Working quietly from her computer and phone at the district attorney's office in Fresno County, DiMaggio allegedly recruited Republican voters for the Fresno County Republican Central Committee. As a result, on January 9th, DiMaggio was fired from her job for allegedly misappropriating public funds a felony, according to the Fresno County Sheriff's Department.
Criminal charges are pending.
The allegations came about when the DA's office installed new computers, and, during the process of data transfer, extensive data of a political nature showed up on DiMaggio's computer. Armed with a search warrant, officers found political circulars and other documents in DiMaggio' s office, including literature from anti-abortion groups and Concerned Women for America. The story, which first appeared in The Fresno Bee on February 7th, failed to mention DiMaggio's connections to the Religious Right. In fact, as far back as 1991, in a letter to the editor of The Fresno Bee , DiMaggio attacked Martin Young, a subscriber to the Institute for First Amendment Studies' Freedom Writer newsletter. She apparently did her political consulting work from her desk in the DA's office.