The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on July 20, 2019, 07:47:19 pm
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Plea deal by Kamala Harris AG office for sexual-harassing San Diego mayor was too lenient, critics say (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/plea-deal-by-kamala-harris-ag-office-for-sexual-harassing-san-diego-mayor-was-too-lenient-critics-say)
Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign biography rests heavily on her career as a prosecutor, including six years as California attorney general. But it omits a plea deal her office negotiated for former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, a serial sexual harasser, which let him escape jail time and avoid registering as a sex offender.
In 2013, about 20 women accused Filner, a two-decade Democratic congressman-turned-San Diego mayor, of sexual harassment and misconduct. Some said he put them in “Filner headlocks.â€
Harris' office drew considerable criticism in 2013 for allowing Filner to plead guilty to state charges of false imprisonment and battery against three Jane Does in exchange for a light sentence. Filner could have faced up to five years in prison, but the plea bargain instead gave him three months of house arrest, three years' probation, and partial loss of his mayoral pension.
The golden magic D triumphed. An ordinary person would have spent a year in jail, if not 2 or 3 years in prison. As for former San Diego DA Bonnie Dumanis, the linked LAT article did not say whether her comment was in reference to the plea deal or charges being filed against Filner. I won't go so far as to say Dumanis is a RINO, but she supported WashDC's laws in the Heller case.