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Stan Sniff has a problem, he has a lot of felons in his path. He is the Sheriff of one of the largest counties in America. Yet, he is quite close and publicly associated with several felons. This is not the right image for a Sheriff and worse, these associations could compromise his ability to be the top law enforcement officer in Riverside County.
Tarasco Restaurant, another felon. Yet, Stan Sniff had a fundraiser at the place!
A Donor of $7,000? Yup, another felon.
Stan Sniff is pictured with a convicted felon who is also a well-traveled Democrat operative.06
Basil Kimbrew is a twice-convicted felon whose crimes include voter fraud, misuse of funds (theft) and violating his probation by engaging in campaign activities which he was explicitly told he could not do owing to his illegal campaign behavior from his first four-felony count conviction.
Kimbrew puts out a pay-to-play voting guide (e-slate) that currently includes, among others, L.A.’s favorite new big oil-loving neo-liberal “Democrat,” Autumn Burke. Burke is best known for passing around her ability to pay to create a resume out of thin air that boasts as its best item her mom, former Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke.
Kimbrew claims to be a Chicago native, an army veteran and CEO of BGK Consulting Firm. He also runs the California Friends of the African-American Caucus e-newsletter and e-slate as well as the California Democratic Voter Guide Web site. While his birthplace and background are unverified, his political activity is easy to find as he has been in legal trouble since at least 1996
The implications that the California Friends of the African American Caucus newsletter and the California Democratic Voter Guide are affiliated with similarly named groups are red flags for those who are unaware of Kimbrew’s criminal history. Those red flags are tiny compared to the criminal and ethical trouble for which he is well known.
He first shows up in the Los Angeles area political scene in 1988 as the field director in Compton for Willard Murray’s election to the California Assembly. Speaker of the California Assembly Willie Brown needed Murray to win in order retain his position as Speaker. Kimbrew then volunteered for Lois Hill Hale’s Inglewood Unified School Board (IUSD) campaign and thereafter for Pat Moore’s 1989 Compton City Council campaign. Moore was disgraced after being imprisoned for bribery. According to a May 15, 2002, Associated Press (AP) story, “[Basil Kimbrew] testified in 1996 in federal court that he accepted illegal payments on behalf of [Moore], who was convicted of extortion and tax fraud in that case.” The L.A. Times wrote in an October 10, 1996 story that “Basil Kimbrew, who was Moore’s campaign manager…laundered payoffs to her.”
His brushes with illegal political activity did not stop him from being invited to assist U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s campaign.
“Dianne Feinstein was my big break,” says Kimbrew. “Percy Pinckney brought me on and it was a great experience as I was still learning the ropes,” he said according to a November 28, 2012 edition of L.A. Focus, a magazine that shares an address with the infamous Faithful Central Bible Church. (The church is lorded over by Kenneth C. Ulmer who was accused of covering up a child sex ring carried on by his youth pastors. The harrowing series of events was detailed by one of the youth pastors’ wives in the book, Life After the Low Down by Ingrid Mitchell.)
One of Kimbrew’s last jobs before launching California Friends of the African-American Caucus newsletter was as a field rep to Congressperson Juanita Millender McDonald in the late 1990s.
According to an article in the Riverside, California-based Press Enterprise, his education consists of being trained as a chef at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Pasadena. Kimbrew is a resident of either Riverside or nearby Moreno Valley and has been and continues to be accused of illegal campaign activity in the area.
According to a May, 2014 story in the community newspaper Our Town We Love Moreno Valley, Thomas Hines “alleges the some form of illegal act took place between local citizen Basil Kimbrew and Moreno Valley City District Four Councilman Yxstian Gutierrez.”
In a May 26, 2005 article titled “Compton official receives suspended sentence for misuse of funds”in the Bakersfield Californian in December 2002, Kimbrew pleaded no contest to using a fake address while he was living in Carson so he could run for the Compton school board. He was forced to resign from the board, but continued to use his school board credit card to pay for a personal party and a $241 hotel room in Carson said prosecutors.
In a January 6, 2008 Compton Bulletin article titled “Kimbrew Released From State Prison” by Allison Jean, Superior Court Judge Janice Croft sentenced Kimbrew to two years in jail. Afterward and during probation, Kimbrew was barred from having any involvement with political campaigns, candidates or political causes. That included making political donations, working on campaigns and mass mailings, providing political consulting services or running phone banks.
He later got to spend time in prison for violating that probation.
Kimbrew was sentenced Jan. 23, 2007 to two years behind bars after admitting he repeatedly violated the terms of his probation. Kimbrew ran several political campaigns during his probation including his attorney Anthony Willoughby’s unsuccessful bid for the 48th Assembly District seat in June 2007.
