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Baldwin Park City Attorney Robert Tafoya allegedly came up with the idea for the bribery scheme orchestrated by former Councilman Ricardo Pacheco and sat in on a meeting where the elected official asked for at least $30,000 in payoffs from a cannabis company, according to a newly unsealed plea agreement signed by Pacheco.

Tafoya has not been charged, but allegations made in Pacheco’s plea agreement, signed last year and unsealed Friday, Oct. 7, by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, suggests the city attorney, who was raided by federal investigators alongside two others in 2020, may have violated his legal and ethical duties to the city by, at a minimum, not reporting the crime.

As part of his deal, Pacheco agreed to this “statement of facts” under penalty of perjury.

Tafoya is not directly named in the court filings and is instead referred to as “Person 1,” an individual described as having “served as the Baldwin Park City Attorney since in or around December 2013.”

Baldwin Park approved its first cannabis cultivation ordinance in August 2017 and city officials at the time pitched it as a chance to generate millions in much-needed revenues for the struggling San Gabriel Valley city.

Tafoya approached Pacheco before the vote and told the councilman he should support efforts to bring cannabis to Baldwin Park because Pacheco could “personally profit,” according to an exhibit attached to Pacheco’s plea agreement.

“Person 1 explained that defendant should find an individual he trusted who would not talk (the ‘intermediary’), instruct the intermediary to represent himself as a ‘consultant’ to companies seeking Cultivation Development Agreements, and promise to deliver a development agreement to the company in exchange for a $150,000 fee,” federal investigators wrote. “The intermediary would then share this $150,000 fee with defendant who would then work with Person 1 and others on the City Council to get the Cultivation Development Agreements approved for that applicant.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office believes Tafoya was present at five different meetings between Pacheco and another individual, described as a Compton city councilman, in which Pacheco openly discussed taking bribes to secure his votes. Tafoya allegedly shared updates on the status of the development agreements.

Tafoya and the same Compton councilman allegedly were working together to secure a marijuana license in the City of Commerce.

Commerce City Manager Edgar Cisneros, who also has not been charged, was mentioned in court filings as facilitating bribes that trickled down to Pacheco.

In another instance, Tafoya and Pacheco approached a marijuana company and “solicited for donations in the amount of $10,000 each” to Pacheco’s church, a political action committee he indirectly controlled and former Baldwin Park Police Chief Mike Taylor’s campaign for the West Valley Water District.

Tafoya later became the general counsel for the water district.

There is no allegation in the plea agreement to suggest Tafoya took any bribes himself. His attorney, Mark Werksman, denies Tafoya had any knowledge or involvement in Pacheco’s dealings.

“Robert Tafoya is and always has been an honest, ethical attorney that has acted legally and in the best interest of the City of Baldwin Park,” Werksman said. “A bunch of corrupt politicians, who are cooperating in order to get lenient sentences, shouldn’t be believed at all.

“The bottom line is they’re being prosecuted and not Robert Tafoya,” he added.

What happened

Pacheco ended up following the exact outline he credited to Tafoya in the plea agreement.

Gabriel Chavez, a former San Bernardino County planning commissioner, served as the intermediary — or the “fundraising guy” as Pacheco called him — and collected at least $170,000 through consulting agreements with marijuana companies vying for permits in Baldwin Park. Chavez, in his own plea agreement, admitted he took a 40% cut of the money and gave the rest to Pacheco, who in turn voted in support of each company’s bid.

Chavez and Pacheco used a template of a consulting agreement, provided by Tafoya and featuring his firm’s phone number, for the contracts between Chavez’s marketing firm and the cannabis companies.

Chavez and Compton Councilman Isaac Galvan were raided the same day that search warrants were executed at Tafoya’s offices in November 2020. Chavez has agreed to plead guilty to a single count of bribery and plans to cooperate with investigators in exchange for leniency.

Pacheco agreed to similar terms in January 2021 after he got caught taking bribes from a Baldwin Park police officer working with the FBI in 2018.

The former councilman was forced to turn over $302,900 in bribes to federal investigators, including $62,900 found buried in his backyard. He quietly retired from the council in June 2020 after more than 23 years in office. It later was revealed his resignation was a requirement of his plea deal.

Both Pacheco and Chavez face a maximum of 10 years in federal prison, three years of parole and a $250,000 fine.

City attorney blocked from cannabis matters

Baldwin Park prohibited Tafoya from working on cannabis-related matters in 2021 after he was raided and the Southern California News Group reported that Tafoya had hired a former recipient of a cannabis license as his assistant city attorney.

A company run by the attorney, Anthony Willoughby II, and his father secured one of the first cannabis permits, then sold the company to a third party.

