Tax Advocate Vivian Moreno addressing County Clownsil Gregory Priamos, just before he destroyed the crowd with his creative balloon assemblies. Even Community Executive Officer George Johnson got a cool balloon hat!
One would like to believe that within the County of Riverside, we still have justice and accountability, otherwise the very fabric of our local Democracy disintegrates. After three Grand Jury reports (2013, 2015 and 2019) investigating Attorney Greg Priamos ended with no actions whatsoever by any governing body. The fact that issues of behavior have been brought up, and continue to be brought to the attention of TMC by anonymous City of Riverside employees and County of Riverside employees, forced us to attend Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. When employees fear retaliation when issues of concern are brought forward, what are taxpayers to think? These are your and our valued employees dedicated to working in the best interest of the taxpayer. Why are they afraid to come forward? Maybe we can help, read Grand Jury report for 2019. Concluding, retaliation against employees. Then what happens next, after a Grand Jury presents it evidence and findings? Another investigating body is formed made up by County Supervisors Karen Spiegel and Jeff Hewitt, to investigate the investigation… So why even take the finding of Grand Jury seriously to begin with? Why take an employee complaint seriously? What we have is a failure to communicate and a failure to act.
What we find so interesting in all three grand jury reports is the sentiment is all the same, Priamos is a shyster corrupt Attorney. After three paneled Grand Jury investigations, the County Board of Supervisors feel the need for more investigation. What do they think this is Washington D.C.? You have to wonder why the Board of Supervisors protects this guy?
Now I’m just a concern citizen with some information and actual facts on the legal bad boy behavior of Greg. Again, Greg is a SCA (Shyster Corrupt Attorney). That’s what he is. The facts are very clear. The county board of soups have all the information on Greg first hand, but still need to investigate. That makes no sense. They chose to hire and retain a shyster lawyer over life long employees, of which many have dedicated themselves to this governing body. They are investigating away the morale of the county staff by allowing this organization to be run by intimidation tactics. As of today the board has become complicit and have chose to ignore all the facts and findings. Back in 2015 Tax Advocate and former City of Riverside Mayor Candidate Vivian Moreno stated the following:
“There are a lot of issues here, the grand jury is bringing a huge light to this board. Priamos made a huge mess of the legal department in the City of Riverside now he’s here creating just as much chaos. The supervisors are protecting him because he’s a buddy not because he’s a qualified fantastic wonderful Attorney, that we would all be proud of. He’s here to be the protector, to protect personal gain, instead of protecting the taxpayer.” – Vivian Moreno 2015
This was her statement in 2015….. and here we are in 2019…. and I’m sure I will be back again with this same issue soon…. She stated, “I don’t blame Greg for being a SCA (Corrupt Shyster Attorney)” …. “I blame the enablers, the County Board of Supervisors for allowing him to destroy many lives and ultimately destroy this governmental organization …… This is scandalous to say the least!”
Greg Priamos likes to hold himself out as a lawyer of the highest ethical standards. The reality is THAT IS JUST NOT TRUE. His actions described in the Grand Jury report on County Counsel indicate that Priamos violated critical ethical standards stated in the California State Bar Rules of Professional Conduct. These Rules strictly govern all California lawyers regardless of the work they are doing. These are not optional requirements, they are mandates from the State Bar and the California Supreme Court.
The false and wrongful actions Priamos took against his own employees constituted “misconduct” as prohibited by the Rules because his conduct involved “dishonesty, fraud, or reckless or intentional misrepresentation”. Priamos is therefore subject to discipline by the State Bar.
HOW CAN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS LET ITS TOP LEGAL ADVISOR GET AWAY WITH SUCH SHAMEFUL AND UNETHICAL CONDUCT? CONDUCT THE STATE BAR HAS RULED TO BE UNETHICAL? THEY DO IT BECAUSE THEY ARE OBLIGATED TO THOSE WHO HAVE AN INVESTMENT IN THEM. JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY FOLKS! THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE, IT SIMPLY PEOPLE PLACED IN A POSITION OF POWER TO SUPPORT THE AGENDA OF THOSE WHO PLACED THEM IN POWER. DON’T GET ME WRONG FOLKS, ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF THE LAND, THIS IS ALL LEGAL! BUT IT IS NOW UP TO YOU TO TAKE A POSITION THAT THIS IS A RIGHT COURSE FOR THOSE THAT SEEMINGLY REPRESENT US.
