A major allegation contained in the recent announcement of charges in the “windshield crack-like” corruption investigation into San Bernardino County government by District Attorney Mike Ramos and Attorney General Edmund “Jerry” Brown has some interesting twists.

Ramos earlier this week announced a series of reforms necessary to put the power of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors in check.

Strangely enough, one of the proposed reforms didn’t involve a measure to curb abuse in the expenditure of campaign funds.

One of the major cornerstones of the instant corruption case is the theory of bribes being paid as campaign donations to Political Action Committee’s, which are later diverted for use by officials in the form of payment of personal expenses like food, drinks, and travel.

You know what they say about throwing rocks from glass houses?

It seems not only did Ramos pay his wife $21,000 from his campaign funds over the last two years, he also did some heavy dipping into his campaign war-chest for apparently a myriad of expenses.

As a side note, effective January 1, 2010 it is now illegal to pay a spouse campaign funds.

The obvious problem here? We just can’t see what the expenses are for.

State law requires payment of $100.00 or more to the same vendor be itemized so the public can see where and what funds are being expended on.

Campaign finance records filed by Ramos with the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters for the period of July 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009 indicates a significant amount of credit card charges paid by campaign funds.

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