Sonoma County SCERA pension. Should our Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors release SBCERS Pension Fund Records? We have the right to review the names and pension payments to prevent further pension fund abuse!

Why has our Santa Barbara or all County and State media not taken a similar course of action. With regards to investigating the SBCERS Pension and other State and County funds for possible additional corruption?

Press Democrat sues for release of pension records

Posted by Ted Appel in County on October 9th, 2010 tags: lawsuit, pension, Press Democrat, public records, Sonoma County Association of Retired Employees, Sonoma County Employees’ Retirement Association

By BRETT WILKISON
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
The Press Democrat has sued the Sonoma County Employees’ Retirement Association in an effort to to force the disclosure of public pension records.
The move follows numerous public records requests by the newspaper seeking the names and pension payments made to Sonoma County government retirees.
SCERA officials have denied those requests, saying a state law governing county-run pension systems, including Sonoma County’s, requires that such information not be disclosed.
But the California Supreme Court and state Attorney General have in the past overruled similar claims about the confidentiality of government salaries, concluding that the public has the right to such information, attorneys for The Press Democrat wrote in a lawsuit filed Friday.
Judges in four California counties also have concluded recently that such pension information should be made public.
“Nevertheless, SCERA insists on keeping the public in the dark about the identities of retired Sonoma County employees who collect large pensions funded by taxpayers,” the lawsuit states.
Catherine Barnett, executive editor of The Press Democrat, said Friday the information sought serves an important public objective.
“There is only one way to make informed choices as politicians grapple with the growing discontent over the disparity between public and private pensions. And that is to know the dollars and cents of these pension amounts,” she said.
SCERA officials said Friday that they needed more time to review the lawsuit before offering any detailed comments.
“The Board has carefully reviewed the previous requests by The Press Democrat and believes there are serious legal issues regarding the release of confidential information about retirees,” said Jerry Allen, chairman of SCERA’s board of trustees.
Taxpayer anger over the skyrocketing cost of public pensions has fueled the standoff between media organizations and pension overhaul advocates on one side and public pension systems on the other over the release of records.
In the wake of the recent court decisions, four county-run pension systems in the state, including Marin County, have voluntarily disclosed their records.
Holdouts include Sacramento County, where pension officials have appealed a court ruling that would have forced them to turn over records. SCERA joined in that appeal in August after declining another of The Press Democrat’s public records requests.
A group of former county workers who receive benefits from SCERA, the Sonoma County Association of Retired Employees, has not taken an official position on whether pension records should be made public.
Carol Bauer, the group’s president, said she suspected many of the members would prefer not to have their names and pension payments published.
“We think that SCERA has some right to anonymity,” she said.
SCERA oversees retirement benefits for nearly 8,000 current and former local government employees, most of them connected with the county.

http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2010/10/county/press-democrat-sues-for-release-of-pension-records/

County pension board refuses to release names

Posted by Ted Appel in County on August 19th, 2010 tags: lawsuit, pension, Press Democrat, Sonoma County Employees’ Retirement Associatio
By BRETT WILKISON
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Sonoma County pension officials will continue to withhold the names and pension amounts of its top-earning retirees pending the appeal of a recent court decision that ordered such information be made public.
The board of the county’s retirement association also decided Thursday to join in support of Sacramento County’s retirement system, which last week filed the appeal in the court case.
The moves follow a recent request by The Press Democrat that the Sonoma County Employees’ Retirement Association, or SCERA, release the pension information.
In their regular meeting Thursday, board members gave direction to Gary Bei, the association’s administrator, to reject that request, at least until the courts clarify legal questions surrounding the issue.
A law governing 20 county-run pension systems in California, including Sonoma County’s, requires that the names and pension amounts of retirees not be disclosed, SCERA officials say.
But judges in four California counties, including the recent Sacramento case, have concluded that the pension information should be made public.
“The advice that we’ve gotten from counsel is that none of the court rulings that have come out have decided this,” said Gerald Allen, the board chair, explaining SCERA’s stance. “As of this moment, our policy appears to be legally the right one.”
SCERA has rebuffed previous public information requests from pension overhaul advocates and The Press Democrat that sought names and figures on the system’s top-earning retirees.
In 2009, there were 55 retirees receiving more than $100,000 annually in retirement benefits, according to SCERA records. Those retirees represent about 1.6 percent of the association’s roughly 3,500 retired workers. For new retirees, the average pension is $40,000 a year, while for all retirees it is about $25,000 a year.
The association has attempted to make other financial and investment information easily accessible to the public in annual and quarterly reports, newsletters and on its website, said Bei, SCERA’s administrator.
“We operate the retirement system in a very transparent manner,” he said during the meeting Thursday.
But board members, in voting to join Sacramento County’s pension system in its effort to overturn the court decision, also conceded that they’re hoping for a different definition from the courts for what constitutes “transparent.”
“It would be cheaper to write the letter (in support of Sacramento County) than to go through our own lawsuit – if it gives us the results we want,” said board member Sharon Stockham.

 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2010/08/county/county-pension-board-refuses-to-release-names/

From: sbcgj@sbcgj.org
To: sb_magic@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Finally a understandable email showing my research and concerns with the abuse of the SBCERS Pension and alleged value
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:52:53 -0700

Mr. Mendoza,

The Grand Jury has received your complaint dated September 24, 2010. The Grand Jury’s review of this matter does not mean that it will necessarily conduct a full investigation of your complaint.

You may not receive any further communication from the Grand Jury. By law, the Grand Jury cannot communicate the results of investigations to you personally. Reports are available to the general public when published, generally at the conclusion of the Grand Jury’s term in June.

Your complaint will be kept on file, and your identity will remain confidential, as well as any information you may have supplied.

Sincerely, Rich, Corresponding Secretary

I wonder how much pension is drawn by persons who have taken advantage of the  County's early retirement offers these last 3 years? Lets start with Dan Perlin and go from there.

People are afraid of retribution in Santa Barbara if they expose corruption! Read this anonymous comment from my Sunday posting.

1 comments:People are afraid of retribution in Santa Barbara if they expose corruption!

Anonymous said...

Magic, Since we all know how corrupt our courthouse, DA, and law enforcement is in Santa Barbara county, I wouldnt be surprised that the QUAIDs are in fact telling the truth about their property being stolen from them illegally. The senior SB judges (one deceased and one starts with an A)are notorious for for stealing peoples property either for themselves via knowledge of properties in probate (and hiding them in shell corporations) or via real estate attorneys acting alone or with family law attorneys known to be skilled at taking them away so as to ensure their ongoing fees. All one has to do is find the right SB Attorney and judge that will help steal away someones house. That's with the occasional help of a few law enforcement. I know of one such judge that deleted someones name from a deed in the historical records of ownership to cover his tracks after illegally taking a house away. I know of another woman whom our dearly beloved deceased judge ordered under duress and without council to quit claim her ownership of a Montecito home over to her husband so he along with a well known real estate attorney could do some sort of back door real estate deal at what appears to be a rock bottom price so she will not receive her equity share. Those SB Courthouse clerks are hard at work altering the records on a daily basis, taking files off the shelf, and filing faulty documents for those working hard at stealing others homes from them. Meanwhile they obstruct pro-se litigants from fighting back. All in a days work at the Santa Barbara Superior Courthouse. Not surprising since our real estate has been so highly valued. The sharks come out where there is money to be had.

October 24, 2010 2:21 PM

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Randy an Evi Quaid arrested in Canada. Are they seeking protection from Malicious Prosecution in Santa Barbara.

