{"id":8692,"date":"2009-04-28T19:45:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T19:45:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-28T19:45:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T19:45:32","slug":"mike-carona-gets-five-years-in-the-clink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/28\/mike-carona-gets-five-years-in-the-clink\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Carona gets five years in the clink"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh how the tables have turned for “America’s Sheriff” Mike Carona.  He’ll be just another prisoner in our messed up prison system soon enough:<\/p>\n

Mike Carona’s fall from “America’s Sheriff” to convicted felon reached bottom Monday as a federal judge gave Orange County’s former top law enforcement officer a half-hour lecture about honesty before sentencing him to 5 1\/2 years in prison for attempting to obstruct a grand jury investigation.<\/p>\n

“I need a sheriff I can trust,” U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford told Carona. “Lying will not be tolerated in this courtroom, especially by the county’s highest-ranking law enforcement officer.” (LAT 4\/28\/09<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The bluster and pomposity that was the Mike Carona experience has now been replaced by former LA County deputy sheriff and FBI Academy GraduateSheriff-Coroner Sandra Hutchens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Orange County is better off with Ms. Hutchens as Sheriff, although I imagine these will be some hard days for Carona.  He does not have a lot of fans in the prisons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh how the tables have turned for “America’s Sheriff” Mike Carona.  He’ll be just another prisoner in our messed up prison system soon enough:<\/p>\n

Mike Carona’s fall from “America’s Sheriff” to convicted felon reached bottom Monday as a federal judge gave Orange County’s former top law enforcement officer a half-hour lecture about honesty before sentencing him to 5 1\/2 years in prison for attempting to obstruct a grand jury investigation.<\/p>\n

“I need a sheriff I can trust,” U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford told Carona. “Lying will not be tolerated in this courtroom, especially by the county’s highest-ranking law enforcement officer.” (LAT 4\/28\/09<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The bluster and pomposity that was the Mike Carona experience has now been replaced by former LA County deputy sheriff and FBI Academy GraduateSheriff-Coroner Sandra Hutchens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Orange County is better off with Ms. Hutchens as Sheriff, although I imagine these will be some hard days for Carona.  He does not have a lot of fans in the prisons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[261],"tags":[1030],"class_list":["post-8692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-261","tag-1030"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2gc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}