Brad Racino
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San Diego, CA, United States
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Why UCSD keeps denying a genital mutilation study involving Kenyan girls
Note: This story contains graphic descriptions about female genital mutilation. For years, a dist... → Read More
San Diego VA confirms liver samples taken from sick veterans without their consent
The October report found “serious noncompliance occurred” when extra pieces of liver were removed from at least nine veterans. → Read More
Property Owners, Volunteers Start Cleaning Up Destruction Left By HiCaliber Horse Rescue
Travis Fox walked his 15 acres in Valley Center little more than a week before Christmas, half in anger, half in disbelief. Trees, bushes and flowers were dead, thousands of feet of fencing was destroyed, and rat droppings lined the cupboard inside one of his homes. → Read More
HiCaliber Horse Rescue Faces Eviction And Lawsuit
HiCaliber Horse Rescue, which has faced animal cruelty and fraud allegations for months, is being evicted from its Valley Center ranch and sued for more than $4 million. → Read More
Developer Addressing Methane Problem At Otay Ranch Housing Project
The Otay Water District has reached a resolution with HomeFed to install water meters at the developer’s 450-acre Escaya community in Otay Ranch. → Read More
Familiar Faces Vie For Seat On Powerful Port Of San Diego Board
The departure of public relations executive Bob Nelson from the Port of San Diego’s board has sparked a rush to fill the spot at the powerful government agency. → Read More
Stop Ignoring Transparency Law, Grand Jury Warns San Diego
The San Diego County Grand Jury urged city officials Thursday to move forward “with haste” in enforcing a long-ignored transparency law that requires companies doing business with the city to provide details about the financial interests behind the transactions. → Read More
Crafting A Future For San Diego’s Tuna Harbor
Plans to develop San Diego’s waterfront have birthed an unlikely alliance determined to wake a once-powerful industry from a long sleep. → Read More
Mapping San Diego’s Complaints: Bedbugs, Barking Dogs And Substandard Housing
Over the past three years, San Diegans have filed more than 15,000 complaints with the city alleging code violations. inewsource mapped them all. → Read More
Google Earth Engine Shows San Diego's Changing Landscape
See how the county has changed over the past three decades. → Read More
San Diego Attorney Cory Briggs Challenges Court Ruling That Slammed His Conduct
Paul Pfingst, who is representing Briggs, is confident language in the opinion concerning criminal behavior will be changed after the court recognizes it “made a mistake.” → Read More
San Diego Ignores Government Transparency Law For 24 Years
Voters passed the 1992 law after the city almost signed a deal with an alleged mobster. It was designed to show who the people are behind the companies doing billions of dollars in business annually with the city. → Read More
How San Diego’s Vision For A World-Class Waterfront Vanished
Massive projects are moving ahead along San Diego’s waterfront but not as part of a cohesive plan. With so much at stake, inewsource zeroed in on the North Embarcadero to find out how it developed and what lessons might be learned. → Read More
Briggs Withdraws Subpoena Against Inewsource
Cory Briggs, a San Diego attorney at the center of an inewsource investigation, has withdrawn a subpoena he served on inewsource’s executive director in April. → Read More
Second Lawsuit Involving San Diego Attorney Briggs Raises Conflict Issues
An <em>inewsource</em> report shows that attorney Cory Briggs’ personal and professional partner played a key role in an environmental review of a project near the Mexican border. Briggs eventually sued the city of San Diego and a private developer over the project on environmental grounds. → Read More
San Diego Gets $143K Settlement In Briggs-Cacciatore Conflict
The City Council unanimously approved the settlement with La Mesa-based Helix Environmental Planning, which employed attorney Cory Briggs’ significant other. She also was a vice president in Briggs’ firm when he sued the city over a project Helix had worked on. → Read More
More Contradictions Found In Briggs-Cacciatore Land Records
San Diego attorney Cory Briggs and his personal and professional partner, Sarichia Cacciatore, have signed contradictory documents about where they live and their relationship — potential felonies according to a prosecutor and mortgage fraud experts. → Read More
Contested Transcript Of San Diego Attorney Cory Briggs’ Wife Released
The lawyer for Cory Briggs’ wife released the document Monday, saying she had no objection. It shows she was associated with her husband’s law firm for the past 20 years while also working for a consulting firm that did business with local governments he sued. → Read More
Document Links Cory Briggs' Wife To His San Diego Law Business
New documents provided Wednesday to inewsource say the wife of a well-known environmental lawyer was vice president of his law firm at the same time she worked on projects for government agencies he was suing. → Read More
Briggs Opposes San Diego City Attorney’s Move To Unseal Transcript
A Superior Court judge said he will rule next week on whether to lift a protective order so City Attorney Jan Goldsmith can fulfill an <em>inewsource</em> public records request for documents involving attorney Cory Briggs and his wife. → Read More