Now that Saturday has passed let me share a rumor I heard from Law Enforcement Last Week and that was also reported on the internet. That President Obama might be stopping in Santa Barbara yesterday. Now if our President Obama had stopped here yesterday and his advance team did read the local Craigslist. What would they think about my observations about Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Sterne and her failing to be placed on last Junes general election? As we have all just recently witnessed I am a target for spelling corrections and my poor writing skills. An that is the part that has me puzzled this morning. I know some might consider me a pain in the ass yet none of my facts are ever challenged.
Did Judge Sterne fail to act according to the law by not placing herself on last Junes Primary Election.
If I am wrong please correct me.
Are  preliminary hearings the responsibility of Criminal Court thus eliminating Superior Trial Court Judges Ochoa and Hill from presiding over them.?
If I am wrong please correct me.
Was Ricardo Juarez framed by the Santa Barbara District Attorneys office based on the documentation placed on my blog?
If I am wrong please correct me.
Is there a 60 page motion filed 12/07 by public defender Karen Adkins on the behalf of Ricardo Juarez missing from his Court House file?
If I am wrong please correct me.
Are arrest  and pre-sentencing reports missing from most alleged gang files at our Santa Barbara Court house? An did you know there are pre-plea reports as well that the Santa Barbara Probation Department are responsible for?
If I am wrong please correct me.
Should former Santa Barbara public defender Karen Adkins be called by her own office to defend there alleged Gang defendants based on her past experiences ? I am talking about both Superior Court Judge Brian Hill and the Santa Barbara District Attorneys office and her accusations?
If I am wrong please correct me.
Was I beaten and taken by ambulance to the hospital?
If I am wrong please correct me.

In other words forget about my ten year old intellect and correct my subject matter.

HOW CAN WE TELL WHAT THE TRUTH
I wish that Santa Barbara Independent reporter Chris Meagher would begin to act like one an begin following up on his own story's. He has incredible titles to his features than fails with the follow through. Mr. Meagher just when did the Santa Barbara District Attorney decide and actually file charges against Randy and Evi Quaid? If felony charges had not been filed as of October 14th, as per your own story, from an indecent last September 18th. Just how would the Quaids know they were due in court at all? The reason I mention this is that normal Santa Barbara Superior Court procedures would require charges being filed 48 hours before your required Court appearance. After all Mr. Meagher you do have the responsibility here. I am also also wondering if you have taken the time to visited the Santa Barbara Court House yourself? An are not just taking our Santa Barbara District Attorneys office at there word as to when charges were actually filed? Since I am at it when will we get a follow up story about a Ponzi Scheme being played by our Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors? You quote Supervisor Gary in the June 2010 story below. Yet once again fail to follow up on what should be the most integral part of your feature. The accusations that Supervisor Gray cast against the rest of the Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors must be looked into.

You may crack all the jokes you want about the Quaids and there sad state of affairs. I just wonder if the real joke is the media failing to get the real issue here. What does it say that the Quaids are having to seek protection from MALICIOUS TACTICS and  PROSECUTION from there own Country. By seeking protection from another Country,Canada?

Time To Follow Up With The Quaids! They are arrested in Canada, story at the bottom of the page.
Quaziness Continues

Montecito Homeowner Slaps Couple with Restraining Order
Thursday, October 14, 2010
http://www.independent.com/news/2010/oct/14/quaziness-continues/  believe

By Chris Meagher (Contact)The District Attorney’s Office has yet to file charges against actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, who were arrested on 9/18 for allegedly trespassing on a property they once owned but apparently sold in 1994.


Thursday, June 17, 2010
By Chris Meagher (Contact)
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Fourth District Supervisor Joni Gray blasted the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors majority Friday as the quintet conducted their final deliberations on what to cut for the 2010-2011 fiscal year’s $833-million budget they were finalizing to go into effect July 1

“I’d like all of you to leave this hearing with three words,” Gray said, actually using four words to initially describe her cryptic message. “Bus, bridge, and Ponzi scheme.”


She continued, “I feel like I’m speeding down a highway in a bus and there’s a sign that says, in half-a-mile the bridge is out,’ and yet nothing is being done to stop this bus.” While people everywhere are cutting back, she said, the board was “not taking their foot off the gas.” Gray then addressed her Ponzi scheme comment, saying the board was moving money “here and there,” even making reference to Bernie Madoff. “You’re all very bright and well-meaning, but I cannot support this bus going off the bridge,”



http://www.independent.com/news/2010/oct/23/quaids-arrested-canada/#c47012

Quaids Arrested in Canada

Warrants Jacked to $500,000; Dog the Bounty Hunter Throws Down Gauntlet

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Saturday, October 23, 2010

By Chris Meagher (Contact)

Actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, who have warrants out for their arrest here in Santa Barbara, were arrested in Vancouver, Canada, on Wednesday.
According to a press release from the Vancouver Police Department, officers made contact with a man and woman during an assistance call and “learned that the two were wanted on outstanding warrants from the United States.”
The Canada Border Services Agency arrested the couple and brought them to the Vancouver Jail. They were scheduled to appear before an immigration board Friday afternoon, with some Canadian television stations reporting the two could be seeking refugee status in Canada.
Friday morning, Judge Donna Geck, at the request of Deputy District Attorney Anthony Davis, increased the couple’s arrest warrants from $50,000 to $500,000 each, “based off the fact they fled the jurisdiction,” said Davis, who found out yesterday of the Quaids’ arrest.
They both face charges of felony vandalism as well as trespassing. In addition, Evi Quaid is facing a resisting arrest charge and probation violation. Last Monday they failed to show up for an arraignment on the charges. Against the request of attorney Bob Sanger (who said he hadn’t been retained by the Quaids in the new case, Davis said), Judge Geck issued a $50,000 warrant for arrests. The two allegedly were squatting in an East Mountain Drive home they at one time had owned, and apparently believe they still own.
Evi Quaid pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of defrauding an innkeeper earlier this year. Authorities had originally charged them both with the crime, and they missed various court dates then as well. Charges against Randy Quaid — best known for his role of Cousin Eddie in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation — were eventually dropped.
The couple’s arraignment was continued to this Tuesday at the same time they are scheduled to appear in civil court, where they face the possibility of restraining orders being levied against them. One of the owners of the home in which the Quaids were allegedly squatting, Lanette Turicchi, filed for a temporary restraining order against the two after they mailed a letter to her Pasadena home in which they wrote, “You are trespassing. You must vacate immediately. Please leave our keys in our mailbox along with our remote gate opener.”
The Quaids claim they never sold the Mountain Drive property and were never paid for it. “You both must have known or feared this day would arrive,” they wrote. “This is what happens when you purchase a house from someone who doesn’t own it.” Evi Quaid also apparently showed up at the house after she bailed from Santa Barbara County Jail following her September arrest.
It remains to be seen if the two will be back in town for their Tuesday appearances. Davis said he is waiting to see what needs to happen to get them back to Santa Barbara County in terms of extradition or deportation.
The arrests in Canada might come just in time for the Quaids, however, because famed bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman said in an appearance on a talk show Thursday night that if the couple didn’t turn themselves in, he and his family would go after them. “I hope Randy Quaid and his wife are watching right now,” he said.

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Santa Barbara Deputy Sheriffs want a new Union!

Has any one heard of Snow Shoe Films there on the Internet.


The Deputy Sheriffs understand with a new union (let me send you to School)
Date: 2010-10-22, 3:47PM PDT
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I have a fan and here was there anonymous reply.
"RE:How important is this election? (more from Magic) (Stay in school)
I couldn't get through your awful writing to get your point, fuck man you write like a ten year old idiot, you should have listened in school. And, who would even take advice from you. Don't embarrass yourself further. Learn to write, from an amateur, your writing is just plain awful. Good luck "

Well my my I am hurt to think I write like a ten year old. The main reason could be I do not know any better? Or I am just trying to reach your intellect level. Why do the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Deputy's want a new Union? Could it be that when I showed that they receive in select areas a third less benefits than other Santa Barbara County unions it might have upset them? Mr Intellect is it just me an my ten year old brain or is a 9 Million dollar drug bust more pot than one can claim for personal use? Just asking bro. An just what crime was Santa Barbara County board of Supervisor Joni Gary referring to in the reference she made below? Has Santa Barbara Board of Supervisor Joni Gray now committed a crime herself by failing to act on her accusations? Has the Santa Barbara Independent reporter Chris Meagher failed in his duty's to do a follow up story with Supervisor Gray and explain exactly what she meant? I mean after all he did quote her for the story.

Thursday, June 17, 2010
By Chris Meagher (Contact)
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Fourth District Supervisor Joni Gray blasted the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors majority Friday as the quintet conducted their final deliberations on what to cut for the 2010-2011 fiscal year’s $833-million budget they were finalizing to go into effect July 1

“I’d like all of you to leave this hearing with three words,” Gray said, actually using four words to initially describe her cryptic message. “Bus, bridge, and Ponzi scheme.”

