GOVERNMENT LIES, CORRUPTION AND MISMANAGEMENT
Editor of Sweetwater Union High School District's Blurb Magazine Spent Almost $10,000 on Phone Calls School district paid $9,788 for teacher Inzunza's cell phone use By Leslie Wolf Branscomb
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
July 2, 2005
• Inzunza made the most calls, more than 500, to
family friend and political
• consultant Marco Polo Cortes. His
brothers, National City Mayor Nick Inzunza and San
Diego City Councilman Ralph Inzunza Jr., were also
frequently called, as was his father, former National
City Councilman Ralph Inzunza Sr.
• In those two years Inzunza made and received
more than 1,600 calls between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. –
nearly one-third of them after midnight
• There were calls to Tijuana, Mexicali,
• Miami, New York, Las Vegas and Wisconsin,
and numerous calls to home and cell phone
numbers in the Los Angeles area.
• Dozens of calls were made on holidays
including Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving,
and numerous calls on weekends and after
working hours to businesses that were not
school-related or blurb advertisers,
• including movie theaters, restaurants, video
rental stores, auto repair shops, music stores,
hotels and nightclubs.
Written Communications - PC
Acosta - Received 01/15/2026
To learn more about
Marco Polo
That Micheal Inzunza was calling
open the link below
Be Informed
about Micheal Inzunza
who is sitting in front of me
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/san-
diego-lobbyist-makes-initial-appearance-role-
campaign-finance-crimes
Written Communications - PC
Acosta - Received 01/15/2026
San Diego, CA – Marco Polo Cortes, a
San Diego-based lobbyist, made an initial appearance in federal district court today on charges that he conspired to finance political campaigns using money from an illegal foreign source.
• San Diego Lobbyist Makes Initial Appearance For
Role In Campaign Finance Crimes
• Cortes was arrested by FBI Agents on Tuesday,
January 21, 2014 in the Little Italy section of San
Diego, pursuant to an arrest warrant
• . According to the complaint, filed by an FBI Special Agent and unsealed by U.S. Magistrate Judge
William V. Gallo, Cortes conspired with
Ravneet Singh and Ernesto Encinitas
• each of whom were named in a similar complaint
unsealed yesterday—to funnel more than $500,000
• of illegal foreign money into San Diego municipal
and federal campaigns, primarily in 2012 and 2013.
The source of the illegal foreign money, the
complaint stated, was a person referred to as “the
Foreign National.”
• Acting United States Attorney
Cindy M. Cipriani praised the
continuing efforts of 3 the FBI
and IRS, noting “we will not
tolerate fraud in our elections at
any level, and we will root out
the influence of foreign money
in our electoral processes and
on our elected leaders
Written Communications - PC
Acosta - Received 01/15/2026