At the time, other cannabis operators raised concerns about a conflict of interest when Willoughby II showed up at their compliance hearings.

The father, Anthony Willoughby, is Galvan’s personal attorney.

Galvan, who was arrested for election fraud last year but hasn’t been charged in the federal case, was directly responsible for the hiring of Tafoya’s wife at Compton City Hall.

An attempt last year to put the city attorney’s contract out to bid last year failed to garner support, despite the ongoing controversies.

In a statement, Councilwoman Monica Garcia, who opposed the attempt, said Baldwin Park “will not tolerate corruption of any kind.”

“The authorities are investigating these allegations and, based on their findings, the City will respond appropriately,” she stated.

Mayor Emmanuel Estrada, elected in 2020, called the allegations against Tafoya “concerning.”

Baldwin Park has struggled for years to rein in its agreements with various cannabis companies, which have argued the city’s fees are unevenly charged and improperly spent.

One lawsuit, filed before Pacheco was charged, accused the city of giving a monopoly to a marijuana distributor. That company, Rukli Inc., later gave up its exclusivity to settle a different lawsuit accusing it and Baldwin Park of “racketeering.”

“We’re trying to figure out as we go what happened in the past and we’re trying to make sure none of this ever happens again,” Estrada said.

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“A sad and poignant moment as Her Majesty, The Queen leaves her beloved Balmoral for the final time,” the first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon tweeted. “Today, as she makes her journey to Edinburgh, Scotland will pay tribute to an extraordinary woman.”

Crowds lined parts of the route as the nation mourns its longest-reigning monarch, the only one most Britons have ever known. In the Scottish village of Ballater, where residents regard the royal family as neighbors, hundreds of people watched in silence and some threw flowers in front of the hearse as it passed.

“She meant such a lot to people in this area. People were crying, it was amazing to see,” said Victoria Pacheco, a guest house manager.

In each town and village the cars drove through, they were met with similar muted scenes of respect. People stood mostly in silence; some clapped politely, others pointed their phone cameras at the passing cars.

Before reaching the Scottish capital, the cortege is traveling down what is effectively a royal memory lane — passing through locations laden with House of Windsor history including Dyce, where in 1975 the queen formally opened the U.K.’s first North Sea oil pipeline, and Fife near St. Andrews University, where her grandson William, now the Prince of Wales, studied and met his future wife, Catherine.

Sunday’s solemn drive through Scotland comes a day after the queen’s eldest son was formally proclaimed the new monarch — King Charles III — at a pomp-filled accession ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism.

“I am deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty, which have now passed to me,” Charles said as he took on the duties of monarch.

He will be proclaimed king in other nations of the United Kingdom — Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — and in towns across the country Sunday. Earlier, proclamations were held in other parts of the Commonwealth — the group of former British Empire colonies — including Australia and New Zealand.

In the New Zealand capital, Wellington, the British monarch’s representative, Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro, said: “On behalf of all New Zealanders, I extend to King Charles our loyalty and support and wishes for a long and happy reign.”

Even as he mourned his late mother, Charles was getting down to work. He was meeting at Buckingham Palace with the secretary-general and other representatives of the Commonwealth, a group of nations that grapples with affection for the queen and lingering bitterness over their own colonial legacies, ranging from slavery to corporal punishment in African schools to looted artifacts held in British institutions.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who had started laying the groundwork for an Australian republic after elections in May, said Sunday that now was the time not for a change but for paying tribute to the late queen.

India, a former British colony, observed a day of state mourning, with flags lowered to half-staff on all government buildings throughout the country.

Amid the grief enveloping the House of Windsor, there were hints of a possible family reconciliation. Prince William and his brother Harry, together with their respective wives, Catherine, Princess of Wales, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, delighted mourners near Windsor Castle with a surprise joint appearance Saturday.

The queen’s coffin will take a circuitous journey back to the capital. On Monday, it will be taken from Holyroodhouse to nearby St. Giles’ Cathedral, where it will remain until Tuesday, when it will be flown to London. The coffin will be moved from Buckingham Palace on Wednesday to the Houses of Parliament to lie in state until a state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Sept. 19.

In Ballater, the Rev. David Barr said locals consider the royals as “neighbors” and try to treat them as locals when they spend summers in the Scottish Highlands.

“When she comes up here, and she goes through those gates, I believe the royal part of her stays mostly outside,” he said. “And as she goes in, she was able to be a wife, a loving wife, a loving mum, a loving gran and then later on a loving great-gran — and aunty — and be normal.”

Elizabeth Taylor, from Aberdeen, had tears in her eyes after the hearse carrying the queen’s coffin passed through Ballater.

“It was very emotional. It was respectful and showed what they think of the queen,” she said. “She certainly gave service to this country even up until a few days before her death.”

