Steve Cooley

D.A. Steve Cooley Investigates Straw Contributions To Assessor John Noguez; Cooley Took Straw Donations In 2004

D.A. Steve Cooley has launched his grand jury inquiry into Assessor John Noguez. The L.A. Times has been staking out the proceedings, and reports today that prosecutors appear to be looking into whether Noguez received contributions from straw donors during his 2010 campaign.The scheme is fairly sim ... More >>

Steve Cooley, L.A.'s District Attorney, Vows to Prosecute Criminals Back to Prison Despite Inmate Reduction Plan

Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca Can Now Decide Inmate Sentences: D.A. Steve Cooley Concerned About More Bad Guys on L.A. Streets

D.A. Steve Cooley is not liking 'realignment.'​If you think Sheriff Lee Baca's L.A. County Jails are a mess now, what with years'-old allegations of deputies beating inmates and a reported system of problem cops being assigned to lockup duty, just wait. You see, under California's inmate-redu ... More >>

D.A. Steve Cooley Retires, Endorses Jackie Lacey As Successor

Steve Cooley​Updated at 3:08 p.m. District Attorney Steve Cooley will retire next year after serving three terms in office.In a letter to supporters, Cooley is endorsing his chief deputy, Jackie Lacey, to succeed him in next year's election. Cooley's retirement has been widely anticipated since he ... More >>

"I'm Not a Thug," Says the Man Who Would Be D.A.

Trutanich Eyes DA's Post

District attorney slams L.A. city attorney for political job-shopping

The Race For District Attorney: Mario Trujillo Close To A Decision

Mario Trujillo is considering a run for D.A.​There are at least two challenges for the career prosecutors considering whether to run for D.A. 1) How to deal with Carmen Trutanich, who has told supporters that he will run if Steve Cooley retires, and who would be the frontrunner. And 2) How to deal ... More >>

Trutanich Eyes District Attorney's Post

The L.A. city attorney surprises DA Cooley with possible candidacy

D.A. Race: Two African-American Women Vying To Replace Steve Cooley

Steve Cooley is expected to back Jackie Lacey to succeed him​The race for district attorney is getting more interesting, as two African-American women are launching campaigns to succeed Steve Cooley in 2012.Jackie Lacey, the number three administrator in the D.A.'s office, filed paperwork on Monda ... More >>

Top 10 Hot Chicks In The News 2010: No. 2, Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris is legally hot.​Kamala, please don't prosecute us, but we think you're kind of hot. (So, apparently, did Willie Brown). California's new Attorney General -- and remember, we called it -- is a babe, and she's single, and she's smarter than you. And ...

Jackie Lacey Could Be L.A.'s First Non-White, Non-Male District Attorney

​Had D.A. Steve Cooley been elected attorney general, the odds-on favorite to replace him would have been his third-ranking administrator, Jacquelyn P. Lacey.Lacey, 53, was considered most likely to get Cooley's support for the appointment. She's also a Democrat and an African-American, which woul ... More >>

Steve Cooley Wants To Have A Big Role In Picking His Successor

Photo by Kevin ScanlonSteve Cooley​At a press conference in his office this afternoon, Steve Cooley all but ruled out running for a fourth term as district attorney.But Cooley, fresh off a narrow defeat to Kamala Harris in the race for attorney general, plans to have a big role in choosing his suc ... More >>

How Steve Cooley Blew It: The Definitive Post-Mortem

Photo by Kevin ScanlonSteve Cooley: What went wrong​Note: We first ran this port-mortem back on Nov. 3. Now that Cooley's campaign is officially dead, it seems appropriate to recycle it, with a reaction below from Cooley consultant Kevin Spillane. Whatever the outcome of the attorney general's rac ... More >>

Steve Cooley Concedes Attorney General's Race to Kamala Harris

Steve Cooley​Steve Cooley has conceded the attorney general's race to Kamala Harris. In a conference call, Cooley's campaign consultant, Kevin Spillane, announced that Cooley had called Harris to congratulate her.We called the race for Harris yesterday, after noting that Cooley would need to win t ... More >>

Steve Cooley Not As Non-Partisan As He Thinks

Steve Cooley laments partisanship​L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley lamented the rise of partisanship in his concession message today, echoing a complaint that his consultants have been making since Election Day.In their view, Cooley had a scarlet R next to his name, and it led to his defeat.It ... More >>

Kamala Harris Defeats Steve Cooley For California Attorney General

Fox 11 NewsSteve Cooley went with his gut and declared victory on Election Night. His gut let him down.​We've been saying for a while that the math didn't look good for Steve Cooley. But now we can go ahead and make it official.Steve Cooley has lost. Kamala Harris will be the next attorney general ... More >>

Steve Cooley For Governor?

