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San Mateo County has a little tiny problem, its called corruption

I'm going to give just one example on Aug.7, 2013 approx. 2:30 PM a former Senior Accountant and another SamTrans employee met with Kevin Raffaelli of the District Attorney Office of San Mateo County. The entire meeting was recorded by Mr. Raffaelli, the two reported several criminal acts. On Aug.19, 2013 approx 1:10 PM Mr. Raffaelli called and reported that the District Attorney's Office did not have the funds to investigate this complicated type of crime. This is a pretty simple white collar crime with specific dates and evidence. What is the estimated cost for the investigation? Did Steve Wagstaffe request funds from the BOS for this type of crime? What other crimes do we not even bother to investigate, I'm not talking about prosecuting only investigating. This senior accountant was fired after she reported this activity to Supervisor Carole Groom per County's website on Whistleblowing. When a person does the right thing and reports wrong doing and gets fired for it, they have already suffered, then to be lied to by the DA's office only causes more injury. It is up to the residents of San Mateo County to fix this.

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