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More sad news on the legendary DC creators front this year, I’m afraid. Legendary Green Lantern and Superman/Batman penciler Carlos Pacheco has been diagnosed with the degenerative disease ALS. We wish him strength in fighting the terrible disease.

Superman: Space Age #2
Laura Allred (colors), Michael “Spike” Allred (art), Mark Russell (writer), Dave Sharpe (letters)
September 27, 2022

This comic is on pace to be the best thing DC has done in what looks to be a year full of stand-out books. It’s a reverent Superman tale that has heart and charm, and keys into his place within the DC Universe. Russell litters the book with subtle and not-so-subtle references to tales and creators that have come before, while still telling a story that will be timeless. Which is a bit ironic, since Space Age very cleanly roots itself in a specific time period. If Darwyn Cooke’s New Frontier was a love letter to the beginning of the Silver Age, Space Age is the romantic ballad sung of it’s end. Allred’s art has the feeling of an updated take on Curt Swan’s Superman, and indeed that is the version of Superman we get throughout this series. Don’t forget to stop at Seagulls Bar (right next to Joe’s Shoe Store) to have. a nice cold glass of milk.

Grade: A+

Batman: One Bad Day: Two-Face #1
Jordie Bellaire (colors), Javier Fernandez (art), Ariana Maher (letters), Mariko Tamaki (writer)
September 20, 2022

Everything I wanted from the One Bad Day series was encapsulated in this installment. It’s a shame it wasn’t the first of them. This book delivered on the promise of being a series of oversized character studies on the various Batman rogues, in a way that One Bad Day: Riddler did not. Tamaki did a fantastic job of showcasing the dichotomy of Two-Face, and how even when it seems that Harvey is in control, it’s just a matter of time before his alter-ego wrests that power back to ruin both his own life and the lives of those around him. It was a heartbreaking story that you could see the twist coming but still be intrigued enough to keep reading.

Grade: A

Poison Ivy #4
Jessica Fong (cover), Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (letters), Arif Prianto (colors), Marcio Takara (art), G. Willow Wilson (writer)
September 6, 2022

Speaking of stand-out books this year, there has not been a bad issue of Poison Ivy yet. Wilson and Takara are firing on all cylinders portraying a heartbroken and lonesome Ivy as she comes to grips with her own mortality and lost love. The book is a wishful fantasy for the world to claw back from the brinks of armageddon we’ve brought it to; for nature to once more thrive. The fact this issue very clearly has Ivy taking on the horrible sexist boss of a “global two-day shipping” company is all the more escapist fantasy.

Grade: A

Flashpoint Beyond #5
Jeremy Adams (writer), Jordie Bellaire (colors), Romulo Fajardo Jr (colors), Mitch Gerads (cover), Mikel Janín (art), Geoff Johns (writer), Rob Leigh (letters), Tim Sheridan (writer), Xermanico (art)
August 16, 2022

You know what is an absolutely fantastic way to sell comics? Have one of your big crossover books of the summer actively tell readers not to bother reading the other one because it doesn’t matter. Even better have it actively spoil what happens in the other. Just grand well thought-out work from Geoff Johns, Jeremy Adams (who worked on both crossovers I might add), and Tim Sheridan. That aside, Flashpoint Beyond is nothing more than self-referential gunk masquerading as something relevant. I don’t know anyone that actually cares about the Flashpoint universe, or that was clamoring for more of it.

Grade: F

Action Comics #1050

The Dark Crisis is over, and a new dawn shines on the DCU! In the wake of cataclysmic battles with Mongul, Henry Bendix, and Pariah’s Dark Army, Kal-El is back on Earth and here to stay. And the people of our planet are ready to look up, up, and away into a brighter tomorrow. Well…most of the people. Clark Kent’s reunion with Lois and his son, Jon Kent, proves fleeting when strikes the ultimate attack from Superman’s greatest adversary: Lex Luthor. But this time something is different…Luthor has stolen something from Clark’s life, something so important that it will change the very planet itself! If you think you’ve seen the biggest battle between Superman and Lex Luthor—think again! This clash will rock the course of their lives forever…and it’s only the beginning.

Two years’ worth of Superman stories come to a head in this oversize anniversary issue with all-star talent that launches Superman and the DCU into an exciting new era!

I’m a sucker for oversized anniversary issues, and Action Comics #1050 looks to be a big one. Very excited to see where the next chapter of the Men of Steel leads.

The other big future release I’m very excited about it not going to be out until next month’s solicits, with Tini Howard taking over Harley Quinn. With that, I’m more excited than I ever have been about Harley Quinn. 

Join us next month for the return of the Infinite Multiverse in Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths.