Cece Woods, Author at The Current Report

Unpeeling the Onion: The Hahn Dynasty’s Family Feud for Power, Paychecks, and Pay-to-Play Politics

Los Angeles County corruption has never been a solo act, it’s a family business. And few families have profited more from that arrangement than the Hahns. Fresh off The Current Report’s deep

November 5, 2025

Investigations·News·Politics

Unpeeling the Onion: Majestic Realty’s Cash Trail Ties Lucrative County Leases, and the Board of Supervisors’ Pay-to-Play Carousel

Updated November 4, 2025 – Now expanded with campaign filing data, contract approvals, executive background checks, and new scrutiny on Supervisor Janice Hahn’s apparent violation of California’s Levine Act. Los Angeles County

November 4, 2025

Investigations·News·Politics

Unpeeling the Onion: Majestic Realty’s Cash Trail Ties Tejon Sprawl to Noguez Bribery Scandal and LA County’s Endless Corruption Carousel

Los Angeles County corruption doesn’t evolve, it metastasizes. The faces change, the scandals get rebranded, but the playbook stays the same: developers bankroll politicians, politicians greenlight billion-dollar boondoggles, and the public gets

November 3, 2025

Investigations·News·Politics

The Politics of Prosecution: How Media Outrage and Political Optics Drove the Rebecca Grossman Case

In Los Angeles County, the line between justice and politics has blurred beyond recognition. The prosecution of Rebecca Grossman, once a respected philanthropist and community leader, for the tragic deaths of two

November 1, 2025

Investigations·LASD·News·Politics·Rebecca Grossman

Unpeeling the Onion: Leaked Audio Exposes Hilda Solis’s Tangled Ties in LA’s Corruption Web

Behind the smoke and mirrors of Los Angeles County politics, where power deals cross city and county lines as easily as the smog drifts over the 405, a forgotten recording has crawled

November 1, 2025

Investigations·News·Politics

Murderers in Malibu: L.A. County Turns Camp Kilpatrick into a Prison for Violent Offenders

Los Angeles County is quietly advancing a plan that could turn Malibu’s once-celebrated Campus Kilpatrick, built as a sports-based rehabilitation camp for at-risk youth, into a Secure Youth Treatment Facility intended to

October 31, 2025

LASD·News·Politics

The PREA Charade: How Los Angeles County’s “Reform” Town Hall Masks a Decade of Corruption, Cronyism, and Cover-Ups

In a county still reeling from revelations of pay-to-play schemes disguised as jail reform, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) is preparing to host a virtual town hall on Tuesday, November

October 31, 2025

LASD·News·Politics

Betrayal Behind Bars: Sheila Kuehl’s Fall from “Reformer” to Insider in L.A. County’s Jail Corruption Scandal

For years, Sheila Kuehl was celebrated as a “progressive reformer,” a feminist voice for justice and compassion in Los Angeles County government. But behind the carefully crafted image lies a darker truth

October 29, 2025

News·Politics

The Retaliation of Officer Devon Wenger: Inside Antioch PD’s Cross-Agency Cover-Up – The “Good Ole Boy Club” Part 2

Editor’s note: Read Part 1 here. On June 5, 2023, Antioch Police Captain Tony Morefield delivered the final blow in what had become a relentless campaign to silence Officer Devon Wenger. The

October 29, 2025

News·Politics

Justice in Reverse: How the Racial Justice Act Became a Weapon of Bias in Los Angeles

In Los Angeles County, where District Attorney George Gascón rose to power on the post-George Floyd wave of “reform,” the promise of fairness has been twisted into a political weapon. The California

October 28, 2025

LASD·News·Politics·Rebecca Grossman