Welcome to SEI 700 Audit 101. This is your free, online, introductory text book to the world of SEI 700 Audits.
This text book was first created for a website dedicate to Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine M. Pacioni and her SEI 700 forms. When this site was developed, her story seemed like an ideal fit for SEI 700 Audit 101 (learning how to do SEI 700 Audits).
Be sure to say thanks to DA Pacioni for her contributions to this invaluable educational process.
Monterey County DA
Jeannine Pacioni
Public Servant
Monterey County California is viewed by people around the World as one of the most beautiful and exclusive places to live. It's home to Pebble Beach and the great Golf Open. Clint Eastwood calls this area home. It's known for a small but world class Jazz festival , a quaint fisherman's wharf, a horribly lonely cypress, cold water surfing and diving -- and BIG WHALES from time to time. As it turns out, it's also every blue and white collar criminals WET DREAM. And NO, this is NOT a skit!
On this website we are going to introduce you to Jeannine Pacioni, District Attorney for Monterey County.
Per Monterey County's website, she got a Bachelor of Science (in ???) from North Arizona University, then graduated from University of San Diego Law School in 1990. She worked as a Deputy District Attorney for Kern County (CA or AZ?) for a year, and in 1992 she joined the Monterey County DA's office.
Her bio then says she left work in 2001 to raise kids and returned after an 8 year sabbatical in 2009.
She's the only known human (terrestrial?) at this time that raises kids in 8 years, but after we understand her work, maybe we'll be able to identify more.
In 2018 Pacioni ran for Attorney General of Monterey County unopposed, with the support of prior Judge Phillips. In a small county, where the courts are set up for seriously bent, contorted, and corrupt attorneys, who else would want to run, right?
It's unclear exactly how or why she even did it, given she should have known how bad things were by then, with 28 years of exposure to the area less 8 to raise those kids. So what else is so odd about her?
Buckle up Buttercups -- because this is a bed time story to remember for sure.
In this "short story" below, and on this website you are going to learn about the simple and logical financial oversight system for all California politicians, judges and appointed leaders that has been totally hidden by them and the main stream media for decades.
This is "the hidden secret" that connected us, the tax paying public, to the civil servants in a way that was proper but hidden -- and it brings into focus exactly what the main stream media has been hiding from us all for decades to our very own detriment. Sharing and exposing this information below was first the job of middle school teacherse; then high school teachers (civics). Then it was the the job of Reporters, News Stations, and Newspapers to keep us up to date such that we didn't need to do it ourselves. This will change that forever soon given the harm those omissions have had for the public at large.
In this short story you are going to learn what this very powerful oversight system is, how to use it to pull documents relevant for your own oversight needs, and how to interpret things that are otherwise foreign to you now.
If you make it to the bottom of this page you shall dubbed a "Journeyman Auditor" for your local community and you will be able to make a difference in ways you've always wanted to.
If you take a little time to learn how to publish your findings you'll become a "Journeyman Publisher"
If you learn how to dig further and get creative with prestation, you shall become a "Journeyman Investigative Reporter or Journalist" as you wish.
Even if you aspire to be none of those, read the content anyway to become educated on what's been missing so you can understand what's coming at the speed of sound.
Prior to running for political office, every candidate is suppose to file an SEI 700 form with the clerk in their jurisdiction. SEI stands for "Statement of Economic Interest". Candiates include those running for an Elected Office and Judges.
The same candicates, if elected have to file updated forms every year and upon leaving their civil servant job. In addition, other key government employees have to fill them out too.
The SEI 700 form requires far more information about income and asssets than a tax return, and it requires information about assets on an annual, rolling basis in a way that no tax return requires.
This form concept dates back to an "anciet custom" of mainting control of ones government and civil servants. The form was intended to keep nefarious people (kleptocrats, twisted royals, rogues, unbridled capitalist, fascists, etc) from running for office.
It was intended to be collected for use by multiple levels of "Clerks" for the masses, and the local media to vet politicians, judges and appointed officials.
