” of FDA-approved painkillers.

Buried in both the OC Register and the LA Times last week were two stories:

OCR: O.C. D.A., Santa Clara County sue opioid makers for deaths. We noted the Register is even taking some credit for the suit, saying it was “filed after an extensive series of Register columns over three years blaming much of the epidemic on drug companies”.

LAT: Counties sue narcotics makers, alleging ‘campaign of deception’.

Per the Times:

Two California counties sued five of the world’s largest narcotics manufacturers on Wednesday, accusing the companies of causing the nation’s prescription drug epidemic by waging a “campaign of deception” aimed at boosting sales of potent painkillers such as OxyContin. Officials from Orange and Santa Clara counties — both hit hard by overdose deaths, emergency room visits and escalating medical costs associated with prescription narcotics — contend the drug makers violated California laws against false advertising, unfair business practices and creating a public nuisance

… In Orange County, where the lawsuit alleges there is a painkiller-related death every other day, Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas said he decided to pursue the case “as a matter of public protection… Named in the suit are: Actavis, Endo Health Solutions Inc., Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Purdue Pharma, and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries’ Cephalon Inc.”

Bryan Suits, the new 9am-Noon host at KABC AM-790 Talk Radio had good coverage of the story on his program Thursday last (14:24 in, thru 26:20, also here): Continue reading→