BY AMELIA BISCARDI
Daily Post Staff Writer
San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus refused yesterday (Dec. 10) to give her side of the abuse-of-power scandal gripping her office, and the county Board of Supervisors went forward with plans for a special election in March that would allow them to fire her.
Corpus said in a letter from her lawyers that she hasn’t had enough time to respond to the allegations in former judge LaDoris Cordell’s Nov. 12 report. Cordell found that among other things Corpus and her former second-in-command had retaliated against officers.
County Supervisor Ray Mueller said he didn’t understand why Corpus couldn’t appear to answer questions like whether she was having an affair with former chief of staff Victor Aenlle, or whether she made racist and anti-gay remarks.
But Corpus and her lawyers said they want the names of the 40 people Cordell interviewed for the report. Corpus lawyers are identified in a letter to the Board of Supervisors as James Lassart, Thomas Mazzucco and Christopher Ulrich of San Francisco law firm Murphy Pearson Bradley and Feeney. The county isn’t paying their bills.
Tuesday appears to have been the last chance for Corpus to negotiate a deal with the supervisors, where they would pay her to resign in order to halt the special election, which might run $4 million to $5 million.
The purpose of the election is to temporarily change the county charter to allow the supervisors to fire the sheriff.
Corpus isn’t giving interviews, but she ripped the supervisors in her account on X.
“I don’t condone their behavior, unprofessional conduct, abuse of power and the use of taxpayer money for unjust defamation of an elected official for personal gain,” Corpus wrote.
The board of supervisors didn’t offer any money- where is the proof ? The only person that posted this way Dan Noyes the BFF of Corpus and Aenlle. Spear campaign tactics. She has 3 months to muddy the water to tey and win some supporters.
The real issue is Corpus trying to battle a charter amendment and say it takes away voters rights. Those very voters would be voting for the charter amendment and it would save tome and money from a recall election to do the same thing. There are 80 or so NON CHARTER counties in California. The 20 or so charter counties make it harder to remove a sheriff and cost time and mkney.
It baffles me why the ignored HR complaints inder Corpus watch, an ignored organizational assessment completed in Spring 2024 latest and numerous lawsuits have started rolling in- how anyone can say that this situation is not Corpus’ responsibility! Instead the small crowd of people are stuck on Bolanos who left over 2 year ago, and keep mentioning bat mobiles and brother busts. So what do that have to do with the numerous complaints about Corpus? Since when do people have to have sworn testimony to make an HR complaints? And since when does a Sheriff get to ignore over 15 allegations, lie to the public and say she had no clue and keep the main perpetrator Aenlle working. Aenlle should have been on administrative leave leave starting June. Corpus refused
All of these complaints have happened under the watch of Corpus. A Sheriff who can’t communicate except with embarrassing memos. Any true leader should have sat down months ago hashed this out.
Now she’s trying allegedly to hire leadership on contract. What does that tell you? Corpus is in this for money not because she cares. She is using her latino female narrative to escape taking any responsibility for her actions. I hope she ends up getting criminal charges for false arrest, misappropriating fund or any other legitimate issue they can prove at this point. She doesn’t deserve her pension or any settlement money. .
Now we know that ABC7’s Dan Noyes was lying when he said the BOS would be paying Corpus $1 million to resign. It was probably just a stunt by Victor to tempt the supervisors to buy her out. But the story was bogus since the deadline for any offer has passed. I wonder if Noyes will go on TV tonight and apologize for the fake news?
NOT ONE DIME! The best thing about Democrats ruling California by super majority is they DON”T CARE how much of the peoples money they spend. It’s like the money just magically appears before them so they can spend it.
“Sheriff” Corpus is the poster child for DEI who was at the right place and time to get elected. Completely incompetent. The voters got what they deserved for not doing a modicum of research which would have revealed how undeserving she is for that office.
Of course she refuses. She can’t remember which version of her stories she told to who. She will need to reply by drafting a memo and posting it or reading it. Good luck getting a Sheriff eho can publicalky speak from her own thoughts and words.