Corpus not too long ago tried to enchantment the board’s vote and halt the elimination course of, saying it violated her constitutional rights. Final week, a decide denied that request, clearing the best way for the hearings to start.
Questions on Corpus’ management started rising final 12 months, when county officers say they acquired an “unprecedented” variety of complaints about Corpus’ civilian second-in-command and alleged lover, Victor Aenlle.
The county employed retired Decide LaDoris Cordell to conduct an unbiased investigation, and her report, printed in November, sustained a number of findings in opposition to Corpus, together with that Corpus’ management was beset with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of curiosity, and abuses of authority.”
The day that the report was launched, Corpus’s workplace directed deputies to arrest Carlos Tapia, the pinnacle of the deputies’ union and a vocal critic of Corpus, on suspicion of time card fraud. San Mateo County District Legal professional Stephen Wagstaffe would decide Tapia “mustn’t have been arrested” as a result of “there was no foundation to imagine any violation of regulation had occurred.”
That week, the board took a vote of no confidence in Corpus. On the assembly, supervisors voted to remove Aenlle’s Govt Director place, however Corpus advised the board she was instantly selling Aenlle to assistant sheriff. Aenlle remains to be listed on the division’s management internet web page as “Govt Director of Administration / Chief of Workers.”
Regardless of mounting requires Corpus to resign from native, state and federal lawmakers — a lot of whom have been beforehand Corpus’ supporters — she remained steadfast. Most of Corpus’ management crew left, together with dozens of workers who didn’t have sufficient years in to retire at their full pensions.
