Jim Toledano, the 65-year-old former chairman of the Orange County Democratic Party and a three-time losing state assembly candidate
Posted on 04/04/2010 9:51:51 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
An Orange County grand jury has indicted attorney James Toledano, the former chairman of the county's Democratic Party and a three-time Assembly candidate, on two felony counts related to an alleged extortion scheme.
The jury on Friday also indicted one of Toledano's clients, former personal trainer Michael Earl Roberts, on the same charges.
Roberts, 44, allegedly made dozens of harassing and threatening phone calls to a former client and her friends between 2006 and 2008 and threatened to sue her, according to the Orange County district attorney's office.
Roberts said he was going to "destroy" her by having false and damaging stories about her printed in various media, including the Los Angeles Times, prosecutors said.
The woman, who had employed the trainer for 10 years, filed a harassment lawsuit against Roberts in 2008, according to court documents.
Toledano, who was representing Roberts, allegedly met with the client's attorney and indicated that Roberts wanted $350,000 in exchange for not releasing information that he claimed would damage the woman, according to the district attorney's office.
Toledano's attorney, David E. Swanson, said that when Toledano met with the woman's lawyer, he was trying to find a settlement amount for the lawsuit.
"That's typically how settlements are resolved," Swanson said. "He had legitimate information that he was trying to resolve the lawsuit, and at no time was he attempting to extort anyone."
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He would have fit right in the rat-controlled legislature.
Is EVERY democrap a criminal or traitor?
Tammany Hall never died — it just set up a division in Taxifornia....
A trial lawyer democrat party leader is the very definition of a sociopath.
There may be a democratic lawyer/politician somewhere that is not a criminal or a traitor I just have not seen or heard of him/her. Does anyone know of such a “person?”
Wow! Color me AMAZED the slimes mentions Democrat in the first part...
We’re making progress peeps!
Soon, it’ll be in the headlines...
(well, I can dream can’t I?)
Is EVERY democrap a criminal or traitor?”
No...some democraps are criminals AND traitors.
There is a long list of Northeasterners who have come here and done their darndest to turn California into Massachusetts or New York West. Quite a few of them hold high office here.
Given this record, Toledano is an obvious choice for the Obamaloon-O-Dent’s supreme joke - er - court.
Jim Toledano, the 65-year-old former chairman of the Orange County Democratic Party and a three-time losing state assembly candidate
Last name familiar from Ralph de Toledano, a long time contributor to National Review, who passed away in 2007.
Obama’s search for the next Supreme Court Justice is over. Talk about someone with all the character traits Obama is seeking!
But some RNC staffer spent $2,000 in a strip club with an RNC credit card!!! Which will get more publicity?
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