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Brown names Diana Dooley top aide
Diana Dooley, newly named as the executive secretary of Gov. Brown's office, speaks at a 2017 health care conference
sponsored by Capitol Weekly. (Photo: Scott Duncan, Capitol Weekly)Diana Dooley, California’s top health official since 2011, has been named executive secretary of Gov. Brown’s office, the top administrative post in state government and, effectively, the governor’s chief of staff with broad control over the bureaucracy.
The job, which does not require Senate confirmation, pays $201,876 annually. Brown announced the appointment Thursday.
Dooley, 67, served Brown during his first two terms from 1975 to 1983 as special assistant and legislative director. In November 2010, Brown was elected to his third term as governor and announced Dooley’s appointment — his first public appointment — as Health and Human Services Secretary even before he was sworn in as governor in January 2011.
Dooley also chaired the board of Covered California, which oversees the federal health care reform law in California.
Dooley replaces Nancy McFadden, 59, who died in March.
Dooley, a Democrat, was president and chief executive officer of the California Children’s Hospital Association from 2006 to 2011, and general counsel and vice president of Valley Children’s Hospital from 2000 to 2006.
Dooley was a partner in the law firm Paden and Dooley from 1998 to 2000, was the research attorney for the Tulare County Superior Court from 1996 to 1998 and owned Dooley/Hill and Associates, a public relations and advertising agency in Visalia, from 1985 to 1995.
She was an analyst at the State Personnel Board from 1974 to 1975. She has a law degree from the San Joaquin College of Law.
Brown named Michael Wilkening, 47, of Sacramento, as the new Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, where he has served as undersecretary since 2008. He served in several positions at the California Department of Finance from 1995 to 2008, including program budget manager for the Health and Human Services Unit.
Wilkening has a Master’s Degree in political science from UC Davis. This position requires Senate confirmation and pays $201,869. Wilkening is a Republican.
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XI. THE JANUARY 31, 2012 UCOP MAFIA PROVOCATION TO KILL OR HARM WASZCZUK’S
PSYCHOLOGIST DR. FRANKLIN O. BERNHOFT
A. Perpetrators, Participants, and Collaborators
1. Daniel Morris Dooley: UCOP senior vice president; UCOP mafia chief until October 2014. Key decision maker, perpetrator, and coordinator in the attacks on Waszczuk in 2011–2014 and on UC Chancellor Linda Katehi on November 18, 2011. The pepper-spray provocation was carried out and executed by UC Davis mafia chief Steven Drown as well as his thugs and collaborators.
2. Diana Dooley: Daniel Dooley’s wife; key perpetrator. On Daniel Dooley’s and the UCOP mafia’s behalf, she ordered and set up the confrontation on January 31, 2011, to provoke and kill Lodi psychologist Dr. Franklin O. Bernhoft. The attack destroyed Bernhoft’s family and his life.
Diana Dooley is a Democratic political advisor working in the State of California. She is the executive secretary, a role comparable to chief of staff, for Governor Jerry Brown. She was appointed to the position on May 31, 2018.
On May 31, 2012, Daniel Dooley, Richard Blum, and Charles Robinson ordered Chancellor Katehi or her deputy Fraga-Decker to sign an unlawful power sale agreement with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. The agreement was to resume the illegal sale of tax-free power from the UC Davis Medical Center 27 MW cogeneration power plant. These criminals were attempting to recover the losses that they incurred when the plant ceased the illegal power sale after the UC mafia signed the February 2009 Settlement Agreement with Waszczuk. They eventually trashed the agreement in April 2011.
Also on May 31, 2012, the UCOP mafia carried out a heinous and unsuccessful provocation in an attempt to end Waszczuk’s employment in the UC Davis Trauma Unit (#11).
From 1974 to 1975, Diana Dooley worked as an analyst at the State Personnel Board. Starting in 1975, she worked as legislative director and special assistant during Governor Jerry Brown’s (D) first term (1975–1983).
In 2011, Diana Dooley became secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency.
3. Will Lightbourne: Director of the California Department of Social Services; key perpetrator. On January 31, 2012, based on Diana Dooley’s orders, Lightbourne coordinated vengeance and provocation against psychologist Dr. Bernhoft. Lightbourne went to Dr. Bernhoft’s residence in Lodi to kill or harm Dr. Bernhoft and his wife, Dorothy Bernhoft.
In April 2011, California Health and Human Services Secretary Diana Dooley named Lightbourne director of the California Department of Social Services. Lightbourne served in this new post through an interagency agreement between the County of Santa Clara and the State of California.
Since 2000, Lightbourne has served as agency director of Santa Clara County Social Services.
4. Michael Weston: Deputy director of California Health and Human Services secretary since February 2012; key perpetrator. Weston collaborated to harm Dr. Bernhoft and his family.
In February 2011, Diana Dooley promoted Weston to the deputy director position. This promotion occurred after the unannounced January 31, 2012, Social Services raid of Bernhoft’s residence in Lodi, California. The goal of the raid was to provoke Dr. Bernhoft and lure him into a trap that was professionally set and carried out by the malicious perpetrators. After the unsuccessful attempt to lure Dr. Bernhoft to his residence and provoke him, Weston orchestrated mass media coverage of the alleged crimes of Dr. Bernhoft’s wife, Dorothy Bernhoft. Thereafter, Waszczuk disconnIected himself from Dr. Bernhoft’s services and distanced himself from Dr. Bernhoft personally as well.
From July 2000 to March 2006, prior to the Social Services raid, Weston was employed as a television news producer in a very popular local news station, KCRA3. Weston’s connections at the television station allowed him to orchestrate enormous media coverage of the Social Services raid on Dr. Bernhoft’s residence. The degree of coverage was similar to what was seen during the pepper-spray provocation aimed at Chancellor Katehi; the pepper-spray incident took place on the UC Davis campus on November 18, 2011.
5. Sharon Ogbodo, Tawny Grossman, and Alison Newkirk: Collaborators. Social Services employees. On January 31, 2012, on the order of Director Lightbourne or his deputy Weston, Ogbodo, Grossman, and Newkirk stayed in Bernhoft’s residence until Dr. Bernhoft arrived home between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. They were present to ensure that Bernhoft would clash with the Lodi Police. Ogbodo, Grossman, and Newkirk called before they left the Bernhoft residence at 4:00 p.m.
6. Mark M. Reese, Assistant Social Services Chief Counsel; Cori A. Dutra, Staff Attorney; and Jeffrey Hiratsuka, Deputy Director of Social Services, Services Licensing Department: Perpetrators and collaborators with JD degrees. On February 3, 2012, three days after the unsuccessful attempt to harm Dr. Bernhoft, these individuals filed mostly false charges against Dorothy Bernhoft.
Recently, Reese resigned from the State Bar of California. Dutra is a friend of Porter Scott Law Corporation attorney David P. E. Burkett—who represented the UCOP mafia in this litigation.
7. Kristine Reed, San Joaquin County District Attorney: In 2012, Reed filed criminal charges against Dorothy Bernhoft.
8. Brett H. Morgan, San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge: Before Judge Morgan was appointed to the bench, he was chief deputy for the State of California Inspector General and chief of staff of the State of California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation.
Judge Morgan harshly punished Dorothy Bernhoft by sentencing her to four years’ probation with many conditions—including not being alone with her own grandchildren. She had to serve 416 hours of community service at an approved nonprofit organization and pay many thousands of dollars in restitution. She also had to complete a child abuse course and seek mental health counseling.