HOWEVER, it only works if the Clerks, the "guards of the gates of democracy", do their job properly (which none are doing today) and if people know about it, right?
Once completed by the aspiring community leader, the SEI 700 form is supposed to be given to 1) the clerk of the public agency they re dealing with and 2) then that clerk gives it to the county clerk for oversight and cross check. In other cases the form gets filed with the Clerk of the County and it may then be forwared on to the Fair Political Practices Commission (the FPPC) (the state oversight board). (it supposed to anyway...)
This FPPC was established by the California Legislature in 1974 as part of the "Poltical Reform Act". The outward theory was that it was to be run by a gaggle of attorneys to keep the state safe with document copies for the review of all (but people have to know about that right?).
The inward theory now is that this FPPC was never setup for Transparency no matter what they utter moving forward. A quick look at their FAQs and a Grok Flashback will prove tht beyond all doubt, but we'll get there eventually. For now, pretend it was setup in good faith and we'll move on from there...
To gain access to SEI 700 forms for your county elected and appointed leaders (and Judges, remember, they were supposed to be elected too), google "fppc sei 700 lookup" and you should get to search results with a link to the search form.
Did you know you can link people to google searches?
https://www.google.com/search?q=fppc+sei+700+lookup
And here's a link to the website in case you want to skip the search..
https://fppc.ca.gov/transparency/form-700-filed-by-public-officials/form700-search.html
The FPPC website is a clean, modern website. Classy but simple. My type of website for sure.
If you land on the right page you'll get 2 options (screen grab as of 1/18/2026)
Option 1) "Search Form 700s Filed with the Commission" or
Option 2) "Search Form 700s filed locally".
The "filed locally" simply provides links to 58 county clerk websites. We'll come back to that later.
For now we are going to use the "Commission" copies because they are easy to access so click on the link noted with "3".
This is what the FPPC Search page looks like.
Again, simple and classy. no frills. Nice contrasting colors.
For technology people, you'll note they've embedded their search function in an Iframe (or that's what it looks like anyway).
This isn't my type of technology but this is really very fast and functional. It never seems to burp and the data and forms are really quite manicured.
NOTE 1: read the paragraph to get confused about what years they are providing. In general for elected officials it's 2016 to present except they confuse that with a 2012 reference. I've only found 2016 to present documents so far.
NOTE 2: there is an email address to ask for more or others: form700@fppc.ca.gov (note that may be getting manned by a Chinese spy network, but we'll get to that later too).
NOTE 3: for extra credit, anytime you get to a date driven website, look for comments about who is publishing or controlling the data. For a state service like this that is likely a HUGE contract and we'd want to see who was getting paid how much for handling our documents AND who has been watching bad documents come in for the past 2 decades or more.
Those that were watching this data could have identified rogue politicians and attorneys just by the procedure of their filing alone. There was no need to "epstein" many for those seeking to know who was corrupt.
To run a search,
1) start with the person's last name (nothing else needed)
2) click search!!
3) Whala! get results!
In this example we ran a search for Monterey County Judge Robert Burlison.
If the person (properly) filed an SEI form for an election, it shows up as a different user record than their employed forms.
Click on (4) the magnifying glasses to view the list for each record.
We'll do Candidate Record first.
Judge Robert Burlison (Candidate) Records
This is example of the reports list for Judge Burlison for his candidacy filings.
He has been a judge since the 2007 time frame. He should have one from the 2016 time frame too?
But it seems they may have been lax back then, because who wants to know who is running the courts, right?
At least someone forced him (and them) to file them in 2022 .
It's a start but way, way way to late and as you'll see the lack of proper review and enforcement for basic disclosure like primary and secondary homes is beyond atrocious (I'd call it treasonous, but we'll get there eventually and then you can decide for yourself too).
Best Practices for Result Review
1) Confirm the filer name is the person you meant to search for
2) Postion Title (check for "Candidate" to confirm you are in candidate records if that's relevant). Check agency and Entity too to confirm on correct record.
