Author: Lloyd Billingsley
Lloyd Billingsley is the author of Sexual Terrorist, about the Golden State Killer, and A Shut and Open Case, about a California murder trial prolonged by Proposition 57 and recent legislation. Lloyd is a fellow with the Independent Institute and his work has appeared in the Daily Caller, City Journal, Orange County Register, Wall Street Journal and many other publications. Bill of Writes: Dispatches from the Political Correctness Battlefield is a collection of his journalism.
DHS Whistleblower Philip Haney, Dead in Amador County
On Sunday, the website of the Amador County Sheriff, under the tab “news,” listed items for Public review for G19 OHV Grant, the Project Lifesaver Program, and Code Red, an emergency notification program. The site listed nothing about a press...
McClatchy Bankruptcy Backstories
Last week the McClatchy newspaper chain filed for bankruptcy, ending family control of the nation’s second-largest news company. Writers for the chain’s flagship Sacramento Bee cited the $4.4 billion acquisition of the Knight-Ridder chain in 2006, and the woes of...
San Francisco Mayor London Breed Reveals Affair with Mohammed Nuru
In late January, the FBI arrested San Francisco public works director Mohammed Nuru and restauranteur Nick Bovis for a scheme to bribe an official of the Airport Commission. At the corruption probe unfolded, the city of San Francisco kept Mohammed...
Federal Court Dismisses Charges against Hamid Hayat
The case against Lodi man Hamid Hayat, convicted in 2006 on terrorism related charges and upheld in 2013 by the Ninth Circuit, are now being dismissed “due to the passage of time,” the office of U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott declared...
Kate Steinle Killer Ruled Incompetent to Stand Trial
Before the killing of Kate Steinle, the Mexican national Jose Inez Garcia Zarate had been deported five times. On Friday a U.S. District Judge ruled that Jose Inez Garcia Zarate, the Mexican national found not guilty of gunning down...
Did Fake News Have Anything to do with McClatchy Filing Bankruptcy?
Readers of the Sacramento Bee, might wonder if fake news had something to do with the chain’s slide into bankruptcy. “McClatchy Co. filed for bankruptcy Thursday,” wrote Kevin G. Hall in the Sacramento Bee, “a move that will end...