Governor Brown Appoints a former San Bernardino County Sheriff & SEBA President after the DA's Office Buries Cases Against POST Certification Cheaters??

Per the Governor's office's press release, Governor Brown appointed Laren Leichliter, 48, of Highland, to the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Leichliter has held multiple positions at the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department since 1991, including deputy sheriff and fiscal clerk. He was a fiscal clerk at the San Bernardino County Hospital from 1985 to 1991. Leichliter is president of the San Bernardino County Safety Employees’ Benefit Association.
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Leichliter may well run a questionable shop at SEBA. After a recent forum where three San Bernardino sheriff candidates were presented with supposedly random questions (in "unmarked" envelopes) , SEBA gets back 29.4% of the ballots from members of SEBA and Leichliter's team announces an endorsement of the association for incumbent (appointed incumbent) Sheriff McMahon (the other 2 candidates were Clifton Harris & Paul Schraeder). The truth is that 70.4% of the membership DID NOT endorse McMahon (their appointed boss). Leichliter who will now sit on the POST Commission board took a slant from a no-confidence vote that no one else could possibly justify (except McMahon and his campaign guru Ellis). Wow.
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With Sheriff's department management folks signing off on fraudulent POST certification classes and pending charges, does this appointment make sense? Is this the truthful leader the POST Commission needs?
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See excellent Sun article at:http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20131106/two-years-after-indictments-sb-county-sheriffs-post-corruption-case-fizzles#.UntI2Rc_5rg.email.

Were the POST certification scandal cases fizzled out to open the path case for a Leichliter appointment?
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Why wasn't the employee association (SEBA) involved to ferret out what was a lax policy problem vs what was poor management and or oversight vs what was actual criminal conduct. The people signing off on the POST certification classes/work were members of SEBA,  Leichliter's colleagues and or friends.
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By fizzling out the corruption cases,  Lechliter and his buds don't have to answer those questions.
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Is this just old fashioned failure to investigate and failure to hold management who should know and care responsible or does this suggest the culture of cover-up has (a) new champion(s)?
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