San Mateo County officials Tuesday debunked a Channel 7 story that claimed retired Judge LaDoris Cordell withheld information exonerating Sheriff Christina Corpus and former chief of staff Victor Aenlle in her report about the disarray in the sheriff’s office.
The false allegations in the Channel 7 story by reporter Dan Noyes were picked up by a lawyer for Corpus, who filed a $10 million claim against the county, claiming the sheriff was a victim of discrimination because she is a Latina.
Noyes claimed that 29 pages of a transcript of an interview Cordell conducted with Aenlle were removed from the final report. The county’s response to that was simple — officials posted the entire transcript online for the public to review.
“Twenty-nine pages of the transcript were not included in the exhibit because they were not cited by Cordell nor were they material to the report,” the county said in a statement issued yesterday. “There was nothing nefarious about these pages not having been included in the exhibit but, given the interest in them, as mentioned, they are now available on the county’s website.”
The county said that the Cordell report cost $200,000 and that the retired judge was paid $750 an hour.
“This is in line with both the cost of a complex and sensitive investigation of this nature as well as the level of experience, expertise and unique qualifications that Cordell brought to the matter,” the statement from the county said. “The cost also speaks to the large number of witnesses Cordell interviewed — 40 current and past employees — and the extensive time taken to assess the veracity of the large number of complaints that Cordell reviewed.”
In the statement, the county also said the $10 million claim is “largely devoid of any alleged facts supporting its conclusions and egregiously accuses Judge LaDoris Cordell of partaking in what the claim calls an ‘evil scheme.’”
“Cordell is a highly respected former judicial official with decades of public service, including in ensuring law enforcement accountability. As an independent investigator, she alone determined how she conducted the investigation,” the statement said.
The county supervisors hired Cordell to look into a growing number of HR complaints against Aenlle. When Corpus fired her third-in-command, Assistant Sheriff Ryan Monaghan, after he admitted to her that talked to Cordell about the investigation, the supervisors authorized Cordell to expand her investigation into the sheriff.
Noyes has an interesting double standard. In the case of Alameda County DA Pamela Price, he was all upset that she had hired her boyfriend to work in the DA’s office. But he hasn’t said a word about San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus’ affair with Victor Aenlle. Wonder why there’s a double standard? Could it be that Pamela Price is Black?
It appears that claim assertions filed on or by the sheriff are not all that has been fabricated. Just look at the 1/6/25 claim, “I put 162 new officers on the street”, claim by the Sheriff as posted by D. Noyes on his FB page. It sure looks like another false assertion that should be simple to debunk through a public records act request.
On 11/24/25, the SMSO Community Newsletter on the SO website quotes the sheriff as saying when she took office she found, “90-sworn positions being vacant,” with “just over 40-vacancies” remaining as of the end of November 2025 subsequent to the hiring efforts of her administration. I calculate that figure as 49, not just over 40.
Sworn personnel in SMSO are classified as deputy sheriffs and corrections officers. Only deputy sheriffs work the street. I find it extraordinarily doubtful that Sheriff Corpus has hired 162-deputy sheriffs in her tenure in office. The numbers simply do not add up, are fabricated, or grossly misstated.
What might a public records request for substantiation of the Sheriff’s “I put 162 new officers on the street” assertion reveal? Is she including deputy sheriff trainees who graduated from the academy as among those so called new hires? Those graduates were mere promotions from the deputy sheriff trainee position, to the deputy sheriff position, not new hires. Is she including the level-1 reserves sworn in during 2024 as “extra-help deputies” (from the pictures it looks like one of those is 77, another 72, with a third in his mid-60s)? Those three don’t seem like full time employees, if they work only when they want (extra help) and less than full time, employees with benefits. Extra help positions are limited in the DSA’s MOU. Nonetheless every new hire announcement is labeled, historic, or, first time ever, which is seldom accurate or truthful.
Based on the knowledge of the District Attorney’s Office about untruthful statements, have Sheriff Corpus and Victor Aenlle been placed on the “Brady List”? Why is Aenlle’s biography and image still on the SO website, when Monaghan & Fox’s have been removed? Will a public records request to SamCERA confirm that Aenlle is no longer contributing to his 37-Act county retirement account because he is no longer employed by the county? When will the Corpus Corruption matter be fully investigated by the SMC DA and brought to the Grand Jury for the return of an Accusation against the appropriate elected and appointed officials? So many questions remain.
No way. Dan Brown Noyse was completely wrong? I can’t believe it. The cute little doctor Vicky esquire PHD and the sheriff no one can trust except Michelle Garcia are making things up and manipulating the public? Maybe Dan brown noyse should be fired for his shameful false and one sided reporting. Maybe doctor Vicky can lease them all 680 broadway and they can run a daycare center? Get these clowns out of the public eye.
I read the 29 missing pages and there’s nothing there that is exculpatory for Corpus or Aenlle. It’s a lot of “hellos” and “goodbyes” and introductions, and Aenlle making more ridiculous claims. No smoking gun. Noyes has got to be embarrassed. This ranks up there with Geraldo opening Al Capone’s vault on live TV and finding nothing inside. Why does Channel 7 keep this clown on their payroll?
I can’t believe KGO bills Noyes as an “investigative reporter” when he’s really more of a cheerleader for Corpus and her boytoy Aenlle.