The David Asimov case is horrific.
Why did Mueller let Asimov off the hook? I can’t believe anyone cared about saving the guy. I wonder who Asimov could have embarrassed/implicated?
Asimov was arrested in March of 1998.
Hmmmm, what was going on in early 1998...
I would suggest that a possible answer to that question may be found by researching other child porn/rape cases in the area. For example: Asimov's attorney was Chris Andrian, an attorney who has represented a number of child molesters and rapists in the Santa Rosa area, including Santa Rosa priest Donald Kimball and Santa Rosa bishop George Patrick Ziemann, the latter forced to resign in 1999 (i.e., during the Asimov case) after a homosexual relationship with a priest was exposed; Gary Timmons was another priest from Santa Rosa whose crimes came to light in the mid-90s. (Corollary question: who in Santa Rosa was Asimov selling his child porn to?--who was the likely market for this type of material?) Andrian was mentored by Sonoma County D.A. Gene Tunney, son of California Senator and
KGB asset John Tunney, a close friend of Senator Edward Kennedy, known to accompany Kennedy on his extra-marital trysts. . .Just one line of thought.