October
26, 2014
Appeal-Democrat
By Harold Kruger
Sutter County supervisors have
suddenly become inquisitive.
They want answers, and they
want them, well, maybe next year.
Yes, the board earlier this month
voted to ask the grand jury to investigate what the heck has been going on in
the District Attorney's Office.
Wow!! Now???
Interestingly, the supervisor
who made the courageous motion to seek the grand jury inquiry is James
Gallagher, who just happens to be running for an Assembly seat.
He can now proclaim he's taken
the bull by the horns after the horse left the barn.
So the grand jury, which may
choose to ignore all of this, is being to asked to investigate misuse of a
state grant and how the DA's Office managed to not prosecute a sheriff's deputy
in a domestic violence case.
Regarding that misuse of grant
money, the former district attorney explained all of that many months ago to
the board. The supervisors didn't seem to have any qualms then.
Maybe they've just wised up. Or
maybe they're just slow to awaken from their collective slumber.
A lot of weird things have
happened in the last few years, and a lot of lawsuits were settled for
something more than nuisance value, but this board really doesn't bother to
offer much insight into those, or express any concern.
But now they can shovel all of
this stuff in the direction of the grand jury (an august body in Sutter County)
and let it issue a report next year when nobody will care.
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