​Now that Lisa Murkowski has been declared the winner in Alaska, the highest-profile undecided race in the country may be the one for California attorney general.With that, Politico decides to dip in:If Cooley wins, said Republican strategist Adam Mendelsohn, "he'll be No. 1 on the California Repu ... More >>

Steve Cooley's Goons Square Off With Kamala Harris' Goons In Norwalk

Steve Cooley​Steve Cooley's campaign is engaged in an escalating war of words with elections officials in L.A., where 150,000 provisional ballots could tip the balance in the razor-close race for attorney general.Cooley's attorney has fired off three letters to the L.A. County Registar-Recorder in ... More >>

Kamala Harris Retakes Razor-Thin Lead Over Steve Cooley

​It was exactly a week ago that D.A. Steve Cooley took the lead from Kamala Harris in the still too-close-to-call race for attorney general. Tonight, she has taken it back, and now leads her Republican rival by a mere 5,000 votes, or about six one-hundredths of a percent. Harris was down by 15,000 ... More >>

Steve Cooley Lawyers Up, Prepares For Battle In Attorney General's Race

Fox 11 NewsSteve Cooley declared victory on Tuesday night​L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley has lawyered up in preparation for a drawn-out fight with Kamala Harris in the still too-close-to-call race for attorney general.In a memo to supporters on Thursday night, Cooley's consultant Kevin Spilla ... More >>

Why The Math Looks Bad For Steve Cooley

Photo of Harris by Ted SoquiSqueaker: Harris is beating Cooley by 12,000 votes​It will be weeks before the winner is known in the super-close race for attorney general. But thanks to figures provided by the Secretary of State's office, we can make a back-of-the-envelope guess as to how the remaini ... More >>

Steve Cooley Kamala Harris Vote Results: Cooley Declares Victory, But Harris Takes The Lead

Photo of Harris by Ted SoquiSteve Cooley and Kamala Harris​Kamala Harris, who was trailing all night in the attorney general's race, has taken a slim lead over L.A. County D.A. Steve Cooley. Cooley declared victory hours ago and went home to Rancho Palos Verdes, where he is either sleeping peacefu ... More >>

L.A. County Vote 2010: Results for Propositions 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 And California Governor, Attorney General, Etc.

Here's how Los Angeles County voters weighed in on November 2010 Election Day as of about 1:15 a.m. Wednesday morning, with 67% of precincts counted: Proposition 19 Legalize Marijuana: YES 582,228 45.39% NO 700,389 54.61% Proposition 20 End Gerrymandering: YES 693,803 57.25% NO 518,10 ... More >>

Steve Cooley Not Done Yet: Over 1 Million Ballots Uncounted In Attorney General's Race

Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris are still too close to call​With all precinct votes counted, San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris is hanging on to a lead of 15,000 votes in the race for attorney general. That's a margin of two-tenths of a percent over L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley.But there are 4 ... More >>

Could Marijuana Legalization Save The Pot Shop From Would-Be State Attorney General Steve Cooley?

Americans for Safe AccessWould Steve Cooley as A.G. spell the end of the pot shop?​Here's a scenario: Prop. 19, the marijuana legalization initiative, loses. Steve Cooley, the Los Angeles District Attorney who wants to become Attorney General, wins. Cooley has been no friend of the L.A. pot ... More >>

Steve Cooley Trails In L.A., Clings To 1-Point Lead Statewide Over Kamala Harris

Steve Cooley​Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris are in a dead heat in the race for attorney general, according to the latest Field Poll. Cooley leads Harris 39-38, with 23% undecided the week before Election Day.Cooley is now trailing in L.A. County, 43-37. That's a big change from September, when he ... More >>

Can Anna Nicole Smith Just Rest? The Sandeep Kapoor, Howard K. Stern, Khristine Eroshevich Trial And Verdict Was An Overpriced Show

​How did Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, primary physician to Anna Nicole Smith, get acquitted of all charges by a Los Angeles jury and the other two -- Smith's friend Howard K. Stern and psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich -- get really light convictions? The three were accused by District Attorney Steve ... More >>

Cooley Isn't So Tough on Corruption

And Harris isn't so liberal

With Independent Ad, Kamala Harris Looks To Link Steve Cooley To Karl Rove

Steve Cooley: Dime con quien andas...​Among candidates for state office, Kamala Harris is the only Democrat who's trailing in the polls. That means plenty of Democrats plan to split their ballots with a vote for moderate Republican Steve Cooley.So in the closing week of the campaign, the Harris ca ... More >>

A.G. Race: Kamala Harris Ups Her Attacks On D.A. Steve Cooley's Environmental Record

Steve Cooley​Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate for attorney general, launched an ad last week attacking her opponent, Steve Cooley, for closing down the L.A. District Attorney's environmental crimes unit.Today, she upped the volume on those attacks, trotting out a former prosecutor in the D. ... More >>

Kamala Harris Hits D.A. Steve Cooley Over Gladwin Gill Contributions In Attorney General Race

Kevin ScanlonSteve Cooley​Fresh off the only scheduled debate in the attorney general's race, San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris has released an ad attacking Republican rival Steve Cooley for accepting laundered campaign contributions from a convicted felon.The ad cites this L.A. Weekly story from A ... More >>

