George Jaramillo Back in the News: That $476,000 He Has, He Says He Doesn’t Have
George Jaramillo, the Garden Grove cop-turned-felon we profiled way back in 2009 — the “devoted family man, a hard-working immigrant, and a Mormon who doesn’t drink alcohol or smoke,” as R. Scott Moxley wrote (way back in 2005) — earned a new mention in Moxley’s ever-enjoyable column this week:
The ex-assistant sheriff, who already served his 27-month federal prison sentence as well as a year of incarceration for a … state corruption case, claims that he can’t pay $42,000 in remaining fines because he is broke, but has “every intention” of doing so when he has money.The trouble with Jaramillo’s claim is that Orange County officials gave him $476,000 in May for back pay.
Jaramillo acknowledges the payment but claims that Irvine’s Joel W. Baruch, one of his criminal defense lawyers, put the money into a trust account and, because Jaramillo and Baruch are allegedly in a dispute over the distribution of the funds, he can’t get “a nickel” until a resolution.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Brett A. Sagel is less than convinced.
Read on: “George Jaramillo, Ex-Assistant OC Sheriff, Faces Jail Again if Lying To Federal Judge About Money,” R. Scott Moxley, OCWeekly, August 6, 2012
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