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“County Counsel management has abused its power to wrongfully drive me from the job I successfully held for almost 30 years. I was not an at-will employee, I had a legal right to my job. County Counsel management intentionally and wrongfully took my job away from me.” – former Deputy Riverside County Counsel Neal Kipnis, January 2018
In 2012, the Grand Jury stated that Priamos violated its secrecy during an investigation regarding police procedures. Back in May of 2015, according to the PE, the Riverside Grand Jury has accused Riverside County’s internal law office of interfering with its review of the county’s information technology department. In the report released in April 2015, the Grand Jury, which serves as a court-appointed watchdog of public agencies, said the Office of County Counsel directed IT staff to accept only written requests from the investigative panel, which had asked for a copy of IT’s (Information Technology) response to an audit. According to California Penal Code “the grand jury is entitled to free access … of all public records within the county,” the report said. County counsel needs more training and must recognize the jury as an independent body, the report concluded. Riverside County Counsel in headed by non other than the infamous Gregory Priamos, also was former Riverside’s City Attorney, who of course had plenty of baggage….. and I don’t mean travel baggage. The question asked, “Is why this scumbag continually is protected?” We know why, you only have to look at the supporters behind the scum bag, which in turn, is more scumbags such as former Supervisor’s John Tavaglione and Marion Ashley.
Former Riverside Deputy County Counsel Neal Kipnis expressed the following in a personal email, “I assure you that I am a totally honest person. What happened to me was totally wrong and dishonest. He is a bad person and not worthy of being in such a public position.”
Neal Kipnis arrived at the Office of County Counsel from San Diego at the end of 1988. Since then he has worked on many different issues related to contracts and construction projects, including drafting and negotiation of professional services and technology contracts, and resolution of complicated construction disputes. He has advised many County departments and special districts on various problem-solving and dispute resolution efforts. Since 1988, a period during which he worked under four different County Counsels prior to the arrival of Greg Priamos. In all those years, Kipnis never had a bad performance review. Why was he targeted? We still don’t have a clue. Was it simply because he did his work with honesty and integrity, and could not be molded to the Priamos machine? Honesty and integrity is not in the vocabulary of the Priamos dictionary.
Mr. Kipnis received both his B.A. (Economics, Phi Beta Kappa) and J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. During law school, he clerked at the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Trade Representative, both in Washington D.C. He was an associate with Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard and Smith for two years before coming to Riverside.
Mr. Kipnis stated, “I have had a successful career at County Counsel since 1988, a period during which four different County Counsels headed our office prior to the arrival of Greg Priamos. In all those years, I never had a bad performance review.”
Of course this wasn’t the first incident of complaints against Priamos, he had a slew of them going back to the days of being Riverside City Attorney. We saw how this sociopathic sycophant destroyed good people. We saw this with former City of Riverside Deputy Attorney Raychele Sterling. Sterling alleged that City Officials awarded millions in contracts without bids! We now see this with Riverside County Deputy County Counsel Neal Kipnis. This was his original letter sent to me back in 2018 which was addressed to former Riverside County Supervisor John Tavaglione. (click on link).
According to Kipnis’s letter to former Supervisor John Tavaglione, there were false and misleading information made against him. It was a failure of Human Resources (HR) to react in a proper and fair manner. According to Kipnis letter to Tavaglione, “Sadly, Human Resources facilitated the improper actions taken against me by failing to ensure compliance with applicable County employee discipline procedures (Board Policy C-23 and corresponding HR policy). There was a significant failure to follow or enforce these important policies – intended to provide employees in my situation with fairness and protection. This failure by HR made it far more difficult for me to be able to defend myself leading up to the termination notice.” Sadly, Kipnis’s letter was left on deaf ears and never responded to.
So what did the the Grand Jury report say? Well it vehemently appeared to mirror Kipnis’s complaints of the process at hand. So what actually received the attention of the Grand Jury? It stated, “For several consecutive years, the Riverside County Civil Grand Jury (RCCGJ) has received numerous complaints regarding HR practices, and Riverside County Counsel (RCC), regarding the methods used for terminations and other related personnel matters that are initiated and processed.” They went on to say, “The County of Riverside has a published Code of Ethics which states: “The principal function of County governmentis to serve the best interests of all the people.””
