SACBEE 10-12: ESPN postpones Sacramento film due to new focus on Kevin Johnson molestation claims This video, posted on YouTube just last week, shows a teenage girl describing how she says Johnson molested her when he was a basketball player with the Phoenix Suns....
ESPN announced Monday that it was pulling the plug – at least temporarily – on the “Down in the Valley” film because of the 1996 video showing a police officer questioning a teenage girl named Mandi Koba. The girl, then 16, had alleged that Johnson, 29, a star player for the Phoenix Suns, had brought her to his house, disrobed and fondled her.
The story isn’t new. Years ago, The Sacramento Bee and other media outlets reported on Koba’s allegations and published the transcript of her interview with police. No criminal charges were filed as a result, but Johnson’s 1997 payment of $230,000 to Koba in return for her silence was widely reported.
Kerri Asbury, chairwoman of the Democratic Party of Sacramento County, told The Sacramento Bee on Tuesday she thinks Johnson should resign so that “the focus returns to the city’s needs and not more reports of impropriety.”
Congressional report casts Mayor Kevin Johnson in cover-up
SACBEE Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Nov. 21, 2009.
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson allegedly offered to pay a young woman $1,000 a month after she accused him of touching her inappropriately two years ago, according to a congressional report released Friday.
The accusation is contained in a 62-page report issued by two ranking Republican congressmen investigating President Barack Obama’s firing last summer of Gerald Walpin, a federal inspector general who had been investigating alleged misuse of federal grant money by Johnson and his nonprofit St. HOPE organization.
Walpin sent the findings of his probe – including the allegation that Johnson had offered the payments – to the U.S. attorney’s office in Sacramento for consideration of criminal charges. The office reviewed Walpin’s findings and opted instead to reach a civil settlement with Johnson.
“The facts outlined in the referral give rise to reasonable suspicions about potential hush money payments and witness tampering at a federally funded entity,” the congressional report concludes. “Yet, it is unclear what, if anything, the U.S. attorney’s office did to investigate these allegations.”
Violations detailed in St. HOPE probe
SACBEE Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Sept. 26, 2008.
The federal government Thursday released findings of its investigation into management of the nonprofit St. HOPE volunteer program founded by Sacramento mayoral candidate Kevin Johnson, citing violations that include having youthful participants run personal errands and wash his car.
The findings from the federal probe followed by a day the government’s announcement it was barring Johnson, St. HOPE Academy and a former official from access to federal grants and contracts for up to a year.
"I'm A Grown-Up Now": The Teen Who Accused Kevin Johnson Of Sexual Abuse Speaks Out
How her friends described what happened to her: “She was very smart, and beautiful, and had a lot of friends, but she basically just dropped out socially and was with him all the time,” says a high school friend of Koba’s. “It was all very secretive and weird. We’d ask what they were doing, and she told us they’d just read the Bible together. There was a whole lot of the Bible.”
from the police report at the time:
Although the physical contact between Kevin and Amanda started with just massages of her feet and taking her hand while talking, it escalated, according to Amanda to events that made her feel bad.
At Kevin’s home on Camelback Mountain, Amanda said she and Kevin were watching television on a big circular couch. Kevin began acting as if he were looking for a quarter and ended up on top of her. She said the two went to the guest house portion of Kevin’s home where he then fondled her breasts and vagina. Kevin did this while the two were naked, lying on the bed. The only clothing Amanda recalled having on was possibly her socks.
Later the two would shower together as Kevin lathered soap on his body and hers. The only thing said between the two, according to Amanda, was Kevin telling her not to talk. It should be noted that while on the bed with Kevin, Amanda said she felt his penis with her hand as it brushed up against it and as it was against her leg
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A new scandal, though, is putting Johnson’s rise at serious risk. It involvesthe mayor replacing civil servants with private citizens funded by the Wal-Mart empire and tasked with the twin purposes of working to abolish public education and bring in piles of cash for Kevin Johnson.
The rising star, it seems, set up a fake government—and some people are starting to notice.
In the spring of 2013, the mayor and his allies took over the National Conference of Black Mayors, drove it into bankruptcy, and then abandoned it in what they described as a “coup,” setting off litigation that continues to this day. In June, the News & Review requested emails and other documents related to the takeover, as is their right under California public-records law. The city attorney’s office originally told the paper it had decided that the communications were part of the public record, but, rather than making the records public, took the curious step of giving them to Johnson and Ballard Spahr, a national law firm that does work on his behalf.
SACBEE - 5/14/2015- Sacramento city employee files sexual harassment complaint vs. mayor
A former aide in the Sacramento, Calif., City Manager’s Office filed a claim last month against Mayor Kevin Johnson alleging the mayor sexually harassed her multiple times over a seven-month period at City Hall and that her supervisors did nothing to protect her, according to a copy of the claim obtained Thursday by The Sacramento Bee.
While not an analysis of the Mayor - the article below seems to describe parts of the Mayors activities:
Sexual Predator Warning Signs
Dr. Frank Lawlis, chairman of the Dr. Phil Advisory Board and Dr. Phil's mentor, offers some insight into the development of a sexual predator:
"The typical sexual predator is very immature in his or her understanding of intimacy. It is like they really want closeness, but they lack the skills to feel satisfaction and trust. These feelings of frustration erupt into anger many times, and it is in this stage that the individual can become dangerous. Their acts are desperate. They try to find intimacy and caring for themselves, but when they can't find it in appropriate ways, they demand it or find a child who has little resistance," says Dr. Lawlis. "It is common to find parents of sexual predators also weak in skills of affection. Consequently, they cannot train or offer to meet these needs for their child. And then the cycle continues."
There are some common characteristics of sexual predators. If you're worried your teen may be a sexual predator, look for these warning signs:
Refusal to take responsibility for actions and blames others or circumstances for failures
A sense of entitlement
Low self-esteem
Need for power and control
Lack of empathy
Inability to form intimate relationships with adults
History of abuse
Troubled childhood
Deviant sexual behavior and attitudes
There are more allegations but at some point isn't enough enough?