How does breaking the law, again and again and again and a certificate from a cooking school qualify him as a political activist, community leader and spokesperson for Black people?
Why do people quote him? Because he has an e-mail list? Are the L.A. County District Attorney and California District Attorney General too afraid to look into the matter, because they have paid him too? (Kimbrew repeatedly uses the images and names of L.A. County District Attorney and California State Attorney General Kamala Harris in his newsletters to imply he has a working relationship with them.)
He is a naked emperor.
He is a bully who uses his e-mail list to intimidate and to smear the name of good progressives.
His “voter guide” newsletter is pay-to-play. You give him money first and then he endorses you; if you don’t give him money, he attacks you like a rabid dog.
When I see non-Black people on the list, I believe they are stupid; when I see Black people on the list I know they are scared.
I don’t want stupid or scared people representing me. If a candidate cannot stand up to a two-bit con-man with a certificate from a for-profit degree mill, how exactly will that person represent me?
How did Kimbrew get his massive e-mail list for his newsletter? The January 14, 2014 edition of the Nooner asks: “did he harvest it from voter records?”
He obviously has the connections to do so.
Where does he get his money? Why hasn’t he reported any money? Why does he seem to have free reign to openly break the law?
He has a tendency to attack real progressive while embracing blue-dog flavored Democrats.
Betty Yee is progressive and he attacked her. Simona Farrise is a progressive and he attacked her. Cynthia McClain-Hill is a progressive and he attacked her.
He seems to also have a history of targeting women with backbone who aren’t stupid enough to give California Friends of the African-American Caucus or his other organization California Women 4 Women money.
He paints himself as the leader of the Black community and sells himself to people who are outside the Black community as a leader to Black people.
He is not a leader in the Black community. He is a twice-convicted felon with an e-mail list that he probably stole. If you’re not in the circle jerk world of politics, you would have no idea who Basil Kimbrew is. Ask the typical Black person who Basil Kimbrew is and they may have they would have no idea because he is no one.
Kimbrew is a charlatan who has tricked the machine into thinking he matters outside the world of political consultants, Democratic party heads, journalists and interns.
People pay him to not smear them because he has zero ethics and because in Black L.A., you can get away with doing whatever you want
According to the March 25, 2014 edition of the political website The Nooner, the California Friends of African Caucus committee’s last reported financial activity was in April 2013 when it took $17,500 from Wendy Greuel ($15K) and SEIU ($2,500) for the mayoral runoff. Of that, $2,390 went to a campaign reporting firm and Kimbrew collected $15,000 in consulting fees.
Are we really supposed to believe that Kimbrew is putting out his e-newsletter for free to help the community? His e-newsletter and e-slate are pay-to-play. There is not one California-based person in his guide or newsletter who has not paid him money.
Possibly Kimbrew needs to go to prison again so that he can remember that politicians and campaign personnel are supposed to report their earnings.
But in order for that to happen, the people in charge of investigating such actions are going to need to stop giving him money.
Wow…. And he son was arrested back in 2017, by the Feds for doing a shake down on a Marijuana shop owner.
When Chad first ran for office, Basil was supporting Chad. Then Sniff got word and he personally called Basil and told: “ If you continue supporting Chad, I will personally make sure you or your organization don’t ever receive a dime.” This shit is for real, he personally told me. Basil decide to continue supporting Sniff.
I have also heard rumors that the food that is donated to him for the Vets gets re-sold at mom and pop shops in LA.
Every single aspect of Stanley the Sheriff is a political fraud. HE WAS FIRED for crying out loud. He engaged in quid pro quo for money and endorsements, he has lied to the department, politicians, and the public for over 11 years. He is unethical, immoral, and dishonest. He causes his minions to threaten and intimidate employees to distance themselves from Bianco while in the next breath “suggesting” they sign the I love Stanley cards while on duty. His entire existence is to ensure he remains in power. People like Kimbrew are no different to Stanley than the child molester he paid to spread his election propaganda; they are a means to an end. Stanley the so called republican (he is a fraud) even used his democrat friends in high olaces to threaten the criminal Kimbrew. Is the phony award and the support from Kimbrew a “payment” for no criminal investigation by law enforcement? No ethics, no integrity, no moral compass. This is irrefutable, we all know it. Yet there are still selfish fools that allow themselves to be swayed by the likes of Wood, Vest, Horton, and Ford. The only employees who would actively support Sniff, have his same set of values. They are at will, they are on probation, they are afraid of actually working, they are high on a list, they are on special teams, they are also void of basic leadership qualities, Every employee and former employee that loves the department, respects the position, and is proud of tan and green, needs to stand up for the integrity of law enforcement and do everything in their power to force Stanley into retirement.