What did the Grand Jury see? They noticed an inherent, “Prolonged mistrust due to harsh personnel practices as well as unscrupulous tactics by some managers has created a climate of fear, intimidation and anxiety among county employees. Employees know it is “go along to get along”, even if it is immoral, illegal, unethical or goes against policies and laws. One employee was told “you have to learn how to do things the county way.””
The Grand Jury found that employees had been denied and were deprived of the ability to examine materials and other documents kept in their personnel file, which is essential to the defense of an allegation against them. Well okay…
But the following is the kicker folks, Retaliatory Behavior known as “Special Treatment” such as the “Freeway Therapy” Treatment! “Employees who have displeased managers in the Office of County Counsel, as well as other departments, have found themselves the recipient of a number of “Special Treatments”. Instead of being assisted, if performance issues are present, they are subjected to various stressors and “Special Treatment”. Retaliatory transfers are prevalent. These occur when individuals are transferred to distant work place locations for punitive reasons. Witnesses and those who have experience with this “Special Treatment” refer to these punitive transfers as “Freeway Therapy” and it is a known means of punishment for those who have displeased managers and directors in power. In other instances of “Special Treatment”, attorneys who have been assigned to a specific department for many years are punitively reassigned to another unrelated department in which they have no expertise.” I wonder what they coined that as? “Job Reclassification Therapy”? Oh no not that! anything but the Freeway Therapy Treatment! Give me the Job Reclassification Therapy… While I’m reading all this, it all sounds strangely sadistic with emphasis on Soviet Style Politics, of course, in America.
The Grand Jury report concluded that, “The current Board of Supervisors must address and stop all abuses of power in the Office of County Counsel. The record of culpability is long and convincing. The County of Riverside deserves a strong CGJ (County Grand Jury) to protect the taxpayers from fraud, corruption and abuse. A County Counsel who shares that vision is critical to that goal. The public must demand this.” The Board of Supervisors are responsible for the actions of the County Counsel, it appears quite evident, his behavior was supported. Due to a do nothing group of Supervisors.
So what did the Grand Jury report indicate and recommend be done? According the Grand Jury report, “Testimony of high level manager in the Office of County Counsel indicate that any personnel actions which have taken place in that department have been initiated with the full knowledge and consent of the County Counsel. The responsibility to control and stop the abuses therefore is the responsibility of the Board of Supervisors and CEO. The Board of Supervisors and the CEO must hold the Riverside County Counsel accountable for all past and future behavior.” Okay, so Priamos is the culprit, we all knew that, especially if you live in the City of Riverside… but remember it’s that ‘two sets of rules bug-a-boo’ that those within this so called local representative government can’t seem to get!
Well, the question is, should Riverside County Clownsel be behind bars and/or should have been behind bars when he was at the City of Riverside? Many taxpaying residents within the City of Riverside are stating yes, and blame the City Council and Mayor for enabling this! The County of Riverside has a published Code of Ethics which states: “The principal function of County government is to serve the best interests of all the people.” Interesting enough, Priamos helped draft the Ethics Guide: Practicing Ethics: A Handbook for Municipal Lawyer for The League of California Cities, which Priamos was President of that entities Department. But we believe that they, such as former Supervisor John Tavaglione never of course believed in any code of ethics. Because of course, who would dare question him, unless your the type that enjoys a confrontational retaliation that could hurt you financially. Well he is gone, but his legacy of corruption continues to effect the taxpayer at the pocket book.
Let’s look at some of Priamos’s other antics that no one did anything about within the City of Riverside!
Thought it was okay to support City Officials with Badges and Fire Arms . Further Priamos thought it was okay that former City Manager Brad Hudson use the City Hall address as his Residence!
An excerpt from her book: “I see my father’s body doubled over the wheel. I see his chest and arms spilling out of the car, his head dangling, blood seeping out of the wet hole in his scalp.”
The warning signs were evident, even Community Taxpayer Advocate Jason Hunter chimed in back on June 24, 2014 about Priamos, take a listen:
The primary take away from all this is that there are two sets of rules, there’s Priamos Law and there is Priamos Law. In other words, the ruling political class had one law, and the rest of us must endure the real law. Will the following finally be Priamos’s new suite? Well it should because the taxpayers are demanding justice.
