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Honeycutt gets a lawyer, Cox to rely on state
The next stage of Councilman Tad Honeycutt's legal battle had all the elements of ritual.
Deputy District Attorney Michael Fermin, with a borrowed knife, slit open the tape that sealed four Staples copy paper boxes shut. Counting to himself, he handed out three sets of 16 printouts, each bound in black plastic, the transcripts of August's special grand jury testimony relating to the California Charter Academy.
Honeycutt and co-defendant C. Steven Cox were in Victorville Superior Court Friday morning to officially name their attorneys. The pair faces 117 felony charges between them, including misappropriation of public funds, grand theft, failure to file a state tax return and filing a false tax return. Honeycutt faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Cox faces up to 64.
The charges filed against Cox and Honeycutt on September 4 specifically address 37 transactions in which a total of $5.5 million was transferred from the non-profit CCA to its for-profit subsidiaries. The funds were allegedly transferred without the legally required oversight from the governing board.
Once the largest chain of charter schools in the state, with 60 campuses serving 4,500 students, the academy closed its doors in August 2004, after running out of operating funds, leaving thousands of students without a classroom on the eve of the 2004-2005 school year. In an audit report commissioned by the California Department of Education and released in April 2005, CCA officials, and officials in spin-off operations, like the for-profit subsidiary Everything For Schools, headed up by Honeycutt, were accused of misusing $23 million in taxpayer funds.
At Friday's court appearance, Honeycutt officially retained San Bernardino attorney Grover Leon Porter and Riverside attorney Steven Harmon as his defense attorneys. Deputy Public Defender Mark Shoup will represent Cox. Both defendants' financial assets were frozen in September under the state's aggravated white-collar crime enhancement, which prevents suspects from spending the assets of an alleged crime. The provision allows the court to release funds for living and legal expenses, if requested.
Both legal teams will now dig into the testimony of 54 grand jury witnesses from August's special grand jury session.
Honeycutt left court beside Porter, carrying his Staples box full of transcripts with him.
He and Cox are next due to appear in court on March 14.
Beau Yarbrough can be reached at 956-7108 or at beau@hesperiastar.com.
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| Gomez, you great big hunk of intelligence. I have one question for you. Is OJ in jail for murder? I'll type slowly so hopefully you'll understand. People. ACCUSED. of. a. crime. are. entititled. to. bail. Did I go too fast? How does your bail reference even begin to intelligently answer any of the issues here. I have no doubt that your current reading level lead you to believe that was posted here was fact. Run Spot, run. PS, it's spelled TURD not TERD. You crack me up. |
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| Randy Fitzjurls - May 01, 2008 01:04:22 AM | Remove Comment |
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| Randy, you steaming pile of terd, the only reason your buddy Tad is not in prison now is because he posted 500,000 dollar bail. After reading the posts below, I have one question for you, Did OJ do it? |
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| Gomez - Apr 28, 2008 08:02:47 PM | Remove Comment |
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| Gomez, care to add anything insightful or do you just want to call names. Okay. Here goes. Un-educated. Ilinformed. I could go on, but you've heard them all your life so why bother. I might consider the possibility of visiting Tad in prison, but golly, he's not in prison. He has yet to be convicted of a crime. |
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| Randy Fitzjurls - Apr 26, 2008 01:21:17 AM | Remove Comment |
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| What a loser. Please visit Tad in prison. Are you one of Bill Postmus' boy toys? |
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| Gomez - Apr 22, 2008 06:58:56 PM | Remove Comment |
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| Ah, silence. I accept your defeat. |
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| Randy Fitzjurls - Apr 16, 2008 01:13:46 AM | Remove Comment |
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| And Who, I find it appropriate that you reference a childrens movie to make a point. And not even a very good childrens movie at that. You are priceless. |
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| Randy Fitzjurls - Dec 15, 2007 06:31:16 PM | Remove Comment |
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| HH uh duh. No the state could not possibly hire their own agency to manipulate an audit. Are you really that naive. Could not possibly care less what you are starting to think as your postings show just how credible what you think is. Just full of insight you are. No Need please keep posting. You are the epitome of the case for the prosecution. You are the perfect mix of alcohol and ignorance to get these guys exonerated. Who wow. You are an absolute genius. I think You are either Steven or Tad. Your postings have me thoroughly convinced that only those connected to Mike Ramos or someone who wants to illustrate the ridiculousness of the charges alleged against the accused could possibly portray themselves as you have. Thank you first. Chuck you second. Judge Wapner was an educated and thoughtful man. You are quite obviously not him. Try again. |
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| Randy Fitzjurls - Dec 15, 2007 06:28:12 PM | Remove Comment |
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| Hey Charley, I would recommend the Bee Movie for you to see. It has a satire about court cases like yours and Ken's. I don't want to give it away. It is good. From reading your hypothetical dreams, in both the DP post and this post, I know you would enjoy it. You need to relieve some stress and laugh a bit. I can see you are way too stressed out. Oh and what are you going to do with your Apache Junction outfit? I must let all my retired friends there, some who are educators and administrators and business owners, and most importantly, tax payers, about your little scheme. I don't think that they want that going on, under their noses, there. |
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| who - Nov 19, 2007 06:40:12 AM | Remove Comment |