Sniff: your image as a sheriff for the largest county in California is NOT that of a “tough on crime,” “for the safety,” or “to protect and serve” your citizens.
Nope.
Your image is that of a dirty politician. Dirty politicians take money from dirty people like those ROD has educated us on. This is un-buh-f$@king-lievable!
How can you be the leader of a law enforcement agency with a laundry list of these people backing your plays? How can you look your deputies in their eyes after honoring these felons at banquets and pinning ceremonies?
The felons exposed here should be enough to disavow Sniff and his marionettes but what they will do is go on another deflected rampage and squeeze and intimidate department members into convincing us Sniff is the right choice!
Ask yourselves: does Chad Bianco have the same affiliation with scum and lowlifes to help him succeed? Has Bianco lied to anyone whilst campaigning?
Does Bianco have a positive vision for RSO’s future? Can you see the department getting better under his leadership?
Who wouldn’t want a fresh, clean administration running things? How about an admin you’d feel good about? Perhaps an open door policy too? Not being scared to go to the 2nd Floor, or better yet, they come to us!!
If you vote for Sniff, support Sniff, like Sniff on his retarded (yeah, I said retarded) Facebook page, you don’t deserve to wear the uniform. You probably allow those on Megan’s Law to babysit your kids.
Sounds ridiculous, right? Then why would you support someone for SHERIFF who canoodles with felons?
Anyone up for allowing a car thief wash your precious raised truck or street rod you’re still making monthly payments on?
VOTE FOR BIANCO IN NOVEMBER!!
SPREAD THE WORD TO OUR CITIZENS WE BACK BIANCO!!
PASS ROD ON! PEOPLE NEED THIS INFORMATION!!
Why wouldn’t he associate with them off duty? Hell he EMPLOYS them cough cough Bob Epps cough cough
Parolees, probationers, ex-felons, outlaw bikers, Stan has them all in his corner. Stan should have had someone (like that knothead Vest, since his only claim to fame is associated with a mouse) doing background checks on his contributors, but instead he spends the county’s money on a stupid helicopter ride video, with copyright infringements at that. Maybe Stan is setting up Kimbrew to have him cook in the ODR when he gets arrested again. I hope the feds go after everybody involved. Drain the swamp in Riverside County.
John S., please refrain from using abusive and offensive language, you offend the dirty politicians when you lump Stan in with them. The second floor is in a league of their own when it comes to dirty politics.
So Stan promotes the likes of Tim Elwell to Lieutenant, a tainted individual who has embarrass himself, and the Department during his whole career, and called a black staff member the “N” word. Yet Stan has the nerve to attend an NAACP event to honor a convicted felon. Incredible. I hope Stan’s minions on the second flood realize that in supporting and defending Stan and his decisions, they are just as guilty, and will be held accountable. I see an official inquiry in the future. with the accused being Stan’s marionettes, and the Eichmann defense “I was only following orders” is not gonna work.
From the very beginning, Bostrom and Elwell were destined to become the despicable individuals they have become. They were relatively new deputies at RPDC when I was there. I believe they were on the Red Team. Both were part of a groupie under one sergeant, who liked to play favorites, and who shall remain nameless. I clearly remember them as individuals who would stab anyone in the back just to get a leg up. I remember distinctly how I despised them and considered them a pair of weasels. They were widely hated by their peers and were seen as kiss asses with their favorite sergeant. I guess whatever they were doomed to become, was already imbedded in them. Once a weasel, always a weasel. And those are kind words!!
I recall one time I walked into the station with a big riffle bottle of Tequilla for Chief Anderson and told the reception ” Give to Chief Anderson to cure his depression.” Literally, within 1.5 hours after dropping it off, I had Bostrom and Ford drive up in a patrol vehicle to my home and question me as to why I sent Anderson a Tequilla Riffle and where I had that Tequilla Riffle custom made. Really.??? I told them I purchased the tequila at Costco and that same night Bostrom heads to Costco to confirm what I had told them.
Amazing.! But the reality is Anderson has a hard time putting down the bottle of whisky ( Jack Daniels).
“Big John” Anderson was the one that sponsored Cheryl Evans, which is how she went to CHU, only done minimal time at each rank, and is now on the second floor. Additionally, when she was a sergeant at the Perris Station, she spoke very highly of then Deputy Robert Cornett, who is now surrounded in all kinds of controversies. And every time she visits a station and deputies ask her questions, her response is,”I’don’t know”’which does not instill confidence.’