The primary take away from all this was that there were two sets of rules, there was Priamos Law and there was the Priamos Law. The ruling class had one law, the rest of us taxpayers endured beyond the spirit of any law. Will the following finally be Priamos’s new home for his Soviet Style Law Practices?
HAS THIS CULTURE OF CORRUPTION IN WASHINGTON D.C. AND WITHIN THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE LED US TO AN EVE OF DESTRUCTION? Whereby it means nothing anymore to be a U.S. Citizen… America has made strives since Selma, Alabama… We all know that, many won’t accept that. The U.S. by far is the best country in the world, let’s not trash it. I know, I’ve been to the ‘shithole’s’ of the world, and I always come back to America. Therefore I say, God Bless America! Hands down, America will never become a Socialist Country thanks to the 1st and 2nd Amendment! Something a Dumb Ass County Counsel Sycophant Greg Priamos would not know or understand. These are the people to be worried about folks, they are the ones who take advantage of the system without you in mind!
TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE REGIONAL COUNTIES MOST, “SCANDALOUS,” “NEGATIVE,” “WARPED,” “RAUNCHY,” “LOW CLASS,” “VISIONS OF GRANDEUR,” “FULL OF B.S.,” “REPREHENSIBLE,” “IGNORANT,” “MISGUIDED,” “BULLYISH,” “INDECENT,” “REPUGNANT,””IMMORAL,” “FILTHY,” “VILE,” “SICK,” “PERVERTED,” “DEFAMATORY,” “STUPID,” “PATHETIC,” “DESPICABLE,” “DISAPPOINTING,” “BELOW THE BELT,” “A NEW LOW,” “SHOCKING,” “OFFENSIVE,” “OBNOXIOUS,” “INAPPROPRIATE,” “HURTFUL,” “MEAN SPIRITED,” “DISTASTEFUL,” “EMBARRASSING,” HORIFFIC,” “SLANDEROUS” “FIT TO BE VIEWED FROM THE REAR” AND MEZZSPELLED, “MISSPELLED” AND “OPINIONATED” BLOG SITE! YES WE ADMIT WE OUR ALL OF THAT AND MORE, WHICH IN CURRENT TERMS IS KNOWN AS “UNPOLITICALLY CORRECT.” TEMPORARILY BLOCKED BY THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE AT PUBLIC ACCESS SITES WITHIN THE CITY, THEN UNBLOCKED. I GUESS YOU CANNOT DO THAT ACCORDING TO THE ACLU. RATED ONE STAR OUT OF FIVE IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY APPROVAL RATINGS.. … AGAIN, THANK YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE’S FOR YOUR SUPPORT! CONTACT US: thirtymilescorruption@hotmail.com
The second paragraph contradicts itself. Hackert states that it is not a conflict of interest for Riverside County Counsel to represent county employees in a civil grand jury proceeding. He states that it does not violate Penal Code section 934. But if you read the code it states that the grand jury may, at all times, request the advice of the court, or the judge thereof, the district attorney, the county counsel, or the Attorney General. Unless advice is requested, the judge of the court, or county counsel as to civil matters, shall not be present during the sessions of the grand jury. It states nothing about representing employees as counsel to a grand jury proceeding! Therefore it appears what Priamos was advocating was to give advice to employees, but at the same time if asked, give advice to the grand jury. In this role is classic Priamos, as what was done in the City of Riverside during Ethics Committee hearings, a complete ‘conflict of interest.”
Hackert states that it is not misconduct for Mr. Priamos to ask County employees to advise his office of contacts from the grand jury, since they may be entitled to legal representation under Penal Code section 939.22. Penal Code section 939.22 states that any witness called to give testimony under oath before a civil grand jury may have counsel present on his or her behalf while he or she is testifying. The difference, is that Priamos was demanding that employees contact him if called by the grand jury. Thus violating penal code section 939.22 by not allowing an employee to choose their own attorney. But again, it’s evident by their response, that the State Bar isn’t there to protect the consumer or taxpayers, but to protect themselves. We see this time and time again. The State Bar is not there to protect the public, since their primary activity lobbying, and have already paid dearly in campaign contributions to protect their own, before they protect the public.
CITY ATTORNEY GREG PRIAMOS OFFICE WAS KNOWN TO UTILIZE CODE ENFORCEMENT IN ORDER TO ATTAIN RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES: In one instance, code enforcement came so often to this one resident that they were even captured on the Google Cam!