3) Form Description - confirm it's the form you expected (candidate or other)
4) Filing year
5) Due Date ( the due date will be filing year for candidacy but it will be the year after for annual reports, like taxes)
6) Filed Date (were they on time? - this becomes a big deal in a bit when we get to DA Jeanine Pacioni for sure... )
7) Filing Type (this is candidate here, it will be "annual" or "assuming" office or "leaving" office on other results. )
8) No of Pages (this is HUGE fact. You'll see why later)
9) View form - returns the report in an embedded PDF viewer that you can use to view/print/download
10) Download - just does download , but their default file names are generic. Big problem if you are doing this for research and presentation of multiple forms.
These are the other records for Burlison.
As an aspiring auditor of your publc servants, or an aspiring public servant yourself, does anything stand out to you?
"Like heck yeah. What the heck happened in 2021 to jump from 1 to 6 pages?"
Now look above at that Candidacy record again. It too had 6 pages. It was from 2022 and it had 6 pages but you'd have never known his otherse were less from just that view.
Based on some other records it seems the Judges may have gotten notice of some audits and/or the fact their future elections were going to require a candidate filing in ways they had not been required prior, so they may have started making things look a little more real -- instead of just checking "none" as is the case for 1 page records.
We have don an anlysis on Judge Burlison's SEI 700 Documents. What was found is really disturbing. We will post those somewhere else first. Once some things are worked out we'll likely add that link here for more education.
We ran a search for the last name of "Hood". Turns out there are two "Hood" Judges in CA.
Mark is easy to ID here BUT what else do you NOT see?
Why don't either of them have a "candidate" record?
Did they get away with taking office before disclosing material facts?
Brace yourself, because you're about to see more by barely looking...
Holy crap!? What a mess?! What on earth was this "Hood" guy thinking and doing?!
Notice the low page counts prior to 2021 and all the ammendments? Then look at the ammendment dates.
The first 2017 ammendment filing is the same day as the original filing, as if he caught his own oops (or was just doing stuff to create confusion).
The second 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 are all dated 2/16/2022 and what he "forgot" for those years were stock trades. And we know he knew how to report those because he did it in 2016.
In 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 this Judge Hood signed his SEI 700 form under penalty of perjury. He left off a collection of stock trades each year. We can only presume that in 2022 someone audited him or told him audits were coming -- and he filed ammendments. Hood can NOT claim he did't know how to fill out the form with stock trades because he did it properly in 2016. Hood can NOT claim he simply "forgot" as that would mean he is not mentally fit to sit on the Bench. Hood was also careless on marking income amounts for various flows, he seemed to want to confuse information a few times and then he got into the "AirBnB" Business -- one of the best businesses for money laundering known to man.
With that, he engaged in activities that would be impossible to audit him on unless he turned over account information and emails. Should Hood be sitting on the Bench collecting almost $300k a year in salary and benefits while judging others for Felony behavior?
Not in my book and he should lose his law license too, but that's just me. We have had to trust judges implicilty for too much since court consolidations in the late 1990s and this behavior is simply rotten.
What do you think?
And the bigger message is this. You can learn a LOT about filings just by running searches and without ever looking at documents.
There is a far more detailed analysis done of Hood's filings. it is somwhere else for now.
It will be added here once some concerns are worked out or understood.
Ian Oglesby is the current Mayor of Seaside CA. We can see from this he was City/Town Council Member prior, he filed a candidate form when he ran for mayor and now he's mayor.
Hum. 1 page means they have nothing financial of relvance to disclose
When I see this I immediately think they have not been honest.
Hum.
Where are her Candidacy filings?
Her husband has to do those in some form too right?
Judge Carrie Panetta, given she is the wife of a sitting Congressman and daughter inlaw of the ex head of the CIA , im confident she has some assets that need to be disclosed.
Hum. 1 page filings huh?
There is an FAQs opinion/loophole that states first and second homes need not be disclosed. That's crazy stuff.
