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Mayor Bob Filner returns $21,676 in contributions from special political fund
The refunds were issued to unions, corporations, and big developers.
The hits keep coming for Mayor Bob Filner. As the Mayor ponders resignation in a legal mediation with the City and former Communications Director Irene McCormack-Jackson, a treasurer for his special political fund is zeroing out one of Filner's political …
Beyond the "smart meter"
SDG&E will test technology that monitors customers' energy use down to the individual device using it
Those who opposed the digital “smart meters” installed over the last few years by San Diego Gas & Electric may soon have a new technology to worry about: a real-time monitoring device that measures the power draw off every circuit …
Quintessential San Diego: tax fraud through a trust
And selling stock in a mine that didn't exist
Mark Twain defined a gold mine as a hole in the ground with a liar on the top. Today (Aug. 20) Douglas Ellingson pleaded guilty to investment fraud. He sold more than $2 million worth of stock that was secured …
Peace gets a chance with Sempra-bankrolled web design
The political action committee that won't die comes to life once more with Sempra work done by familiar sounding political outfit
When last we checked in on the Independent Voter PAC, the political fund run by David Takashima was helping to the advance the agenda of Proposition 30, the successful November 2012 tax hike by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K9chLGt49Q&feature=player_embedded#t=0 It …
City Attorney's one-eighty on Sunroad. Office calls Sunroad lawsuit a "sham"
Recent court documents show City Attorney's office now defending Sunroad's land-grab
Giving away public park space to a developer? No big deal. Filing a lawsuit against the City for an apparent quid-pro-quo with said developer? A complete "sham." That is the latest opinion from the City Attorney's Office in the legal …
Bad actor surfaces among top San Diego cops
Owner of uniform store and police museum commissioner faces sentencing in federal court here next month on kickback conspiracy count
San Diego being the kind of rough-and-tumble law enforcement, military and border intelligence town that many say it is, it may not be too surprising to find lots of interesting characters on the board of commissioners of its non-profit police …
Baja Attorney General: Arellano Félix Cártel has not disappeared
Statements made after DEA declares organization extinct
Rommel Moreno Manjarrez, the Baja California Attorney General, announced that despite claims made by the DEA, the Arellano Félix Cártel has not disappeared from the area. The statements came on Tuesday, August 20, a day after Eduardo Arellano Félix was …
Sri Lankan man gets second chance at amnesty
Court reconsiders decision on advice of San Diego ACLU
A Sri Lankan man will get another shot at applying for asylum after the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic came to his aid, urging the federal Ninth Circuit …
City Attorney continues to chip away at San Diego's recall law
City Attorney now says anyone, regardless of place of residence can assist in recall efforts.
City Attorney Jan Goldsmith's Office is whittling away at the laws governing recall elections. In an August 16 memo, Deputy City Attorney Sharon Spivak found that a requirement that signature gatherers in recall elections be registered voters and San Diego …
Filner, Goldsmith met today: reports
Resignation on table, as expected. Secrecy also?
As predicted here yesterday (see my blog post on Sunday, Aug. 18), Mayor Bob Filner and City Attorney Jan Goldsmith met today, according to reports in mainstream media today (Aug. 19). Locally, such media outlets as Channel 10, KPBS, and …
Eduardo Arellano Félix receives 15 year prison sentence
Arellano Félix drug cartel boss receives sentence after pleading guilty in May to multiple charges
Eduardo Arellano Félix, one of the former leaders of the Arellano Félix drug cartel, has been sentenced to a 15 year federal prison term on Monday, August 19. The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Judge Larry Burns at …
If Filner falls, so rise the Kochs?
Newly arrived U-T San Diego editorialist worked for non-profit news outfit linked to conservative oil and chemical magnates by Columbia Journalism Review
The billionaire Koch brothers, David and Charles of Wichita, Kansas, don't enjoy much obvious clout in San Diego politics, but that could soon change, depending in part on the fate of Republican spearheaded recall efforts to oust Democratic mayor Bob …
La Mesa Police Department sued for searching DMV database for African-American suspects
Complaint against the City and its police department was filed in federal court
Detectives from the La Mesa Police Department are accused of searching the DMV database and collecting driver's license photos of African-American males as a way to locate suspects. A lawsuit filed in U.S District Court on Monday alleges that detectives …
Baja California received more than 25% of deportations in 2012 from U.S.
400,000 deported to Mexico last year, 126,000 to Baja California
The Instituto Nacional de Migración (National Migration Institute or INM) of Mexico released its estimates on the number of Mexicans deported from the United States in 2012, on Friday, August 16. Milenio reported on the statistics the following day, which …
Artist seeks to use freeway billboard as canvas for Point Loma lighthouse painting
A former San Diego local has a unique plan for commercial billboards: filling them with art, rather than advertisement. Nathan Horner, who lives in Hollywood but attended art school in San Diego and lived in the area for several years, …
Filner, Goldsmith slated to meet tomorrow
City attorney seeks settlement tied to resignation; but does he have anything in his hand?
As of today (Sunday, Aug. 18), Mayor Bob Filner and City Attorney Jan Goldsmith are scheduled to meet tomorrow at an undisclosed location, probably not on City property. The meeting could be delayed or canceled, of course. The mayor will …
How Goldsmith tries the Filner case on TV
Tosses about words like "sociopathic," "lack of conscience."
KUSI interview City Attorney Jan Goldsmith, a bitter enemy of Mayor Bob Filner, is fishing about for a pretext for getting a restraining order against Filner. He may try the "hostile workplace" charge that is arising from the sexual harassment …
Three-year-old case charging attempted-murder is delayed again
Stoned shooter reportedly missed the point-blank shot-to-the-head
Phillip Esquire Miller IV denies putting a gun to the head of a man with whom he had been smoking “Kush” for an hour, and then stealing three pounds of marijuana from the frightened survivor, more than three years ago. …