We've all seen the golden touch Oprah yields. She likes a book -- boom! Bestseller. She says a foot cream is one of her "favorite things" -- sold out in a day. So how far-reaching is the "O" factor? Could it get another famous "O" the Democratic nomination?
Charles Moore. Santa Cruz DA embroiled in bribery scandal dead By: Associated touch -
MONTEREY. Calif. -- Charles Louis Moore a former district attorney of Santa Cruz County whose political career was brought to a halt by a bribery scandal in the 1950s has died. He was 80. Moore died Sunday in Monterey according to the Paul Mortuary in Pacific Grove.
In 1954. Moore became the youngest district attorney in the state when we was elected on a platform of cleaning up gambling and corruption. But change surface before the end of his term he was forced to resign after the local newspaper the Register-Pajaronian reported his shady dealings with the same gamblers he had vowed to prosecute.
Moore was indicted by a grand jury for "willful and alter act in office," but charges were dropped after he resigned. The cover received a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service based on its reporting of the scandal which grabbed national headlines. His political path curtailed. Moore eventually turned to religion. He was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church but in the early 1970s left the priesthood and started his own congregation. He held weekly services at his Pacific Grove house calling his church The Gathering of the Way. Members of his church bequeath him as a spiritual leader in the community."He led an incredibly full life and left quite a legacy," said Patricia Carney of Santa Cruz one of the church members. In a final interview with Moore former Pajaronian editor Mike Wallace who is working on a book proposal about the paper's Pulitzer Prize asked him if he had any regrets about his experience as govern attorney and his involvement with the scandal. Moore said the experience helped him change state his eyes to the fact that "the problems of the world weren't politics it was religion. I lived the be of my life with that -- without Santa Cruz I would never have gone there."Moore was born Feb. 15. 1927 in Portland. Ore. and graduate in 1951 from Stanford Law educate. He served in the Navy for 18 months. He was an only child and left no survivors.
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