There is also a loophole that states if your spouse is public servant you need not disclose their income -- but that's illogical as many may not have known who her spouse was OR that one his top donors may have been the California Association of Realtors (CAR).
It's my totally irrelvant opinion based on no substantiaed facts that Judge Carrie Panetta commited 9 acts of Perjury just based on a reasonable and logical transparency process that would be required to vet and manage Judges to ensure public good, without even viewing the forms.
She might claim the FAQs said it was okay about somethings and if there was nothing else to disclose, like Trusts, maybe she'd only ahve to argue that but I'm doubtfult that is all there was to disclose.
Thoughts?
Give we actually knew her husband was a Congressman, we can check his records right?
These are records for Jimmy Panetta, Carrie's husband (that you would NOT konw about from her current disclosures).
2016 - Seems she and her husband owned 15-50k in bank of america stock. it was buried in with a bunch of mutual funds and pensions. That was reportable or so it seems.
She has a Janus IRA and if that has individual stocks in it that is reportable.
Love how they always seem to feel they can blank on their Income amounts.
Somebody has a student loan for 15-50k
They have a mortgage for 500k to 1M -- but she reported no primary or secondary home.
How does that make you feel?
By the year 2021, their Bank of America Stock seems to be up to 50-100k
and a LOT of other mutual fund assets. (a LOT).
Hum. this is fishy....
On 8/11/2022 Jimmy Panetta filed a report for 2021 statiting they only had a mortgage with Cenlar for 500k to 1M.
On 8/13/2023 Jimmy Panetta filed a report for 2022 statiting they only had a mortgage with Wells Fargo for 500k to 1M originated in 2021.
But his 2021 statement doesn't support that at all.
Hum. interesting. Someone else seems to have caught this too - or the software did -- because on 8/13/2023 he filed an ammendment for 2021 showing both mortgages.
But we stil hvae NO CLUE what the property is or what the terms of the notes are or if they were given a sweetheart refianace Well Fargo KNOWING a massive real estate brokerage fraud may be entering her court shortly. Do you see the problems with this yet?
Hum. Why doesn't she have a Candidate Record?
Pacioni was first elected in 2018 and again in 2022. That's a concern. Why didn't the Clerks in Monterey County, the FPPC and whoever handles Elections flag that?
!?!?!?!
"Oh Sweet Mother of babies that can be raised in only 8 years, what on God's earth happend here?!?"
Where is the 2018 Assuming Office filing? Where is the 2018 annual filing? Where is the 2020 and 2021 filing?
And OMG. What tis that!>!
She filed her 2019 form that was due on 6/1/2020 on 3/14/2023 when filing her 2022 form. BUT she didn't see a need to file 2020 and 2021 at that time either?
Boy. No wonder she can raise kids in 8 years. She just skips years like some of skip the gym!
And then, what's up with the Ammendments?
On 1/5/2024, Pacioni's filing for 2023 stated she had nothing to report on any schedule.
She also didn't fill out her verification properly with address, phone and email.
And a typed signature like that is useless in court...
On 9/24/2024, Pacioni's filed and ammendment with schedule C selected.
She also didn't fill out her verification properly with address, phone and email (again).
NOTE Ammendments have the same cover page but they include the word AMENDMENT in top left block.
As you see they also require verification of each page as well.
--Schedule C --
1) Hum. She forgot she had to claim spouses income. She did that other years without any problems.
Maybe it's a new spouse or she "just forgot"?
OR she was hoping to avoid what she had to put later on that Schedule?
Item 2...
Hum. She has a private loan from "Berkley Brannon" for 1-10k for "no interest".
Who's Berkley Brannonn and why does a woman who makes almost $300k per year with a working spouse have a small private loan outstanding for no interest ?
On 1/3/2025 Pacioni files a 3 page report. Below are pages 1 and 2 (schedule C) . the third page was schedule D ( a gift) and not shown. On bottom of Schedule C is the loan from Berkley Brannon again. Still 1-10k. The FPPC is redacting verifications illogically. the top of the cover pages states "PUBLIC DOCUMENT"
On 3/27/2025 Pacino files a 3 page amendment. From cover page in box 1 we see she added "SEE ATTACHED LIST" and her new 2nd page now is a list of the entities the positions the form applies to. She was on that committee but seemingly forgot she needed to file a form for that comittee too.
