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Fired sheriff getting $400K BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
Christina Corpus had a golden parachute when she lost her job for corruption as sheriff of San Mateo County. She will get $402,338.28 a year in pension and health care benefits in her retirement. Corpus, 55, of San Bruno, re-
Annually for pension, medical
tired Oct. 15, just a day before the Board of Supervisors voted to fire her for several reasons including hiring her alleged boyfriend to a top-level job despite his lack of experience. In retirement, she will receive
family medical benefits worth $75,307.44 a year. Corpus said she retired a day before she was fired so she could keep health insurance for herself and her children, aged 16 and 14, according to court documents.
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• Best picture: ‘One Battle After Another’ • Best actress: Jessie Buckley, ‘Hamnet’ • Best actor: Michael B. Jordan, ‘Sinners’ • Best director: Paul Thomas Anderson, ‘One Battle After Another’ And seen here is EJAE, winner of the Oscar for best original song for “Golden” in “K-pop Demon Hunters.” AP photo.
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TROOPS DEPLOYED: About 5,000 U.S. Marines are headed to the Mideast for a possible ground offensive. TIME TO HELP OUT: President Trump is demanding seven countries heavily dependent on oil shipped through the Strait of Hormuz send warships to keep the waterway open, but he’s received no commitments. BOMBING INTENSIFIES: Israel has begun widespread strikes on Iran. SHADOW FLEET: Sweden has detained the captain of a Russian shadow fleet ship. OFFSHORE DRILLING: The Trump administration has invoked emergency powers under the Defense Production Act and ordered the restart of the Santa Ynez offshore oil platform and pipeline along the Santa Barbara County coast. Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state will sue Trump. WIND FARM REPAIRED: Construction has been LOBSTER completed on [See THE UPDATE, page 4]
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Lawsuits have buried school board BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
The Palo Alto Unified School District is in the middle of at least 11 different lawsuits, including cases that allege unchecked bullying, racist attacks, injured students, inadequate special education and retaliation by district leadership. The growing number of lawsuits against the district came to the fore when the school board voted Feb. 10 to pay former P.E. teacher Peter Colombo $3.25 million to drop his case. Colombo accused the district of mishandling an unsubstantiated rape allegation against him from 2002. Colombo claimed that former Superintendent Don [See LAWSUITS, page 18]
Wildcat on the prowl Police are looking for a mountain lion that’s on the loose in Palo Alto. The big cat was first spotted in the 700 block of North Hampton Drive in north Palo Alto, not far from Greene Middle School. It was later reported in the 1900 block of Byron Avenue in the Old Palo
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“My 14-year-old is severely autistic and requires special medical and educational services,” she said in a court declaration. In retirement, she receives $27,252.57 a month or $327,030.84 a year, according to the county’s pension agency, SamCERA. Her pension benefits will be ad[See SHERIFF, page 18]
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Alto neighborhood, about three blocks from the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo. Police said it was likely to move again. While the mountain lion didn’t display aggressive behavior, “Residents in the immediate area should be [See WILDCAT, page 19]
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