Stan Sniff himself in 2009 said the following:

“This is one of the few professions in which tenured employees can destroy their careers with but a single misstep in ethics and integrity. … Hear me clearly at the start of your careers. Violations of integrity and ethical standards are literally `death sentences’ to law enforcement careers.”

My how times have changed with Stan Sniff, look at 2018 now. Crooked donors, crooked employees, corruption…

We are taking in massive amounts of information, like a firehose. It is staggering, but I can say with certainty that the Riverside Sheriff’s Office is overrun with corruption.

This is why we started with the Riverside Confidential series of posts over two months ago.

This is a screenshot of Assistant Sheriff Joseph Cleary emailing Chief Deputies Ray Wood and Christopher Ford ordering them to campaign on government time. It also implies that County Funds will be used to reimburse subordinates that join groups on behalf of the Sheriff. The orders are specific and appear to involve “Contract Managers” meaning, Captains and Lieutenants of Contract Cities.

We’ve written in two previous posts (linked here and also here) about Chief Deputy Ray Wood (who took to facebook to whine afterwards), Assistant Sheriff Kevin Vest and Hemet Station Chief Lenoard Purvis being dispatched to try and intimidate Chad Bianco at scheduled events. It should come as no surprise then that the email is on the same day (2/5/2018) as an 1100 presentation done by Chad Bianco that the Captain of the Palm Desert Station attended. Note the time of the email is 1425. Secondly, Christopher Ford was part of the Rat Squad, (the Investigate to Terminate department where Lt. Bostrom and Captain Purvis hail from as well) and as a member of the Rat Squad, Ford would know this behavior is against the rules and is likely against the law.

There has been a clear edict that anyone doing anything anywhere near Chad Bianco anything, anywhere near on the clock will be terminated. Let’s see Cleary, Wood and Ford get their pink slips. The edict from the Sheriff has been enforced with brutal means including apparent abuses of the worker’s comp system to deny treatment to injured deputies, re-assigning deputies to split couples up, retaliating against the spouses of former deputies for speaking out, and other abuses of the internal affairs department who appear to be not much more than the Riverside Sheriff equivalent of the secret police.

In case the significance of the Sgt Dekker case was lost on you (beyond the allegations of him lying on his time cards and defrauding the taxpayers with abuses of overtime) is that Sheriff Sniff is constantly complaining about the budget of the department. He also has been in a 15 round death match with KPMG fighting everything they are trying to do in order to reign in costs. It should also be noted that the Captain of the Jurupa Valley station, Captain Hedge who has been letting Dekker and Lt Rose get away with their timecard antics is alleged to have been promoted by the Sniffster for his role in covering up the Cheating Scandal. It is hard to keep up with the corruption, but we are trying our best.

For example one of the abuses of the taxpayers is told to us by one former deputy. Even though separated from service still expressed abject fear of Stan Sniff, went in to graphic detail about how the Lake Elsinore Station was ripping the City of Lake Elsinore off by sticking them with all the overtime. It makes sense then, that I’ve heard of at least one Contract City that wants to terminate their contract and start their own police department. (A Contract City is a City that pays the Sheriff Department for policing versus having their own police force)

This is also alleged to have happened at Palm Desert Station. It likely has happened at almost every station given what I am learning in bits and pieces of pretty much the entire upper management team under Sheriff Stan Sniff.

The Sheriff is also known to manipulate staffing levels to jack up the budgeting process or extort higher costs out of cities for service. Even the local papers, remiss to criticize the tyrannical Sheriff have been forced to print the well-known Hemet Station situation where the Sheriff gutted their staffing (see also Chief Leonard Purvis’ home station) in order to scuttle KPMG’s attempts to achieve discernible results in the Hemet Station. (Meantime, A perfectly capable and healthy Chad Bianco is being kept in the cooler there)

Now, what do you think would have happened had KPMG gotten a clean look at the books? Does it become more clear as to why Stan Sniff is fighting any attempts by KPMG to reign in the mess? At the very least, gold-bricking employees like Dekker and Lt. Rose would have been terminated for cause if half of what they are alleged to be doing is true.

How about Undersheriff William DiYorio? Deyoyo was brought back out of retirement. Guess what taxpayers? His massive salary in 2017 will be the basis for his pension for the rest of his life courtesy of the Friend-of-Stan gig he got. We call this pension spiking where I come from. Deyoyo is retiring for a second time effective 6/1/2018. I’ve yet to speak to anyone who has had anything nice to say about the undertaker.