Schedule C - Original Filing
Schedule C - Ammended Filing
DATA FLIPPING - Why are the listings for Veracity and County of Monterey left-right on the first one and right-left on the second one? Did Pacioni do that or did the software do that? Here's why -- what I noticed in other research with digital docs year over year and ammendments the same thing was/is happening very regularly, and i'll need to do more research but either they've all been trained to reverse entries somehow when doing ammendments or calling up prior year report as a template, OR the software vendor is doing that for them as a courtesy to make visual audits much harder. This is an extremely sesrious concern that needs to be addressed. My suspicion now is that it's the software vendor doing this for them. I also believe the software vendor started doing random redactions around 2021 or 2022 that will make no sense when you see them. More on this later. Just something to note as an auditor for sure.
Below are the first three pages for Pacioni's 2025 filing. What do you notice? (Answers below)
Concerns
Page 1 / 2 - states "SEE ATTACHED LIST" just like year prior ,but attached list no longer includes her district attorney position. Why did they change it from year proir. Is it just to create visual confusion?
Page 3 - Page 3 no longer includes her job and income just her partners and it looks like he's at a new company. Her income is supposed to be stated here. If not, why did she state it prior and who told her it was no longer needed? and why wouldn't it be needed? (because she's a public employee and she gets that loophole?)
Page 3 - Page 3 the loan to Berkley Brannon is now 10k to 100k, up from 1k to 10k.
Because everyone who makes over 200k on the County Dime and has a spouse making over 100k should have a private loan out from a subordinate, right?
What if she has to fire him or let him go or write him up? Would her private banking relationship get in the way?
Oh wait, you don't know who Berkley Brannon is yet...
Berkley Brannon, the mysterious lender for 10k+ now is an Assistant DA that works for Pacioni.
Why is Berkley Brannon lending his boss, DA Pacioni , money?
We'll have to get into "Burrito Gate" and some publishing by the local Monterey Publishers to try to figure that out. They seem to know all about it and may have forced that ammened SEI 700 filing, but why didn't they do more with it then if that's what happened? Are they just using that info for blackmail somehow?
And why didn't any of the local newspapers around the STATE of CA publish information about SEI 700 filings for the past 2 decades (or more)?
County (Legal) Advertising Budgets?
As part of this process we need to expose any budgets for advertising in the local papers by the county and terminate all county paid ads. It's my suspicion now that county constuents have been paying taxes to county -- county has been buying ads in local papers -- local papers have not been inevstigating or exposing county polticians or judges to prevent loss of add revenue to a competitor who's also likey getting a slice of the ad budget.
This has yet to be confirmed but the suspicion is strong.
California was lost to criminal corporations, cartels, insurance companies and banks in the 1970s and 1980s by attorneys and the legislature, although most can't name the specific acts or people that did it. What if you could learn about those acts and the people who did them? Would it make a difference? What if those acts could be easily reversed. Would tha be of interest?
It should and they can -- but then we get to larger systemic problems that coincided with those that have to be fixed to make it all better too.
1) The Politcal Reform Act - In 1974 the Political Reform Act was passed. What looked like oversight had disclosure instrutios made of swiss cheese. nobody has been properly disclosing real property and incomes since 1974 while we've been paying for the appearance of that.
2) Non-licensed Judges and Election of Judges - From the 1970s to the 1990s the legal lobby actively worked to remove the ability for local non-licensed people to become elected as judges. Local Judges were NEVER supposed to be licensed for many reasons to prevent "Process over Purpose" conflicts, Personal Privacy over Public Right to know conflicts and Self Gratification over Public welfare issues -- all of which can transpire when Licensed Attorneys are selected as Judges. Attorneys were supposed to be law clerks to parties in conflict. Not surragates for the fight. Few remember that but you should soon.
