Debra Torres

The Track of Corruption of Carona of Michael of ex-shedrif Began Today

BY MICHAEL WEBSTER: OCTOBER OF INVESTIGATION OF JOURNALIST 27, 2008 to 9:55 in the evening PDT

Michael Carona the former shedrif of Orange county also known early in his career as his shedrif of America began his corruption track today with the first declarations of the accusation and defense counsels. Carona regulating to the defense table with the defense lawyers, to Jeffrey Rawitz and to the Sun of Brian with his mistress and to the co-accused Debra Hoffman. They seemed to be to listen carefully as the lawyers of prosecutors and defense presented their very different versions to the jury as for the facts in the track awaited long in a room of packed audience representing especially journalists, the friends and the family of the lawyers and the other members of the office of the American lawyer.

The first crowd of surplus of morning looked at the event of a room of separated audience to the sixth floor to the palace of federal justice in Santa Anna California.

Deborah Carona the woman of ex-sheriff that also is loaded in the case, but goes to the process after his husband, looked at the event of a not removed seat of the table of defense.

First in the afternoon event, the torres-guillen of Sylvia of lawyer of the Hoffman said jurors that the loads were brought against his customer only if the accusation could show that "the Shedrif of America" had an extramarital matter.

"They were anxious it have to place here because it does their history that a lot of more sexy," torres-guillen said.

Pointed torres-guillen out to the jurors that Hoffman did not become rich by his association with Carona, but belonged to the debt because of his law partnership with the soon to be the shedrif George Jaramillo Auxiliary, that neglected their office when it began the functioning with Carona. The business obtained one $110,000 loans of Haidl and Hoffman obtained about $70,000 as rupture of Haidl when she left the business ae" money she always wanted to reimburse, his lawyer said. Jaramillo charged later and recognized itself guilty and is counted to testify against Michael Carona.

Hoffman did not unveil the money in the documents of bankruptcy because she obtained from bad lawful counsels, torres-guillen said, adding that there is not conspiracy and that his same customer should not be here.

The first witness called by the government was Dilullo of Brand, a pilot and an owner of his own business in Rancho Cucamonga. It testified that it had a relation of long date with the then Carona of shedrif and with Gift Haidle the witness of star of the government in the case and said the jury that it knew the two men before and after Carona won the office.

Dilullo describing itself as an associate of friend and matters of Haidl is said that it or his business flew Haidl and the friends to a lot of different places and said that it had worked also for Haidle.

Dilullo animated the court piece when it testified under the oath that Shedrif Haidle Auxiliary the request to the close, proud friends and asked, the parents and the associates illegally for donate the money to Carona 1998 do country. It himself, the parents and a brother that is officer in the soldiers of the American navies parked to Pendleton of Camp. The total quantity donate was about $5,000 in the checks. It obtained also three other friends for donate $1,000 every one in the checks.

Dilullo declared on the position that Haidl with the knowledge of Carona reimbursed it in cash for the contributions. Dilullo said that it gave then types of return to those that donated in the country of Carona.

Dilullo so pointed out as Haidl paid Carona to use of the had deprived for personal banquets and of country to the Lake Tahoe California and The Vegas Nevada.

To Dilullo of request of Haidle said that it arranged for a big banner of country to be flown across the beaches of Orange County during the country of Carona. It said the court piece that Haidl introduced him to Carona on the telephone, and that Carona ordered it also to have the banner flew across the house of Police of Ana of Santa Paul Walters Principal ae" that was the opponent of principal Carona in this election.

Dilullo testified that Haidl gave it $5,000 in cash to pay the banner, the pilot and the airplane.

"Carona said that it did not want does not import that to know of that. Dilullo said.

Dilullo said juries that Carona took the airplane of Haidl on the trips to The Vegas, including a time with his mistress Debra Hoffman. It said that Carona and Haidl said it to assure that the name of Hoffman was left any files of the flights. On always another travels to Vegas to the opening of the new casino of Bellagio, Dilullo said that it saw Carona of hand of Haidl between $4,000 and $6,000 values of fleas of casino and always more of fleas to Deborah of woman of Crown, to the same casino.

His presumed Carona illegally won the office in 1998 after accepting several thousand dollars in the country contributions, distributed then outside the favors to the political supporters that bribed for him with the types and the gifts, the prosecutors said jurors.

The lawyer of defense of Carona dismissed allegations, describing the government probe as a "the implacable assault" based on the informants that remain that do to soil the decorated policeman in exchange for the lighter sentences.

Called by the THE Time as the haut-profil the case of public corruption never followed in the Orange County. The corruption case is before the Neighborhood the Court Judges it Andrew Guilford American Honorable in the court lodges 10 C.

The accusation accuses Carona of usage of his public office to enrich itself, his woman and his former mistress and his co-accused Debra Hoffman ae" a lawyer of Beach of Newport that said authorities she had a matter with Carona since 1998.

To the center of the case of the government is the multimillionaire businessman Donald Haidl, that helped funds Carona 1998 countries and was named the shedrif of auxiliary Carona although it lacked training and the experience for the work.