Steve Cooley Paints California Attorney General Race Opponent Kamala Harris As Soft On Crime In UC David Debate

AP / Rich Pedroncelli​Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris duked it out during their first and only debate in the race for California Attorney General. Republican L.A. District Attorney Cooley painted Harris as soft on crime and somewhat of a bleeding heart liberal who's opposed to the death penalty ... More >>

10 Terrified States Want Gay Marriage Ban to Stand in California

Wyoming Attorney General Bruce Salzburg​10 states not known for their gay-friendliness are mightily nervous about last month's federal court ruling that deemed California's Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional. Why? If the Proposition 8 decision stands as it goes through the federal appeals ... More >>

Cooley's Blind Eye

District attorney accepted laundered campaign money while prosecuting Democratic contributors for same offense

Did Steve Cooley Turn A Blind Eye To A Campaign Contributor Now Headed To Prison?

Steve Cooley.​In Thursday's LA Weekly staff writer Gene Maddaus takes a look at how Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, who's running as the Republican nominee for state Attorney General, took campaign contributions from a man about to do hard time for campaign fraud. Although Cooley ... More >>

Harris Campaign Calls On Cooley To Return Gladwin Gill Contributions

Steve Cooley​In response to a report in today's L.A. Weekly, advisers to Democratic A.G. nominee Kamala Harris are calling on her opponent, D.A. Steve Cooley, to return some $12,000 in campaign contributions from 2003 and 2004.The contributions are tied to Gladwin Gill, the proprietor of a Glendal ... More >>

Attorney General Candidate Steve Cooley Would 'Defend' Proposition 8

L.A. County District Attorney Steve Cooley​Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, who's the Republican candidate for California Attorney General, would defend Proposition 8 in court if given the opportunity, says his campaign spokesman Kevin Spillane. "The role of the attorney g ... More >>

Jerry Brown And Steve Cooley Merge Bell Investigations; Bipartisan Camera Mugging

Bell residents​Attorney General Jerry Brown and Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley put out a terse statement that was nevertheless incredibly intriguing: They'll be coordinating their investigations of potential voter fraud and public corruption in the city of Bell. The small ci ... More >>

Steve Cooley's Free Lakers Tickets Questioned

Steve Cooley​Looks like Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has pretty much ruined this free-ticket racket for everyone. District Attorney Steve Cooley, who is investigating Villaraigosa's ticket scandal, is taking fire from his opponent in the attorney general's race for accepting his own free tickets. Ov ... More >>

Los Angeles Police Union Backs D.A. Steve Cooley For State Attorney General

Steve Cooley.​No surprise here: The union representing Los Angeles Police Department officers has thrown its considerable weight behind the man whose office cops often have to work in harmony with: Republican District Attorney Steve Cooley, who's running for California Attorney General against ... More >>

Marijuana Legalization: L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley Helps Pen Official Argument Against Prop. 19

Steve Cooley.​Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley helped to write the official ballot argument against Prop. 19, the November ballot initiative in California that would fully legalize marijuana possession for those 21-and-older, the campaign against the measure announced Thursday. Cool ... More >>

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L.A. D.A. Cooley Warns That Pot Delivery, Even By Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Is Illegal

​Responding to reports about a growing number of pot shops that offer home drop-off for medical marijuana patients, some as a way to duck the city's new law limiting the number of dispensaries in L.A., Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said Wednesday that there is no loophole t ... More >>

Republican Steve Cooley Wins Attorney General Primary

L.A. County D.A. Steve Cooley​With 24 precent of statewide precincts reporting, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley has won the Republican nomination for California Attorney General, according to the Los Angeles Times. The close, hard-hitting race is turning out to be a landsli ... More >>

Is Cooley Too Moderate to Win?

In the fight for attorney general, opposing prison for sock stealers is a liability

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Banning Ex-Felons From Wearing Body Armor

​Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday signed into a law a bill by San Fernando Valley state Sen. Alex Padilla that outlaws the wearing of bullet-proof vests by ex-felons. The bill had also been pushed by Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley and the union representing Los Angele ... More >>

Steve Cooley: Son of an Eagle Scout

Cooley, Delgadillo Strive For Top Billing In State Attorney General Race

District Attorney Steve Cooley.​While all eyes remain on California's gubernatorial race, particularly on the entertaining sniping between Republicans Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner, the June primary contest for state Attorney General is dishing up its own drama, with the anointed Republican fr ... More >>

Gang Injunction Targets Drug Dealing In Skid Row

The Row.​City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, with the help of District Attorney Steve Cooley, announced a city gang injunction in Skid Row Wednesday. The filing by the City Attorney's Gang Division prohibits about 80 gang members from throughout the county from coming to Skid Row to sell drugs. " ... More >>

Airport Police Group Backs D.A. Steve Cooley For State Attorney General

District Attorney Steve Cooley.​The Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association on Friday threw its weight behind Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley's bid to become the next Attorney General of California. The group that represents 425 LAX police officers credited Cooley wit ... More >>