3) Court Consolidations - Then, from the 1980s though 2000 the courts went through consolidations at the push of Licensed Attorneys. Municipal and Justice courts (Justice of the Peace courts / county courts) where local members of the community played the judges and clerks were eliminated leaving nothing but a "State Superior Court" system for county management. The state and their small army of Judicial controllers hid that by calling the courts things like "Monterey County Superior Court" -- making you feel these were county jobs -- when in fact they are paid by the state and their incomes are even hidden in a confusing way on transparent California payroll reports to help hide that.
4) Legislative Manipulations of Civil Statutes - Then in the 1980s three very specific manipulations of statues (CIV 1102, CPP 1032 and CCP 1033.5) transpired. These inverted the real estate brokerage industry and opened it up to full cartel control -- and they tilted the tables in civil disputes towards defendants in horrific ways that EVERY licensed California Attorney does or should know has been improper since 1990.
5) The Corruption of Small Claims Court - During this same period the small claims courts were established under the umbrella of the Superior courts to look like one thing but in fact, they were not as they appeared to be. The first trial is a ruse and any appeal, available to the defendant only, pushes the case to the Superior court where attorneys can be engaged by defendants. This is when and how they brought higher level corporate crime, insurance fraud and small business fraud into individual households. As the small time fraudsters operating in Small Busienss figured out the system with attorneys and insurance companies -- they all started eating their own clients commercially.
What's just been described is a 50 year slide into lawlessness fully under the guise of legal control -- by legally licensed people who are profitting form all the chaos that was "intentionally created", by licensed attorneys, for their communal commrecial benefit.
The DA's are now in it for the money. The Public Defenders get to practice process mastery on our dime while getting criminals off that we need jailed. Civial Attorneys are only taking on rich and wealthy and/or the poor who they can baffle with confusion. Criminal Attorneys are plying their trade in courts with some Judges operating half out of their minds if not more.
The legally licensed judges have been "role playing" with their legally licensed counterparts (DA's, Public Defenders, Private Attorneys) to "play house" as Rome burned -- and its now smoldering in ashes thanks be to them and only them.
Sure, the Politicians are a problem -- but only because the real legal lobby left for lunch decades ago, adn they are replaced with scabs who have been self dealign for decades.
If you expose the Judges and DA's -- and remove as many as you can --- and reset the bad statutes -- and force the politicians to disclose proper information and this place turns around on a dime. Then start breaking down the court system into local governance again. The power to do all that is handed to you with the information provided above and some more that can be added later.
Dear Aspiring Auditors
Attorneys and Accounts like to play a game of "hide the prose" and "move the prose". It's a sick and twisted game they learned to avoid pattern recognition audits. If people can not find and see patterns they struggle to hold their focus doing audits. Attorneys and accountants have learned to weaponize that for their clints and it's clear the software companies supporting them are now in on the game too.
From the 50 or so SEI forms I've audited so far, it's apparent people are being given the option to randomize repeat entries or taught to do them in a different order, or the software vendor or FPPC clerks are doing that for them.
Thus, in addition to looking for 1) gross process fraud and 2) declaration fraud, also try to note the random manipulation and redaction of form content from year to year as well.
IMO it's best to to do process fraud 1st, facts 2nd then circle back and note the content/order change confusion 3rd -- but you'll have to figure that out before you can do 2 properly.
Attorneys and Accountants have a fairly high level of mental health issues in older age - and it's my opnion now some of that has to do with engaging in intentional confusion so much at a younger age that they simply lose it before their breaths are up.
We'll fix this and them one way or another very quickly.
And now that you've had an intrduction let me introduce you to to another case study that shows how bad it might be for some of the worst offenders.
