Then there's this:
Since the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles announced the case, the Three Valleys water board has been left wondering who Alvarez really is: There is no record that he is married to a starlet, that he worked as a cop or that he played for the Red Wings.
Alvarez, in a phone interview, declined to say what his day job is — or if he has one.
He didn’t deny claiming to have received the Medal of Honor. People routinely say things at board meetings “just to entertain the public,” he said.
The federal charges are the work of his political opponents, Alvarez contends. When asked to specifically address the charges, his response was disjointed.
“There’s people who go up there and say, ‘Oh, I’m homosexual. And I belong to the homosexual community.’ I don’t say anything about that. . . . I’m a rookie at this. You get nervous.”