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"She basically didn't work," said Bruce Moore, a retired probation officer who worked in a cubicle alongside her before she retired in 2004 after 25 years. Her days started late and ended early, he said, adding she was rarely seen with anyone on probation who was assigned to her caseload.
Several other people who socialized with the Caronas described the sheriff's wife as dour, driven and enamored with the power and perks of her husband's job. Friends,cartier replica love necklace, however, strongly reject such descriptions, saying she may be reserved, but is a warm stalwart for those close to her. She was a fitness enthusiast, partial to the stationary bike. At her gym, she was the sit up champion, able to complete more than 300 at a time.
When her husband launched his 1998 campaign for sheriff, Moore said, she began to talk to co workers about the favors that came with politics, such as dinners on expensive yachts in Newport Beach hosted by his supporters. Moore said she arrived at work one day in a St. John Knits suit that she said had been given to her by a donor. "It caused something of a commotion among the women in the office," Moore said.
According to the federal corruption indictment that landed the sheriff, his wife and his mistress in court, Deborah Carona accepted a $1,500 St. John Knits suit and a $15,000 gold and diamond Cartier watch from her husband's supporters, gifts beyond the legal limit which the couple failed to report on financial disclosure forms.
In 2001, the sheriff persuaded then Gov. Gray Davis to appoint his wife to the board of directors that oversees the Orange County Fair and Exposition Center, a sprawling piece of property in Costa Mesa that is home to the county fair, weekly swap meets and summertime concerts.
While serving on the fair board this year, Deborah Carona voted to allow a paintball company to open a business on the property, according to board records. Federal prosecutors allege in the indictment that officials with the paintball business had paid $25,000 in cash to a Carona associate in 2000 after learning that Carona would use his influence as sheriff to assist the paintball business.
"I don't believe a word of it," Clark said. "There is no way that Debbie is a cold, calculating, manipulative person."
Carona met Debra Hoffman during his campaign for sheriff in 1998. Hoffman operated a law firm with George Jaramillo, then one of Carona's key supporters. The law office became a frequent meeting spot for Carona strategists during the campaign.
Some said Hoffman looked much like Carona's wife when she was younger. Despite Hoffman's concerns about the commotion the campaign caused at the law firm,replica diamond necklace cartier, it wasn't long before she and Carona became close,replica cartier chain necklace, according to several people who knew the couple.
After Carona took office in 1999,replica cartier pendant price, he and Hoffman were seen together on trips to Las Vegas and Sacramento, according to sources familiar with the trips who asked not be identified because they didn't want their statements to become a part of the case. She visited his office in the sheriff's headquarters and changed her hairstyle and started wearing a vanilla scented perfume that Carona favored, the sources said.
One of Hoffman's old friends, who asked not to be identified because she didn't want to be involved in the criminal case, said the couple referred to one another in text messages as "LOML" "love of my life." They spoke about a life together.
Like Carona, Hoffman was married. She and her husband, Robert Schroff, have an 11 year old daughter. In Carona's second year in office, the department hired her husband, which entitled Hoffman and her daughter to medical benefits. Schroff is still employed by the department, earning $55,000 per year as a painter on the maintenance staff.
Hoffman's attorney, Sylvia Torres Guillen of the Federal Public Defender's Office, declined to comment on the facts of the case or on federal prosecutors' unusual decision to describe Hoffman as the sheriff's "longtime mistress" in the indictment.
"It's unfortunate that there is such a focus on the salacious details that have nothing to do with the case. What we're interested in is telling the jury what truly happened and why she's not guilty of the charges," Torres Guillen said.
In September 1999, an Orange County businessman gave Carona ringside tickets to the Oscar De La Hoya Felix Trinidad boxing match at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Federal prosecutors allege that Carona failed to report the fight tickets as a gift on his conflict of interest disclosure forms filed in 2000.
According to sources familiar with that trip, the sheriff brought Debra Hoffman with him and stayed at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. He attended the fight with Jaramillo while Hoffman and Jaramillo's wife went to see "O," the long running Cirque du Soleil show at the Bellagio.