She continued, “I feel like I’m speeding down a highway in a bus and there’s a sign that says, in half-a-mile the bridge is out,’ and yet nothing is being done to stop this bus.” While people everywhere are cutting back, she said, the board was “not taking their foot off the gas.” Gray then addressed her Ponzi scheme comment, saying the board was moving money “here and there,” even making reference to Bernie Madoff. “You’re all very bright and well-meaning, but I cannot support this bus going off the bridge,” she said.


Mr. Intellect let me ask you two questions before I rest my ten year old brain.
1- Why would you need a 5 year smoothing method of accounting for the SBCERS pension fund from origination through 2001 if the fund has never had a negative return? Please see the chart on the left below, no loses bro in six decades!
2- Mr. Intellect tell me whats wrong with chart 2 on the right?
Well in 1994 the second chart claims a loss of 0.7%. Oh wait Mr. Intellect the chart on the right shows a gain of roughly 6.5%. Now my ten year old brain says someone is lying about a positive 7% return on roughly 400 million dollars. Theses are the SBCERS and Santa Barbara board of Supervisors documents not mine. Oh wait look at the chart on the right again, does that really say market value? Now they have mixed up the results for 2009, shame shame shame. Do you see there mistake, I do. Mr. Intellect I know I may be wrong but they know I am right so one last thing. KISS MY DUMB ASS!

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My name is Larry Mendoza and I want to say Thank You to whom ever placed me on this email list. I have a blog located @
http://santabarbaracriminalcourtcorruption.blogspot.com/ An here is my Mantra below.
Santa Barbara Criminal Court Corruption
Investigating the illegal actions of our Government local law enforcement an court personnel.Police,Judge’s, Defense Attorneys and Prosecutors While Exposing Procedural Misconduct Showing a willingness to stand up for our Constitutional rights regardless of who attempts to violate them. Always respecting the even application of the Law and those in Law Enforcement that ethically and legally enforce it, never succumbing to those who do not!
Here are links to just 3 of my over 200 postings
In the first link I ask why drug dealers were donating to than District Attorney candidate Josh Lynns campaign. I ask these questions in April of 2010. Ten days ago the two contributors I listed in my last April story were arrested right in the middle of a ten million dollar drug bust. The Santa Barbara media has failed to ask any questions in regards to Josh Lynns ties to these now arrested drug dealers that include 1 sex offender.
http://santabarbaracriminalcourtcorruption.blogspot.com/2010/10/two-main-contributorseric-bjorkland-and.html

The next posting is titled "
VCERA Pension fund corruption. The math does not add up Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Contra Costa, Marin, San Jouquin, Sonoma, San Mateo Pensions all avergaged 14.84% investment return over a 5 year span. Thus doubling there fund value in that time frame and matching 50 years of growth in 1/10 the time! Dealing with California Pension fraud.
http://santabarbaracriminalcourtcorruption.blogspot.com/2010/10/vcera-pension-fund-corruption-math-does.html

After the death of a Santa barbara Superior Court Judge there replacement fails to place themselves on the June Primary. Here are my concerns with Superior Court Judge Sterne. That an other items are questioned in this following posting.
http://santabarbaracriminalcourtcorruption.blogspot.com/2010/06/if-judge-lafferty-had-to-run-why-is.html

I hope I can be included in anything you think might help us all.

Best Regards



Larry "Magic" Mendoza



Here is the laws in regards to being a California Superior Court Judge

Vacancies that occur in any office filled by the appointment of the board and elective county officers, except judge of the superior court and supervisors. The appointee shall hold office for the unexpired term or until the first Monday after January lst succeeding the next general election.

http://www.judicialselection.us/judicial_selection/methods/selection_of_judges.cfm?state=CA

Methods of Judicial Selection: California


Selection of Judges

Number of Judgeships

Supreme Court: 7

Court of Appeals: 102

Superior Court: 1535





Number of Districts/Circuits

Supreme Court: --

Court of Appeals: 6

Superior Court: 58*

Geographic Basis for Selection

Supreme Court: statewide

Court of Appeals: district

Superior Court: county

Method of Selection (full term)

Supreme Court: gubernatorial appointment;**confirmation by commission on judicial appointments***

Court of Appeals: gubernatorial appointment;**confirmation by commission on judicial appointments***

Superior Court: nonpartisan election****

Length of Term

Supreme Court: 12 yrs

Court of Appeals: 12 yrs

Superior Court: 6 yrs

Method of Retention

Supreme Court: retention election

Court of Appeals: retention election

Superior Court: reelection

Length of Subsequent Terms

Supreme Court: 12 yrs

Court of Appeals: 12yrs

Superior Court: 6 yrs

Method of Filling Interim Vacancies

Supreme Court: gubernatorial appointment;**confirmation by commission on judicial appointments***

Court of Appeals: gubernatorial appointment;**confirmation by commission on judicial appointments***

Superior Court: gubernatorial appointment**

When Interim Judges Stand for Election/Appointment

Supreme Court: next gubernatorial election

Court of Appeals: next gubernatorial election

Superior Court: next general election

Selection of Chief Judge/Justice

Supreme Court: gubernatorial appointment;**confirmation by commission on judicial appointments***

Court of Appeals: gubernatorial appointment;**confirmation by commission on judicial appointments***

Superior Court: peer vote

Term of Office for Chief Judge/Justice

Supreme Court: 12 yrs

Court of Appeals: 12 yrs

Superior Court: 1 or 2 yrs, depending on county

Qualifications

Supreme Court: 10 yrs practice of law in state or service as judge of court of record

Court of Appeals: 10 yrs practice of law in state or service as judge of court of record

Superior Court: 10 yrs practice of law in state or service as judge of court of record

How important is this Election? Ervin "Magic Johnson and me!

So here we are another week closer to our Country's elections and I have to wonder how this one compares to other past elections in terms of importance for our Country? With out any resource or expertise my guess would be that this election must compare to pre civil war days in regards to the effect it may have for our future. Than having said that I have to wonder; If we should not have paid closer attention to the results from Florida during the 2000 Presidential election. The 500 + votes that eventually gave us a second term President named Bush rather than a first term President named Gore An if we had elected a new President Gore back than would we be here now in this economical mess now? I would think one has to wonder?

Some times I feel the only thing recognized as history is yesterday. An that may only apply if the media prepares our notes for us. Some of you might recall I have in the past called that 2000 Presidential election the greatest night in our Country's history in my view. That night I was just so impressed with our election system and in awe that with over 300 million Americans it came down to 500 voters. Or in other words every person still counts and can be the deciding factor in any practice of Democracy in these United State. God Bless America!

I have in the past drafted my comments as if the President might hear them and shared those thoughts with all of you my captive audience. Last week I spoke of President Obama possibly taking a different course action even though that action might buck conventional wisdom. I feel when that is done there is a certain Nobleness added to that act or feat and I want to share to recent Class Acts that may reflect just that.

I am not the sports fan I once was but this next example of Class does come from the sports world. Donavan McNabb used to be the quarterback in Philadelphia for the Eagles and was traded this past off season to division rivals the Washington Redskins (my team). I have seen many young sports announcers call this trade the biggest blunder in sports history. To trade a player especially of that caliber to a rival could have a negative impact on your team should his efforts against you the following season lead to defeats. An that has for the most part has been conventional thinking in sports when dealing with trading players. Now Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie and Coach Andy Reid said what a minute. The class and dignity in which Donovan McNabb played for our team goes beyond a business relationship. An he will be treated with the same line of respect he showed while playing and interacting with our community. Young sports casters there was no blunder here and one should applaud the Class act of the Philadelphia organization. Winning at all cost may not be winning at all. An to the Philadelphia fans who greeted Mr. Mc Nabb upon his return against you with that thunderous applause ,you are the class act of the leagues as well. 

  Do any of you remember where you were the day Ervin “Magic” Johnson announced he had the AIDS virus and was retiring from the Los Angeles Lakers. I was living in Stockton CA. and had come home for lunch when my Julie told me the news. I am not going to say I was a big Laker fan but I had Julies permission to get remarried in the Purple and Gold of the Lakers. Do you know what I remember most about that day? It was Mr. Johnson's feeling that God had given the AIDS virus to the right person. Never a question or doubt that he would defeat what others would call bad luck.

