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The warrants were part of what’s been dubbed Operation Dirty Pond, a probe into the alleged misuse of taxpayer funds allocated for a $24-million aquatic center that hasn’t been built.

“That money was taxpayer dollars,” said former state Rep. Sherry Gay-Dagnogo.

Fresno County’s taxpayers are expected to pay at least $2 million after an appeals court ruling upholds a lower court’s decision that sheriff’s deputies unnecessarily killed a dog in 2018.

“Our country and its taxpayers have been ripped off for more than 50 years, but it is not going to happen anymore. It’s not going to happen.”

After nearly a decade of unprecedented taxpayer spending on homelessness with little to show in improvement on the streets, the giant nonprofits behind the measures that secured that funding asked voters to double down.