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| Chuck you Farley! |
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| who - Nov 19, 2007 06:24:01 AM | Remove Comment |
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| Randy with this quote, taken from your last sorry post, you can just start using Charles Steven Cox. Or Did you get scared away. "I don't need to provide evidence to prove innocence." Should not you have chosen to refrain from using the first person when talking in the third person through out all your posts. Come on you are an educator and and educated man, how did you make that mistake? |
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| who - Nov 19, 2007 06:22:02 AM | Remove Comment |
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| I just had to make it a bit more fair. So I got on a local school board too. How many conflicts of interest can I legally get myself into and there is nothing, not nothing anyone can say. Ha
ha ha. Well I felt so bad the final score is 40 - 1. Take me away! This is What it Sounds Like When Doves Fly! |
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| no need - Nov 17, 2007 07:00:40 PM | Remove Comment |
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| hey anyone out there know the real value of a textbook? I got one for 57 percent higher than you. And thats no contest. |
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| no need - Nov 17, 2007 06:55:03 PM | Remove Comment |
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| as long as i give him some money. no one will mind at all if i do. |
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| no need - Nov 17, 2007 06:52:52 PM | Remove Comment |
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| I think I better stop at 30. My conscious is saying stop but, I need to go have an important party at Disneyland. Maybe I could invite all the school board members to come. I better keep going. Mr. Postmus won't mind at all if I do. |
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| no need - Nov 17, 2007 06:49:52 PM | Remove Comment |
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| Oh did you know I am doing this write in front of you. Its like getting a free jet ski because I figured out how to cheat the system. I love jet skis. Maybe my dishonest friend would like some too. I should call him up and have him help me here. We don't care what people see are say. It not against the law. |
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| no need - Nov 17, 2007 06:42:25 PM | Remove Comment |
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| If I get the readers approval votes for this post up from 14 where it is right now to as high as I want it until someone stops me, will it go back to 14 or stay up to what I got it? Should Cox's wealth stay where it is or go higher or go back to what it was before he started his businesses in bed with each other that embezzled millions of dollars from the state? Well here goes nothing! |
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| no need - Nov 17, 2007 06:37:17 PM | Remove Comment |
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| That vvdailypress dot com post is very interesting reading. To get there go to vvdailypress dot com, then type in search word cox and pick the article about hims and Hunnycut getting lawyers. |
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| Judge Wapner - Nov 17, 2007 05:42:45 PM | Remove Comment |
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| according to the daily press blog on this, a poster-child named Who insists that Cox was not just CEO of the CCA charter schools and CEO of EASC, but also board president of VVUHSD. Is this true Mr. Cox, I mean Randy? According to Who. On that series of blogs, Mr. Fitzjurals really seems to have been suckered into giving his true identity. |
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| Judge Wapner - Nov 17, 2007 05:39:29 PM | Remove Comment |
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| Randy, I am starting to think maybe you are Tad. Tad and Co broke the law by ILLEGALLY funneling money from the public Charter school to the private supply company and then to their own pockets. That is the point of this whole thing. I show in one of my copy and pastes. Explain to us how the audit can be one sided. Does the state tell the independent auditing firm that is governed by federal guidelines to be independent, what to make things up? If this has happened before in the last 30 years then maybe you might have a point. Your allegations are ridiculous and baseless compared to the mountain of evidence the auditing firm displays.
Also, are you saying the evidence against OJ in the murder trial was weak? |
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| HH - Nov 15, 2007 08:18:36 AM | Remove Comment |
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| HH and Resident, you're just ill-informed morons. Every defense attorney and prosecuting DA has their expert witness they call on to strengthen their case. That you allege that numerous agencies use FCMT does not provide proof of their credibility. To the best of my knowledge, Tad Honeycutt has yet to appear in court and his attorneys have not presented their evidence to date. Believe it or not, wiser individuals than yourselves have more than likely advised him not to present evidence contrary to the state audit up to this point. And as tired as this argument has gotten, so what that the audit documents private corporate spending? The remuneration used to make these purchases were on a private corporate credit card, paid for by private corporate funds. And using examples of other DA's whose cases where so questionable that a grand jury was convened does not answer the question. You seem to be convinced of guilt based on the evidence thus far. Why wasn't Mike Ramos? If you've got the necessary ammunition, indict. I don't need to provide evidence to prove innocence. That's not the point here. Some of you have decided guilt based solely on what you got from reading media stories and a state funded audit. You've made up your minds already, we get that. But back up what you state as fact with something more. And since we're using OJ as an example, a grand jury was convened to decide whether to bring murder charges against him. Based on the evidence that was presented and the eventual outcome, I think it's obvious why. |
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| Randy Fitzjurls - Nov 15, 2007 02:05:00 AM | Remove Comment |
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