I love this story. You know, the one about Sheriff Carona the crooked law man who's now been indicted for corruption. I wrote earlier of his long time assistant, George Jaramillo who rolled on his former boss and buddy. He struck a plea deal with the feds a few months back and at that time they sealed the plea while the investigation was ongoing. Jaramillo or 'Big Jara' as I like to call him admitted to accepting at least 45 grand in cash and gifts while working under Carona. Big Jara got himself 12 months and boy is he singin'.
On a personal note an acquaintance of mine met Carona in a bar and said Corona was a great guy. Yeah well no duh! At the time he was A: in a bar boozin' and B: he was livin' large on extra bullion from his little racket and C: His marriage seemed to be working all while having a mistress in the stable who was in on the fix. That's a friggin' trifecta brothers and sisters. Legally speaking things are looking pretty grim for the old law man who not only deputized his non cop buddies but also got some of them concealed weapons permits but he maintains his innocence and so far I haven't seen him sweat. Is he going to drag this out until the feds offer him a decent plea or has the shiny domed ex cop got one last card to play? We'll soon see, and I'll be watching.
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