Presumed arrangement was launched in 1997 when campaign director of Carona, George Jaramillo, arranged for Haidl and Carona to meet. Haidl saw the pair as a perfect political game: Carona the man of preacher and Jaramillo the pickpocket, Sagel said. To the meeting, Carona promised Haidl a work as an auxiliary shedrif, a full access to the resources of the shedrif and a "Goes out of the prison liberates the card," Sagel said.

"Gift Haidl looked at to buy the strength," Sagel said. "Carona of microphone and George Jaramillo sold it".

The shedrif that inhales and Jaramillo said Haidl that if it brought up enough money to win the election "you, Gift Haidl, will possess the Department of the Shedrif," Sagel said.

With the knowledge of Carona, Sagel said, Haidl illegally reimbursed donors to Carona 1998 countries, an arrangement that allowed surpassing him the county $1,000 limits on the country contributions. After Carona won the election, the prosecutor said, Haidl paid the vacation of the shedrif to Tahoe of Lake, the slipping dollar thousands in the casino fleas, allowed him the limitless usage of his yacht and his private throw, and paid it $1,000 by the month in cash -- the money that the shedrif principally amused his mistress.

The party the more harmful prosecutor of his case is the conversations secra¨tesment recorded between Haidl and Carona in which the two men discussed the jars-of-wine in cash "untraceable". The prosecutors alla¨guent that Haidl paid Carona at least $42,000 in cash, a good party of it changeable of hand during the secret meetings in the kitchen of Haidl, and that in August 2007, Haidl and Carona discussed the jars-of-wine as Haidl carried a wire for the prosecutors.

"Unless there was a pin hole in your ceiling that evenings, it never. . . Arrived," Carona can be heard said Haidl during the played conversation for the jurors. "And that the party is why I sleep true well the night".

Sagel said jurors that the hole of pin of word was a reference to a hidden camera and that Carona was conscious cameras of hole of pin because it had ordered four installed one in his office of Ana of Santa.

Haidl and Jaramillo pled guilty to tax the loads of escape and consented to cooperate with the prosecutors. Their cooperation will be considered when they are condemned. The sun said that the two men sold prosecutors "an item bill," and falsely will imply Carona to win the indulgence.

The prosecutors alla¨guent also as the ex-shedrif directly was implied in at least $450,000 in the payments of Haidl to itself, Hoffman and Jaramillo.

The credibility of the witnesses is notably important, the Sun said, because there is not financial reports to support allegations that Haidl bribed Carona, doing this an "it said, she said" the case.

"They will must have porters to carry all the luggage that they bring to the position," the Sun said.

Another of former friends of Carona that helped prosecutors is the lawyer Joseph Cavallo. Cavallo represented once the son of Haidl, Greg Haidl, in a process of assault of sex of high profile. Carona directed an arbitraire-mort process ae" implying the death of a representative ae" to Cavallo, the prosecutors say. Cavallo is not loaded in the case.

Early in the event, Lawyer Brett Sagel Auxiliary American characterized the probe as "the case of two Mike Caronas".

Carona was known as a "the brilliant and charismatic man that went candidate of oppress in 1998 to the shedrif of Orange County '' Sagel said. The former shedrif, once the more top officer of application of the law of classification in the Orange County, checked 4,200 employees and managed an agency with a budget of half billion dollars, it added.

"It was, according to the King of Larry, the Shedrif of America, '' the prosecutor continued, as the jurors looked at a photo of Carona in his decorated uniform.

But then there was a "the secret Mike Carona, '' Sagel said.

A photo of Carona, Haidl and Jaramillo, all position outside the airplane of private Haidl, flashed to the television not to sort moved away from the jurors.

"'We will be so rich. We will do as much of money,'" Sagel said. "These are the words of secret Mike Carona, the accused Mike Carona".

"The Caronas, the Jaramillos and the Haidls became extremely close, '' Sagel said jurors. "They would spend vacation together ae¦ (and discusses) constantly money they would do when they ran the department of the shedrif".

Sagel played the extracts of the secret recordings, including an exchange in which the ex-shedrif used a racial attribute to refer itself to the black ones. Carona refers itself also to the gifts, saying that they are "completely untraceable".

The lawyer of Carona, the Sun of Brian, painted the former shedrif as a good public servant that refused lucrative jobs in the private sector. It characterized the accusation is alleged "the jars-of-wine, '' as the "the gift exchange among the friends".

"Microphone Carona will obtain his day in the court at last, '' the Sun continued. "His reputation is in the scraps... it humiliated for him to have his private life exposed as this by the people that have an axe to grind".

Far to try to "the feather his nest," Carona tried to reimburse people for the gifts, as the World Championship and Oscar Of The bills of boxing of Hoya, the Sun said. There is not proofs of payments in cash, the Sun added.

Carona avoided using also his position of others to influence, the Sun said. For example, the Sun said that Haidl turned to Jaramillo for the assistance in to obtain his son, Greg, tried as a youthful one on a rape load ae" not Carona.

"Microphone Carona is the victim of the worse type of announcement of negative country you can obtain," the Sun said.

The sun said that the accusation chose selectively solid mouthfuls, notably the racial attribute in which Carona repeats a sentence first used by Haidl, to inflame jurors.