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As a result, this person, Louis G. Fazzi, Esq, in law suit against the City of Riverside, states that the City was directly to blame for the death of his wife as a result of a stroke, due to a letter Fazzi’s wife read that the property was to go into receivership. She died the next day. Does Priamos have blood on his hands? The following is a book written about the Priamos family. In the book it states, “Priamos men are known for strong minds and weak hearts.”
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A BOOK BY GREG’S COUSIN PAULA PRIAMOS, DESCRIBES THE PRIAMOS FAMILY. THE BOOK IS CALLED “THE SHYSTER’S DAUGHTER.” When contacted, she stated she didn’t want anything to do with her cousin Greg Priamos.
On the third page, prior to the prologue, she states this haunting statement…
Shyster (U.S. slang.)
A lawyer who practices in an unprofessional or tricky manner; especially. one who haunts the prisons and lower courts to prey on petty criminals.
– Oxford English Dictionary
Excerpts:
“Your lucky he didn’t kill you,” I say. If death didn’t get him in the form of an actual bullet, it could’ve gotten him from shock. Priamos men are known for strong minds and weak hearts.
“I see my father’s body doubled over the wheel. I see his chest and arms spilling out of the car, his head dangling, blood seeping out of the wet hole in his scalp.”
“This malaka in a ski mask tried to carjack me. He had a gun to the window and told me to get out of my own goddamn car.” My father slows down, hanging on to the moment as if speaking to a jury. “But I gave him the finger and backed the hell out of there.” (page xiii).
Now he carries ones and fives to slip under the g-strings of his favorite girls at the Kat Nip. (page xiii). Sounds like an excerpt from Goodfellas!
Having his tougher brother in the house balances my father my father in a way I haven’t been able to. Unlike Psycho Gil, who needs full armor and artillery, Uncle Dimitri has no understanding of physical weakness and actually tried to walk off his heart attack while it was happening. (page 138).
‘He slapped me. She kicked me in the balls.’ God knows how many times the cops came out to find one of them saying it was just a disagreement that got out of hand. From what he tells me, she’s no innocent. Those two were into some kinky shit.” (page 140).
My great grandfather died of suicide, which like other dark secrets in the Priamos family, got buried. I didn’t learn of it until well after I’d begun writing this story. (page 250).
This guy (Priamos) continues to get a paycheck, representatives of the people continue to seemingly condone employees such as he, without ever doing a proper background check.
TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE’S MOST, “NEGATIVE,” “RAUNCHY,” “LOW CLASS,” “VISIONS OF GRANDEUR,” “FULL OF B.S.,” “IGNORANT,” “MISGUIDED,” “BULLYISH,” “FILTHY,” “SICK,” “PERVERTED,” “STUPID,” “PATHETIC,” “DESPICABLE,” “DISAPPOINTING,” “BELOW THE BELT,” “A NEW LOW,” “SHOCKING,” “OFFENSIVE,” “INAPPROPRIATE,” “HURTFUL,” “MEAN SPIRITED,” “DISTASTEFUL,” “EMBARRASSING,” HORIFFIC,” “SLANDEROUS” “FIT TO BE VIEWED FROM THE REAR” AND MEZZSPELLED, “MISSPELLED” AND “OPINIONATED” BLOG SITE! TEMPORARILY BLOCKED BY THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE AT PUBLIC ACCESS SITES WITHIN THE CITY, THEN UNBLOCKED. I GUESS YOU CANNOT DO THAT ACCORDING TO THE ACLU. RATED ONETWO ONE STAR OUT OF FIVE IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY APPROVAL RATINGS.. TMC IS NOW EXCLUSIVLY EXCLUSIVELY ON FILE WITH THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE’S DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE (WE BELIEVE THIS WILL END SOON, SINCE THE FOCUS IS NOW ON THE IMPROPRIETIES OF MR. “Z”. WE TRIED TO TELL YOU, BUT NOBODY LISTENED), AND DON’T FORGET WE ARE PROSSIBLY POSSIBLY ON FILE WITH THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE’S POTENTIAL SLAPP SUIT LIST… A STRATEGIC LEGAL MANEUVER THAT CAN BE DONE ONLY IN RIVERSIDE WITHOUT A CONTRACT… AGAIN, THANK YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE’S FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
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TMC: Thirty Miles of Corruption 