I will try and finish this up so I may share it before I go to work. 5 years ago this week my nightmare with corruption had started. At one end of the week I stopped my brother in the hall of the Morgan Hill hotel and told him I got this handled, this will not beat me. At the other end of that same week I saw Julie for the first time since I had returned to Santa Barbara. I was scaring her because she had never seen me frightened before. I looked her in the eyes and with my most serious look I tried to comfort and reassure her not to worry about me. That no matter what things looked like I was the man that would defeat the madness I was experiencing, never a doubt in my mind. You see when you have someone believe in you like I had in Julie, well lets just say my upside was limitless. I have never said poor me nor will I, in fact all this is just part of my walk. This battle I fight to wake up America calls on all my past life experiences to accomplish. An none will prove more valuable than my curiosity to understand how things work.

How do things work, I am not sure? How does the front page of the Santa Barbara news press brings us sad news of drug abuse in our local schools? Yet a 9 million dollar drug bust creates no negative response. How or what was a registered sex offender to do with his drugs, pray on our children some more? How is our Josh Lynn formerly of the Santa Barbara District Attorneys office tied into these drug dealers?

How does a man get up and say to the Board of Supervisors yesterday there may be a future unfunded liability with the SBCERS pension of one billion dollars? Oh that's right he may have read the report our Board of Supervisors have seating on the shelf. An just for the recorded there is no such thing as a “Unfunded Future Pension Liability' that beast does not exist. There maybe an under performing pension fund that has created ADDITIONAL liability but all pension funds have been to date over funded not unfunded. Think about that a moment. The Republicans by the way are not the only ones needing a qualified candidate. All we have here in California to vote for Governor is Dumb or Dumber. As always if you enjoy what I write I ask that you share it with others.

Larry“Magic” Mendoza

There are a lot of different views we can take on story's. On a side note based on the recent play of the remaining Quarterbacks in Philly is it possible Mr. McNabb might have been only third string?

TMZ is aware of Sanat Barbara because of the dirty campaign race ruun by D.A. hopeful Josh Lynn.

TMZ is aware because of the D.A. Race (Santa Barbara)

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Date: 2010-10-20, 3:05PM PDT

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All that noise and garbage during the D.A. race has brought National attention to Santa Barbara in ways and area's not wanted by those who practice corruption. Josh Lynn making a web site about corruption what a fool, but than again that's why he lost for District Attorney and now defends sex offenders?.

TMZ is up to speed about the arrest warrant issued for for Randy and Evi Quaid. An all the Quaizness in the Santa Barbara Superior court here in there Criminal Division!

Don't laugh we spoke at length and the TMZ person was very well versed in the going on's in Santa Barbara.

TMZ is in the job. I brought them up to date on Josh Lynn, drug dealers and the Quaziness Randy and Evi Quaid go though in Santa Barbara. You never know where the break will come from. Santa Barbara media should be called M.B.M. or Make Believe Media!

I guess I need to be calling on the media now , maybe the L.A. Times or S.F. Chronicle? My stories are to good not to get the real media attention the deserve and not the attention from MBM here in Santa Barbara.

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Quaziness Continues for Randy an Evi Quaid, an arrest warrant issued. Who should Santa Barbara believe. The Santa Barbara Independent or Keyt News?

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Quaziness Continues

Montecito Homeowner Slaps Couple with Restraining Order

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Thursday, October 14, 2010

http://www.independent.com/news/2010/oct/14/quaziness-continues/  believe

By Chris Meagher (Contact)The District Attorney’s Office has yet to file charges against actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, who were arrested on 9/18 for allegedly trespassing on a property they once owned but apparently sold in 1994. Possible criminal charges, however, haven’t stopped the duo from their bizarre behavior, and they were slapped with a temporary restraining order recently.

Lannette Turicchi, who, along with her husband, Scott, owns the East Mountain Drive home which the Quaids allegedly broke into, filed for the temporary restraining order — which prohibits either Quaid from calling or writing the Turicchis and from going near their homes or their children’s school — after Evi Quaid showed up at the Turicchis’ Pasadena home and later mailed a semi-threatening letter to them. In the letter, the Quaids wrote, “You are trespassing. You must vacate immediately. Please leave our keys in our mailbox along with our remote gate opener.” The Quaids claim they never sold the Mountain Drive property and were never paid for it. “You both must have known or feared this day would arrive,” they wrote. “This is what happens when you purchase a house from someone who doesn’t own it.”
Turicchi said that at no time had she or her husband “ever authorized either of the Quaids to enter any portion” of the Mountain Drive property but found the Quaids had allegedly disassembled a children’s play structure and used the parts, along with large umbrellas, to block the view into the property. They also allegedly tampered with security equipment.
The two are scheduled to appear in court on 10/26 for a hearing on the restraining order. End of the Santa Barbara Independent story.

 http://www.keyt.com/news/local/Quaids-Bail-On-Court-Arrest-Warrant-Issued--105193704.html

Quaids Bail On Court, Arrest Warrants Issued

KEYT Assignment Desk

Story Created: Oct 18, 2010 at 11:39 AM PDT
Story Updated: Oct 18, 2010 at 11:48 AM PDT

An arrest warrant was issued yet again after Randy and wife, Evi Quaid failed to appear before a Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge on Monday.

The couple were due to be arraigned on burglary charges after being arrested earlier this month.

Deputies arrested the couple for allegedly breaking into a home on East Mountain Drive in Montecito. It was a home they once owned in the early 1990's.

Evi Quaid told KEY News last month that they weren't living at the home, but were just trying to maintain it.

Robert Sanger, attorney for the Quaids did appear before a judge this morning, claiming he did not know why his clients were absent.

A judge issued a $50,000 warrant for both Randy and Evi, and ordered the couple to appear in court on October 26th. End of KEYT story.

  Why would you have to bail yourself out of Jail on 09/19/10 If CHARGES HAD NOT BEEN FILED AS OF LAST WEDNESDAY 10/14/10? Why does the KEYT story leave out the name of the California Superior Court Judge who issued the bench warrant? Should we ask Santa Barbara California Superior Court Judge Anderson if this is a VOLUNTARY FELONY warrant and or arraignment again? See my earlier posting from there first arrest where Superior Court Anderson claims there presence in his Court for there Felony arraignment was merely Voluntary until after the 3rd no show when Superior Court Judge Anderson finally issued a bench warrant. What the hell goes on in Santa Barbara Superior Court in the criminal division should be a Hollywood tragedy and not this comedy we have before us now. Now if I recall correctly and I usually do the Santa Barbara News Press follow up story to this second arrest tried to act as if charges would not be filed as felony's after all. That Santa Barbara News Press claimed a lower dollar amount of damages giving our District Attorneys Office an out. Corruption is every where from the Framing of a 14 year old boy for Murder like what transpired in Ricardo Juarez's case. To the harassment of a Hollywood couple to keep the District Attorneys office in the National Media Light. Why Flag my posting off the  Santa Barbara Craigslist? With all that I expose people are more upset with my questions regarding the Quaids arrest instead of Drug Dealers contributing to our Santa Barbara County District Attorney race for Josh Lynn. Just goes to show you our priority's in Santa Barbara!

  

Pascual Gamboa: 1930-2010 and Magic's Visit for Fiesta's

 

Pascual Gamboa: 1930-2010

Restaurateur

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Thursday, September 23, 2010

By Kevin McKiernan

I remember that Fiesta when Pascual rode a horse through his restaurant at 30 E. Victoria, banging his head on a crossbeam and nearly trampling a mariachi singer. I was at the bar, my back to the hand-carved sign that read, “Good Thing We Don’t Drink,” defending a Corona in the crunch of revelers showered in cascarones. Pascual made his entrance in his cream-colored, three-piece mariachi suit, wearing his signature sombrero grande. Fueled by some extra Hornitos, he soon grasped the obvious: It’s one thing to ride a stallion onto a tiled floor in a packed tavern—and quite another to turn it around.

