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R. Scott Moxley’s Reporting Cited in The Atlantic‘s New Kamala Harris Takedown

In a takedown of Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris for The Atlantic, staff writer Conor Friedersdorf cites troubling criminal justice moves by the California senator that have been exposed by the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, a New Republic writer and OC Weekly Senior Editor, News & Investigations R. Scott Moxley. “When Kamala Was a …

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R. Scott Moxley Named Distinguished Journalist by Society of Professional Journalists/LA!

The most unappreciated journalist in California by far is our own R. Scott Moxley—BY FAR. In his 21 years at this infernal rag, all he’s done is get at least two innocent people out of jail; end the careers of Congressman Bob “B1-CHAVALA” Dornan and myriad other politicians; get into prison former sheriff Mike Carona …

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R. Scott Moxley Wins Journalist of the Year from LA Press Club!

This past Sunday, our own R. Scott Moxley was among the circle of champions in the L.A. Press Club’s most prestigious category: Journalist of the Year. Moxley won because…well, he’s R. Scott pinche Moxley, the greatest, most-feared reporter in Orange County ever since he started with us in 1996. And while he’ll never get love from …

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R. Scott Moxley Wins Journalist of the Year from LA Press Club!

This past Sunday, our own R. Scott Moxley was among the circle of champions in the L.A. Press Club’s most prestigious category: Journalist of the Year. Moxley won because…well, he’s R. Scott pinche Moxley, the greatest, most-feared reporter in Orange County ever since he started with us in 1996. And while he’ll never get love from …

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R. Scott Moxley in Washington Post!

Yesterday, the Washington Post did a good recap of our disgraced ex-sheriff, Mike “Phenomenal Pussy” Carona. Past the expected cliches thrown around by out-of-town reporters (“famously conservative bastion,” “the sensibility enshrined at Anaheim's Disneyland long has informed local politics,” “a community once represented by a congressman the John Birch Society had ejected for “extremism”) was …

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Public Defender Scott Sanders Explains How He Solved OC’s Snitch Scandal

As he walked briskly along a downtown Santa Ana sidewalk for our first meeting on a toasty, cloudless February 2014 afternoon, criminal defense attorney Scott Sanders’ brain generated waves of internal questions: What do I know about Moxley? What does it mean that over the years he’d authored the most favorable and most critical news …

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Feds Launch Investigation of OCDA, Sheriff's Departments Over Snitch Scandal—Thanks, Scotts!

Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it was launching a civil rights investigation into the Orange County District Attorney's office and the Orange County Sheriff's Department over their unethical, illegal, embarrassing snitch scandal, which has set murderers free, gotten innocent people jailed and have exposed OCDA Tony Rackauckas and Sheriff Sandra Hutchens as bumbling …

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Seal Beach Massacre Victims Seek End of Scott Dekraai Death Penalty Case

Relatives of the victims of the 2011 Seal Beach salon massacre solemnly announced this afternoon they want prosecutors to abandon their controversial efforts to give killer Scott Dekraai the death penalty. The unusual move wasn’t motivated by sympathy for Dekraai, who murdered eight innocent people in a shooting rampage that targeted his ex-wife and immediately …

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Judge John D. Conley Helps Prosecutors Punk Scott Sanders Yet Again

Murder cases usually contain intrigue other than, of course, the killer’s identity. Matt Murphy, a senior deputy district attorney with the Orange County DA’s office (OCDA), is fond of telling juries that questions arising during trials can’t always be answered. Not surprisingly, an unsolved mystery emerged in People v. Daniel Wozniak, Murphy’s latest courthouse adventure—another …

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Judge John D. Conley Helps Prosecutors Punk Scott Sanders Yet Again

Murder cases usually contain intrigue other than, of course, the killer’s identity. Matt Murphy, a senior deputy district attorney with the Orange County DA’s office (OCDA), is fond of telling juries that questions arising during trials can’t always be answered. Not surprisingly, an unsolved mystery emerged in People v. Daniel Wozniak, Murphy’s latest courthouse adventure—another …

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Washington Post Recognizes Orange County Snitch Scandal and the Moxley Exposing It

If you people in Orange County reading this were truly paying attention, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas would be, at best, indicted and, at worst, have his severed head on the end of a stick being paraded down Main Street Disneyland. Fortunately, the Washington Post IS paying attention. Or, at least, criminal justice blogger Radley Balko …

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Scott Steiner, Judge Guilty of Sex Affairs in Court, Faces Re-Election Opponent

The old, Orange County (semi) joke representing the lack of competition in our elections is that Congressman Dana Rohrabacher–hardly an impressive character–can easily remain in office for eternity unless he's caught submitting (again) to an underage male goat on the roof his Costa Mesa home. We're about to test such a notion because Scott Steiner, …

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