Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Orange County's unabashed career politician, has affectionately coddled many slimy characters over the years.
There was Sheriff Mike Carona, now a convicted felon.
There was Huntington Beach Mayor Dave Garofalo, now a convicted felon.
There was cheating corporate lobbyist Jack Abramoff, now a convicted felon.
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There was relentless pedophile and Rohrabacher congressional aide Jeffrey Ray Nielsen, now a convicted felon.
There was con artist Joseph Medawar, now a convicted felon.
Hell, Rohrabacher married a woman, Rhonda, who pleaded guilty to mail fraud and conspiracy charges and is now her husband's campaign manager.
Well, Abramoff has emerged from prison and written an autobiography, according to a new report in The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C.
Abramoff admits that he was a sleaze ball who shamelessly used financial
gifts to buy politicians and that among those who visited him in
prison was longtime pal Rohrabacher.
Very touching.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.