Antonio Perez, Pascual’s first dishwasher and trusted compadre, was there that afternoon. Back in ’68, they had gone on a 10-week road spree in Mexico in Antonio’s aqua blue Thunderbird. Now Antonio was sitting in the back of the restaurant in a red plastic booth, one of those art deco jobs hauled over from the old Pascual’s on Carrillo Street. He can’t believe his eyes as horse and rider skid by the jukebox on the drink-slick floor. “Pascual was a cowboy when he was young, but restaurants are dangerous,” he advised me with a straight face. “The terrain is not made for horses.”
At that moment Sandy Romero, the waitress everyone called Wonder Woman, was talking to an insurance agent—a Fiesta celebrant who just happened to provide Pascual’s liability policy—when the startled animal began to lose its footing. “That’s when that horse kicked Booth # 6, which was full of people!” she said. “This guy’s jaw dropped and I heard him say, ‘Please tell me that just didn’t happen.’”
Pascual Gamboa, the 80-year old restaurateur who died of heart disease earlier this month, was the last of the Santa Barbara old-timers, that breed of freewheeling originals in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s who named their restaurants Harry’s, Cattleman’s, Mom’s, and Arnoldi’s. A small man known for his grace and kindness, Pascual was born in 1930 on El Carrizo, a hardscrabble ranch in the Mexican state of Jalisco. His father died in his early 40s of a heart attack. Pascual grew up with 15 brothers and sisters at the adobe homestead. As a teenager, he strapped salt blocks to horses and dropped them off along the dry riverbed of the Río Bolaños to keep the family cattle alive. In 1952, as he later told me, he “jumped the border, looking for a better life.” It was the night of July 4th and young Pascual was on his way to Sacramento, hoping for a laborer’s job on the Southern Pacific Railroad. When he crossed the river into the U.S.A., the sky was full of fireworks.

After a few years of railroad work and odd jobs, Pascual was snagged by la migra and deported. He tried again, this time landing in Santa Barbara where he got a dishwashing job at the San Ysidro Ranch. Before long, he was promoted to fry cook. Later on, he’d become a full-fledged chef, honored businessman and El Presidente of Old Spanish Days. Along the way he picked up his green card.
I met Pascual in the early 80’s through Rogelio Trujillo, the local landscaper and social activist from Zacatecas, Mexico, whose periodic run-ins with the cops made him a legend in some circles. By then, Pascual had opened his own place in the old Carrillo Hotel, across from the Greyhound bus station. The eatery was famous for “wet sandwiches,” especially Italian sausage with Pascual’s homemade Mexican salsa, and the lines at lunchtime went out the door and down Carrillo. Back then, according to Antonio Perez, down-on-their-luck bus riders would cross the street hoping for free food. “Pascual wouldn’t let them beg inside, but he always wrapped up something for them to take away.”
In those days Pascual didn’t have a full liquor license. But Clarita, his feisty waitress, bookkeeper, and lifetime partner, sometimes made wine margaritas that tasted like the real thing. Clarita, who is the mother of Gary Gamboa, Pascual’s only child, is now 89 and she remembers those customized concoctions. “I used fresh pineapple, an olive, a rim of salt, and whatever else I felt like putting in that day,” she recalled with a smile. “The margaritas cost $1.75, and we made a lot of money.”
When Pascual lost his Carrillo lease in 1987, he reopened the popular restaurant on Victoria. Gary, a road engineer for the county, worked there weekday mornings before classes at San Marcos High School, earning $20 a week as a janitor. He recalls his father arriving at 6 a.m. and firing up their only oven with fresh tri-tip and turkey for the lunch crowd of “tradesmen, lawyers, politicians, and who knows else” who’d start wandering in by 11:30 a.m. “My father trained me to have a great work ethic,” he said.
Breakfast at the new venue was served 365 days a year, starting at 8 a.m. The staff called Pascual “the Energizer Bunny” because he seemed to be everywhere, even singing trademark mariachi songs like “El Rey” and “Volver” after the bar closed at 2 a.m. If customers managed to return for an early breakfast the next morning, chances were they’d see him again—maybe not singing, but still smiling. “He treated the place like our living room at home,” Gary told me. “If you walked in having a bad day, you’d always walk out a little happier.”
Pascual was a soft touch. Longtime bartender Jon Reid remembers a stack of IOUs behind the cash register and how a business partner shook his head when another free meal went out the door. The restaurant was always a success, Reid told me, “but Pascual was in business for the people, not the bottom line.” Gary agreed. He said his father knew what it was like to be hungry, and he never forgot where he came from. Gary remembers a bothersome regular in the Carrillo restaurant, “an older gentleman who was poor and smelly,” and the customers who wanted to “shoo him away.” Pascual wouldn’t hear of it and always let the man sit at the bar and nurse his beer. Wonder Woman recalls another time, the morning on Victoria when she warned Pascual that a rough-looking drifter was at the back door wanting to use the toilet. “Dejale en paz,” Pascual instructed her. “Leave him alone.” Then, as the visitor proceeded to take a sponge bath in the men’s room, Pascual told Tony, the cook, to put together a burrito. Pascual wrapped the hot food in aluminum foil and gave it to Wonder Woman to deliver. “Es bueno,” Pascual said.
So much to remember: Summer Solstice, the biggest money maker of the year; St. Patrick’s Day, with Pascual in a green t-shirt that said “Kiss Me, I’m Irish”; and Cinco de Mayo, with those Budweiser Girls in their bathing suits handing out key chains and vying for pictures with Pascual.
But I have a quieter, more generalized memory: I am in Booth #11 by the window on East Victoria, as usual, eating chile verde with large chunks of fresh pork and three kinds of chile. Rogelio Trujillo and screenwriter Duffy Hecht are there, along with Robert Landheer, the criminal defense lawyer, and Paul Sugino and Will Hastings from the Legal Defense Center. Will has tipped off Sunset Magazine about Pascual’s fish tacos, and now the restaurant’s recipe is on the cover. For his part, Rogelio has convinced Pascual to donate cases of chicken or tri-tip for another homeless fundraiser, and we are all going over plans for the next barbeque. The place is loud, as always, full of firefighters, engineers, city inspectors, and other regulars.
I can see Pascual come down the stairs from the apartment he built above the bar, the one without a permit. I watch him go table to table, slowly, shaking hands and smiling. At one point he comes to the rescue of my daughter Cáitrín, who’s fending off a too-forward customer. It’s her first job as a waitress. At 16, she’s too young to carry alcoholic drinks to the table—why he agreed to hire her I’ll never know—and Pascual is helping her out. Our table is full of food and there’s laughter in the air. Everybody’s home.

The above story is from the Santa Barbara Independent, the story below is from my personal experiences. Please pay attention the the bold portion of the Independent story and they bold portion from my story they sort of go together.

There have been quite a few write ups these past 10 days all speaking in high regard about Pascual Gamboa and how we all felt about him. I was probably just ten or eleven when I first met Pasqual. Going every Saturday to his restaurant on Carrillo for my mom's standard order of his Chili Verde burritos.. I have lived here in Santa Barbara most of my life but I did leave for about ten years. An there is one visit in particular that every one seams to be remembering. You see Pascuals was were you went when you came back home. If it was Fiesta's and Bob Burton was in Florida you might here Bob was here last night. Maybe jerry Palacios was in from the Navy and his brother Mike was with him. You might run into Pancho and Virginia and every one knew when her cousin Michael arrived with his million dollar smile and new Fiesta shirts. My friend Hank would be at the door and wonder woman would be working. Randy Equihua might be there talking about how I could never make the Kool aide when I lived with them. I might drag my brother and Tim Lopez in or say high to Barbara. So what drew us all to this establishment. It was the man Pasqual himself and how every one was treated. I might not walk in that door for six months or a year but when I did arrive it was always just special.

