Supervisors try to dump Aenlle, but Corpus promotes him

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted today to terminate the sheriff’s executive director of administration position — a new civilian post created at the request of the sheriff for Victor Aenlle with a salary of nearly $250,000. Sheriff Christina Corpus responded by promoting Aenlle to the job of assistant sheriff, a position the board may not be able to dissolve.

The Board directed the county attorney to investigate the legality of such a move.

The Board also asked the attorney to draw up an ordinance asking voters to amend the County Charter to allow the Board to remove the sheriff upon a finding of good cause. This proposed charter amendment could come to voters as soon as March.

The Board met yesterday in response to the independent investigator Judge LaDoris Cordell’s report, which concludes that “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interests and abuses of authority are the hallmarks of the Corpus administration.”

The board unanimously took a vote of no confidence in Corpus and demanded her immediate resignation, though she said earlier in the day she had no intention of stepping down. Her term ends in 2028.

6 Comments

  1. Corpus cannot promote Aenlle, despite his Casanova-like charm. The relationship between Aenlle & Corpus that caused the County Executive to cancel Aenlle’s contract in 2022, still exists. The relationship between Aenlle & Corpus, as supported by the Cordell report, is what prompted the Board to act as they did today, terminating the sheriff’s executive director of administration position, leaving Aenlle unemployed from SMSO. Aenlle likely compromised whatever Reserve Deputy status may have existed after falsifying his own volunteer work records, as explained in the Cordell report.

    It is the relationship between Aenlle & Corpus in the work setting that the County Charter and county policies, and Sheriff’s policies as well, prohibit Corpus from appointing Aenlle to the Assistant Sheriff role. Corpus may want to, Aenlle may have told her to, Aenlle may wish to fulfill that position, yet regardless of their individual and collective desires, the elected sheriff cannot merely do as she pleases. The Sheriff’s Oath of Office, the one that she swore to uphold, binds her to support the laws and rules on federal, state and local levels, the latter level includes those policies she violated in appointing Aenlle to positions as she has repeatedly done. Today she did it again. I worry for the mental health of them both; something ain’t right there.

    All of the Sheriff’s current executive team should be negotiating with Mr. Wagstaffe to avoid prosecution on criminal charges if they merely vacate their current positions. They should do that expeditiously. Aenlle was essentially terminated by the Board’s action this afternoon. He is no longer a reserve. He will likely be placed on the Brady list, along with Sheriff Corpus, and both are highly likely to lose their individual POST Certifications. Hopefully, their actions will not result in decertification of SMSO as a POST agency which would result in a significant loss of training reimbursements to the county and SO as well as expanding the counties liabilities. All y’all need to give this serious thought.

  2. And then they got outsmarted when Aenlle can not be present on ANY county facility without approval and his new position is NOT approved BTW – he may just be stupid enough to push this and get arrested listen to the end of the meeting

  3. Ugh, why must they do this. Such a waste of time, money, resources. Stop this nonsense.

    After all of the recent latino events with State Atty General I will be surprised of he steps in. God Help Is All

  4. I mean when I was 12 years old I had a crush on someone and wanted them to be someone they weren’t – one would think as you grew up and maintained a position of integrity and power you would realize that not just anyone could be an assistant sheriff without proper qualifications. But then there is corpus

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