From Steven Greenhut:
At the Board of Supervisors meeting on March 20, Assistant Sheriff Steve Bishop asked the board to fund a trip with him, Sheriff Mike Carona and Assistant Sheriff Galisky to England to look at the British DNA forensic lab, among other stops. Various OC officials have visited that high-security government-run facility to gain help with regard to DNA issues in OC. Bishop promised that sheriff’s department officials would come back to the board and report on its findings.
On August 21, Supervisor John Moorlach said this to Sheriff Carona: “And then we approved the trip for you to go to London and you mentioned the UK and I believe that firm is the forensic science service that you visited?”
Carona: “Correct.”
Moorlach: “How was that trip? How was that?”
Carona: “It was a very enlightening trip one about what they are doing with DNA technology in the UK …”
The sheriff went on about DNA and the trip. The problem is the sheriff apparently never went to the DNA lab as part of his England trip. County official Rob Richardson last month asked the British lab to list the OC officials who have visited. Because everyone has to sign into the high-security facility, this list should be accurate. It lists five DA officials plus Dean Gialamas and Mario Mainero, but nothing about Carona, Galisky or Bishop. Moorlach told me Bishop admitted that three of them didn’t go to the DNA lab as part of this county-paid trip.
This seems to fit a pattern of behavior, doesn’t it?
I watched the video on this issue and what was said was that Sheriff Carona and Assistant Sheriff Bishop went to Scotland Yard to meet with the leaders of the company and the policy makers who they would be networking with while the others went to the lab itself.
Assistant Sheriff Bishop also mentioned that he is not a scientist and therefore the lab itself wasn’t the priority. He wouldn’t know the difference between a test tube embryo and a DNA sample anyway, so what’s the importance of going into the lab itself. He is a policy maker and as such he should be meeting with his counterpart while the scientist meets with other scientists.
This is nothing more than a cheap attempt to smear the Sheriff and Mr. Bishop. I didn’t know Mr Moorlach could stoop so low, but apparently I was wrong.
I’d be careful about labeling anyone a liar Steven.
Moorlach’s true colors shine through once again, Greenhut, that goes for you too,
Dan - If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and talks like a duck………….
Carona is an egomaniac, a liar and a thief, and you know it. Get over it……….time to bring in Bill Hunt to straighten this mess out.
I highly suspect that all these letters in support of Carona are written by either ranking members of the OCSD or those (yeah, including you) who have some kind of a special interest in getting Carona out of the grease.
Carona is really light weight compared to Tidwell and the Gang of thieves in San Bernardino County.
The nervy bastar%s there even had the nerve to pinch a load of ‘product’ from a certain three letter federal agency back when they were in the biz!