Retiring Asst. DA Had Launched Secret Investigation Into His Daughter's Ex | Greg Moran

07/02/19 • 14 min

Late last year just weeks before he retired, former San Diego County Assistant District Attorney Jesse Rodriguez ordered a secret investigation — using district attorney staff — into the ex-boyfriend of his daughter, who was locked in a contentious custody dispute over their infant son.
The inquiry began in early November and appears to have lasted until the week before Christmas, according to internal documents obtained from the District Attorney’s Office under the state Public Records Act that outline the probe. The records show that Chief Deputy Dominic Dugo directed the investigation using a senior investigator, Tony Giralamo.
The probe focused on finding evidence through the state Employment Development Department for a charge of fraud or perjury related to an unemployment claim filed in early 2017 by the former boyfriend, 44-year-old Nathaniel Moore, who was referred to in one of the emails as “our target.”
Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2019-06-25/former-no-2-in-da-office-conducted-secret-probe-into-daughters-ex-boyfriend-records-show

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Border Dispatch: Desperate Migrants Offering To Buy Children To Aid In Crossing Border | Wendy Fry

Some migrants in Tijuana are trying to purchase children from vulnerable single mothers in local shelters so they can more easily cross into the United States, according to shelter directors, migrants and Tijuana law enforcement authorities.
Migrants in Tijuana shelters said they are alarmed after reports of single mothers being approached by groups of men who have offered to buy children to improve their chances of safely crossing into the United States.
A decades-old legal document, known as the Flores agreement, says migrant children should only be held briefly in U.S. border custody, which often means they are released, along with the parent or guardian with whom they crossed while they wait for their asylum cases to make their way through clogged immigration courts.

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Court Martial: Jury Deliberations Begin In Gallagher Case

Prosecutors and defense attorneys in a nationally watched war crimes trial at Naval Base San Diego made final arguments Monday, and now the fate of a decorated Navy SEAL is in the hands of seven senior military jurors.
San Diego-based Navy SEAL Chief Edward R. Gallagher was arrested on Sept. 11 based on the accounts of several members of his platoon from their deployment in Iraq in 2017. Gallagher, 40, is charged with premeditated murder in the alleged stabbing death of a wounded teenage Islamic State fighter brought to the SEAL compound near Mosul in May 2017.
Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/2019-07-01/jury-is-deliberating-in-navy-seal-murder-trial