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Date:10/3/2025 12:35:06 PM
From:"Jackie Angel Investor"
To:"eComment" ecomment@santa-ana.org, "Public Comment" publiccomment@anaheim.net
Cc:"Vazquez, Benjamin" bvazquez@santa-ana.org, "Ryberg, Erinn" erinn.ryberg@asm.ca.gov, "Natalie Rubalcava"
NRubalcava@anaheim.net
Subject:[EXTERNAL] Audit re: Santa Ana Police Officers Association Political Action Committee
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Remember this Erinn Ryberg?? We Never Forget.
Your silence will never be forgotten.
We greatly abhor our dollars going to sexual predators, corrupt politicians and pedophi les.
Chief of Staff - Assemblymember Avelino Valencia · California State Assembly
erinn.ryberg@asm.ca.gov
Capitol Office Phone: (916) 319-2068
David Penaloza for Assembly 2026
Committee for Candidate David Penaloza
$11,800.00 Avelino Valencia
$5,900.00 Americas Physician Groups CA
$5,900.00 Anaheim Police Association
$5,900.00 James Ramos INDIVIDUAL
$5,900.00 Santa Ana Police Officers Association
https://www.transparencyusa.org/ca/committee/david-penaloza-for-assembly-2026-1477969-ctl/contri butors
Avelino Valencia for Senate 2026
Committee for Candidate Avelino Valencia
$443,189
Cash on Hand
$509,166
Total Contributions
$122,244
https://www.transparencyusa.org/ca/committee/avelino-valencia-for-senate-2026-1477383-ctl/contri butors
Request 25-2399 (64 files can be found here)
Please provide Form 460 for the Santa Ana Police Officers Association Political Action C ommittee and Independent
Expenditure Committee from 2013 to their most recent 460 filing. Please send me the ori ginal files, thank you.
(City of Santa Ana website and financial reports is horrible by the way)
-Matthew Cunningham dba "Orange County Independent, OC Independent, Anahei m Observer"
-Art Pedroza dba "New Santa Ana"
-Patricia Wenskunas dba "Crime Survivors Inc., Crime Survivors Action PAC"
https://cityofsantaanaca.nextrequest.com/requests/25-2399
Furthermore, while all of this was occurring, the Santa Ana Police Officers Association Independent Expendi ture C ommittee
funneled $15,900 into the state treasurer’s bid to get re-elected, making them one of her bi ggest campaign contri butors.
https://anaheiminvestigator.com/2022/02/03/california-state-treasurer-backed-two-new-laws-to-help-santa-ana-police-union-
president-increase-his-pension/
In a highly unusual move, the Santa Ana Police Officers Association, under the leadership of Gerry Serrano, thei r presi dent,
spent approximately $2,500 in a failed effort to help then-future Councilman Avelino Valencia III get re-elected to hi s seat on the
Central Committee of the Orange County Democratic Party in March 2020, according to campaign fi nance reports filed with the
City of Santa Ana on July 31st of that year.
https://anaheiminvestigator.com/2021/12/21/santa-ana-police-union-spent-2500-to-help-re-elect-future-councilman-to-
democratic-party-central-committee/
Two letters The Anaheim Investigator obtained from the California Public Employees Retirement System (C alPERS) through the
public records act show that six members of the state legislature not only quietly lent their names in support of a bi d by Gerry
Serrano, president of the Santa Ana Police Officers Association, to increase his future pension earnings, but circumstanti al
evidence suggests at least five of them received hefty campaign contributions in return for thei r efforts.
https://anaheiminvestigator.com/2022/06/13/six-state-legislators-signed-letters-backing-santa-ana-poli ce-uni on-presidents-bid-
to-increase-pension/
The state of California has agreed to pay a former employee $350,000 to settle her clai ms that D emocratic state Treasurer
Fiona Ma sexually harassed her.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/california-settles-sexual-harassment-clai ms-against-state-treasurer-fi ona-ma/
Councilman Avelino Valencia III quietly employed Tina Arias Miller, the girlfriend of a top associ ate to Gerry Serrano, presi dent
of the Santa Ana Police Officers Association, as a “Senior Policy Aide”
https://anaheiminvestigator.com/2022/11/03/anaheim-city-councilman-quietly-employed-gi rlfriend-of-top-serrano-associate-as-
senior-policy-aide/
Anaheim City Council Natalie Rubalcava is quietly no longer working for California Assemblyman Aveli no Valencia as his di strict
director.
https://voiceofoc.org/2023/12/anaheim-city-councilwoman-natalie-rubalcava-quietly-out-as-state-assemblymans-di strict-director/
#AnaheimAudit
2023-133 City of Anaheim
It Has Not Properly Managed Tourism-Related Contracts and Millions of Dollars in Related Funds
The city entered into contracts with and disbursed more than $100 million to Visit Anahei m, and the C hamber recei ved from both
the city and Visit Anaheim more than $6 million in public funds from fiscal years 2012–13 through 2021–22. In general, we
determined that the city lacked a meaningful contract monitoring process and did not properly manage the contracts i t entered
into with these entities, resulting in unallowable spending and unmet deliverables.
https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2023-133/
The felony charge alleged Todd Ament defrauded a cannabis company by pocketing a porti on of $225,000 intended to lobby
Anaheim to legalize
https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/entertainment/story/2025-09-27/anaheim-todd-ament-cannabi s
Former Anaheim Chamber CEO Todd Ament getting new plea deal that might reduce charges
https://www.ocregister.com/2025/08/08/former-anaheim-chamber-ceo-todd-ament-getti ng-new-plea-deal-that-mi ght-reduce-
charges/