"She basically didn't work," said Bruce Moore, a retired probation officer who worked in a cubicle alongside her before she retired in 2004 after 25 years. Her days started late and ended early, he said, adding she was rarely seen with anyone on probation who was assigned to her caseload.
Several other people who socialized with the Caronas described the sheriff's wife as dour, driven and enamored with the power and perks of her husband's job. Friends,cartier replica love necklace, however, strongly reject such descriptions, saying she may be reserved, but is a warm stalwart for those close to her. She was a fitness enthusiast, partial to the stationary bike. At her gym, she was the sit up champion, able to complete more than 300 at a time.
When her husband launched his 1998 campaign for sheriff, Moore said, she began to talk to co workers about the favors that came with politics, such as dinners on expensive yachts in Newport Beach hosted by his supporters. Moore said she arrived at work one day in a St. John Knits suit that she said had been given to her by a donor. "It caused something of a commotion among the women in the office," Moore said.
According to the federal corruption indictment that landed the sheriff, his wife and his mistress in court, Deborah Carona accepted a $1,500 St. John Knits suit and a $15,000 gold and diamond Cartier watch from her husband's supporters, gifts beyond the legal limit which the couple failed to report on financial disclosure forms.
In 2001, the sheriff persuaded then Gov. Gray Davis to appoint his wife to the board of directors that oversees the Orange County Fair and Exposition Center, a sprawling piece of property in Costa Mesa that is home to the county fair, weekly swap meets and summertime concerts.
While serving on the fair board this year, Deborah Carona voted to allow a paintball company to open a business on the property, according to board records. Federal prosecutors allege in the indictment that officials with the paintball business had paid $25,000 in cash to a Carona associate in 2000 after learning that Carona would use his influence as sheriff to assist the paintball business.
"I don't believe a word of it," Clark said. "There is no way that Debbie is a cold, calculating, manipulative person."
Carona met Debra Hoffman during his campaign for sheriff in 1998. Hoffman operated a law firm with George Jaramillo, then one of Carona's key supporters. The law office became a frequent meeting spot for Carona strategists during the campaign.
Some said Hoffman looked much like Carona's wife when she was younger. Despite Hoffman's concerns about the commotion the campaign caused at the law firm,replica diamond necklace cartier, it wasn't long before she and Carona became close,replica cartier chain necklace, according to several people who knew the couple.
After Carona took office in 1999,replica cartier pendant price, he and Hoffman were seen together on trips to Las Vegas and Sacramento, according to sources familiar with the trips who asked not be identified because they didn't want their statements to become a part of the case. She visited his office in the sheriff's headquarters and changed her hairstyle and started wearing a vanilla scented perfume that Carona favored, the sources said.
One of Hoffman's old friends, who asked not to be identified because she didn't want to be involved in the criminal case, said the couple referred to one another in text messages as "LOML" "love of my life." They spoke about a life together.
Like Carona, Hoffman was married. She and her husband, Robert Schroff, have an 11 year old daughter. In Carona's second year in office, the department hired her husband, which entitled Hoffman and her daughter to medical benefits. Schroff is still employed by the department, earning $55,000 per year as a painter on the maintenance staff.
Hoffman's attorney, Sylvia Torres Guillen of the Federal Public Defender's Office, declined to comment on the facts of the case or on federal prosecutors' unusual decision to describe Hoffman as the sheriff's "longtime mistress" in the indictment.
"It's unfortunate that there is such a focus on the salacious details that have nothing to do with the case. What we're interested in is telling the jury what truly happened and why she's not guilty of the charges," Torres Guillen said.
In September 1999, an Orange County businessman gave Carona ringside tickets to the Oscar De La Hoya Felix Trinidad boxing match at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Federal prosecutors allege that Carona failed to report the fight tickets as a gift on his conflict of interest disclosure forms filed in 2000.
According to sources familiar with that trip, the sheriff brought Debra Hoffman with him and stayed at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. He attended the fight with Jaramillo while Hoffman and Jaramillo's wife went to see "O," the long running Cirque du Soleil show at the Bellagio.
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