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Eckerson's disclosure statements on file at the Mariposa County Courthouse indicated that he owned stock in MCA Entertainment Corporation. | 2026-09-22 |
Bruce Eckerson was the Mariposa County District Attorney. He was closely associated with Ed Hardy, president of Curry Company, and County Assessor Steve Dunbar, and Congressman Tony Coelho. These men were known for their annual camping trips together.1
Eckerson's disclosure statements on file at the Mariposa County Courthouse indicated that he owned stock in Music Corporation of America Entertainment Corporation. He was appointed by John Van de Kamp, the State Attorney General, to take charge of the investigation into the "Queen's Accident" and submit a new report, after Van de Kamp allegedly told his assistant to "discard" the original report.1
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Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. TrineDay, 2010. Contemporaneous reporting describes Eckerson as the county's elected district attorney who resisted for six months the CHP's pressure to prosecute Sinclair and engaged a retired CHP lieutenant, Bob Kovach, to review its evidence: "Highway Patrol's Crash investigation questioned," United Press International, September 25, 1983 (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/25/Highway-Patrols-Crash-investigation-questioned/7300433310400/). ↩︎