Oh about that one visit everyone seems to be talking about happen with me and Julie sitting in booth six. If you read the Independent story from yesterdays edition it almost get's the story right. The most amazing part about when Pascual went into the restaurant on the horse for fiesta was missed by almost everyone. You see as the story in the independent says Pascual was sitting tall in the saddle and all of a sudden the horse started bucking as they were turning him around. Steve Cordero's dad was a booth or two away, I had to dive to my right. Richard Avila's cousin was holding Julies arm so tight that when Julie stood up on the seat in the booth she pulled her right up with her. Tables were busted and it seamed to take a bit for the horse to be calmed. That's when I noticed that the person guiding Pascual and the horse had the reins in his hands. Pascual was Puro Charro staying on that horse showing no fear until it was over with no reins! 68 year old Charro, it was awesome. Any how of course Pascual felt bad and kept coming over to us in our booth. If I recall it was 3 beers, 3 shots and he sang 3 songs to the ladies. On my way back to Galt that Sunday we stopped in Kettlemen city. In the gift shop at Harris Ranch was the leather horse, it sits in my living room to this day a reminder of that Fiesta. I love you Pasqual, you will never be forgotten rest in piece, I will always remember the fun (the ones 1 can remember)I had with you and your Crew. Thanks Lucky!

 To Pascuals Family my thoughts and prayers, I am sure you have been hearing memory after memory from all his friends.

People do care about the abuse and Corruption in Santa Barbara, Thank You!

Below are some emails I have received recently, I just want to say Thank You to everyone for everything.


Dear Magic, Great work!
another reply said;

Larry,
I keep up with all your emails & postings..I don't answer them due to time at work but believe me I pass them on either by paper or email to make people more aware of your findings! I congratulate you on all your time input and investigation on uncovering all this corruption! My respect to you on doing all this knowing you put yourself in danger because of all those hypocrite people you bring out to the public eye and uncover their dirty disgusting acts! I'm happy in particular with the Josh Lynn discoveries you brought out! That dirty sac of unlawful corrupt deserves to be brought out in the spot light for all his cold hearted wrong doings in order for him to make all believe he earned everyone's respect because of his so called good work as a DA when all he was doing is thinking about himself and how to gain power regardless of who's cost innocent or guilty! I applaud you Larry!! Nice work! Good job!!

Another response to my concern regarding the Santa Barbara Independent having two versions of one story.

Larry,

I was thinking about the Independent and its articles and how you are noting it changed its articles, but did not include the names of the Donors to one of the Candidates for DA.

There are a few possible reasons (that I can see).

1. The Independent may have connections.

A few years back, the main owner of the Indy, (I think Maryanne Partridge is her name) was busted for having a huge plantation of pot. Charges were never brought against her. I think this is due to the fact that the Indy endorsed Sheriff Brown and DA Stanley. It is also possible that she may have connections to the guys who were busted! So, naturally, as editor, she may want to draw as much attention away from them as possible.


2. Moneys for ads.

Larry, what you have uncovered here is a major scandal (or at least should be treated as one!). There should be a huge investigation. The reality is, this type of thing may be rampant (and probably is). This is what old time journalism is supposed to uncover. At the same time, there are economic realities. Newspapers barely make it these days. Most ads run on the internet at little cost for the advertiser and it is difficult for the papers to make it. They depend on municipal notices for ads. If a newspaper starts digging up too much dirt, those ads could be pulled.

It might be self-preservation that is stopping this investigation!


My reply
What I have not shared with anyone xxx is that this has been going on for years. I first noticed post dating and reediting stories by the Santa Barbara Independent when I was re investigating my concerns in the Ricardo Juarez case. Facts seemed altered or deleted, so I would than reinvestigation my postings. As chance would have it I would have the original link and or have down loaded the story in original format and that would prove the post alterations of story's and facts.

In simple terms Big Brother and propaganda come to mind. Are you surprised or just more of the same, America is eroding away right before our eyes.


Larry " Magic " Mendoza

Back to what I have borrowed from Father Boyle of HomeBoy Industries;
"Is it not in every Americans Job description to protect one another and our Country?"

Corruption in Santa Barbara, from the media to criminal Courts. From drug dealers an there friend who ran for District Attorney. Drugs hidden in childrens rooms, Santa Barbara corruption must be addressed!

How is it with all the people that are smarter not a single reply to my posting about Josh Lynn's drug trafficking friends? Worse yet all the comments floating on the Internet down playing the 9 million dollar drug bust even when drugs were found in a child's room. To say nothing of the fact that there has been zero support shown for our Sheriffs hard work to make that bust. Obviously a million dollar drug lab was bought with drug money so I am sure the I.R.S. has been called in right? No cheating Uncle Sam, no no no!

All though not to be out done I have not heard a single comment in support of Cam Sanchez's some what weak victory this past week. It seams a Federal Court Judge some how did not allow the Federal lawsuit of Civil Rights violations against Wayne Scoles and his false arrest on the Mesa stand, Gee what a surprise no conflict of interest there , Federal Judge and Federal lawsuit humm? Not one City or County official much less law enforcement support saying they knew all along Cam Sanchez and his good name would be cleared. An I saw another needless and senseless act of possible Gang Violence that MUST be addressed in the headlines All this week. Yet no front page coverage on the Josh Lynn drug dealing friends, no further pictures of there arraignment, why is that? An by the way I knew the Cam Sanchez Verdict was full of shit from the first excuse given in the article I read. It stated when the female called into 911. The female (whom ever that is?) and her actions where never brought into question nor do I feel they should have been. Best as I recall the real question was why Cam Sanchez himself never called into 911 at all that day. What he did do was to call another S.B.P.D. officer initials J. R. direct phone to phone. Just by chance this same officer arrested me falsely during my obtaining 7 strike-able charges 5 years ago. As it turns out I learned of these abnormal actions by Santa Barbara Police chief cam sanchez through another local law enforcement officer. This officer was very offended by the inappropriate actions taken that day by S.B.P.D. in regards to those involved with Mr. Scoles arrest. Mr. sanchez I would love to hear your 911 call from the day in question as well as all the 911 calls from 03/14/06 and you know why(Richardo Juarez). As far as I am concerned Operation Unemployement to replace our police Chief should be your next big story. I hope that is direct enough for everybody! Oh my name is Larry Mendoza but we all knew that already.
I would think that because of the possible exposure to further lawsuits by Wayne Scoles the City of Santa Barbara might also declare a conflict of interest and ask that the State Attorney General to conclude the investigation City Administrator J. Armstrong initiated 16 months ago against Police Chief cam sanchez. Public money spent with no public disclosure can you say Bell California (north).

SB Police Officer Arrested For Indecent Exposure - Planet Sb planetsantabarbara.com — SB police Officer Brian Sawicki arrested for indecent exposureA Santa Barbara police office was arrested Monday afternoon (8/10/09) for indecent exposure at Refugio Beach. Two teenage girls were followed and then allegedly unfortunately observed the man masturbating. Brian Sawick, a 33 year old Santa Barbara Police officer was arrested.

Oh wait 1 year into a misdemeanor case and our District Attorneys office is still dragging there feet? Brian Sawicki was not in court during last weeks proceedings so he must not have felony charges.

An what about the Quaids who posted 50,000 Bail apiece and have yet to be charged by our District Attorneys office. Than I ask is the County responsible for the 10,000 cash paid by the Quaids to bail bondsman?

What about the second case involving Peter Jeschke. This is the one where Judge Ochoa did not follow the Pre- sentencing report recommendations and gave no Jail time. In fact it seems he attempted to not require Mr. Jescke to even register as a SEX OFFENDER. What sticks out about this case was Josh Lynn was acting District Attorney and prosecutor Joyce Dudley was mistreated by both the Court and her own Office,

Local News » Former Coach Found Guilty in Sex-Abuse Case
Former Coach Found Guilty in Sex-Abuse Case
Peter Jeschke faces 10 years in prison for having sex with a player

By Lara Cooper, Noozhawk Staff Writer | Published on 05.12.2009

After hearing weeks of testimony, a Superior Court jury on Tuesday found former Santa Barbara High School tennis coach Peter Jeschke guilty of having sex with a player on his team in 2007.

Jeschke was found guilty on seven counts of sexual misconduct, including unlawful sexual intercourse, oral copulation and sex with a foreign object. He also was found guilty of providing marijuana to a person older than 14 and for possession of marijuana.

Jeschke had faced charges of providing alcohol to minors, but was not found guilty. He also was accused of providing cocaine and ecstasy to the victim, then 16, but a hung jury issued a 7-5 vote.