Glenn Church is the Supervisor or District 2 for Monterey County. The story that you are going to read about him will shock many. Church seems to view himself as an intelligent person, sharing with others on his campaign website that he was the Valedictorian of Hartnell, a 2 year college. Church appeared to have pathological issues with truthfulness in emails and a civil demand was sent to him asking him to simply verify he was writing his own emails (among other comparable straight forward demands). He refused to respond oddly, as if he was the King of Monterey County and he welcomed an FPPC complaint or a complaint to the DA or a court of competent jurisdiction if I felt I had legal claims against him. Given the volume of the false statements and odd behavior that supported the idea that everyone was corrupt (along with a far larger story for another time). As part of preparing for an FPPC complaint I started pulling his SEI 700 forms, which presumably he thought nobody would do. His 2023 form has major issues. but it's 2024 and 2025 I want to share now.
On 3/7/2024 Church used efile to file an SEI 700 form with the county and then on 3/22/2024 he filed a totally different set of facts with the FPPC. That initially stood out only after learning the FPPC portal existed and looking at filing dates for 2024. In 2025 he got smarter. On 3/2/2025 he filed one form with the State, then 45 minutes later he filed a different set of facts with teh county. But because it was on same day a review of summary report submissions would not reveal it like it did in 2024. For 2025, what did stand out in FPPC vs county records was an amendment with the FPPC not on file with the County.
As it turned out, Church failed to file a candidate report and he failed to identify 12+ MILLION in commercial real estate in 2023 filing. He also failed to do that in his 2024 filing to the county but gave enough detail to the state it could be figured out. Church's family, that of his new wife and his Chief of Staff all have 160+ year family histories in the area and Church has been engaging heavily in cross county and multi county legislation, giving up county contituent rights to regional authorities (water / trash / other) that will be impossible to manage once lost. Hopefully this adds some importance and urgency to your work.
Below is an example of file naming I used to track three sets of documents. (Clerk of County, FPPC, and Clerk of Board of Supervisors) with the Clerk of Board forwarding me files that had FPPC lettering in them either 1) because they got them formatted from FPPC in ways they are not provided to us via portal or 2) they ernamed them. I have seen one other filign with a format like that with Pacioni that makes me feel they got those from FPPC which leads us to wonder why we are getting generic names on download. more on this on other pages and other websites.
== File naming ==
Montrey County Clerk - first i got forms from the clerk and named them "church_700form_filedDate" without the "mryClerk" notation as i thought that is all that would be required. Some of these were online and others i had to go to the county clerk for oddly. While there I found out there were copies at the FPPC becuase they went and got one -- and that's what exposed 2 things -- 1) the fppc existed and 2) the Fppc had forms church had not given the county.
But then i looked closer. It was worse. Church had filed DIFFERENT copies of the form with the County and the State (wire fraud in my opinion but i'm a nobody around here)
== File naming ==
Because there were different forms on with the County than the state for 2023 and 2024, I decided to download all the FPPC forms separate and name those so I could show everyone what he had done. You can see the diffrence in forms via the stamps on them AND the content.
Sly little fox is way beyond an understatment.
== File naming ==
Then to complete the investigation, i asked the Clerk of the Board of Monterey County to provide me with the copies they had.
Oddly, the clerk of the Board of Monterery County provided me with pdfs via email that have a long file name that is very useful and descriptive?
Oddly it seems our local board may have gotten these from the FPPC instead of the other way around.
Obviously, they could NOT provide me with the duplicate but different reports for 2023 and 2024, so they had to pick one to give me hoping I didn't have the other? (i guess)
UPDATE: 2/2/2026 - they have been sent a request/demand to provide the others and explain the situation.
If you made it to this summary while digesting all the information above, congratulations. You are now a "Journeyman Auditor" for Politicians, Judges and Appointees for the State of California, County, multi-county and sub-county agencies.
More content will be added to teach you to publish, at which time you will become a "Journeyman Publisher" and if you get juicy with the presentation, we'll upgrade that to "Journeyman Investigative Journalist".
If you read Pacionio's Bio on the County website you would think she would have been a great fit . there was only one flag. Nobody can raise kids in 8 years -- but you can if you skip stuff routinely, including a bit of sanity from time to time.