Remember Captain Tripod? Coby Webb is crippled from an off-duty accident and should have been medically retired years ago. She is still on duty and is physically unable to do what other Captains can. But her pension is probably worth $500K more than it would have been to the taxpayers. It is a sad, sick joke that she is called Captain Tripod (a reference to the cane she has to walk with) but just as I start to feel sorry for Webb (who some do defend) I was made aware of her botching 900 hours worth of overtime Palm Desert Staion when she was a Lieutenant. Again, the 900 hours were burned off in a feeding frenzy screwing over the local municipality paying for service.

Then don’t forget while all the above abuses of contract cities were occurring, we have the case of Leonard Purvis admitting his role in trying to destroy the Banning PD in order to coerce Banning in to becoming another victim of Stan Sniff’s contract city debacle. (Part 1 of the Purvis scandal is linked here for context as well)

Meantime, Stan Sniff is going 15 rounds with the Board of Supervisors on the budget. Perhaps he should have his campaign consultant make more facebook posts from San Diego for him to explain why we should be happy with this?

Perhaps Stanley is screwing up by the numbers because he has not felt seriously challenged until recently.

We know anecdotally that they are attempting to investigate your intrepid blogger and have doubled down on threats against the rank and file in a vain attempt to get them to stop talking to rightondaily.

However, Stanley is making elementary school style mistakes, making it way too easy for your intrepid blogger to get a line on his taxpayer-funded campaign. If it is not the Sergeant assigned to “Special Projects” or the bombshell email between three members of Sheriff Stanley’s suck ups senior management looking for local groups to join and visit (featuring reimbursements for dues no less) or the photos of folks in Uniform at Chad Bianco events (Note, they are not going to Hemet Dave events) – it is Stanley’s County of Riverside Business card attached to a photocopy of an opinion piece written by his favorite cock-roach Sal Rodriguez.

Yes, Stanley hands these out in the middle of the day when he goes to events? Did my tax dollars pay for his attendance, the photocopies and the business cards?

We already know that our tax dollars are getting abused by several members of team Sniff gratuitously. Recently, we learned that the Palm Desert Station has obsolete Radar and they have to pull off a MacGyver trick to get a printer to work.

It is clear that Stanley is freaking out and is trying in vein to put the proverbial genie back in the bottle (while reportedly emptying bottles).

In the grand scheme of legal things, Stan Sniff taking money from a defense attorney that is defending a cop-killer (with complete horse—- tactics) who murdered the wife of a deputy may not be a prosecutible offense. Flashing his badge (once we can prove) multiple times to get out of traffic tickets may not be a prosecutible offense. Taking money from subordinates who should be under investigations my not be a prosecutible offense.

However, when these are all combined and added to the pattern of campaigning on the taxpayer dime, they paint a portrait of a man completely out of control in his office that has no regard for anyone else around him. (Including his pet cock-roach Salvador)

Speaking of donors under investigation, Mohammad Ali Mazarei is a well-known and public member of the Riverside County Lincoln Club. Perhaps this is why Sheriff Sniff felt it was a good idea to appear on a fundraiser flyer in uniform?

A couple of notes, it is my understanding that Neither Dave Brown nor Chad Bianco have been invited to this Soiree. I’ve also been told they have not been invited to the Lincoln Club at all.

Secondly, retired judge and former Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach (of campaign sign destroying fame) is the Secretary of this group. You’d think he’d have told his buddy the Sniffmeister not to use his uniform and badge on a Federal PAC fundraiser flyer.

Then of course is the Coup D’Etat. Stanley likes to make posters of himself imagining himself as the second coming of Wyatt Earp, when he is more like Mike Corona. (Note the headshot of Sniff is at least 10 years old.)

Sometimes these blogs write themselves.

The Tour-de-Sniff will continue.

Why did this never appear in the Press Enterprise? 

John Bender, Editor for the Press Enterprise of Riverside was in charge of making sure the Chad Bianco retaliation story came out.  After it came out (01-04-18) sometime in late Jan 2018, he was transferred to the PE Rancho Cucamonga Office (located in San Bernardino County). He was with the PE of Riverside for 15 years.

When I spoke to him….  I asked him:  Did they transfer you because of the Chad Bianco story.? His response: “Appears to be.”