Posted on 07/12/2010 1:30:44 AM PDT by lainie
PAHRUMP, Nev.—Like a scene from a Western movie, the two top lawmen here are settling their scores in public.
In May, a Nye County sheriff's deputy arrested the district attorney. The sheriff, Tony De Meo, alleges that the D.A., Robert Beckett, was misusing public funds.
According to Mr. De Meo, public money had gone to supporting the local cheerleading squad, led by the D.A.'s wife, and to make a family friend's car payments. No charges have been filed, in part because Mr. Beckett, the D.A., refuses to charge himself.
Meanwhile, Mr. Beckett appointed a special prosecutor to investigate possible abuses of power by the sheriff's office and other public officials. Mr. Beckett claims that arresting him was part of an effort to sabotage his re-election. Mr. Beckett ended up running last among five candidates in the Republican primary.
The special prosecutor filed felony charges against the sheriff's deputy, David Boruchowitz, who had arrested the D.A.
Mr. Boruchowitz was also the sheriff's informal press liaison. And after he was summoned to lock himself in the corrugated metal county jail, he sent out a press release with his own mug shot announcing he had been arrested. A judge later rejected the charges, contending Mr. Beckett didn't have the power to appoint a special prosecutor. So Mr. Beckett refiled the charges himself.
Nye County occupies a vast stretch of desert, twice the size of New Hampshire, that runs from the California border up through the middle of Nevada. Most of the county is so desolate that for years the military conducted atomic testing here. Its sparse local economy includes a gold mine and a dairy farm, as well as seven brothels (legal in parts of Nevada), whose fees finance the county's ambulance services.
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I absolutely love this out in the open power play!
On the surface, me too, but the reality is that one guy is wasting taxpayer money accusing the other guy of wasting taxpayer money. :/
This is great for illustration. It (barring some wild, wild mistake) shows the corruption that runs deep at ALL levels of government, and not just the FedGov. I personally would back the Sheriff in this case, seeing as the charges seem like the type of trip ups these types of politicians make, and that if someone was going to make up a story, it’d be better than making car payments with local sports team money.
Still, I find it a little hilarious, and yet sad, that the D.A. is not being charged, because he refuses to charge himself. I wonder how that even is normally resolved. D.A.’s seem to be the most corrupt of politicians that I know of, a lawyer, politician, and wielding the power of prosecution, and lack thereof when it suits them, as so marvelously shown in this case.
I hope this gets cleared up, and I certainly hope that is this is a political motivated act by the sheriff, or cover yourself abuse of power by the D.A., that either one, as the case may be, is punished to the fullest extent of the law. Either the Sheriff is poorly mistaken, or one of the two is corrupt to the core.
My two cents.
“... one guy is wasting taxpayer money accusing the other guy of wasting taxpayer money.”
Unless the D.A. is lying.
In that case, one guy is removing a corrupt politician from wasting taxpayer money, read “stealing people’s freedom and livelihood,” and is upholding his oath against domestic enemies.
Otherwise, you are correct, time will tell.
yeah, something is not quite right here (there). It’s a really small town I assume.
40,000 People. Additionally, the D.A. has a recent misdemeanor, and has been under scrutiny for a PLETHORA of questionable acts, including a bad check “slush fund,” flipping cars owned by the county, and a number of other acts...It’s all in the article at the link.
Ping!
“What would Rod Stiagier (Twilight Zone, not sure of spelling of his name) do with this story?”
LOL, well, Pahrump is a bit of an oddball place. I have several family members there (I’m from S. Nevada), and it used to be tiny. It’s grown with a new (relative term)paved highway going out there, but it’s kinda like a hot, brothel-ly, twilight zone. :) Now legally as well...
Fixed it for you.
Ping!... near my hometown.
Well, yes, hopefully they have a ‘good’ calling out a ‘bad’ with an ugly to be determined. If not, we’ve got one ‘bad’ and one ‘ugly’ with no good guys.
waa-WAA-waaaaah
Thanks, I am now in your debt!
Sorry J Edgar.
My post was meant as a reply to JDW11235 and not you.
Well Damn!
It WAS meant for you after all!! {8-)
“If not, we’ve got one ‘bad’ and one ‘ugly’ with no good guys.”
Yep. Sadly, that’s too often the case. But considering the D.A. already came under scrutiny for the use of the fund, and was to be audited, but was a no-show, I’m inclined to believe the Sheriff over the D.A., ESPECIALLY in this case, due to the relevant facts insofar as I’m able to find as of yet...
It’s these damn ‘non-bolded’ and “quoted text” posts .. plus the fact that it is 5am where it all gets so confusing!! lol
//hot, brothel-ly, twilight zone//
Reminds me when I was driving thru Nevada in the middle of the night back (3 Am) in 1984 and I stopped at Wendover for gas and a break.
It was the weirdest thing walking about on those deserted streets with all those casino lights twirling in silence.
We have been through Pahrump a half-dozen+ times on the way to visit Death Valley National Park.
We always stop at Albertson’s Super Market in Pahrump for snacks to take with us to DV, an interesting little town, but very different..!
BTW: a native american employee at the market told us that Pahrump was actually Rumpah (sp?), a native american word meaning water rock, or water by rock, which was important to know if you were riding your horse through the desert 150 years (or so) ago.. .
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