Deputy attorney Joyce Dudley said Jeschke faces 10 years in prison. He will be sentenced June 24."

The second charge of tampering with a witness was not tried at the same time since of course Mr. Jeschke was never proven to be a current or former Gang member. In fact here we are October of 2010 and they are talking next year before his second case from early 2008 goes to trial. I could beat up this case a whole lot more since his first trial kept getting postponed over an over as well. Mr Jeschke was convicted a full year ago and the second trial has not started, maybe Mr. Mize should switch attorneys.


Submitted Aug 11, 2009 by nosamttam

Oh and what of that LARGE METH bust we had June 6th of this year, no further press coverage there.

http://community.lopeztonight.com/profiles/blogs/does-crime-pay-in-santa
Santa Barbara drug bust! Does crime pay? (Corruption in Santa Barbara)

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Sunday, June 6, 2010
Big Santa Barbara drug bust! Does crime pay? You look at the house and tell me!
Wow a big meth bust in Santa Barbara recently and the Santa Barbara news press missed reporting on one of the story’s. Of the 2 meth bust that occurred I am interested in The second Meth bust that took place at 2078 Las Canoas 93105 home of William Paxson. If you review different stories from various news services names, photos and ages never match in regards to the bust and arrest information. Something like D.A. donations made by Mr. Erik Bjorkland opps that’s really Bjorklund to Mr. Josh Lynn’s campaign fund. There old motorcycle riding buddies and there’s nothing wrong with that.
The information below was taken from Sheriff’s web page in regards to the drug bust and is in the middle of posting.
“William Paxson – 11550(a) H&S – Under the influence of a controlled substance, 11364 H&S – Possession of drug paraphernalia, 11366 H&S – Maintaining a dwelling for drug use/sales. Bail was set at $2,500.”

Really 2500 bail, wow Santa Barbara District Attorneys are really going after the white over 60, living in 2 Million dollar home “Gangsters’ that’s O.G. baby! During my harassment and 5 different illegal arrests I had bail any where from 20,000 to 100,000 for words I never said. Worse than that there is a current rumor that law enforcement caught one of there own in these arrest, can that be true? Take a look at the house yourself!

http://www.phototoursidx.com/sb/details.php?mlsid=20090818193919423...
Below is some more information in regards to the drug bust, I will follow that with some words to the Santa Barbara Sheriff and Police department.
http://www.thedailysound.com/052810drugbust
Detectives take down alleged meth ring
By DAILY SOUND STAFF — May 28, 2010
Authorities busted up an alleged methamphetamine ring operating out of a home on Las Canoas Road this week, taking six people into custody on a variety of drug-related charges.
Sheriff’s narcotics detectives launched a three-month investigation after receiving complaints and information from community members about the alleged drug operation. With the help of Santa Barbara police, deputies served a search warrant at the home in the 2000 block of Las Canoas Road on Tuesday.
“Detectives seized operable scales, approximately 2 ounces of methamphetamine, packaging materials, $1,200 in cash and other paraphernalia associated with the sales and use of narcotics,” according to a Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department news release. End of Blog Posting.


1 Gang incident and the City of Santa Barbara goes to pieces while Millionaire Drug dealers buy Real Estate and have free reign, that is BULL

Hey we all fell for the Pension fraud cover up why keep blaming Wall Street lets put that mess on Gangs too?
I love our Country and respect the legal system when just. Why does Santa Barbara have such a huge contempt and complete disregard for the Civil Rights and applications of our Lands laws? If any person must pay his debt to society I will gladly sit on a fair and just jury to insure the victims of any crime there due justice. If you break the laws you have a duty to uphold I will attempt to bring charges against you just as any other criminal, regardless if you carry a badge!
P.S. I could have sworn only 39 arrest where recently mentioned in the Santa Barbara Independent follow up to "Gator Roll' not 210 as mentioned in the media last week.

Is the Santa Barbara Independent covering of for drug dealers with million dollar labs and friends of Josh Lynn? Why than the different versions of the same drug bust?

The Independent printed story differs from the Internet version at the link below, why is that?
http://www.independent.com/news/2010/oct/06/raid-mountains-marijuana/#c46470

Two main contributors,Eric Bjorkland and Kelsey O'Reilly to than hopeful candidate Josh Lynn for Santa Barbara District Attorney have been arrested. The two along with several others have been accused of being a Major Drug Traffickers! Funny how the Santa Barbara Independent is the only print media in Santa Barbara to leave the names of the arrested out of there Internet story. Funnier yet is why does the above internet version of the story differs from the printed version in this past Thursdays edition at all? How did I received an anonymous tip 6 months ago on the Santa Barbara Craigslist that the Josh Lynn for District Attorney contributors were A. Drug Dealers an B. had just purchased another 100 acres to grow there pot. Yet here it is a week since the arrest and the only person asking about ties to Josh Lynn and Drug Dealers buying the D.A. office is me. Are you telling me if Josh Lynn had won District Attorney he would not prosecute this case. Why is everyone making light of great Law Enforcement work IN THE FIRST PLACE? Next on my work load will be Municipal bonds and the contradictions they represent in regards to to County Financial s and the SBCERS pension fund. I guess when Josh Lynn said "they must fear him" he meant kids from the East Side and not his Millionaire friends that supply the illegal drugs to our society? You see this Internet story has left off the 28 Five gallon jugs of processed hash oil and the several million dollar lab required to produce these illegal drugs. Ask Law Enforcement if they want to deal with suspects high out of the minds from this hash oil before you make more Hispanic Jokes. This man below hide drugs in his children s rooms let us send him some more praise.
Erik Bjorklund DOB: 09/02/55 (of Santa Barbara)
Arrested at the San Marcos property and Booked on a $2,000,000.00 Ramey warrant for 35 counts of Money Laundering; 11370.9 H&S / 186.10 PC, Additional Charges: 11360 H&S Sales / Transportation of Marijuana, 11358 H&S Cultivation of Marijuana. 11359 H&S Possession of marijuana for Sales, 273a (a) PC Child Endangerment, and 11379.6 H&S - Hash conversion lab.
Kelsey O'Reilly DOB: 08/02/77 (of Santa Barbara)
Arrested at his residence in Santa Barbara and Booked on 11360 (a) H&S Marijuana Sales, 11358 H&S Cultivate Marijuana, 15 counts of Money Laundering; 11370.9 H&S / 186.10 PC and 182 PC Conspiracy
Larry "Magic" Mendoza.

Dear Mr. President Obama, Just my thoughts if I were you.

So here it is 8 months since I first entertained the thought that there had to be more to the Santa Barbara County budget crisis than a blanket excuse that Wall Street was to blame. As a matter of fact all of America is blaming Wall Street for one thing or the other. I stand behind the counter at work and listen to our customers and there different opinions about who is to blame for this or that on a daily basis. I must say I am impressed with the intelligence and thought that has gone into there particular views and there statistics they have to help them explain there stance. Our troubled America is on everyones mind.


Than at the same time I think wow what a dilemma the Republicans are in right now. I mean it seems everyone (as stated by the media) is not pleased with current President Obama’s performance to date. An yet can anyone name the Republican front runner to challenge President Obama in 2 years? People please be honest with yourself, there is no one out there as a savior for this Country! Well other than myself and you the American Public of course! An is it just me or does President Obama seem to be willing to spend as much money as he can on the American public as easily as it was spent on Wall Street? Putting money on Main street rather than Wall Street should please us and yet nobody seems happy. Now I am not saying I am pleased with our Country's current situation but when I do hear our President speak I get a positive feeling of sincerity regardless of what the media polls say. I also have just one message for our President Obama,” Raise the ceiling of expectations for all future generations! An what I mean by that statement is that if President Obama is to serve only one term as President than be your own man for the remainder of your term.


Mr. President if you attempt that which has never been regardless your length in office you forever create a brighter future for this Country. If you raise the bar of self sacrifice for Country over self, you than match the efforts of our Brave Military and the duty that they perform on a daily basis! An with you knowing damn well it may reduce your stay in that very office you create history and change the possibilities for tomorrow forever. Your legacy in fact will not be your 1 ( I am here for two) term in office but the years and generations you affected from that stay and your willingness of self sacrifice for Country. Be your own man and play by new rules Mr. President! We all know that if we continue playing by the old rules there will be a new financial crisis in about 9 years that the American public will once again be responsible for and everything that goes with it will cycle over again.


