Mike Schroeder (pictured) is a high-priced, high-octane lawyer and former state chairman of the GOP. He took Van Thai Tran under his wing, guided him up the Republican ladder. When it came time for Trannie Trung Nguyen to run for supervisor, Schroeder was the force that drove his lawsuits-upon-lawsuits against Janet Nguyen after Trung lost the last election.

And then, all of a sudden, Schroeder went silent and stopped attacking Janet.

What gives?

According to Moxley in his story here, Schroeder promised to shut up in exchange for Janet voting for Jack Anderson to be the interim sheriff of Orange County.

You see, the former sheriff Mike Carona is another protege of Schoeder’s, and Schroeder needed some of his sheriff department privilege continued under the interim sheriff, and Janet’s tie-breaking vote provided that.

Read more here.

The Bolsavik has a weakness, and that is he tends to believe things Moxley says about the sheriff department. Even under the secretive and paranoid Carona, Moxley has always been able to get information from there.

By the way, another Schroeder protege is OC District Attorney Mike Rackauckas, who appointed Schoeder’s wife Susan Kang Schroeder the DDA in charge of media relations.