My nightmare with illegal actions against me by a select few from the Santa Barbara police Department started almost 5 years ago to the date. I remember when I would write on the internet about my experiences people would tell me to move on. Or that nobody cares about my Illegal incarcerations, illegal foreclosure, Illegal Civil Court proceedings or other illegal actions by our Government. Well as it turns out America does care! Have you heard about the HALTING of FORECLOSURES due to improper actions by the foreclosing party's? People with circumstances exactly as mine . We are talking about major banks like B of A and state by state halting of foreclosure proceedings until proper documentation and court procedures are followed. Jim you are miles ahead of anyone else I know. An for those of you who can invest in Real Estate hold tight the true opportunity's will just start appearing later this year in that market! A 2 bed room home on 2.16 acres in Prunedale Ca. with in law quarters 140,000. That is 30 minutes from Morgan Hill Ray!


A few weeks back I had dinner with Ray and it was quite nice, Of course what else do I have to talk about except all my research and why it is so important. An I asked him if we as people are insane, which will be the theme to the next part of this posting. I mean just how stuck on stupid can we be America. Then Pension issues cost us all, read below and some startling news.




Larry 'Magic" Mendoza



US Cities Face Half a Trillion Dollars of Pension Deficits
Big US cities could be squeezed by unfunded public pensions as they and counties face a $574 billion funding gap, a study to be released on Tuesday shows. The Financial Times reports.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/39626759/





US Cities Face Half a Trillion Dollars of Pension Deficits
TAX, POLITICS, PENSION, DEFICIT, ECONOMY, POLITICS
Financial Times
| 12 Oct 2010 | 05:32 AM ET

Big US cities could be squeezed by unfunded public pensions as they and counties face a $574 billion funding gap, a study to be released on Tuesday shows.

The gap at the municipal level would be in addition to $3,000 billion in unfunded liabilities already estimated for state-run pensions, according to research from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the University of Rochester.

“What is yet to be seen is how this burden will be distributed between state and local governments and whether the federal government will be called upon for bail-outs,” said Joshua Rauh of the Kellogg School.

The financial demands of unfunded pension promises come as state and local governments grapple with years of falling tax revenue related to the recession.

The combination has raised concern that defaults, which are historically rare in the $2,800 billion municipal bond market where local governments obtain money, could now rise.

“The bondholders would be competing with the pension beneficiaries for scarce government resources,” Mr Rauh said.

Current pension assets for plans sponsored by Philadelphia can only pay for promised benefits through 2015, while Boston and Chicago would deplete their existing funds by 2019.

Cincinnati, Jacksonville, Florida and St Paul have current pension assets that can only pay for promised benefits through 2020.

Local governments use unique accounting methods that many, such as Mr Rauh, believe understate obligations. Based on his estimates, which use US Treasuries as the benchmark, each household already owes an average of $14,165 to current and former municipal public employees in the 50 cities and counties studied.

“Philadelphia has the most immediate cause for concern, as the city can pay existing promises with existing assets only through 2015,” Mr Rauh said, assuming an 8 percent annualized return, the most common benchmark for municipal plans.

In New York City, San Francisco and Boston the total is more than $30,000 a household and, in Chicago, it tops $40,000.

Taxpayers in these areas risk not only local tax increases and service cuts to pay for benefits, but potentially some of the bill for the $3,000 billion unfunded obligations at the state level, the researchers say.

“The fact that there is such a large burden of public employee pensions concentrated in urban metropolitan areas threatens the long-run economic viability of these cities, as residents can potentially move elsewhere to escape the situation,” Mr Rauh said.

The research examines 77 pension plans sponsored by 50 major cities and counties and covering about 2 million workers, which is estimated to be two-thirds of workers covered by local pensions. Researchers then extrapolated the results – an unfunded liability of about $5,300 per worker – to come up with the total estimate of $574 billion.
Copyright 2010 The Financial Times Limited
URL: http://www.cnbc.com/id/39626759/








thought you might be interested
Nathan


Thanks Nathan




Larry

SBCERS and the Municipal Bond market of Wall Street

I have uploaded the Bond 1,2 and 3 at the blog below for easy down loading. Unfortunately you can not down load the data from this blog
http://magicinsantabarbara.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/sbcers-pension-fund-and-bond-market-research-data-for-your-review/

← Yearly review of All California City, County an State Pension funds are available. SBCERS, CalPers, STRS, LACERS, OCERS, SCERS, UCRS, ACERA, CCCERA, KCERA, MCERA,
SBCERS Pension fund and Bond Market research data for your review
Posted on October 14, 2010 by magicinsantabarbara

We must be able to compare the SBCERS audits. with the State Controllers Data with the Municipal Bond market data if we want a true feel for just how much corruption exist! It is hard work and in order to make it easy for the average person to under stand I must break it down and present it to you, which is exactly what I plan on doing!

Larry " Magic" Mendoza
Below to review the California State Controllers Pension fund Audits@

1997- 2007, did you know the State of California kept track?

http://www.sco.ca.gov/ard_locrep_retirement.html

Below to search Santa Barbara County Bonds@

http://emma.msrb.org/Search/Search.aspxYou Searched For:

SBCERS home page below@

www.countyofsb.org/sbcers

Here is just a small sample of contradictions I am talking about.

Page 37 of one municipal bond shows as of December 31st in 1992 1990 and 1988

the SBCERS pension was funded 89.5% 83.0% 91.0%

Yet another source of data reflects a fund value of 64% as of 12/31/1990 with a value of 332 Million dollars and an obligation of 518 Million dollars. To add further confusion another bond report has the Pension obligation at 479 Million on 12/31/92 with assets of 429 Million. So a full 2 year difference between the two reports and and the Pension fund obligation has gone down? So I hope you can begin to understand the magnitude of corruption in regards to not only this County but I feel most California City and County Pension funds.



You may click on a file to review the Data from a Bond I have collected from Wall Street. There are four Municipal Bonds for your review. Or you can go to the web page were I collected the data from and review one of over 80 Mini Bonds. The reason the Municipal Bond Market is so important in Pension fund Fraud is because of the issuing Counties responsibility’s to potential investors. Here is an example of what I mean;
Could SEC target California for pension fraud? Caused (Because of fraud in Bond Market)
Date: 2010-10-09, 1:33AM PDT
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Could SEC target California for pension fraud?
On Pension Reform
September 01, 2010|By Joe Nation
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently charged that the state of New Jersey “misrepresented and failed to disclose material information regarding its under-funding of pension plans” to buyers of state bonds. In their settlement with the SEC, New Jersey officials did not admit any wrongdoing, but they agreed to continue with efforts to enhance disclosure, including instituting formal, written policies and procedures to bond offerings.

The New Jersey case has some wondering: Could California be next?

California’s public-employee pension funds, CalPERS, CalSTRS, and the University of California Retirement System are clearly grossly underfunded. A recent Stanford study, on which I was the adviser, estimated the aggregate shortfall before the market decline at $425 billion, equal to about five California General Fund budgets. Professor Joshua Rau of Northwestern University estimates the California shortfall at $475 billion. Even the funds themselves acknowledge that they are underwater, although they argue that the aggregate problem is much less.

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As time permits I will compare all of the reports I can for contradictions in the up coming weeks. Yes and no this is very complicated but it is what must be done to recoup our hard earn and wasted tax dollars.





Larry ” Magic” Mendoza

91-92 27 Million Tax & Revenue Anticipation Note (Bond 1)located for your review @

http://emma.msrb.org/IssueView/IssueDetails.aspx?id=MS257731

CUSIP # 801320AB8 Official Statement posted 06/17/1993 located in box half way down far right side of web page.

Bond 1 91-92 SBCounty

1994-1995 54 Million Tax & Revenue Anticipation Note (2) for your review @

http://emma.msrb.org/IssueView/IssueDetails.aspx?id=MS277772

Official Statement posted 06/28/2004 located in the box half way down the far right side of web page.

Bond 2 SB COUNTY

1989bond#3



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